SUNDAY OCTOBER 28th
Two
emails today, afternoon kick offs are covered here and the follow up
will include the later football and NFL action and that will be sent at
14.00 UK time.
Three previews here, one each from Italy, England and my strongest news of the early matches, from Ligue 1.
ITALY: SERIE A
CATANIA - JUVENTUS
There
are certain teams you are never going to get rich opposing on a regular
basis and Juventus definitely now fall into that category, but if you
pick and choose your matches and we have done well on the odd occasion
we have decided to take on Barcelona, then you can still look to oppose
them , just don't make a habit of it ! Juve are unbeaten in 49
championship matches in Serie A, including 23 on the road, but have
shown signs of being a little weary recently , this will be their 10th
start in the last six weeks and they have had a very disrupted schedule
this week. They played in Copenhagen on Tuesday, have been eating lunch
at 10.30 each day since their return to prepare for this and also made
the trip to Scicily, so there would have been very strangely timed
training sessions this week. We spoke a couple of times last season
about how footballers are very much creatures of habit and how they like
to prepare for matches in a set way, eating and sleeping at rigid
times, the morning kick off has messed this up and I can find no recent
record of them playing in the early game previously. They have a home
match with Bologna in midweek, before meeting Internazionale, who are
coming on strong next weekend, so I can see a point today as being
viewed as one won, not two lost. Catania are very
strong on home soil, especially early season. they are 3-1-0 this
season, drawing with Napoli and are looking to go undefeated through at
least five starts for the third year in a row, last season they were
9-5-5 and 3-2-0 after five and in 2010/11 posted an 11-4-4 record and
did not lose until their eighth outing ( 4-3-0). Obviously something in
the late summer/ autumn air makes them very tough to beat on the island.
H2h
wise three of the last five meetings in Catania have ended all square
and there must be a very good chance of number four today, which is a
result I feel both would be very happy with. Rolando Maran has thrived
since taking over from Vicenzo Montella in June and whilst he has some
injury concerns today, he will be able to field his preferred 4-3-3
formation and has had a completely free
midweek to prepare. The visitors arrive without defender Lucio and
Claudio Marchisio, the midfielder is very much amongst the first names
on the team sheet and hardly ever misses a match, so his absence might
be felt. A couple of Catania players, especially Alejandro Gomez have
been linked with bigger clubs and this is a big chance to impress in a
high profile match. Draw for me. 1.25 units Catania +0.5 ball asian line.
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FRANCE : LIGUE 1
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