Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread

[Trofo]

I think Germany is a great country and they should absolutely make an exception for one of their respected citizens to allow him to take place to his mother funeral.It is out of my scope of understanding how can someone with Klopp status to miss this funeral.The goverment of Germany should act immediately and make an exception in my opinion.

Could not agree less with this. I feel sorry for Klopp but why would his grief be more important than grief from some anonymous who lost his mother? If there are rules, they should be same for everybody. Germany is a great country because of that and they are strong enough to not cave in to outside request. Good example of this is that all German clubs playing in Euro competitions have to play their home matches outside of country if their opponent is from red listed country.

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[swogerino]

Well it can surely be read that way and I agree 100% that the rules should be the same for everyone.However I am sure Germans would not mind and not ask the same if for Klopp is made an exception,I know their mentality as I have lived there for a couple of years.They respect a lot their “bekannte-well known” figures of their country.

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I'll probably go for a draw if Vardy is playing. Maybe Liverpool can turn things around in that game though.

I will go for a win as usual no matter who plays in the final XI from both teams. It will be a very close match for sure so my preference will be 1 - 2 or 0 - 1. I think there are still plenty of matches left so maybe we cannot say that we are done yet. Few slips from the top teams, and few good rounds might give our confidence back.

Are you thinking with your heart here and not your head?  I think it should be close but I think a draw is likely for me given Liverpool's shakiness. I certainly don't trust them to win especially away and it looks like Vardy will be starting as he started in the cup tie but was taken off halfway I think.

I think Germany is a great country and they should absolutely make an exception for one of their respected citizens to allow him to take place to his mother funeral.It is out of my scope of understanding how can someone with Klopp status to miss this funeral.The goverment of Germany should act immediately and make an exception in my opinion.

Could not agree less with this. I feel sorry for Klopp but why would his grief be more important than grief from some anonymous who lost his mother? If there are rules, they should be same for everybody. Germany is a great country because of that and they are strong enough to not cave in to outside request. Good example of this is that all German clubs playing in Euro competitions have to play their home matches outside of country if their opponent is from red listed country.

Yeah, it shouldn't be one rule for us and a different rule for the rich and famous where they get a free pass to travel around as they like. However, I don't think the restrictions should be so severe that you can't travel for things like funerals. Covid is hardly the plague. He's being tested for covid every week as well along with the team so if he's clean then he should be allowed to go but as should everyone else regardless of their status. I think people coming back to the UK also have to quarantine for two weeks so the risk is minimal there, though maybe that would be a problem if he had to miss several Liverpool games. Personally, I don't think funerals are a big deal anyway. I don't even want one. Once you're gone you're gone but I know people have differing beliefs and feelings towards that.

I got a hat but didn't get the coupon, I got a message from Steve asking for the username and I answered him and I don't know if he forgot!! 

Just message him again either on here or superbru.

[leea-1334]

I think Germany is a great country and they should absolutely make an exception for one of their respected citizens to allow him to take place to his mother funeral.It is out of my scope of understanding how can someone with Klopp status to miss this funeral.The goverment of Germany should act immediately and make an exception in my opinion.

If this was a politician or a royalty, you can be sure they would have made the exception immediately. I feel so bad for him even though he is not my team coach, but he is a nice guy and this is a blow. I agree with hilarious though with all due respect, I die and I prefer to just have a hospital cremation with nothing left not even the jar to keep my ashes. Save my family some funeral costs too:P

[slaman29]

In a bid to further my positions in this group, I've gone for a lot of draws. Have a good feeling we'll be seeing cautious teams set out especially with the big four or big six anyway, because of Europe competition coming up. City will play their game in hand for this round too, pretty tough Spurs and Everton. Big wins still expected though they're on fire the whole time now with a dozen consecutive wins!

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In a bid to further my positions in this group, I've gone for a lot of draws. Have a good feeling we'll be seeing cautious teams set out especially with the big four or big six anyway, because of Europe competition coming up. City will play their game in hand for this round too, pretty tough Spurs and Everton. Big wins still expected though they're on fire the whole time now with a dozen consecutive wins!

I've gone for 3 draws this week and mostly home wins. Not sure many of this big six will have much trouble expect for maybe Liverpool against Leicester. I'll be watching that game for sure as anything could happen. I definitely don't trust Liverpool to win especially away but I think they are due a bounce back but Leicester will probably be at full capacity with Vardy back. Hopefully there's lot of goals. Same in the Arsenal/Leeds game. Can't pick a winner from that so a draw is probably the best bet. I'll probably put my high odds both teams to score in both halves/2 corners each team each half and 2 cards each team as I think they could be fiery games.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Big game for us tomorrow in the early kick off vs Leicester. We can’t really afford to lose in all honesty. The title is gone for us but we need to really put some good results together to guarantee a top 4 finish. No CL next season would be a disaster.

My predictions are in

[swogerino]

Big game for us tomorrow in the early kick off vs Leicester. We can’t really afford to lose in all honesty. The title is gone for us but we need to really put some good results together to guarantee a top 4 finish. No CL next season would be a disaster.

My predictions are in

I don’t think Liverpool will lose I predicted a 1-3 win for them.Did anyone notice that this is another week with more than ten games as it has two additional games which means it is a 12 legs week and there is big room for improvement for everyone.

[Trofo]

Big game for us tomorrow in the early kick off vs Leicester. We can’t really afford to lose in all honesty. The title is gone for us but we need to really put some good results together to guarantee a top 4 finish. No CL next season would be a disaster.

My predictions are in

I don’t think Liverpool will lose I predicted a 1-3 win for them.Did anyone notice that this is another week with more than ten games as it has two additional games which means it is a 12 legs week and there is big room for improvement for everyone.

Vardy is playing so I am on goals today, he usually likes to score a penalty or two against strong opposition. As LFC_Bitcoin said Liverpool can't afford to lose again so I am expecting a very good match today. My money is on both to score but another tip for someone gunning big odds is Alcantara to get carded. He makes a lot of suspect challenges and Leicster has some tricky payers around him like Maddison or fast like Perez and Barnes.

I am also looking forward to City game but that one could end as big disappointment. Mourinho likes to park bus against strong opponents usually and after conceding a bunch of goals midweek this time there will be 2 buses, trip wires and electric fence. Anybody want a bet with me that Kane will be in his half of the pitch much more than opposition half of the pitch?

[buwaytress]

Big game for us tomorrow in the early kick off vs Leicester. We can’t really afford to lose in all honesty. The title is gone for us but we need to really put some good results together to guarantee a top 4 finish. No CL next season would be a disaster.

My predictions are in

I've got a bit of money riding on this but only with Liverpool as a parlay, avoided betting big on this partly because I just want to enjoy the match. Last few games have not been fun to watch at all and I'd really just want the boys to enjoy this and give Klopp a result he deserves.

All that said, 3 points matters more than anything else now. Like you said, we just need to make sure we get our place booked in Europe.

@Trofo: There's a really good value on Spurs to win and BTTS on SB. I know Mou's a leopard that doesn't change his spots but things can change with a quick goal. Counting on that!

[slaman29]

I've gone for 3 draws this week and mostly home wins. Not sure many of this big six will have much trouble expect for maybe Liverpool against Leicester. I'll be watching that game for sure as anything could happen. I definitely don't trust Liverpool to win especially away but I think they are due a bounce back but Leicester will probably be at full capacity with Vardy back. Hopefully there's lot of goals. Same in the Arsenal/Leeds game. Can't pick a winner from that so a draw is probably the best bet. I'll probably put my high odds both teams to score in both halves/2 corners each team each half and 2 cards each team as I think they could be fiery games.

Yeah I'm turning in to watch this game too, it should be super exciting. They won 4-0 last season I am reminded now by the commentators but Vardy has a tendency to score against all the big teams. A lot of goals will be fun for everyone including the neutrals. Liverpool have played their new centerback now too, very experimental from Klopp!

[Harkorede]

Big game for us tomorrow in the early kick off vs Leicester. We can’t really afford to lose in all honesty. The title is gone for us but we need to really put some good results together to guarantee a top 4 finish. No CL next season would be a disaster.

My predictions are in

I've got a bit of money riding on this but only with Liverpool as a parlay, avoided betting big on this partly because I just want to enjoy the match. Last few games have not been fun to watch at all and I'd really just want the boys to enjoy this and give Klopp a result he deserves.

All that said, 3 points matters more than anything else now. Like you said, we just need to make sure we get our place booked in Europe.

@Trofo: There's a really good value on Spurs to win and BTTS on SB. I know Mou's a leopard that doesn't change his spots but things can change with a quick goal. Counting on that!

I'm sure you didn't enjoy the match, with Allison on goal fest and practically just giving out goals... Allison on good day would have saved two of the 3 goals he conceded today if not all. I wonder where it's all Van Dijk wrong with the Liverpool's back line! That's some costly loss for me, in the pool and in my bets. 

[Trofo]

@Trofo: There's a really good value on Spurs to win and BTTS on SB. I know Mou's a leopard that doesn't change his spots but things can change with a quick goal. Counting on that!

Maybe it is value but I am not taking it. This game will be total defense from Spurs and only value bets are more passes for City CB. I see this as maybe 1:0 for City and I will be really surprised if your bet hits. Good luck anyway, I have nothing riding on the game and it is always nice to see fellow gamblers take something away from the house

[buwaytress]

I'm sure you didn't enjoy the match, with Allison on goal fest and practically just giving out goals... Allison on good day would have saved two of the 3 goals he conceded today if not all. I wonder where it's all Van Dijk wrong with the Liverpool's back line! That's some costly loss for me, in the pool and in my bets. 

Problem was to see such a beautiful goal before that fiasco. That amazing Bobby flick and instantaneous reactions from Salah to put it beyond what had otherwise been a superb Schmeichel...

I had just written in the middle of the second half how Kaban hadn't been properly tested and when he got his first test, he failed utterly. He needs to really adjust to our keeper/sweeper rushing to clear.

Not defending Alisson but really he did put out several good saves and that miscommunication with Kaban can't be on him. Terrible streak of 4 losses, I can't wait to purge this with Leipzig.

Maybe it is value but I am not taking it. This game will be total defense from Spurs and only value bets are more passes for City CB. I see this as maybe 1:0 for City and I will be really surprised if your bet hits. Good luck anyway, I have nothing riding on the game and it is always nice to see fellow gamblers take something away from the house

I am what I am, sometimes I feel like I'm peering at myself from outside making these bets.

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I'm surprised more than 5 people didn't go for the draw. This game had a stalemate written all over it and was looking that way going into the second half, but Liverpool blew it again within 5 minutes and just got turned over like they did against City.

@Trofo: There's a really good value on Spurs to win and BTTS on SB. I know Mou's a leopard that doesn't change his spots but things can change with a quick goal. Counting on that!

Maybe it is value but I am not taking it. This game will be total defense from Spurs and only value bets are more passes for City CB. I see this as maybe 1:0 for City and I will be really surprised if your bet hits. Good luck anyway, I have nothing riding on the game and it is always nice to see fellow gamblers take something away from the house

Of course there's value in it  . I don't think Spurs are going to win this. It's not really a game I'm interested in though, but I think City could easily sink a few past them.

Not defending Alisson but really he did put out several good saves and that miscommunication with Kaban can't be on him. Terrible streak of 4 losses, I can't wait to purge this with Leipzig.

Playing the sweeper keeper always comes with risks but keepers tend to get shit when it fucks up and all the times they came out to clear it successfully are forgotten. Allison was nearly lobbed a couple of times in this game though, but the clash was probably 50/50 blame on him and the defender but it's risky for one of them to leave it and it's the defenders job to get rid of it, but maybe one didn't hear the other or didn't want to take the risk. Things are looking dicey for Liverpool right now. They've got Everton at home next week and that should be interesting. I'd probably back them to win though but I'll see how Everton fair against Fulham and Man City before that tie.

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I had just written in the middle of the second half how Kaban hadn't been properly tested and when he got his first test, he failed utterly. He needs to really adjust to our keeper/sweeper rushing to clear.

Not defending Alisson but really he did put out several good saves and that miscommunication with Kaban can't be on him. Terrible streak of 4 losses, I can't wait to purge this with Leipzig.

There is no doubt that Alisson is to blame for that goal. Kaban did not have to do a complicated reaction and would easily eliminate the danger, but Alisson reacted in a panic ^{at least that's what it looked like}. He then had to tell the player in time that he was there and leave the reaction to him, at the end, he is more experienced in such a situation.

[cygan]

3 games and i could get 6 out of possible 9 points
i predicted the victories of mancity and leicester exactly - i was totally wrong about burnley's away win

[Trofo]

Another VAR debacle in Premier League. They were just checking a soft penalty on Maguire and lost few minutes on it when it was clear he was half a meter in offside. Is it possible that nobody sees that or would they check that only in case the ref decided to award penalty for foul on him. Stupid however you put it.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Another VAR debacle in Premier League. They were just checking a soft penalty on Maguire and lost few minutes on it when it was clear he was half a meter in offside. Is it possible that nobody sees that or would they check that only in case the ref decided to award penalty for foul on him. Stupid however you put it.

It never stops does it, the officials incompetence in the PL. i really thought I’d like VAR but I absolutely hate it.
I’m surprised seeing as though it was Penchester United they didn’t get the penalty for Penandes

On the positive side, Arsenal are winning 1-0 as I type this. The sportsbet.io team will be happy

[swogerino]

I thought this was going to be a good week for everyone but I see the top scorers are just 7.5 points so far.I strangely see myself competing so far for the yellow cap together with many other people which are at 7 or 6.5 points.I am putting normal predictions for today a West Ham and Chelsea wins,I think we had enough of surprises for this round already.