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

[Cloudbet]

Well what a bummer. United actually weren't so shitty this time around but de Gea should really have at least saved the 2nd goal, maybe give a bit more motivation to the rest.

City... The league is yours to win, also yours to lose. No Champions League so I don't see how you could fail. Feel free to surprise me!

It's a shame Lingard missed that opportunity to equalise, could have turned the whole game around. Commiseration to Liverpool fans, although I'm still secretly hoping City will slip up somewhere in the last few games (looking at you Leicester!) 

Amazing that Man Utd had only managed 5 shots on target in their previous 4 games before this one, and only managed 1 last night. Do you think their strike force is tilting badly, or is it that they just aren't getting the service needed from the midfield?

I mean Pogba was named in the PFA team of the year so it can't be his fault right? 


Ronnie @ Cloudbet

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[buwaytress]

It's a shame Lingard missed that opportunity to equalise, could have turned the whole game around. Commiseration to Liverpool fans, although I'm still secretly hoping City will slip up somewhere in the last few games (looking at you Leicester!) 

Amazing that Man Utd had only managed 5 shots on target in their previous 4 games before this one, and only managed 1 last night. Do you think their strike force is tilting badly, or is it that they just aren't getting the service needed from the midfield?

I mean Pogba was named in the PFA team of the year so it can't be his fault right? 


Ronnie @ Cloudbet

Hope springs eternal, I guess, Ronnie. I'm not sure how to feel but I'll know anyway come May. I know all Reds want that one elusive prize and it's still so far away even at this late stage.

Pogba was a waste, he wasn't necessarily a bad buy but his price tag makes him poor value. I loved his rampaging days at Juventus but I never saw any shade of that... except perhaps the time United won 3-2 at City (after being 2 goals down). Salah isn't in PFA but Pogba is. Strange!

[LFC_Bitcoin]

No Hazard in team of the year either. Pogba is a waste of time, all the natural talent & physical attributes in the world but he hasn’t got the hard work or work ethic to be one of the very best.

[Trofo]

United looked really well in the beginning of the game but City took control gradually and won without loosing too much nerves. I am not sure what is the problem with Pogba in United. He was definitely payed too much for what he brought to the team. He often looks uninterested and then fires up for few games. When he decides to play a good game you can tell that he is much higher class of the player then rest of united squad (with few exceptions, namely Rashford).

United needs a whole squad reconstruction, this squad is in my opinion able to take places between 5th and 8th spot in the league. LFC, City and Spurs are miles ahead and Chelsea & Arsenal are also a bit better at the moment. Wouldn't be surprised to see teams like Wolves, Watford & Everton regularly beating this United.

[Indamuck]

No Hazard in team of the year either. Pogba is a waste of time, all the natural talent & physical attributes in the world but he hasn’t got the hard work or work ethic to be one of the very best.

Happens all the time with talented players, they get paid millions and then they get lazy. The incentive to work hard is out the window after that.

[tokeweed]

No Hazard in team of the year either. Pogba is a waste of time, all the natural talent & physical attributes in the world but he hasn’t got the hard work or work ethic to be one of the very best.

He looked great at Juve tho.  I think he needs to get out of United and be in a new environment.  Mou might have messed with his mind somehow.  Too much psychological warfare.  Lololol.

[Trofo]

Hey guys have you seen new formation by United yesterday? Everybody is trying something new to improve the game but I find it hard to believe that 1-1-1-1-3-3 formation will stick.



Don't know who captured/made the image but the link is from twitter account from guy named tom. I laughed my ass off when I saw this, somehow missed it during the game. Google the formation to see some world class comments 

[tokeweed]

Hey guys have you seen new formation by United yesterday? Everybody is trying something new to improve the game but I find it hard to believe that 1-1-1-1-3-3 formation will stick.



Don't know who captured/made the image but the link is from twitter account from guy named tom. I laughed my ass off when I saw this, somehow missed it during the game. Google the formation to see some world class comments 

No coordination, no communication and I think it's starting to show that the manager sucks.  It hurts watching it as a neutral.

I think they're gonna go thru what Liverpool went thru. 

[Cloudbet]

Everybody is trying something new to improve the game but I find it hard to believe that 1-1-1-1-3-3 formation will stick.

Just spat my tea all over my laptop, thanks for that one Trofo! Reminds me of something from my early days on Champ Manager 

United really look to be struggling. I'm going for a Chelsea win in my accumulator this weekend (2.74), but i'm really liking the look of Chelsea with BTTS at (5.09). Only problem is it relies on Man Utd actually scoring a goal! 

- Chelsea to win (2.74) - 2.20% Margin
- Total Goals: Over 2.5 (1.89) - 2.42% Margin
- Chelsea win & both teams to score: Yes (5.09) -

Do you think Man Utd can pull a performance out of the hat on Sunday?

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

[LFC_Bitcoin]

FFS, City win again. The title must be theirs now. They only have to beat Leicester & Brighton now, I doubt they will choke like they do every season in the CL.

In our Superbru pool it was a crazy day today. I had a terrible weekend of results. I started today in 1st place & after the Leicester vs Arsenal game oeleo went into 1st, panjul went into 2nd. I went into God damn 3rd.
Luckily I got Man Utd 1-1 Chelsea correct so I moved back into 1st.

It’s so close & any one of the three of us could end the season winning 1st place.

Here is the table with only 2 more weekends of football left (only 2.5 points between 1st & 3rd)

[Trofo]

City won today by a goal in which the ball crossed the line for about 3 cm. That is what I call good call. Good thing they had goal line technology. Even though I would love Liverpool to lift the title, this City squad is doing their jobs admirably and I can't muster the strength too properly hate them. When you take into consideration how much better both of these clubs are with regards to the rest of the league, I am a bit sad that there isn't some rule where they could both be crowned champions. I believe the looser will be the team with biggest amount of points and not crowned champions in the history of PL.

[panjul07]

FFS, City win again. The title must be theirs now. They only have to beat Leicester & Brighton now, I doubt they will choke like they do every season in the CL.

In our Superbru pool it was a crazy day today. I had a terrible weekend of results. I started today in 1st place & after the Leicester vs Arsenal game oeleo went into 1st, panjul went into 2nd. I went into God damn 3rd.
Luckily I got Man Utd 1-1 Chelsea correct so I moved back into 1st.

It’s so close & any one of the three of us could end the season winning 1st place.

Here is the table with only 2 more weekends of football left (only 2.5 points between 1st & 3rd)

I have not noticed that I jumped to 2nd position this week as I do check the leaderboard after all the whole matches finished on each week. Yap the leaderboard seems so competitive although I did not even expect that I can be in this position because I know there are many good soccer tipster joining this competition. By the way, good luck for all of us.

[hilariousetc]

Was swaying whether to go 4 or 5-0 on the Liverpool/Huddersfield game but decided to play it safe with the 4-0. Shame. Doubt it matters now though as getting a top 5 place is practically impossible now unless they all stop playing  . It's really close with the top 3.

City won today by a goal in which the ball crossed the line for about 3 cm. That is what I call good call. Good thing they had goal line technology. Even though I would love Liverpool to lift the title, this City squad is doing their jobs admirably and I can't muster the strength too properly hate them. When you take into consideration how much better both of these clubs are with regards to the rest of the league, I am a bit sad that there isn't some rule where they could both be crowned champions. I believe the looser will be the team with biggest amount of points and not crowned champions in the history of PL.

It's basically down to whoever drops a point now. I think City have it in the bag but a draw or a loss will kill either team. Liverpool still have the Champions League to contend with as well. I think Barca will be too strong for them though, but I'd like to see them go through. If they can limit the damage at the Neu Camp and grab a goal or a point it will make things much more interesting.

[Trofo]

It's basically down to whoever drops a point now. I think City have it in the bag but a draw or a loss will kill either team. Liverpool still have the Champions League to contend with as well. I think Barca will be too strong for them though, but I'd like to see them go through. If they can limit the damage at the Neu Camp and grab a goal or a point it will make things much more interesting.

I am stilling hoping Leicester decides to play bravely against City. Of course they will have to defend but they have good players for counter attacking game if they bring enough players to the opponents half after gaining ball possession. Leicester doesn't have to play for anything and they can go out on Etihad and enjoy themselves. Vardy usually likes to score a goal or two against top sides so we could have a nice encounter with lots of chances/goals.

[tokeweed]

^ ^  Don't jinx iiit!!!  City doesn't have it in the bag til they actually have it in the bag, running around the pitch with the trophy and with the team throwing Pep up in the air.  Lolol.

[BitcoinSupremo]

Why I have the spoon with only 1 game played, did everybody else got correct score on Everton vs Burnley game or is it a bug, it says I am the worse performing player and I know I am compared to last year but it is just one game

[Trofo]

Why I have the spoon with only 1 game played, did everybody else got correct score on Everton vs Burnley game or is it a bug, it says I am the worse performing player and I know I am compared to last year but it is just one game

The wooden spoon is your "reward" for last gameweek where you collected 2.5 points. Mosala also got 2.5 points but you are ranked below him on some criteria, don't know which. It seems we have some guys who stopped playing and got 0 points in that round but they are not contenders for spoon.

[buwaytress]

Why I have the spoon with only 1 game played, did everybody else got correct score on Everton vs Burnley game or is it a bug, it says I am the worse performing player and I know I am compared to last year but it is just one game

The wooden spoon is your "reward" for last gameweek where you collected 2.5 points. Mosala also got 2.5 points but you are ranked below him on some criteria, don't know which. It seems we have some guys who stopped playing and got 0 points in that round but they are not contenders for spoon.

Yeah you got the spoon for scoring lower on global ranking. You only get the spoon if you actually put in predictions. Don't worry, the spoon isn't unique. Pretty sure every one of us almost has got it once at least. Think I had it plenty of times to remember.

So far so good on my palace/hammers/pool parlay at 8/1 as it's half time and the Reds are leading 2-1 but Newcastle are as usual thorny as ever. I entertained some fantasy of 4-0 but on evidence of the first half, we'd be lucky to score 2 more.

Salah with 22 goals and things looking good on betting but I'd give away all my betting money and more to have had 1 more replay at City.

On the pool table, looks pretty set doesn't it? Can't see top 5 changing.

[hilariousetc]

Liverpool were lucky yesterday. Thought they were going to blow it. If man City win the game against Leicester tomorrow then they've pretty much won the title as Brighton are safe now so there's nothing left for them to play for really other than pride (but no shame in losing to City).

Why I have the spoon with only 1 game played, did everybody else got correct score on Everton vs Burnley game or is it a bug, it says I am the worse performing player and I know I am compared to last year but it is just one game

Several people had it after that game including me.

Here are all the yellow caps from this season so far:

hilariousandco
   0   7.5   2   18.5
SyGambler
   1   9   2   15
unyil
   1   4.5   2   19.5
oeleo
   1   4.5   1   15.5
SyGambler
   1   4.5   2   19.5
stephencurry333
   2   4.5   2   20.5
slaman29
   0   0   1   19
Big G
   2   6   1   12
hahay
   1   6   1   11
LTI_btc
   2   3   1   15
BitSat
   2   7.5   2   17.5
slaman29
   0   4.5   1   14.5
Sojourner
   1   4.5   1   15.5
panjul07
   0   3   1   13
MoSala
   1   1.5   1   15.5
Hhampuz
   2   6   2   16
hahay
   0   9   2   17
tokeweed
   1   3   1   11
Leea-1334
   2   4.5   1   13.5
BitSat
   3   4.5   1   11.5
KuromaYoichi
   1   4.5   1   12.5
LFC_Bitcoin
   0   6   1   13
Leea-1334
   2   7.5   2   14.5
MoSala
   2   1.5   1   10.5
tomahawk9
   2   7.5   2   14.5
tokeweed
   2   6   2   16
tokeweed
   1   3   1   11
panjul07
   4   6   2   15
MoSala
   0   6   1   16
Trofo
   1   4.5   1   12.5
hahay
   1   3   0   7
MoSala
   2   9   3   26
stephencurry333
   2   0   0   8
Mattle40
   2   4.5   1   13.5
tomahawk9
   2   7.5   2   14.5
BitSat
   1   3   1   11

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Top 5 so far:

MoSala
   2   9   3   26
stephencurry333
   2   4.5   2   20.5
SyGambler
   1   4.5   2   19.5
unyil
   1   4.5   2   19.5
slaman29
   0   0   1   19

Of course I have to be the sixth:

hilariousandco
   0   7.5   2   18.5

 


We should disqualify users who get two of the same points, right? Or only one of them counts, yeah? 

[tokeweed]

^  Ah Brendan Rodgers is pretty much gonna move aside and let City win the match.  He left Liverpool with a bad taste in his mouth.  Lolol.