Sometimes you get lured into a false sense of security that betting is easy and after then you get slapped down. This weekend was the slapping as 4 of the 5 selections lost. I’ll come back to them in a bit but in Spain Real Madrid and Barcelona both won with Barça crushing my local team Gijón 6-1 and the atmosphere before the game on the streets was amazing. Sadly, I didn’t have a ticket! Atletico Madrid beat Recre 4-0 and both them and Villareal look very strong this year and I could see them breaking the Madrid/Barcelona monopoly. There’s a full set of games this midweek in Spain, as well as Italy, and hopefully there might be some bets there. Espanyol look a massive price to win in Sevilla. Sevilla somehow managed to hold out against Betis in their local derby and I think Espanyol at 6.5 have to be bet.
Back to this weekend and Stoke drew 0-0 at Anfield scuppering both our bets. Liverpool didn’t get the early goal I hoped for and then had 20 corners as they piled on the pressure and I don’t think the corner bet could have been more wrong. Birmingham lost 1-0 to Blackpool and looking back the 1.91 on under 2.5 really was the bet. Bradford lost 3-1 at home and Bury won 2-1 at Barnet for our only winner on the weekend.
Carew scored again which was good for the top goalscorer bet and Ladbrokes are still asleep having him at 100/1 when both Skybet and Sporting Bet have cut him to 33/1.
7 bets (7 points staked) :: 2 win – 1 void – 4 losses :: -1.95
Will plough on with the mini-console this week and hopefully get the Asian Handicap component in there today. Will look at the midweek matches tonight and tomorrow and will post on Tuesday evening.
