That keen to get the round up done I wrote this last night. A fantastic weekend and after being a little over 2 points down this time a fortnight ago two decent weekends have moved up to within ½pt of 10! My modest target for the season is 20 points and that goes a long way to achieving that. I am realistic enough to know there will be losing weekends along the way but this puts us in a very solid position and I am really pleased. This is my second year doing this blog, and the 3rd year I have done corner bets and feel progress is being made. I will stop there as I am in danger of getting my own trumpet out. The other matches I mentioned as a possible double both lost so I got lucky there.
Atletico Madrid got hammered by Barcelona on Saturday night and that was a hard game to watch. Feel a bit let down by Atletico as they make out they will be the real deal and then fall apart when the pressure comes, and they did the same at CampNou last season. Like last season they may go on and beat Barcelona when they are at home but it will be too late. They now have Real Madrid and Villareal to contend with and who knows what will happen. Sporting Gijón got off the mark with a 2-0 win at Mallorca and I’ll be watching them again in 2 weeks time after the international break when they play Osasuna and hope they can get more points.
The international break should be a nice opportunity to get some more work done on the site. I know there will be a few games but it won’t take up as much time as normal.
Back to the weekend andNewcastle beat Everton 5-3 on corners so that bet was easily landed. The big win was on the Derby game and I was out in the afternoon with my son and checked the internet on the bus coming home and saw it was 1-1 and had a glimmer of hope. These correct score bets are very risky but the reward was a 4.5pt profit as Derby won 2-1 at 11 (10/1). Leicester win again 1-0 keeping another clean sheet and the only non winner was Walsall who drew 0-0 at Hereford so we lose half a point there as half the bet was voided.
19 bets (17 points staked) :: 10 win – 1 void – 1 half void/loss – 7 losses :: +9.59
* This does not include the 2 antepost bets.
A few Confernence games to look at midweek but unlikely there will be bets there. Divisions 1 and 2 in England and the Conference will have full programs next weekend so back for that.
