Thursday, January 25, 2007

TONIGHT'S FOOTBALL


In Ligue 1, the Nancy-St Etienne match should be tight, neither can afford to lose, if they are to hold realistic ambitions of playing european football, next season.

Nancy have a fine 8-1-1 record at home, but will be without 3 strikers tonight, Kim and Brison are suspended and Dia is injured, they are likely to play with a lone front man.

The visitors star player, Fredric Piquionne is "injured" and looks on his way out of the club, after vowing to "never play for them again".

Half of Nancy's wins at the Stade Marcel Picot, have come against teams in the bottom 6, St Etienne tend to raise their game in the tougher fixtures. They are my choice to collect at least a point tonight.

In the Dutch Cup, PSV are fielding their first 11 for the visit of Go Ahead Eagles, to the Phillips-Stadion, where they have an amazing 11-0-0 , goals F40- A5 record, in the league.

Boss Ronald Koeman, has said, he will make 3 changes at half time, if the score allows. They will go for it from the off and will want to better Ajax and AZ, who scored 4 and 5 respectively, in their cup ties this week.

Half-time/ full time, double result for the hosts is around 1.30 and will probably oblige, but the bet I like is with Betfair, on the correct score market, for "unquoted", this is basically any result with PSV scoring 4 or more. Which is what they are averaging against better teams than Go Ahead Eagles.

3 points St Etienne +1/2 ball 1.78
4 points "unquoted" correct score PSV-Go Ahead Eagles 1.78 Betfair.

Good Luck.

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