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

[Joca97]

2-0 LFC, that will do me. Far from vintage LFC but with all the injuries our target is now top 4. Lots of our rivals for top 4 dropping points so a pretty good weekend for Liverpool.

Chelsea at Anfield next, will be a tougher test.

2:0 works for me as well, just enough for my -1.5 handicap to pass and correct score on the pool. Could not be a better result. Even better nobody from popular fantasy options (Salah, Mane) got points which also suits me well since I don't have them in my team.

Chelsea will be a tougher test for sure, but it is Anfield so maybe it will be enough for another 3 points, would be much easier with full stands.

I also bagged full 3 points for Liverpool 2-0 win, at least that's some sort of compensation for this week, but still did not stop me from slipping further down the table, lol.

I guess I might have to go against my guts for the next game round, perhaps that would work.

Lucky,i didnt get lucky this week lost too many points by 1 goal,even liverpool now costed me full 3:0 for 3 points
Newcastle had 2:1 got 0 points
Chelsea same had them to win and it drawed,another week still far away from top10

Still on this cursed 27th position

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[swogerino]

2-0 LFC, that will do me. Far from vintage LFC but with all the injuries our target is now top 4. Lots of our rivals for top 4 dropping points so a pretty good weekend for Liverpool.

Chelsea at Anfield next, will be a tougher test.

2:0 works for me as well, just enough for my -1.5 handicap to pass and correct score on the pool. Could not be a better result. Even better nobody from popular fantasy options (Salah, Mane) got points which also suits me well since I don't have them in my team.

Chelsea will be a tougher test for sure, but it is Anfield so maybe it will be enough for another 3 points, would be much easier with full stands.

I also bagged full 3 points for Liverpool 2-0 win, at least that's some sort of compensation for this week, but still did not stop me from slipping further down the table, lol.

I guess I might have to go against my guts for the next game round, perhaps that would work.

Lucky,i didnt get lucky this week lost too many points by 1 goal,even liverpool now costed me full 3:0 for 3 points
Newcastle had 2:1 got 0 points
Chelsea same had them to win and it drawed,another week still far away from top10

Still on this cursed 27th position

I don’t think is a cursed position as long as you are only 20-30 points away from the 5th position on the rankings.We have seen that if good luck hits you for 2-3 weeks consecutively you can reach that 5th place from the 27th “cursed” position you are now.Gamblers never lose hope,that is our philosophy otherwise we would have stopped gambling or taking parts in tournaments from long time now.

[hilariousetc]

2-0 LFC, that will do me. Far from vintage LFC but with all the injuries our target is now top 4. Lots of our rivals for top 4 dropping points so a pretty good weekend for Liverpool.

Chelsea at Anfield next, will be a tougher test.

It was looking a bit dicey for a bit there going into the second half at 0-0. Chelsea game is a tough one, especially as they held United to a 0-0 stalemate. Could see the same thing happening there as well. Chelsea haven't lost in their last ten games (in all competitions) and with Liverpool's form still very bad at Afield I don't think I'd back them to win so maybe a draw is the best bet here. There isn't really any exciting games other than that one this week but the next round there's the Manchester derby. Maybe United could take some points away from City but away I don't think they'll manage to grab more than one.

[Joca97]

2-0 LFC, that will do me. Far from vintage LFC but with all the injuries our target is now top 4. Lots of our rivals for top 4 dropping points so a pretty good weekend for Liverpool.

Chelsea at Anfield next, will be a tougher test.

2:0 works for me as well, just enough for my -1.5 handicap to pass and correct score on the pool. Could not be a better result. Even better nobody from popular fantasy options (Salah, Mane) got points which also suits me well since I don't have them in my team.

Chelsea will be a tougher test for sure, but it is Anfield so maybe it will be enough for another 3 points, would be much easier with full stands.

I also bagged full 3 points for Liverpool 2-0 win, at least that's some sort of compensation for this week, but still did not stop me from slipping further down the table, lol.

I guess I might have to go against my guts for the next game round, perhaps that would work.

Lucky,i didnt get lucky this week lost too many points by 1 goal,even liverpool now costed me full 3:0 for 3 points
Newcastle had 2:1 got 0 points
Chelsea same had them to win and it drawed,another week still far away from top10

Still on this cursed 27th position

I don’t think is a cursed position as long as you are only 20-30 points away from the 5th position on the rankings.We have seen that if good luck hits you for 2-3 weeks consecutively you can reach that 5th place from the 27th “cursed” position you are now.Gamblers never lose hope,that is our philosophy otherwise we would have stopped gambling or taking parts in tournaments from long time now.

You are right.But still in weeks i didnt make a breakthrough up,so many really close results to exact win and you get 0 points out of it. Just makes you mad for real. Still too many round to go you can even catch the top 5 but still a good streak is needed.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Everton vs Southampton tonight, I’m hoping Danny Ings can do his old club a favour & take some points off Everton. Come on Ingsy, mate.

[arallmuus]

It looks like you got a point from the City game though as it looks to be one of your deferred picks:

Yeah , I just noticed this as well. Well its all good, getting 1 point is better than nothing. Btw I think Def stands for Default .

I don’t think is a cursed position as long as you are only 20-30 points away

On average, this pool have around 15 points in a round so 20 points away is pretty much like getting two golden cap in a row just to get into top 10 for now. Thats pretty hard considering that most of the top ten contender have a very consistent points in each round so unless you managed to get a very high points in a round, the leaderboard wouldnt change that much

Just makes you mad for real. Still too many round to go you can even catch the top 5 but still a good streak is needed.

Dont worry, you'll get used to this. I have been having bad streak for weeks and I dont even care about it anymore  . My objective for now would be to win atleast one more Yellow Cap to get the freebet

Surprisingly Im pretty decent this round with 9.5 points ( 2 exact results )

[Trofo]

So we have another game tonight, Everton taking on Southampton. Couple of weeks ago I would have think this one should be tough for Everton due to their poor home record but now when they have all their best players ready and back from injury (Digne, Allan, Rodriguez, Calvert-Lewin, Richarlison) while Southampton has lost their good form this should be much easier. Saints are also missing a couple of important players like Kyle Walker-Peters, Theo Walcott and Takumi Minamino so I am expecting a comfortable win for Everton, maybe even with handicap.

I also have a big bet on Everton to win @2.2 with Supetboost on Sportsbet so keeping fingers crossed.

[hilariousetc]

It looks like you got a point from the City game though as it looks to be one of your deferred picks:

Yeah , I just noticed this as well. Well its all good, getting 1 point is better than nothing. Btw I think Def stands for Default .

I could have sworn I saw superbru refer to them as deferred picks, but default makes more sense.

So we have another game tonight, Everton taking on Southampton. Couple of weeks ago I would have think this one should be tough for Everton due to their poor home record but now when they have all their best players ready and back from injury (Digne, Allan, Rodriguez, Calvert-Lewin, Richarlison) while Southampton has lost their good form this should be much easier. Saints are also missing a couple of important players like Kyle Walker-Peters, Theo Walcott and Takumi Minamino so I am expecting a comfortable win for Everton, maybe even with handicap.

I also have a big bet on Everton to win @2.2 with Supetboost on Sportsbet so keeping fingers crossed.

I got that score right and seem to be on a bit of a roll this round sitting currently in second place only half a point behind Leea-1334. City should easily beat Wolves tonight. The rest of the games are a little bit trickier though and think I might go for mostly away wins. I'm sure there'll be some draws in there though.

[swogerino]

So we have another game tonight, Everton taking on Southampton. Couple of weeks ago I would have think this one should be tough for Everton due to their poor home record but now when they have all their best players ready and back from injury (Digne, Allan, Rodriguez, Calvert-Lewin, Richarlison) while Southampton has lost their good form this should be much easier. Saints are also missing a couple of important players like Kyle Walker-Peters, Theo Walcott and Takumi Minamino so I am expecting a comfortable win for Everton, maybe even with handicap.

I also have a big bet on Everton to win @2.2 with Supetboost on Sportsbet so keeping fingers crossed.

Congrats on your win.I had it in a parlay so lost my bet but got a close result in the pool as I had it 2-0 to win.Except tonight game which I think all pool participants have a City win all other games are a bit more difficult to predict but the stronger teams should win these battles.

[casperBGD]

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I got that score right and seem to be on a bit of a roll this round sitting currently in second place only half a point behind Leea-1334. City should easily beat Wolves tonight. The rest of the games are a little bit trickier though and think I might go for mostly away wins. I'm sure there'll be some draws in there though.

good round for Everton, and we are back in Champions league fight
who would call for Leicester and West ham in CL positions at the end of the season, with Chelsea and Liverpool out, Tottenham down and Manchester duo on the top, seems quite interesting at the moment and while City would take the title in the end, there could be a lot of changes in top six until the end

with all said, expect City to crash tonight, just on a statistics term, Wolves are good enough to take a point, or even a win, and City strike should finish sooner or later, they have exact 20 wins in all competitions in a row

[tokeweed]

^  That could happen but I’m still taking City til I see them slow down and break that winning streak.  I got them at 3 - 1 for the pool.  But I get what you’re saying..  Nuno could turn it into a tight game.

Anyway, next round feels like some away clubs are getting the win.  Parlayed Aston Villa, Leicester, Man United and Everton at 12.12 for a huge bet of 10 bucks.  Lol. 

[kryptqnick]

With most of the games of this round behind, I decided to take a little risk and place a multi bet on some of the remaining matches. I don't usually do multi bets because I hate it when two out of three check out and then the last game goes unexpectedly, but I think it's worth to experiment with them occasionally, and the odds on this one are quite attractive:

What do you think about this selection? Are you placing any multi bets on the current round?

[buwaytress]

^^^ Def default picks. I looked it up a couple of weeks ago when I somehow forgot to put picks in. Not exactly sure how it works but you get a few allocations per tourney (10 for this one I think).

@kryptqnick: I parlayed tonight's Turkish game (Gaziantep) with a 2/1 Liverpool win. It's going to be a really tough one but I'm hoping we get Jota back as a surprise and Keita might start too giving us a pretty good midfield and attack for a good value home win (we need to restore fortress Anfield!).

[examplens]

With most of the games of this round behind, I decided to take a little risk and place a multi bet on some of the remaining matches. I don't usually do multi bets because I hate it when two out of three check out and then the last game goes unexpectedly, but I think it's worth to experiment with them occasionally, and the odds on this one are quite attractive:

What do you think about this selection? Are you placing any multi bets on the current round?

I'm really not sure about Leicester. They have the last two lost games (PL and EL) and there they did not seem to have any chance to win. Every season in this time they had a period of poor results and it lasts about a month. (they lost the top 4 last season)
Also, they had so much injury to important players

[slaman29]

Had a not bad run if I say so myself this round, and last night thanks to City (or thanks to Wolves for scoring 1 goal) I was already at 1.5 points even at 3:1 (I picked 3:0) so when they had the late goals I was hoping they wouldn't go and score another one!

Going to be another highscoring round here with teams playing catch up on games in hand:)

[swogerino]

With most of the games of this round behind, I decided to take a little risk and place a multi bet on some of the remaining matches. I don't usually do multi bets because I hate it when two out of three check out and then the last game goes unexpectedly, but I think it's worth to experiment with them occasionally, and the odds on this one are quite attractive:

What do you think about this selection? Are you placing any multi bets on the current round?

I'm really not sure about Leicester. They have the last two lost games (PL and EL) and there they did not seem to have any chance to win. Every season in this time they had a period of poor results and it lasts about a month. (they lost the top 4 last season)
Also, they had so much injury to important players

Leicester has a lot of injured players so they are not at full power against Burnley tonight.Burnley has won three of the last four games against Leicester,I was going to back up a Leicester win but I think it will end in a draw.The other two games of tonight should have no surprises.

[leea-1334]

I have to say I am quite happy to see myself joint top with our captain on the leaderboard for this week:) I had the first few close games that I picked a score with one extra goal,,, but nice to see 0-0 picks hit exact and close:)

The one I predicted bad was my own team! 1-0 but we won 4-0 I mean who can tell when Bale can score, right?

[hilariousetc]

I have to say I am quite happy to see myself joint top with our captain on the leaderboard for this week:) I had the first few close games that I picked a score with one extra goal,,, but nice to see 0-0 picks hit exact and close:)

I'm surprised. Didn't really expect to do well this round. I wonder if the points record will be beaten this week. 9.5 points more are needed for us to equal tokeweed's current best of 25 and there's six games left in this megaround.

Leicester has a lot of injured players so they are not at full power against Burnley tonight.Burnley has won three of the last four games against Leicester,I was going to back up a Leicester win but I think it will end in a draw.The other two games of tonight should have no surprises.

Today's games could be quite tricky. I think I'll stick to my original plan of narrow away wins but there's gotta be a draw in there I think and the Leicester match is probably the closest to likely happen. I'll wait for the line-ups though as I think Vardy is still playing. If he isn't then I probably would go with a draw.

[Trofo]

Today's games could be quite tricky. I think I'll stick to my original plan of narrow away wins but there's gotta be a draw in there I think and the Leicester match is probably the closest to likely happen. I'll wait for the line-ups though as I think Vardy is still playing. If he isn't then I probably would go with a draw.

Same here, I am expecting away victories and if I have to choose somebody who will not manage to get full 3 points it has to be Leicester. According to my info Vardy is closer to playing than sitting another one out but he is much more dangerous when playing against big teams which open up and leave space in the defense. Burnley will not give him that space for sure. Leicester is also missing a couple of very important in form players like Maddison, Barnes, Praet, Fofana, Justin and Perez.

[cryptofrka]

Agreed, Burnley to win is a really tempting bet. It needs to be said that they scored only 10 times in 14 home games though.

With all these players out of the Leicester lineup, I still expect them to be solid enough defensively. Maybe under goals is a decent bet, even a cheeky u1,5 one.

Also be careful with this since Leicester is the best away team in the league so far (tied with City).