Yeah, he bought them when they were in Serie C 4 seasons ago, promised to take them to Serie A, which has happened, so he's kind of a god hero cult status in some parts (obviously because of his past also a villain so Monza is also Team Evil). Milan, on the other hand, have been improving since he sold them so win win I guess.


Watched only the first half, but as it turned out, was all I needed to watch. Great game for the neutrals, as usual, though I did have Napoli to score another for an exact score, but Lookman and Osimhen are the heart of both team's precision. Couldn't agree more with Trofo they are such a joy to watch (and pretty awesome they did most of the hard work without Osimhen).

Sort of a shame Nigeria doesn't have such a great midfield to allow them to play the way they do in Italy.

See, as it turns out, he only needed 10 minutes, even if it was ruled out offside, it was nominal and proves why you pick him if he's even playing 30 minutes. He knows exactly how to score goals, KdB knows exactly how to supply it. It was just so annoying to see how easy the assist was, everyone could see it coming for miles, yet no one could do anything about it except VAR.

Penalty given to Haaland of course, too, to complete the 30 minutes debut with a goal. Wasn't a good pen tbh haha.

Also, I had no idea Mitrovic has been injured for so long (another guy I'd pick even 25% fit) thanks Serbia haha. Makes note to remind myself to put picks in early so I can at least research.

Bayern game at Berlin was some kind of magic, wasn't it? 5 goals in the first half, including 2 quickfire comebacks from Hertha, I don't think anyone would have dared bet against Bayern scoring again after they went 3-nil up!


And effectively nullified each other in the second half, attempts ticker barely went up, save for Rogel's disallowed goal.


Which is why they're an amazing bet with over 10/1 odds, but don't fall for them for anything less than that (which was the case today against BVB).

Try signing up with a throwaway account. I guarantee in the future you'll suddenly be getting invites and spam from new crypto opportunities or ventures down the road from questionable startups. Shady begets shady. All exchanges do that, I feel, judging from how bloated my throwaways have become, and when the breadcrumbs lead to them, it's a simple: damn our data storage guys were compromised.

Literally submitted my picks moments before kickoff haha. All in a rush but who knows, rando favs get me lucky.

Edit- I had an hour to spare haha. FJ had the time in GMT.

Switched back to regular go getters today, cept for Trossard, so that means Antonio and Jesus on my list even though they haven't had the chance to be prolific lately (injury the former, form the latter).

Juggy, Haaland doesn't need 90 mins but I went for boring Mitrovic cause Fulham will keep a clean sheet today. Ha ha ha.

Yeah City. Rested all their players so should smash it. Other than the City game, every other fixture looks suspiciously like draw traps. Hate picking draws though and am backing away teams for now, Leicester anyway I hope prove not goal shy.

Fulham are 22/1 so of course my money is there but even a draw will make my day.

My pool position is hopeless. Not like I am actually doing crazy predictions so hope I climb out of bottom quarter...

As you know, I've been following PNE in this thread until recently and noticed their crazy attack/defence stats for about the first 10 games. However, their form dramatically changed after this point and they're not, in the past 5 games, one of the highest scoring teams (and no longer keeping goals out).

They're not on my tickets though because of awful odds (for me anyway).

 GL today! Am actually pretty full elsewhere so am out of Championship today -/

Just checking in today, pleased that my outright (NZ) has already qualified. Hope we get to meet India actually and then trounce them. Dream final is Kiwis to meet the Aussies again for a grudge match. Feel like they perform extra against their antipodean neighbours.

But Sri Lanka had a cruel start and England now I would say should wrap this up quickly, barring a meltdown almost at the halfway point on target to chase.

But check out Clubtalk chat in Sportsbet today and tomorrow as there will be plenty of cricket fans watching and commenting on the outcomes and possible permutations of the semifinals!

@el kaka22

Definitely enjoying the quality of Europa a lot, I've always liked this tournament, and it was the first time I saw Liverpool lift a European trophy too (against Alaves in the old format) and back then I honestly was watching my first European games and til today I think the quality has been very, very good. At one point even UCL was getting boring but thankfully teams have evolved to ultra attack now.


In England they call Valencia they team that loves to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory But yeah, while I've found it far easier to give up on teams that've let me down (Valencia, Sevilla, Villareal more recently, Koln last season, in Europa), I have a problem with Lazio specifically because I was slightly favouring them in Serie A a couple of seasons ago, so in my mind they're still a good team. Really need to banish such thoughts now.

Def might keep riding with Partizan, they've made me some good money this season, even if they lost me my last one.

Didn't know about Pique, can't really be bothered with what players do after they hang up their boots, really. It's weird for me to really follow the drama around them, not that I can hide from it anymore these days with everything pushed in front of my face thanks to work (bleh!).


Was just saying it's impossible to separate teams like these. Coin flip and pure lottery. I went for Bilbao win because I'm dumb, I thought, hey they beat Villareal.

All 3 goals in 11 minutes too...

I believe I've poured enough love/hate on you in Champions League pool, no need to throw you further evil eyes in this one. I'm doing so-so in Italian and Spanish, but still a slide down from what I was doing in terms of performance from last season.

Monza is my bogey team this season, I think they're crap, they win, then the bookies start favouring them because of form, and they prove they're crap. On both terms I fail to detect the trend.

Exacts are definitely pure lottery... then again, so are picks when it's featuring midtable teams with almost nothing to separate them. 1-1 draws are the most tempting and should be the most picked in those games but I always lean to a narrow win.

Never heard that version, though of course I don't usually ask that specific question (I never initiate, but when it does get to my turn, I do ask something along the lines of "what's your take?".

The most common answers?
- Too expensive, I'm trying ABCshitcoin instead it's still XYZ cents.
- Nah, it already went up to ATHa, no way it's recovering.

Or he gets married or something. Can we please arrange for that?

@swogerino: 87 points to play for indeed. As a Liverpool supporter over the past years of Klopp reign, I'm certain we've made City fans points counters till the very last day. Hope is cruel sometimes in football, don't you agree?

Actually feel even Lazio supporters are saying the same thing, better not to go on and make fools of yourself if you don't even want to be in the next round.

TBF actually hearing some Spurs fans saying the same shit, except they somehow found a way to progress in the end. They played every game going missing in first half... almost like Real did last season.

But at least they decide to show up late.

@Joca97 @casperBGD @Pulsar77

I went on a 15-leg acca for this, and was actually only let down by 2 teams. Partizan (I went ML instead of goals, when I should have) and Slavia Prague.

Of course I wasn't expecting to win the ticket so will only half blame the team so many of us fell for.

The full rules in case you want to read:


It's probably going to be MLs and betbuilders for me (those count right Trofo?).

And yes, I don't get why people aren't filling up these spots more quickly. We're all gamblers, and the forum suggests hundreds of people all gambling on football. Biggest football tournament on the planet. I'm going to be betting out of my ears anyway. Why not try for a nice Christmas bonus, right?

I'm going to be pinging others in other pools but only after talking about it in Clubtalk. Maybe it just needs time for news to travel.

Yeah, I have got a lot to learn about baseball, and may never truly understand anything until I watch a game properly. Bucket list for sure.

I got my win but it was a literal coin toss for me. Putting it all down again on Astros -- that kind of dominance suggests to me they might just push through and win the next one anyway. Shame the odds have swung back in their favour!

Another day, another Arsenal win. Definitely stopped going for BTTS on Arsenal as they seem to know how to keep clean sheets now, and HT win wasn't enough odds as they were firm favourites at home, so took a rare Under 4 goals and that hit last night (thankfully as it wasn't for lack of trying!).

I'll store my Roulette freechip and play when I have 2 at least as usual.

Unfortunately, betting elsewhere hasn't gone well so my USDT is more or less back to where it was when I started November...

We've been seeing plenty of goals in this league (strange for me, but maybe I don't know the stats enough or team capabilities) so I'm going to go for a really, really long acca, and hope almost every tie has something in it.

Too long to post but 15 legs all on every game in this week's Conference, ML plus goal counts (would have gone for cards but not all have markets), with just a couple of dollars on the line.

I will post only if it wins haha.

Oh hey, I get to win yellow cap as I predicted, how nice, shared with leea! Sweet exact score really helped out (thanks Liverpool, Spurs, Ajax actually for getting final minute goals to give it to me). Cool to end in 7th, but way too early to say anything as it's all so tight now (except KTChampion's silly lead, well done bastard;) ).


Damn, yeah. I saw that myself, quite a lot of position-changing in final game, final minutes. Those aren't great options at all for entertainment. Porto I'm sick with. Benfica, sure, but it feels like Porto. Bayern would be my top choice to meet (though would have preferred QF onwards) and Real, well, as you said, it's not the best revenge opportunity, we really need to redress the W points in our recent H2Hs but would probably lean towards picking them rather than Porto/Benfica.