Monday, May 05, 2008

MONDAY UPDATE .....

I will have a couple of posts online later today, so please check back.

Sunday, May 04, 2008

ALL TO PLAY FOR ....... AT LEAST FOR SOME........


ATALANTA - LIVORNO

Hosts have very litttle to play for and are going through the motions, with just a single point and no goals in their last four starts, they are set to be without a handful of players today and meet a very motivated opponent.Livorno switched coaches this week, with Fernado Orsi returning and vowing to get the three points today, which is their "only target". They are 3 points off safety, but with Torino and Empoli still to play, victory today, will at least, give them a chance of survival.

6.5 points Livorno -1/2 ball 2.29 asian line.

Good Luck.

SERIE A ....


AC MILAN - INTER

Milan are still battling with Fiorentina for the sole remaining Champions League spot and these giants of european football, simply have to get it. They are overdue a good result in the derby and if any further motivation was needed, they will certainly not want to sit and watch Inter celebrate a title victory this afternoon. Ibrahimovic is out and Stankovic is doubful for the visitors, who have gone off the boil a little recently and will claim the title in front of a stadium packed with their own fans next week.

5 points Milan -1/4 ball 2.06

Good Luck.

CHAMPIONSHIP ...........


STOKE CITY - LEICESTER CITY

What a game ! Stoke will be promoted to the Premiership with a point, but may not need it if Hull do not win at Ipswich, Leicester need a win to ensure survival, but do not need anything, if Southampton lose at home to Sheffield United, if Saints draw, them a point will keep Leicester up. Therefore, surely both will adopt an extremely cautious approach, personally as coach of either side, I would be happy to get to half time and see where we stand. There is a huge opportunity for these two teams to help each other out and both celebrate come the final whistle. I feel that the half time draw offers excellent value.

Since writing this, I have found out that the two coaches, Holloway and Pullis are very close, one is, infact, godparent to the others children. Not saying that there will be anything "funny", but it is hardly a negative for this bet.

5.5 points half time draw 2.50 general quote.

Good Luck.

PREMIERSHIP .......



ARSENAL - EVERTON

The Gunners have handed Everton a few hammerings in recent seasons and another would not entirely surprise. The Toffees looked booked for 5th spot regardless of what happens today, following Villa's slip up yesterday and may save any remaining energy for their home fans. Arsenal still have an outside chance for second spot and rediscovered their goal touch in the thumping of Derby on Monday. They will dominate the midfield, with the visitors still missing Arteta and Cahill and can send their supporters home with the feelgood factor, in the final emirates match of the season.

6 points Arsenal -1/2 ball 1.62 general quote.

Back shortly.

SUNDAY MORNING UPDATE .........

Fantastic day in prospect, with much still to be decided across Europe, but especially in the UK, with some amazing fixtures in the Championship.

I have written previews of NINE sporting events on the email service. Including four domestic football matches, two from Italy , one from France and a look at the final day of the Waichovia Championship on the USPGA Tour.

Despite having writers cramp, I will be putting 3-4 of these on the blog later in the day.

Details of the email service can be found on the website www.predictuwin.com.

Good Luck.

Friday, May 02, 2008

FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL .....


ENGLAND
BLUE SQUARE PREMIERSHIP
BURTON ALBION - CAMBRIDGE UNITED

United are a bigger club than Albion and seem to have got their act together after a slump in form, with three straight wins, I accept that those victories have come against sides lacking a little in motivation, but you can do no more than beat what is put in front of you and they would have given a real boost to confidence levels.
Injury wise, they seem in better shape than the hosts who have three key players set to miss out. The U's had the better of the two league meetings, collecting four points, including a fine 2-1 win here at the Pirelli stadium. They will have massive support cheering them on, with over 1600 fans likely to make up 40% + of the crowd. This will be tight, but only runaway champions Aldershot have collected more away points than Cambridge and they have not lost in six meetings, against any of the other play-off teams ,I do not see that changing this evening. Burton have conceded fairly freely at home, easily more than any of the other top 5 sides.

6 points Cambridge +1/4 ball 1.80 asian line.

SEDAN -LIBOURNE

Hosts have nothing to play for and Libourne are drinking in the last chance saloon. They have to throw caution to the win and seek the three points to keep any survival hopes alive. Sedan have not won in four and failed to score in three of those, they have a huge cup semi-final with Lyon in midweek and will rest players with that in mind. This looks like and away win to me and is a confident choice.

6 points Libourne -1/2 ball 3.60+ .... 3.75 available in places


Good Luck.

FREEBIE ........

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TODAY'S BETS .........

I have previewed five football matches on the email service today, including two bets at very big odds and am confident of building on yesterday's success.

Hopefully, I will be able to post something on the blog later in the day, if you want to be sure of receiving all my selections, details of the newsletter service are on www.predictuwin.com .

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FRIDAY MORNING .........

I have a lot to pass on today, so please check back.

Zenit won yesterday and the world now knows, what readers of the blog knew a long time ago, that they are a very good side.

Blog wise, since December 19th, I have given 199 selections, 111 winners for a strike rate of 55.78%, some big prices have produced a profit of 161.37 points , on stakes of 1125.5 and a fantastic ROI of 14.34% . Even this doesn't tell the full story as there has been plenty of extra "winners", like David Chiu the WPT World Champion at 4.33 last week.

All four email football selections won yesterday, if you did not have a terrific day's punting, then you should seriously consider joining the service. It costs as little as £1.47 per day to have the newsletter delivered directly to your inbox and I paid more than that for a newspaper, five minutes ago ..... full details are on the website www.predictuwin.com.

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Thursday, May 01, 2008

UEFA CUP ........


Subscribers are off to a decent start on the day, with both selections from the Netherlands winning.

ZENIT ST PETERSBURG - BAYERN MUNICH (first leg 1-1)

We are already on the hosts at 21.0 to win the cup, unfortunately, they will be without Sirl, Ricksen and star player Arshavin this evening, which is not ideal. However, this is not a one man team, they are a strong squad and will have a "twelth" man, which is the pitch, it is in extremely poor condition, of course, this is the same for both sides, but Zenit are very used to the surface. It is so bad that the Russian Federation have considered closing it, for domestic matches.

Bayern will have to attack, but even without Arshavin, I do not see much between the two sides and certainly like the quote,however, if you have already taken the outright bet,there is no point in getting involved today. For the rest of you .......

5 points Zenit +1/2 ball 1.97 asian line.


Good Luck.

THURSDAY UPDATE ........

I have previewed four matches on the email service today and will put at least one and maybe two on the blog later in the day, please check back later.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

WHAT'S AHEAD ..........

I think that we are entering a very interesting stage of the year. Many leagues are winding down, with some crunch games ahead, yet others are just getting going and I consider that over many of these summer leagues, we have a huge advantage over the bookmakers, with many of them not as well informed as we are. In addition, we have Euro 2004, a summer of tennis and golf and the Olympics fast approaching. So, in some ways, we could be entering our busiest period of the whole year.

For example, I have written previews of six events today on the email service, including four football matches. Not going to post any of these on the blog today, they will only be for subscribers, sorry about that, pretty sure that we will have something online tomorrow. As always, you can find details of how to join the email service on the website .... www.predictuwin.com.

Good Luck with your bets today.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE ........


MANCHESTER UNITED - BARCELONA

I am going to be quick today, with just basic notes, I am worried that the BSS odds will not last long.
We discussed last week ,United's poor record in the latter stages of this premier club event and looking a little deeper, in six semi-final legs at Old Trafford, they can claim just a single win.

There is no doubt that their fperformance levels have dropped and amazingly, they appear to have gone a little defensive, which , to me, is a sure sign of nerves. Rooney and Vidic are major doubts and I am 100% sure that neither would start in a normal league game, so a big gamble, if either starts. Ronaldo has still to prove himself in the really big games.

No doubt it will be very tight this evening and the draw, looks the most likely result, both sides are unbeaten in the competition this season. H2h wise, four of the last five meetings have ended all square.

Barcelona's league form has been very shabby, but with the league over for them, they have only been concentrating on the CL for several weeks and rested a host of players, for the weekend fixture at Deportivo. United did not have that luxury in an exhausting game at Stamford Bridge.

People talk about Barce's wobbly defence, but they have kept clean sheets in 9 of their 12 CL outings and will be boosted by the return of Puyol to the heart of their backline. I favour them to progress to the final , feeling that Messi and Eto'o will get a goal tonight.

5.5 points Barcelona +1/2 ball 1.90 asian line.

Good Luck.

TUESDAY PLANS ..........

I have previewed just two matches on the email service today, including my biggest football bet for some considerable time.

Details of the service can be found on the website www.predictuwin.com and I will send a copy of today's newsletter free, to anyone that takes out a subscription before kick off this evening (subscriptions normally start the day after joining).

Good Luck.

Monday, April 28, 2008

A VERY LONG TIME AGO ...............

..... ok, not so very long ago, but back in early August 2007, I wrote previews of the three lower leagues in England, they are reproduced in full below. In Division 1, I gave one selection Swansea, in Division 2 just MK Dons and in the Conference, discussed again just a single team, Aldershot..... take a quick look at the league tables.

All three have pretty much dominated their respective division's all season long and each, has been promoted as champions.

I do not know of any blog, or service anywhere which supplies better information or consistently produces more long term profits. In addition to the bets below, the blog has since December 19 th, given 197 bets , 110 have won, that's a 55.84% strike rate, producing 162.02 points profit, at a ROI of 14.53%.

These figures and the previews below, speak for themselves, there is no need for any sales pitch, to get all the information from my service, you have to subscribe and be prepared to take a long term approach. Details are on the website
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DIVISION 1

Much like in the Championship, I have had a long term fancy for this division and "jumped ship" fairly late in the day. Millwall were my original choice, with Swansea my number two.

The Lions had a fantastic run from Christmas onwards last year and from bottom of the table, almost made the playoffs ! However, I have heard tale of some unrest at The New Den and the occasional bust up, fights often break out in training, but sometimes it goes a bit further and this involved two of the bigger names at the club. Anyway, I would not rule them out completely, Willie Donachie has done wonders in his short time in charge, but I have heard enough, to put me off.

This brings me to Swansea and I am confident that they will go very close. They do not need to progress too much, only missing out on the play offs by one spot and three points last season.

Roberto Martinez took over in February and was a breath of fresh air, playing decent, entertaining football and winning over the fans big time. He sold Lee Trundle in the summer, but this was a transfer that need to happen and £1m plus for a 31yo, tier 3 player, albeit a very good one, yes please !

They have replaced him with Jason Scotland, 26 goals at St Johnstone last season and Darryl Duffy from Hull City, who has already won the fan's hearts. Martinez looks to have got the mix right, making six overseas captures, including players from Spain and Holland, in addition to some promising young talent from Premiership clubs, he already had some experienced hands at his disposal.

Pre season has gone very well, they beat Levante 2-0 at the Liberty Stadium, with two goals disallowed and the crossbar scared more than once. That was a problem last season, Swansea hitting the woodwork on 33 occasions ! A little more accuracy and they could have gone much closer than 7th, they look a better all round team, this time round.

I have quite a lot of information/ views about teams in this, Division 2 and the Conference, but will keep things, solely to my selections. as I have promised to publish this on the blog and need to hold back some opinions for now.

2.5 points Swansea outright 11.0 general quote
5 points Swansea promoted 4.0 Bet365/Tote/ Boyle/ Sky

DIVISION 2

I like Milton Keynes Dons, the new stadium is ready, a 30,000 all seater and the whole club is geared up to bigger things. The team of Paul ince and Ray Mathias and it is a team, have replaced Martin Allen and promotion has to be gained this season.

They have played and shone against Chelsea, West Ham and Watford in pre season and in, Leon Knight and Kevin Gallen they have two strikers who should fill their boots at this level. The experienced Colin Cameron has joined from Coventry and will help the host of promising youngsters the club has, flourish.

Simply cannot see them not improving on last year's 4th spot and they look cast iron "each way" .

2 points win Milton Keynes Dons 9.0 general
5 points promotion 3.0 Tote/ Stan James/Bet 365.

CONFERENCE / BLUE SQUARE PREMIER


I have just one bet here, it is a very short price, but is something of a banker to my eyes. In their 4 seasons in the Conference, Aldershot have finished 5-4-13-9 and would have been much higher last year, if they had not had such a dire start.

Former QPR manager Gary Waddock is now in charge and recent results have looked promising, a 5-0 win over local rivals Farnborough, was followed by a 0-0 draw with the Charlton first team and a 1-1 tie with a strong Fulham team, after which the new boss said ...

"I am extremely pleased considering the opposition that we were playing. They had players that are worth millions of pounds but we put in a performance that in spells we were the better team.
"However it counts for nothing and I have told my players that we have to start doing that for the next ten months or so. Their keeper paid off two or three really good saves after the break and we will need to be a bit more ruthless in front of goal".

This is a team that could go close and can be backed outright at around the 23.0 mark, new league sponsors Blue Square offer a 1.72 quote for them to be in the top 12 of the table, which they will do. At least 3 of the 4 promoted teams look very weak, so the Shots will not have too many to beat.

6 points Aldershot to finish in the top half 1.72 Blue Square.

ALDERSHOT WON THE TITLE BY 15 POINTS AND WERE 34 CLEAR OF THE BOTTOM HALF.... THIS IS THE ONLY TIME IN OVER TWO YEARS THAT THE TERM "BANKER" HAS BEEN USED IN MY POSTS.

Good Luck

The original post can be found here....

http://ubet2win.blogspot.com/2007/08/lower-league-previews.html

Sunday, April 27, 2008

SUNDAY FOOTBALL .....


PREMIERSHIP
EVERTON- ASTON VILLA

This match will go a long way to deciding, which of these two will get 5th spot in the Premiership and the UEFA Cup spot which goes with it.Villa will go above their hosts with a win and come here in fantastic form, winning their last 3, scoring an amazing 15 goals. Of course, those wins came against Bolton, Derby and Birmingham , but you can only beat what is put in front of you and it is worth remembering that Everton, have struggled recently against the two last named sides.

Infact, that narrow 1-0 defeat of the Rams, is their only win in six starts and they have really struggled to score, with just 4 goals in seven outings. They have sorely missed their creative influences in midfield and Cahill is out for the season and Arteta faces a late test, having spent all week in Spain having treatment on his stomach injury. Cannot see Villa losing this and we can take them on the handicap, as Everton would probably accept the draw right now, actually,boss David Moyes would probably snatch your arm off !

5 points Villa +1/4 ball 1.82 asian line.

SPAIN
LA LIGA
GETAFE- ATLETICO MADRID

Madrid derby. Hosts have had a long season, fighting on three fronts with a smallish squad of players, things have caught up with them now and they are without a win in nine, losing the last two, including a thumping at basement club Levante last time out.

Atletico are just ahead in the race for what now appears to be, the sole remaining Champions League place, one point ahead of Racing and two clear of Seville. They need all the points that they can get and will be looking for a hat-trick of wins at this venue, after winning the last two by big, three goal margins. they are desperate to bounce back from the 3-1 home loss to Betis, where keeper Leo Franco made his return after 4 months out injured, he is sure to be a little fitter today.Given their huge investment in new talent this season, the visitors have to make the top 4.

5.5 points Atletico -1/4 ball 2.23 asian line.

Good Luck.

SUNDAY MORNING .... BRIGHT AND EARLY .......


Despite a small loss on the three blog selections, there was plenty of good information online yesterday, David Chiu won the WPT World Championship, after ending up heads up with Gus Hansen, infact, play went pretty much as I predicted .

Chiu was content to sit back and let others do the work, actually Hansen eliminated every other player. Down to two, the Dane held a 5.25-1 advantage, with 84% of the chips in play, but things can change quickly heads up, Chiu ground him down and took the massive $3.4m first prize. Hope that some of you took the 4.33 with Stan James.

My three big bets on the email service all won, two given yesterday morning, the third several days ago, at big odds. I am definitely over my slump and I would advise any of you to give the service a trial, as my confidence is back and that is key in this business.

I have just sent out my preview's of today's action, where I have discussed six events in some detail. Hopefully, I will cover a couple of these on here, later in the day.

Good Luck.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

DIVISION 1 ..........


DIVISION 1
BRISTOL ROVERS - BRIGHTON


Not going to get overly involved in what is basically a friendly, but Rovers are a big price and I do not see too much between these two sides. The visitors play-off dreams ended with Leeds win last night and they might give a few fringe players an outing. Rovers have had a satisfactory first season in Div 1 , to go along with another fantastic cup run, they will want to give their loyal fans a send off today and a PMA ( positive mental attitude) for next season.

4 points Bristol Rovers -1/2 ball 2.75 general quote.

BOURNEMOUTH- CREWE ALEXANDRA


Hosts have done really well to give themselves a chance of survival , after looking dead and buried, following the deduction of ten points. A win and only a win will do for them and they will have a sell out crowd cheering them on. They will have to take chances and push forward, seeking their sixth win in a row, 5 of which have been "over".

Crewe, have won their last two, but are also not safe yet and have also been in free scoring form, with 5 from 6 ending "over", scoring or conceding three goals in four of those. These two produced a 5 goal thriller in the reverse fixture and I do not see this being any less prolific.

5.5 points "over" 2.5 goals 1.84 + asian line.... bigger available in places.

Good Luck.

EARLY KICK OFF AT THE BRIDGE ....


PREMIERSHIP CHELSEA - MANCHESTER UNITED

There is not much point in discussing these two in great detail, we all know them very well. This could turn out to be a title decider, certainly United will think that they have it in the bag, if they avoid defeat. However, both will also have one eye on their Champions League semi-final second legs, coming up in midweek.

I think that, given the quote, we have to take a little on the Blues, who have not lost at home since I last wore short trousers to school. They will be boosted by the return of the influential Michael Essien from suspension, Frank Lampard is likely to miss out, following the sad death of his mother, but he was ineffectual at Anfield in midweek in any case and Michael Ballack, usually raises his game, when FL is missing.

United have not scored at Stamford Bridge in six visits and Ronaldo continues to disappoint in the really big games. I have no doubt that they will come looking for the draw and see that result as the only downside.

5 points Chelsea -1/4 ball 2.18 asian line.

Good Luck.

SATURDAY UPDATE .........


Dijon won for us yesterday, looking at all the blog selections, since December 19th, which is a shade over four months, I have given 192 selections, 108 winners (56.25% strike rate) and they have produced a profit of 166.32 points, on total stakes of 1090 points, which is a ROI of 15.26 %.

I have written previews of seven football matches on the email service today and have given two very strong bets. I not put either of those on the blog today, but will add a couple of the other selections later in the day.

As always, the only way to receive all my output, is by subscribing to the daily newsletter, details are on the website www.predictuwin.com .

I was planning to put a full preview of the WPT World Championship final table, basic details are a couple of posts down, put have simply run out of time. In a nutshell, I expect David Chiu to go close, but am not putting him up as a bet. The four time WSOP bracelet winner is very likely to bide his time, until the two ultra aggressive chip leaders, do some damage, either to theirselves, or the short stacks, he also has a great position, with Gus Hansen to his left. Chiu is a juicy looking 4.33 with Stan James, which is far bigger than in my "book".

Back later.

Friday, April 25, 2008

FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL ....


FRANCE...LIGUE 2....DIJON - GUINGAMP

I like the home team a lot here, Dijon are unbeaten in three very tough fixtures and have managed to get a three point cushion over the relegation zone. However, they cannot afford to ease off, with the team immediately below them in the table, Niort, who they travel to meet next week, facing an easy looking trip to basement side Gueugnon.

Guincamp have drawn their last 4 starts and are probably safe, any remaining doubts could be put firmly to bed next week, when they host Gueugnon, so no need to overly extend themselves this evening.

6.5 points Dijon -1/4 ball 1.84 asian line.

Good Luck.

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Good Luck.

FRIDAY UPDATE .....


A pretty good day yesterday, I am back in good shape on the football now, with five winners from six selections and just a half stake loser, in the last three days on the email service, two of the winners have been at odds of 3.10 or higher. Also pretty excited about our outright bet on Zenit in the UEFA Cup at 20-1.

I am just finishing off today's email and am previewing four of today's matches and might add another early selection from the weekend fixtures, full details of how to join "the team" can be found on the main website www.predictuwin.com.
I will try to post what I can from these on the blog, later in the day.

Elsewhere, we are at the quarter final stage of the Monte Carlo tennis and it is a classy looking field, here is the line up, in draw order.....

FEDERER-NALBANDIAN
DJOKOVIC-QUERREY
ANDREEV- DAVYDENKO
FERRER- NADAL

From a total of 545 players, who all paid $25k to enter, we are down to just six in the WPT World Championship, taking place at the Bellagio. Day 4 leader Amir Vahedi bubbled the final table, finishing in 7th spot and earning a little over $237k. The remaining runners, there are no riders, although I know little about their personal life's, are guaranteed almost $234k. Although ,with this top heavy payout structure offering $923k for third place, $1.7m for second and a whopping $3.389m to the winner, all will have far loftier targets.

Today is a well earned rest day, I am sure that there will be odds available for the final six and I will be returning later, with a run down on the field, where I have, as always, some strong views.

Chip count .....

1 Gus Hansen 8.57m chips Seat 2
2 Cory Carroll 6.67m Seat 5
3 David Chiu 6.05m Seat 3
4 John Roveto 2.72m Seat 1
5 Tommy Le 1.95m Seat 4
6 Jeff King 1.305m Seat 6

Good Luck.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

UEFA CUP .........


GLASGOW RANGERS - FIORENTINA

Rangers have some severe injury/ suspension problems and could be without 7-9 squad players this evening, they will be especially short of options in midfield. However, they are very hard to beat at Ibrox, where they have recorded some fine European results. At least central defender Carlos Cuellar is fit and, Scotland's player of the year, will be given the task of stifling main visiting threat Adrian Mutu, who is back to his best and has been in stunning form this season, this will be a fascinating match up, between two players at the top of their game.

I like the draw, in a match where both will be happy with the result. Rangers are confident in their ability to snatch an away goal in Europe and have already progressed twice by that route, this campaign. The pitch is Glasgow is in very poor condition and will not be conducive to flowing football.

4.5 points draw 3.15 exchanges.

Good Luck.

WPT .... WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ......... DOWN TO 17


Very exciting , aggressive day's play, with more action than a Stallone film festival, at the end of which, we were down to just 17 players, play ended when Scott Epstein and Mark Newhouse, were eliminated at the same time, on different tables, which is why we have one empty seat.

Amir Vahedi is our new leader, we lost two previous champions fairly early and consecutively, with 2004 victor Martin de Knijff out in 39th, after being crippled by David Tran and he was followed by last year's winner Carlos Mortensen, in 38th position.

David Grey who's battling qualities we discussed yesterday, was very unlucky to go out in 22nd spot, when his aces failed to hold up against Tom Dwan's pair of nines. Durrr (pictured) is very handily placed and has a fantastic chance of going all the way, but this is really going to take some winning.

Everyone remaining is guaranteed $105k, but nobody will be happy with that, having come this far, especially with a top prize of $3.389m .Play will continue today until we are down to just six players, currently the blinds are set at 15k-30k, with a 4k ante, tomorrow is a rest day, with the warriors still standing, returning on Saturday to decide the new champion.

Chip counts and table position.........

TABLE 53

1. Kenny Tran - 1,442,000
2. Amir Vahedi - 3,907,000
3. Bryan Devonshire - 984,000
4. Jeff King - 1,903,000
5. Tommy Le - 1,950,000
6. Cory Carroll - 1,346,000
7. John Roveto - 556,000
8. Jeff Shulman - 473,000
9. Empty

TABLE 54

1. Karga Holt - 1,500,000
2. David Chiu - 1,742,000
3. Tom "Durrrr" Dwan - 2,874,000
4. Andrew Black - 411,000
5. Gus Hansen - 2,929,000
6. David Tran - 2,543,000
7. Nick Binger - 701,000
8. Robert Mizrachi - 1,079,000
9. Michael Gracz - 1,674,000

Good Luck.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

WEDNESDAY ROUND UP ..........


I am amazed that no bookmaker has priced up the WPT World Championship, with so many poker players on the planet, someone showing a little enterprise could have stolen a march on the competition and got a little publicity into the bargain. Also, with no one other odds available, they could have bet to a huge profit margin, just like the old days !

We are down to the final sixteen, well actually seventeen, I cannot wait any longer,for the Robredo match to finish, in the Monte Carlo tennis the first major clay court tournament of the season, at least on the european swing. Thursday's line up in draw order, looks a lot like this ...............

FEDERER - MONFILS
ROBREDO/SODERLING- NALBANDIAN
DJOKOVIC- MURRAY
GASQUET- QUERREY
ALMAGRO- ANDREEV
DAVYDENKO-KOHLSCHREIBER
TIPSAREVIC- FERRER
NADAL- FERRERO

I have put a preview of tonight's Barcelona- Manchester United (hence the photo of John Wayne Rooney) game on the website, which has not moved and can be found, as always at www.predictuwin.com. Check it out in the free to view blog section, actually the whole site is free to view . Only the emails cost money and they are very inexpensive !

Good Luck.

WEDNESDAY PLANS ..........

Hampton ran riot yesterday and put six past Lewes, bit of overkill, as two would have done, but it is nice not to have to "sweat" a result.

I have previewed three events on the email service today, putting up four selections, intending to post one of them on the blog later, so please check back.

Good Luck.

WPT .... "THE KNIFE" IS TOO SHARP FOR MIZRACHI BUT GUS TRUMPS THEM ALL ...........


Play has ended on Day 3 at the WPT World Championship event taking place at the Bellagio. We are now down to just 55 players, all of whom are guaranteed $40k, but most,will only have eyes on the top prize of $3.4 m.

Biggest mover of the day was Gus Hansen, who increased his chip stack by almost 2m and he leads the way, Cory Carroll in second spot, added around 1.5m chips to his impressive pile and is flying the flag for Canada, who have been dominating recent big events.

Former champion Martin de Knijff performed best of the big names at the top of the day 2 leaderboard and holds a healthy 856k stack, which sees him in 4th position. This is clearly a structure that suits him well.

This is starting to develope into a classic tournament and the cream is rising to the top, other big movers were four time WSOP bracelet winner David Chiu, winner of over 1m chips yesterday and internet star Tom "Durrr" Dwan,who increased his stack eight fold and is up to 6th place.

Yesterday's leader Robert "The Grinder" Mizrachi, trod water for much of the day, but is definitely not out of things with 701k.

However, my vote for performance of the day, goes to David Grey, the New York native, a cash game specialist and two time WSOP bracelet winner, went into the day 187th of 188 players, with just 25k in front of him. That gave him few options, but he hung in there and is now 33rd of the 55 remaining, with a stack of 354k, one double up, would take him past Mizrachi, which proves the old "chip and a chair" adage.

End of Day 3 Chip Counts

First Name Last Name Chip Count Table Seat
1 Gus Hansen 2,246,000 Table 60 Seat 2
2 Cory Carroll 1,900,000 Table 54 Seat 5
3 David Chiu 1,231,000 Table 60 Seat 1
4 Martin Deknijff 856,000 Table 55 Seat 1
5 Nicholas Binger 829,000 Table 60 Seat 6
6 Tom Dwan 805,000 Table 62 Seat 6
7 Peter Neff 781,000 Table 54 Seat 8
8 Jeff Shulman 771,000 Table 62 Seat 5
9 Mark Newhouse 770,000 Table 54 Seat 1
10 Robert Mizrachi 701,000 Table 62 Seat 7
11 Vadim Trincher 699,000 Table 53 Seat 2
12 Amir Vehedi 696,000 Table 62 Seat 4
13 Steve Wong 662,000 Table 52 Seat 3
14 Nhan Le 605,000 Table 60 Seat 4
15 Michael Gracz 551,000 Table 53 Seat 8
16 David Tran 550,000 Table 54 Seat 3
17 Eric Richards 539,000 Table 61 Seat 3
18 Jonathan Kalmar 526,000 Table 53 Seat 3
19 Jared Okun 523,000 Table 61 Seat 4
20 John Celii 515,000 Table 61 Seat 2
21 Soheil Shamseddin 506,000 Table 60 Seat 7
22 Men Nguyen 499,000 Table 52 Seat 7
23 John Hoang 481,000 Table 60 Seat 5
24 James Calderaro 478,000 Table 55 Seat 7
25 Andrew Black 476,000 Table 55 Seat 4
26 Bryan Devonshire 465,000 Table 53 Seat 1
27 Karga Holt 448,000 Table 53 Seat 7
28 Scott Epstein 447,000 Table 61 Seat 5
29 Steve Billirakis 432,000 Table 52 Seat 6
30 Matthew Vengrin 423,000 Table 55 Seat 5
31 Eric Kesselman 364,000 Table 54 Seat 4
32 Kenny Tran 362,000 Table 62 Seat 8
33 David Grey 354,000 Table 62 Seat 1
34 Thomas McCormick 341,000 Table 54 Seat 2
35 Matthew Giannetti 326,000 Table 53 Seat 4
36 T J Cloutier 321,000 Table 52 Seat 5
37 JC Tran 303,000 Table 61 Seat 8
38 Gary Gibbs 296,000 Table 60 Seat 8
39 Noah Schwartz 270,000 Table 52 Seat 1
40 David Kim 256,000 Table 55 Seat 3
41 Carlos Mortensen 256,000 Table 53 Seat 5
42 Abdo Lattouf 246,000 Table 55 Seat 8
43 Keith Gipson 230,000 Table 62 Seat 3
44 Jeff King 226,000 Table 55 Seat 2
45 Mats Rahmn 220,000 Table 61 Seat 1
46 Danny Wong 218,000 Table 55 Seat 6
47 John Kincaid 214,000 Table 53 Seat 6
48 Isabel Mercier 207,000 Table 54 Seat 6
49 John Roveto 181,000 Table 61 Seat 6
50 Jayde Tran 179,000 Table 52 Seat 4
51 Joe Sebok 139,000 Table 62 Seat 2
52 Brian Rast 114,000 Table 60 Seat 3
53 Thomas Schneider 92,000 Table 54 Seat 7
54 Tim Phan 69,000 Table 61 Seat 7
55 Zvi Shiff 22,000 Table 52 Seat 2


Tuesday, April 22, 2008

A SHORT STORY .......


I very rarely use the blog for reflections on my private life, but this is simply too good to pass.

A relation of mine, who is 83 years old, virtually house bound and registered blind, received a letter from a debt collection agency, on behalf of one of the major mobile phone companies. Demanding immediate payment of almost £1,000, a huge sum of money to him.

Obviously, this was a case of fraud/identity theft, it happens all too often,unfortunately. Not sure quite what credit checks the mobile phone company do, as the surname was spelt slightly wrong, no other correspondence had ever been received relating to this and he owns neither a bank, nor credit card.

To then let a "new" account, apparently the contract was taken out in January, opened by an octogenarian, who has never previously pocessed a mobile, run up a bill of £1k is both strange and not a little irresponsible, but fair enough.

When I say, he has never owned one, he is not even 100% sure what one is !

We called the debt collection company on his behalf and despite some pretty rude treatment, they agreed to stop any action, but were adamant that we had to call the mobile company's fraud department. This is the unbelievable part, you call them, the phone is answered and you choose an option, so you are connected, then the internal line just rings and rings. First time 28 minutes ... no answer, second time 22 minutes and so on, if you have called using one of their own phones, there is a set charge per call, everyone else , remember, no one from my family has any dealings with this company, has to pay a premium rate per minute ! This, to report a fraud, that they are responsible for, it is simply unreal !

This was bad enough, so two hours out of my/our life and not a little expense, but when we finally speak to someone in the fraud department, they are incredibly rude, agressive and offer no apology for any of this.

This is customer service at it's very best, I will not name them (anagram of 2O) or the buffoon I spoke to in their fraud department, the biggest fraud is the cost of phoning them !

Back to my day job.

TONIGHT'S FOOTBALL ..........


Since sending this selection overnight to subscribers, the level ball odds have fallen to 1.70, however, if you want to chance the straight win, the hosts can still be backed at circa 2.48 on the exchanges.

BLUE SQUARE SOUTH

HAMPTON & RICHMOND- LEWES

This is a "friendly", hosts are booked for third spot and can look forward to the post season and the play-off lottery. Lewes won the title on Saturday and will be in the Premiership next season, no doubt it would have been party time on the south coast and we cannot expect them to be at their best this evening. Several fringe players are likely to be given an outing, though I doubt that their headaches will have been any less severe.

Everyone likes to beat the champions and no doubt Hampton, who received a huge boost with manager Alan Devonshire, signing a contract extension, he has been described as the best boss in their history, will be similarly motivated. His team can complete a rare double, having won the reverse fixture 2-1.

6 points Hampton level ball 1.93 asian line.

Good Luck.

OFFICIAL UPDATE ..........

Quite a few changes to my earlier list and we now have the official totals .........

First Name Last Name Chip Count Table Seat
1 Robert Mizrachi 523,200 Table 46 Seat 6
2 Jayde Tran 406,700 Table 59 Seat 5
3 Eric Richards 399,500 Table 51 Seat 1
4 Bryan Devonshire 393,400 Table 64 Seat 2
5 Cory Carroll 384,700 Table 57 Seat 6
6 John Celii 376,800 Table 61 Seat 9
7 Carlos Mortensen 371,600 Table 49 Seat 2
8 Kenny Tran 367,400 Table 60 Seat 9
9 Michael Gracz 364,800 Table 52 Seat 3
10 J Onathan Kalmar 333,900 Table 48 Seat 6
11 Marcel Luske 325,200 Table 52 Seat 8
12 Steve Wong 306,600 Table 54 Seat 8
13 Saifuddin Ahmad 306,500 Table 59 Seat 1
14 Soheil Shamseddin 297,500 Table 49 Seat 7
15 Philip Galfond 295,700 Table 47 Seat 8
16 John Hoang 293,700 Table 49 Seat 8
17 Mikael Thuritz 291,200 Table 50 Seat 9
18 Thomas Schneider 288,000 Table 60 Seat 3
19 Michael Katz 284,700 Table 62 Seat 4
20 Richard Fohrenbach 281,900 Table 58 Seat 3
21 Rhynie Campbell 281,100 Table 54 Seat 7
22 Joe Sebok 278,100 Table 46 Seat 5
23 Anna Wroblewski 277,300 Table 54 Seat 2
24 Martin Deknijff 276,100 Table 46 Seat 3
25 Charles Kelley 273,600 Table 60 Seat 8
26 Nhan Le 272,000 Table 54 Seat 9
27 Gus Hansen 264,200 Table 55 Seat 9
28 Josh Arieh 248,700 Table 59 Seat 4
29 Tam Hang 244,800 Table 48 Seat 9
30 Jeff Bayles 242,300 Table 47 Seat 2
31 John Kincaid 226,800 Table 64 Seat 1
32 Karga Holt 224,300 Table 60 Seat 7
33 Edwin Ting 215,000 Table 52 Seat 5
34 Praz Bansi 214,200 Table 61 Seat 2
35 Joseph Cassidy 214,200 Table 48 Seat 8
36 Greg Mueller 212,700 Table 56 Seat 6
37 James Calderaro 210,200 Table 58 Seat 6
38 Eugene Todd 210,000 Table 57 Seat 9
39 Vadim Trincher 209,700 Table 48 Seat 3
40 Andreas Krause 207,600 Table 51 Seat 5
41 Jeff King 203,000 Table 58 Seat 4
42 Yan Chen 203,000 Table 58 Seat 5
43 Gary Margadonna 202,100 Table 47 Seat 3
44 Nikolay Losev 201,500 Table 50 Seat 5
45 Jc Tran 201,300 Table 49 Seat 1
46 Abraham Mosseri 197,700 Table 57 Seat 3
47 Scott Epstein 194,900 Table 63 Seat 7
48 William Pilossoph 192,500 Table 64 Seat 8
49 Nicolas Levi 192,200 Table 59 Seat 9
50 Tim Phan 186,400 Table 53 Seat 4
51 Dario Minieri 186,000 Table 44 Seat 3
52 David Chiu 184,200 Table 53 Seat 3
53 Isabel Mercier 184,000 Table 63 Seat 1
54 Eric Kesselman 180,300 Table 62 Seat 6
55 Mark Seif 180,000 Table 63 Seat 3
56 William Baxter 176,600 Table 48 Seat 1
57 Matthew Vengrin 172,000 Table 61 Seat 5
58 Padraig Parkinson 170,700 Table 52 Seat 2
59 Paul Chauderson 168,000 Table 63 Seat 9
60 Brian Rast 163,700 Table 50 Seat 3
61 John Esposito 162,000 Table 58 Seat 7
62 Jonathan Westra 161,700 Table 59 Seat 7
63 Barny Boatman 161,500 Table 53 Seat 7
64 Steve Billirakis 156,600 Table 49 Seat 4
65 Daniel Negreanu 154,600 Table 54 Seat 3
66 Benjamin Springer 152,800 Table 53 Seat 8
67 T J Cloutier 152,000 Table 48 Seat 5
68 Francois Safieddine 151,800 Table 52 Seat 7
69 Herman Zango 150,300 Table 52 Seat 1
70 Gary Gibbs 149,300 Table 49 Seat 3
71 Men Nguyen 145,800 Table 63 Seat 6
72 Roy Winston 144,000 Table 62 Seat 1
73 Gavin Smith 142,300 Table 49 Seat 6
74 Keith Gipson 142,100 Table 54 Seat 6
75 David Tran 141,500 Table 47 Seat 4
76 Dino French 141,200 Table 59 Seat 8
77 Amir Vehedi 141,100 Table 50 Seat 2
78 Hyon Kim 139,400 Table 50 Seat 4
79 Thomas Wahlroos 137,400 Table 61 Seat 6
80 Mike Sexton 135,100 Table 51 Seat 6
81 Michael Sohayegh 133,900 Table 51 Seat 2
82 Rock Cloutier 132,600 Table 58 Seat 2
83 Zvi Shiff 131,000 Table 55 Seat 8
84 Matthew Giannetti 130,700 Table 57 Seat 4
85 John Hillman 130,000 Table 55 Seat 1
86 Andrew Shack 129,400 Table 51 Seat 3
87 Philippe Rouas 124,700 Table 64 Seat 3
88 Kathy Liebert 123,300 Table 60 Seat 5
89 Mats Rahmn 123,000 Table 51 Seat 4
90 Narendra Banwari 122,700 Table 52 Seat 6
91 Matthew Hyman 122,400 Table 50 Seat 8
92 Cary Katz 121,800 Table 53 Seat 9
93 John Monnette 121,400 Table 61 Seat 1
94 Tim Chauser 120,700 Table 57 Seat 8
95 Abdo Lattouf 120,000 Table 64 Seat 7
96 Noah Schwartz 117,200 Table 45 Seat 7
97 Jared Hamby 116,500 Table 53 Seat 5
98 Vivek Rajkumar 115,600 Table 62 Seat 8
99 Vincent Procopio 114,500 Table 44 Seat 4
100 Hevad Khan 113,400 Table 55 Seat 7
101 Phil Ivey 111,700 Table 45 Seat 8
102 Barry Greenstein 111,100 Table 64 Seat 4
103 James Dawick 110,200 Table 52 Seat 9
104 David Ulliot 110,000 Table 45 Seat 5
105 David Benyamine 110,000 Table 44 Seat 6
106 Ray Coburn 109,900 Table 60 Seat 1
107 Allie Prescott 109,200 Table 51 Seat 8
108 Samuel Hiatt 107,300 Table 45 Seat 3
109 John Strzemp 107,000 Table 58 Seat 8
110 Vincent Shaw 106,300 Table 53 Seat 1
111 Alex Jacob 105,800 Table 64 Seat 6
112 Steven Weinstein 105,300 Table 53 Seat 6
113 Keith Tilston 104,600 Table 47 Seat 6
114 Andrew Robl 102,400 Table 62 Seat 2
115 Nicholas Binger 101,600 Table 54 Seat 1
116 Jordan Morgan 100,600 Table 56 Seat 7
117 Karl Tretter 98,900 Table 63 Seat 8
118 Tom Dwan 98,800 Table 59 Seat 6
119 Thayer Rasmussen 98,300 Table 52 Seat 4
120 Tony Grappo 96,800 Table 55 Seat 5
121 Sudhakara Kattamuri 96,500 Table 44 Seat 8
122 Jared Okun 96,400 Table 64 Seat 5
123 David Kim 96,000 Table 51 Seat 9
124 James Van Alstyne 95,700 Table 63 Seat 4
125 Robert Wisiak 95,000 Table 49 Seat 5
126 Chad Brown 95,000 Table 47 Seat 5
127 Bob Stupak 94,200 Table 58 Seat 1
128 Champie Douglas 93,100 Table 56 Seat 3
129 Jordan Rich 92,800 Table 56 Seat 5
130 James Mettler 92,700 Table 46 Seat 4
131 Joseph Risi 92,500 Table 55 Seat 2
132 Parviz Razavian 91,600 Table 59 Seat 3
133 Dave Redlin 90,300 Table 54 Seat 5
134 Chris Lee 89,600 Table 61 Seat 8
135 Mark Appleman 89,000 Table 47 Seat 1
136 Kristy Gazes 88,700 Table 57 Seat 5
137 Jeff Shulman 88,300 Table 56 Seat 8
138 Quinn Do 88,100 Table 46 Seat 7
139 Andrew Black 86,800 Table 61 Seat 4
140 Mark Newhouse 86,500 Table 62 Seat 5
141 Steve Brecher 85,900 Table 55 Seat 6
142 Peter Neff 84,000 Table 59 Seat 2
143 Tim West 83,400 Table 44 Seat 2
144 Raffi King 82,300 Table 57 Seat 1
145 Ron Levi 81,800 Table 46 Seat 8
146 Erik Seidel 80,300 Table 47 Seat 7
147 Mike Watell 78,300 Table 62 Seat 3
148 Alan Smurfit 77,800 Table 56 Seat 2
149 Wil Wilkinson 75,600 Table 45 Seat 9
150 Art Duncan 73,700 Table 51 Seat 7
151 Burton Boutin 73,400 Table 45 Seat 2
152 Humberto Brenes 72,500 Table 55 Seat 4
153 Dan Harrington 69,400 Table 56 Seat 9
154 Ray Henson 69,100 Table 60 Seat 4
155 Jonathan Aguiar 68,200 Table 46 Seat 1
156 John Juanda 67,500 Table 62 Seat 7
157 Thomas Mccormick 64,100 Table 49 Seat 9
158 Mike Matusow 62,900 Table 55 Seat 3
159 Shawn Cunix 61,900 Table 44 Seat 7
160 Andrew Pierz 60,100 Table 54 Seat 4
161 Herb Montalbano 57,700 Table 48 Seat 2
162 Eric Lynch 56,000 Table 47 Seat 9
163 Daniel Shak 55,600 Table 50 Seat 6
164 Ross Boatman 55,000 Table 56 Seat 4
165 Stan Jablonski 50,400 Table 46 Seat 9
166 Jimmy Dowda 48,500 Table 62 Seat 9
167 Will Failla 48,500 Table 45 Seat 4
168 Doyle Brunson 48,300 Table 63 Seat 5
169 Fred Berger 45,400 Table 61 Seat 3
170 Lars Bonding 44,300 Table 48 Seat 4
171 Matthew Brady 44,200 Table 50 Seat 1
172 Scott Mayfield 43,400 Table 46 Seat 2
173 Michael Mckenna 42,100 Table 53 Seat 2
174 John Roveto 38,900 Table 50 Seat 7
175 Scotty Nguyen 38,100 Table 56 Seat 1
176 Dewey Tomko 36,600 Table 48 Seat 7
177 Tad Jurgens 36,500 Table 60 Seat 2
178 Gary Horn 36,200 Table 60 Seat 6
179 Steven O'Dwyer 35,100 Table 64 Seat 9
180 Heather Sue Mercer 34,400 Table 58 Seat 9
181 William Klein 34,100 Table 61 Seat 7
182 Grant Lang 32,400 Table 45 Seat 1
183 Eugene Katchalov 30,900 Table 63 Seat 2
184 Chris Grigorian 29,200 Table 44 Seat 1
185 Nam Le 29,000 Table 57 Seat 2
186 Danny Wong 26,700 Table 44 Seat 5
187 David Grey 25,300 Table 45 Seat 6
188 Cristiano Blanco 22,800 Table 57 Seat 7

WORLD POKER TOUR ....... WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ......... CHIP COUNT END OF DAY 2


What is claimed to be the greatest field in poker history, coughed up $25k each at the Bellagio to compete for the title of WPT World Champion and a first prize of almost $3.4m.

Surprisingly, that is quite a bit down on last year, when the winner, Carlos Mortensen walked away with a cool $3.97m. Amazingly, he is firmly in contention again, lying in 5th place, if he was to take the title again, it would be a stunning achievement, especially as he already has a WSOP main event to his name.

We are down to around 200 players, with the 51-100th place finishers guaranteed $40k, or around 1.60 to your money for 3-4 days work , a hard way to make an easy living !

Chip leader is Robert "The Grinder" Mizrachi with around 523k in chips, all totals are rounded up and are unofficial figures, so there are bound to be a few small errors, but will give us a feel for how the tournament is unfolding. Along with Mortensen, we have to give another "big up" to 2004 champion Martin de Knijff, he "only"picked up $2.73 for his victory four years ago, so, unlike the Spaniard, he will not be too disappointed with the potential $3.4m pay day !

Selected chip counts....
1) Robert Mizrachi 523k
2) Bryan Devonshire 393k
3) Cory Carroll 385k
4) John Celii 377k
5) Carlos Mortensen 372k
9) Kenny Tran 295k
13) Joe Sebok 278k
15) Marcel Luske 277k
16) Martin de Knijff 276k
20) Gus Hansen 246k

Further down the field are Devilfish 195k, Isabelle Mercier 184k, Padraig Parkinson 184k and Daniel Negreanu 155k. Average stack is around 136, 250 and below that number we find superstar Phil Ivey 136k, Mike Sexton 135k, Barny Boatman 116k, Hevad Khan 113k, Barry Greenstein 111k , Tom "Durrr" Dwan and Andy Black 87k.

With 80k or less, are a host of star names, including Seidel, Seed, Juanda, Harrington, Fischman, Matusow, Brenes, Benyamine, Scotty and the biggest name of all Doyle Brunson.

Lots of poker still to be played and it will be fun to follow the action, which you can do at www.worldpokertour.com

Good Luck.

TUESDAY UPDATE ....

I previewed four sporting events on the email service overnight, giving five selections, including two on the massive Champions League tie between Liverpool and Chelsea.

Must say that I am really looking forward to this match, European nights at Anfield are very special and the atmosphere will be electric.

Cannot say that I am in the greatest of form, coming off maybe the worst 2-3 weeks of my (long) career. However, I think that the ship has been steadied, with a small, if unspectacular profit over the last three weeks and it gives us something to build on.

Looking at the blog selections, since December 19th, which is a shade over four months, I have given 189 selections, 105 winners (55.56%) and they have produced a profit of 142.3 points, on total stakes of 1073 points, that is a ROI of 13.26 %, a lot of fun and twelve times what you would get from a bank !

The only outstanding bet is 2 points Zenit St Petersburg in the UEFA Cup at circa 21.0, so good value with that selection also.

Those figures are pretty impressive anyway, but more so, when you consider that they include such a dismal sequence of results.

I am not sure that it will be possible to post anything on the blog today, one selection has already started. For various reasons, I do not want to reproduce the CL preview in a public forum and one of the other two selections, has already been well backed, so options are limited. However, I will try to do my best.

As always, the only way to receive all the selections is by subscribing to the email service, full details are on the website www.predictuwin.com .

Regular readers interested in joining the service, can send me an email via the "contact us" button on the site and receive a special introductory rate offer.

Good Luck.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

WHY THE LONG FACE RUUD ?


PRIMERA

RACING SANTANDER - REAL MADRID


Hosts are having a famous season and will move into one of the Champions League spots with a win. They are in good form with six wins in their last ten starts and have only lost three, of 15 home La Liga matches.


Following Barce's latest failure to collect three points, Real now hold an eight point advantage, with a game in hand and can coast to another title, their motivation this evening, may not be as great at Racing's.They will again be without RVN and the suspended Gutti and Torres and I will side with the home side to repeat last years win over Real.


Recent h2h history is split, with a 2-2-2 record in the last six, hosts have scored exactly two goals in 5 of those, with the two away wins both coming by a 2-3 scoreline, which I am going to "save " on.


6 points Racing level ball 2.11 asian line.

1 point Real to win 3-2 correct score 34.0 Bet 365 bigger on the exchanges.


SEGUNDA

ALBACETE BALOMPIE - GRANADA 74 CF


Albacete are three points adrift of safety and face a very difficult trip to Tenerife next week, so have to look for maximum points this afternoon. Goals have been a problem for them all season and this is unlikely to be a goal fest, but the hosts are not in bad form, losing just one in five, with an impressive four clean sheets.


They could hardly wish for a better opponent, Granada look safe at present and boast just one win and five goals in ten starts. Narrow home win, maybe 1-0 at the Carlos Belmonte stadium.


5.5 points Albacete -1/2 ball 2.25 general quote.


Good luck.