Malaga v Espanyol (Spain: Sun 5pm Local Time)

Espanyol are really struggling this season on and off the field. 7 players are free agents at the end of the season, the goalie had a fight with a fan recently at training and they are having financial difficulties selling property to do with moving to a new stadium. They won their first 2 games of the season an since then have won just once in 16 games, losing 6 of the last 9. Malaga have done really well this season, especially at home. They come into this game with 4 wins in the last 6 and 3 wins on the bounce at home. Only Valencia and Barcelona have won in Malaga and Villarreal and Bilbao are the only teams to have left there with anything. In short they have beaten all the weaker teams and only dropped points against the big boys. The price of 2.1 has gone so I will use the 2.05 Hills offer

++ Win Market – Malaga @ 2.05 on William Hill (1pt)

This was a hard weekend to find matches in. As I said I have cut down where I look for games so hopefully its quality not quantity. Not to many real big games about but a few of interest.

There were 3 corner games that I liked the look of this weekend but I kept coming back to this and hope I was right. The bottom line is that ‘Boro average just 3.5 corners away from home and only Portsmouth average less. They visit the baggies who average 6.7 corners at home which is 7^th overall. WBA have played 9 games against teams outside the big 4 and average over 11 corners in these games. In 7 of the 9 they have had at least 5 corners and 8 or more in 5 of them. Middlesborough have visited Liverpool but in the other 9 games have averaged more than 4 corners just twice. This games looks like it could easily end up 7-4 to WBA and with the handicap at -1 we would take that.

Morecombe v Gillingham (English League Two: Sat 3pm Local Time)

I had this bet pencilled in and then I saw the team news on BBC and became convinced. Morecombe have a couple of players back but ‘Stuart Lewis replaces captain Barry Fuller (pneumonia) and Mark Bentley fills in for suspended Garry Richards in a makeshift Gillingham defence.’ The poor Gills captain has got pneumonia and who knows how that will affect them. Morecombe lost their first 2 home games but since then are 9 unbeaten at their home ground, no idea what it is called. The Gills have won just 2 away and lost 6 of their 11 away games. 4 of the Gills last 6 games have been at home but despite thei they registered just one win. Morecombe have won 3 of the last 4 at home and the other was a draw at Exeter who are having a great season.

++ Win Market – Morecombe @ 2.625 on Paddy Power/Blue Sq (1pt)

There is another game I really like in Spain. I just don’t have time to write it up now so will make the selection and add it tomorrow.

Malaga v Espanyol (Spain: Sun 5pm Local Time)

++ Win Market – Malaga @ 2.1 on Stan James (1pt)

3 points staked on the weekend.

Good luck in whatever bets you do.