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30Nov/080

Haha Would You Believe It?

Despite my criticism of Wayne Rooney, he managed to come up with the goods by scoring the winner in the Manchester derby. It was a fair result - United dominated the game from start to finish, with City only really having one notable chance cleared off the line by Evra. If that didn't make me happy enough already, Histon managed to overcome Leeds United in the English FA Cup - success! And if that wasn't enough - Chelsea yet again emphasised their ability to crumble under pressure by losing 2-1 at home to Arsenal. Last but not least - even Athletic Bilbao won and climbed out of the bottom 3 in Spain! Football is a strange game sometimes, eh? I think I've had quite a good weekend prediction-wise so I'm quite pleased overall.

A quick shout-out goes to Real Valladolid in Spain, who have claimed yet another convincing win in their subtle ascent of the Spanish Primera Liga. This side have always been good on their own turf, but now they're starting to take points on the road too so they're very much worth keeping an eye on - potentially this season's surprise package.

Monday's Picks

Bulgarian A PFG:

Lokomotiv Sofia vs Slavia Sofia (6)

Cypriot Division A:

APEP vs Apollon Limassol (5)

Czech Republic Liga 1:

Banik Ostrava vs Jablonec (7)

Danish Superligaen:

Aarhus vs OB Odense (6)

English Premier League:

Liverpool vs West Ham United (8)

English Championship:

Reading vs Coventry City (7)

French Ligue 2:

Lens vs Sedan-Ardennes (9)

Israeli Ligat Ha'al:

Beitar Jerusalem vs Bnei Sakhnin (7)

Italian Serie B:

Triestina vs Treviso (6)

Portuguese Liga:

Porto vs Academica de Coimbra (8)
SL Benfica vs Vitoria Setubal (6)

Romanian Liga 1:

CFR Cluj vs Gaz Metan (8)
Gloria Bistrita vs Gloria Buzau (8)
Steau Bucharest vs AFC Unirea Urziceni (4)

Enjoy

29Nov/080

The Age-Old Rivalry Is Renewed!

Yes, Manchester United travel to the home of the wealthiest club in the world Manchester City. A real clash of talent, history and support versus a club with no history but a very wealthy owner. Despite United's blatant advantage in terms of class and ability, they have failed to beat City in at least the last 2 occasions, each one of them largely galling for an avid Red like myself. One of the results City thoroughly deserved, winning 2-1 at Old Trafford. The other they managed to win by pure fluke, but it's 3 points that count at the end of the day. However, this clash arrives at a time when United need the points and the goals whilst facing a City side in poor form. All this is irrelevant, however, when it comes to the game itself. It's about time United beat them in this fixture. Recently, Wayne Rooney is one United player who has pissed me off. He's cost us more points this season than any other player and I'm currently very critical of his performances in general, largely because he doesn't have an "average" performance - he's either brilliant or a complete handicap to the squad. I hope he proves me wrong by scoring on sunday, but in his current vein of form, there's more chance of Stoke City winning the English Premier League. Anyway, as Monty Python once famously said - "Enough of this gay banter!" - onto the picks.

Sunday's Picks 

Albanian Kategoria Pare: 

 

Besa vs Bylis (5)
Shkumbini vs Dinamo Tirana (3)

Argentinian Primera Division: 

Boca Juniors vs Racing (8)
Newell's Old Boys vs Velez Sarsfeld (5)
Tigre vs River Plate (6)

Austrian Bundesliga: 

SV Mattersburg vs Salzburg (6)

Belgian Eerste Klasse: 

Club Brugge vs Germinal Beerschot (10)
Mechelen vs Standard de Liege (9)

Brazilian Campeonato Serie A: 

Atletico MG vs Santos (6)
Botafogo vs Figueirense FC (8)
Coritiba FBC vs CR Vasco da Gama (6)
FC Vitoria vs Palmeiras (5)
Flamengo vs Goias (7)
Internacional vs Cruzeiro (7)
Nautico vs Atletico Paranaense (5)
Portuguesa de Desportos vs Sport Recife (4)
Sao Paulo vs Fluminense (8)

Bulgarian A PFG: 

PFC Cherno More Varna vs PFC Minior Pernik (7)
PFC Litex Lovech vs Spartak Varna (9)

Chilean Primera Division: 

Rangers de Talca vs Palestino (5)

Croatian Prva Liga: 

Cibalia vs Croatia Sesvete (3)
Hajduk Split vs NK Osijek (7)
NK Slaven Koprivnica vs Rijeka (6)
NK Varteks vs Dinamo Zagreb (6)
NK Zagreb vs Sibenik (6)
Zadar vs Inter Zapresic (5)

Cypriot Division A: 

AEP vs AC Omonia Nicosia (8)
Anorthosis Famagusta vs Atromitos Yeroskipou (10)

Czech Republic Liga 1: 

Bohemians Prague vs Ceske Budjovice (5)
Pribram vs Slavia Prague (8)
Teplice vs Viktoria Plzen (6)

Danish Superligaen: 

AaB vs FC Copenhagen (6)
EfB vs Randers (6)
Horsens vs SonderjyskE (5)
Midtylland vs FC Nordsjaelland (8)

Dutch Eredivisie: 

AFC Ajax Amsterdam vs FC Utrecht (7)
NEC Nijmegen vs Volendam (9)
Sparta Rotterdam vs NAC Breda (7)
Vitesse Arnhem vs Feyenoord Rotterdam (6)

Dutch Eerste Klasse: 

Emmen vs Go Ahead Eagles (5)

Ecuadorian Primera A: 

Barcelona vs Macara (8)
Deportivo Quito vs LDU Quito (5)

English Premier League: 

Chelsea vs Arsenal (6)
Manchester City vs Manchester United (3)
Portsmouth vs Blackburn Rovers (7)
Tottenham Hotspur vs Everton (7)

English Championship: 

Swansea City vs Cardiff City (6)

French Ligue 1: 

AS Nancy-Lorraine vs Saint-Etienne (6)
Stade Rennais vs Paris Saint-Germain (6)
Toulouse vs Olympique de Marseille (3)

German Bundesliga: 

BV09 Borussia Dortmund vs VFL Wolfsburg (6)
VFB Stuttgart vs Schalke 04 (6)
VFL Bochum vs Hamburg (8)

Greek Super League: 

Aris Salonica vs Panserraikos (7)
Ergotelis vs Xanthi (6)
Levadiakos vs AEK Athens (6)
Olympiakos Piraeus vs Panionios (7)
Panthrakikos vs OFI Crete (7)

Italian Serie A: 

AS Roma vs Fiorentina (6)
Atalanta Bergamo vs Lazio (8)
Cagliari vs Sampdoria (6)
Genoa vs Bologna (7)
Internazionale vs SSC Napoli (7)
Palermo vs AC Milan (7)
Siena vs Torino (5)
Udinese vs Chievo Verona (8)

Luxembourgian Division Nationale: 

CS Grevenmacher vs Hamm (7)
Differdange vs Hesperange (8)
Dudelange vs Progres (6)
Fola vs Jeunesse Esch (5)
Kaerjeng vs Rumelange (7)
Racing FC Union Luxembourg vs Sporting Steinfor (6)

Macedonian Prva Liga: 

Metalurg Skopje vs Rabotnicki (8)
Pelister vs Renova (7)
Pobeda vs Makedonija (6)
Sileks vs Turnovo (5)
Vardar vs Milano (6)

Maltese Premier League: 

Qormi FC vs Sliema Wanderers (7)
Msida vs Hibernians (5)

Peruvian Primera Division: 

Alianza Atletico vs San Martin (7)
Alianza Lima vs Universitario (5)
Atletico Minero vs Sporting Cristal (6)
Cesar Vallejo vs Melgar FBC (6)
Coronel Bolognesi vs Juan Aurich (4)
Sport Ancash vs Club Sportivo Cienciano (6)
Sport Boys vs Jose Galvez (6)

Polish Ekstraklasa: 

Odra Wodzislaw vs Lech Poznan (7)
Polonia Warsaw vs Arka Gdynia (7)

Portuguese Liga: 

Braga vs CD Nacional (5)
Pacos de Ferreira vs Estrela da Amadora (6)
Sporting Clube de Lisbon vs Vitoria Guimaraes (8)
Trofense vs Rio Ave (7)

Romanian Liga 1: 

CFR Cluj vs Gaz Metan (8)
Gloria Bistrita vs Gloria Buzau (8)
Steau Bucharest vs AFC Unirea Urziceni (4)

Slovakian Superliga: 

MSK Zilina vs Kosice (6)

Slovenian Liga 1; 

Celje vs Rudar (6)
Domzale vs Primorje (7)

Spanish Primera Liga: 

Almeria vs Deportivo la Coruna (5)
Athletic Club de Bilbao vs Numancia (7)
Atletico Madrid vs Racing Club de Santander (7)
Espanyol vs Real Sporting de Gijon (7)
Malaga vs Osasuna (6)
Real Valladolid vs Real Mallorca (7)
Recreativo de Huelva vs Villarreal (7)
Valencia vs Real Betis (7)

Spanish Segunda Liga: 

Alicante vs Levante (5)
Castellon vs Alaves (7)
Gimnastic de Tarragona vs Hercules (6)
Tenerife vs Real Zaragoza (7)
UD Salamanca vs Cordoba (8)

Swiss Super League: 

Bellinzona vs Vaduz (5)
Xamax vs Basel (7)

Turkish Super Lig: 

Bursaspor vs Antalyaspor (7)
Galatasaray vs Hacettepe SK (9)
Genclerbirligi SK vs Istanbul BB (4)
Kocaelispor vs Konyaspor (6)

Ukrainian Premier League: 

Dynamo Kiev vs Dnipro Dnepropetrovsk (8)
Shakhtar Donetsk vs Karpaty (8)
Tavriya vs Metalist Kharkiv (8)

Venezuelan Primera Division: 

AC Mineros vs UA Maracaibo (5)
Anzoategui vs Zamora (5)
Aragua vs Dep. Italia (6)
Caracas FC vs Monagas SC (7)
Estudiantes de Merida vs Estrella Roja (6)
Guaros de Lara vs Deportivo Tachira (9)
Llanero vs Carabobo (5)
Portuguesa vs Minerven (6)
Zulia vs Atletico Vigia (8)

Enjoy

28Nov/080

I Must Confess…

...that I'm actually very, very impressed with Barcelona this term. They've really lit up under Pep Guardiola after a stuttering start and now enjoy scoring goals for fun, the old Barca way. I remember ties in the Champions League against United where each time they met it seemed to be 3-3 - those were games I'll always remember, back when Rivaldo was the name on everyone's lips in the world. The guy single-handedly earned Barcelona one of the 3-3 draws with a simply magnificent performance. These days, however, their talisman is wonderkid Lionel Messi. It's hard to name a better player than him when it comes to dribbling. As a United fan, I naturally crave the day that Glazer would say "Ok Barcelona, name your price for Messi so we can put him on one wing and Ronaldo on the other". That would then be the end of competitive football as we know it, in my opinion. It won't ever happen, of course - Messi owes too much to Barcelona to ever leave them. However, this isn't simply a point about Messi but Barcelona in general. In the past, they've struggled because, like Arsenal, they only have one style of football, and in today's day and age, that can be quelled by sides. This season, however, they've completely monopolised the abilities available to them and made themselves a real force. In fact, I'd put them in a list of 5 teams in the Champions League that I think have a genuine chance of winning it, along with Manchester United, Juventus and Chelsea. Anyway, enough babble, onto the picks!

Saturday's Picks

Albanian Kategoria Pare:

 

Lushnja vs Apolonia Fier (4)
Tirana vs Teuta (7)
Vllaznia vs Partizani (9)

Argentinian Primera Division:

 

Argentinos Juniors vs Rosario Central (6)
Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy vs San Martin de Tucuman (5)
Godoy Cruz de Mendoza vs Estudiantes de la Plata (7)
Huracan vs San Lorenzo de Almagro (8)
Lanus vs Arsenal de Sarandi (7)

Austrian Bundesliga:

 

Rapid Vienna vs SCR Altach (9)
SV Kapfenberg vs Austria Vienna (7)
SV Ried vs LASK Linz (4)

Belgian Eerste Klasse:

 

AA Gent vs Roeselare (8)
Genk vs Cercle Brugge (6)
Mouscron vs Lokeren (5)
Tubize vs Kortrijk (6)
Westerlo vs Mons (7)
Zulte Waregem vs Charleroi (5)

Bosnian Premijer Liga:

 

Borac vs Leotar (5)
Modrica vs Zeljeznicar (6)
Sarajevo vs Orasje (8)
Siroki Brijeg vs Zrinjski (4)
Sloboda vs Slavija Sarajevo (5)
Travnik vs Celik (4)
Velez vs Posusje (5)
Zvijezda vs Laktasi (5)

Bulgarian A PFG:

 

Belasitsa Petrich vs FC Sliven (8)
Botev vs Lokomotiv Plovdiv (5)
Cheromorets Burgas vs Vihren (6)
Levski Sofia vs Blagoevgrad (7)

Chilean Primera Division:

Cobreloa vs Colo Colo (6)

Cypriot Division A:

 

AEL vs APOP (5)
APOEL Nicosia vs AEK (10)
Doxa vs Alki (5)
Ethnikos Achnas vs Paralimni (6)

Czech Republic Liga 1:

 

Slovan Liberec vs Brno (7)
Sparta Prague vs Kladno (8)
Viktoria Plzen vs Sigma Olomouc (5)
Zlin vs Mlada Boleslav (8)

Danish Superligaen:

 

Brondby IF vs VB (9)

Dutch Eredivisie:

 

ADO Den Haag vs FC Twente (7)
De Graafschap vs Roda JC (4)
Heerenveen vs PSV Eindhoven (4)
Heracles vs Willem II (6)

Ecuadorian Primera A:

 

El Nacional vs Club Deportivo Cuenca (6)

English Premier League:

 

Aston Villa vs Fulham (8)
Middlesbrough vs Newcastle United (4)
Stoke City vs Hull City (5)
Sunderland vs Bolton Wanderers (6)
Wigan Athletic vs West Bromwich Albion (6)

English Championship:

 

Burnley vs Derby County (4)
Charlton Athletic vs Southampton (7)
Crystal Palace vs Queens Park Rangers (7)
Ipswich Town vs Sheffield United (6)
Nottingham Forest vs Barnsley (4)
Plymouth Argyle vs Blackpool (6)
Preston North End vs Bristol City (3)
Sheffield Wednesday vs Norwich City (5)
Watford vs Doncaster Rovers (8)
Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Birmingham City (7)

English League One:

 

Northampton Town vs Colchester United (5)
Walsall vs Swindon Town (7)

English League Two:

 

Accrington Stanley vs Bury (5)

French Ligue 1:

 

Auxerre vs AS Monaco (5)
Le Havre vs FC Nantes Atlantique (5)
Le Mans vs Stade Malherbe de Caen (5)
LOSC Lille vs Lorient (5)
Nice vs Grenoble Foot 38 (8)
Olympique Lyonnais vs Valenciennes (9)
Sochaux-Montbeliard vs Girondins de Bordeaux (7)

German Bundesliga:

 

Bayer 04 Leverkusen vs Bayern Munich (5)
Hannover 96 vs Karlsruhe (6)
Hoffenheim vs Arminia Bielefeld (9)
Moenchengladbach vs Energie Cottbus (4)
Werder Bremen vs Eintracht Frankfurt (6)

Greek Super League:

 

Panathinaikos vs Asteras Tripolis (8)
Thrasivoulos vs PAOK (9)
Larissa vs Iraklis (7)

Israeli Ligat Ha'al:

 

Ashdod vs Maccabi Haifa (7)
Bnei Yehuda vs Maccabi Tel-Aviv (5)
Hapoel Petach-Tikva vs Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona (6)
Hapoel Tel-Aviv vs Hakoah Maccabi Amidar (8)
Maccabi Netanya vs Maccabi Petach-Tikva (7)

Italian Serie A:

 

Catania vs Lecce (8)
Juventus vs Reggina (9)

Italian Serie B:

 

Ascoli vs Sassuolo (8)
Bari vs Albinoleffe (7)
Cittadella vs Ancona (5)
Empoli vs Piacenza (8)
Mantova vs Brescia (6)
Modena vs Livorno (8)
Pisa vs Frosinone (5)
US Avellino vs Rimini (6)
Vicenza vs Grosseto (6)

Luxembourgian Division Nationale:

 

Avenir Beggen vs Etzella Ettelbruck (6)

Maltese Premier League:

 

Floriana vs Tarxien (7)
Valletta vs Hamrun Spartans (8)

Montenegrin Prva Crnogorska:

 

Buducnost Podgorica vs Jedinstvo (8)
Grbalj vs Lovcen (9)
Kom vs Decic (5)
Petrovac vs Mogren (7)
Rudar vs Jezero (7)
Sutjeska vs Zeta (7)

Northern Irish Premier League:

 

Bangor vs Coleraine (6)
Crusaders vs Linfield (6)
Dungannon Swifts vs Cliftonville (5)
Glenavon vs Ballymena (5)
Glentoran vs Newry (7)
Institute vs Lisburn Distillery (6)

Polish Ekstraklasa:

 

Cracovia Krakow vs Jagiellonia Bialystok (6)
Polonia Bytom vs Piast Gliwice (7)
Ruch Chorzow vs Wisla Krakow (6)
Slask Wroclaw vs LKS Lodz (8)

Portuguese Liga:

 

Belenenses vs CS Maritimo (7)

Romanian Liga 1:

 

Dinamo Bucharest vs Arges Pitesti (7)
FC Poli Timisoara vs FC Brasov (6)
Otelul vs Pandurii (5)
Poli Iasi vs Rapid Bucharest (7)

Scottish Premier League:

 

Aberdeen vs Motherwell FC (5)
Celtic vs Inverness Caledonian Thistle (10)
Falkirk vs Hibernians (6)
Hamilton Academicals vs Kilmarnock (7)
Hearts vs Rangers (8)
St Mirren vs Dundee United (7)

Serbian Superliga:

 

FK Borac vs Partizan Belgrade (8)
Javor vs Banat (7)
OFK Belgrade vs FK Napredak (9)
Rad Belgrade vs Kula (6)
Red Star Belgrade vs Cukaricki (8)
Vojvodina vs Jagodina (8)

Slovakian Superliga:

 

Artmedia Petrzalka vs Ruzomberok (7)
Dunajska Streda vs Dubnica (7)
Nitra vs Slovan Bratislava (8)
Tatran Presov vs Spartak Trnava (7)
Zlate Moravce vs Banska Bystrica (5)

Slovenian Liga 1:

 

Gorica vs Interblock Ljubljana (7)
Maribor vs Koper (10)
Nafta Lendava vs Drava (9)

Spanish Primera Liga:

 

Getafe vs Real Madrid (7)
Sevilla vs Barcelona (7)

Spanish Segunda Liga:

 

Albacete vs Rayo Vallecano (4)
Celta Vigo vs Real Sociedad (6)
Eibar vs Real Murcia (6)
Girona vs Sevilla Atletico (7)
Huesca vs Las Palmas (5)
Xerez vs Elche (8)

Swiss Super League:

 

Aarau vs BSC Young Boys Bern (5)
Luzern vs Grasshoppers Zurich (8)
Zurich vs Sion (7)

Turkish Super Lig:

 

Ankaraspor vs Ankaragucu (8)
Eskisehirspor vs Denizlispor (6)
Fenerbahce vs Besiktas (6)
Sivasspor vs Gaziantepspor (7)

Ukrainian Premier League:

 

Kharkiv vs Metalurg Zaporizhya (7)
Kryvbas vs Arsenal Kiev (6)
Lviv vs Illichivets (5)
Zorya Lugansk vs Vorskla (4)

Welsh Premier League:

 

Aberystwyth vs Caernarfon (8)
Airbus vs Port Talbot (5)
Caersws vs TNS (8)
Carmarthen vs Prestatyn Town (7)
Connah's Quay vs Newtown (6)
Haverfordwest vs Porthmadog (6)
Rhyl vs Welshpool (9)

Enjoy

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