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

[slaman29]

Bastard slaman29 getting a correct result again and has taken the top spot. Glad I changed my result. Was going to go for a 1-1 draw but changed it to 2-1 at the last minute. 1 point is better than zero.

^  Where do you play fantasy football?  Hilarious made a league but I played it for only a couple of weeks or so.  It's no fun when there's no money on the line. 

I'm not a big fan of it, even if there's money on the line. Too much effort involved. I haven't bothered with it since the first couple of weeks and just let it run with the squad I had.

Gone with the Skybet price boost of Man United, West Ham, and Arsenal today. All those teams should win comfortably, but if United lose to or even draw to bottom of the table Fulham he probably should go. Only game I'll be watching today is the Chelsea/City match. Have the game down as a draw currently but I'm tempted to back the City win.

Thanks for the recognition. I thought I had a flying start, and it was just the same last week, really good start, but I seem to do badly on the Sunday games.

And I'm so hitting myself in the head. I asked Chelsea to win and hoped that they would, but then I predicted what I thought was logical, which is City to of course win.

Redeemed myself with 2-0 Spurs win, so I guess it's not too bad.

You won the Skybet games, very good. Close games at Arsenal and West Ham, what was the payout?

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[Trofo]

I thought I had a flying start, and it was just the same last week, really good start, but I seem to do badly on the Sunday games.

Than this should be your week by all means. You must be happy it is only one game in Premier league Sunday Schedule Damn it is going to be boring Sunday.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

I was in 4th place after the 3pm games yesterday, managed to get back into 2nd by predicting Chelsea would beat Man City. I don’t think many of us thought Chelsea would win.

slaman got an exact score on the Leicester vs Spurs game though he’s extended his lead a little.

Here’s the top 10 -

Note: A nice make up pro tip at the bottom of my screenshot to help all you older women look younger

[Welsh]

Chelsea leading 1-0 at half time from one hell of a strike from Kante? Unusual for him to score like that.

You can thank Sarri for that, he's been playing Kante in a more offensive role leaving the "creative/denfesive midfilder" role to someone like Jorginho, who's more used to that role since his days in Napoli. Still though, that was a great shot from Kante, who would've thought that one of the best defensive midfielders in the world could also score some nice goals?

It's always nice to have someone like that in the team. I remember when he played for Leicester he barely ever scored, and in fact would barely every take the shot, and would look to find a team mate instead even when any other player would of taken the shot. Chelsea did fantastically well, and I've come across a few salty City fans since

[slaman29]

Chelsea leading 1-0 at half time from one hell of a strike from Kante? Unusual for him to score like that.

You can thank Sarri for that, he's been playing Kante in a more offensive role leaving the "creative/denfesive midfilder" role to someone like Jorginho, who's more used to that role since his days in Napoli. Still though, that was a great shot from Kante, who would've thought that one of the best defensive midfielders in the world could also score some nice goals?

It's always nice to have someone like that in the team. I remember when he played for Leicester he barely ever scored, and in fact would barely every take the shot, and would look to find a team mate instead even when any other player would of taken the shot. Chelsea did fantastically well, and I've come across a few salty City fans since

I saw the replay and he was actually using almost his sidefoot to shoot, so not such a striker's shot, on maybe 1 out of 5 shots the ball would be too high and out or maybe easy to save, but no doubt nice goal and nicer assist. The Leicester team that won the league was fantastic and N'golo never stopped being the guy who takes out the most attacks. His interception is so crazy plus his speed to do it even though he is short, just amazing. In fact his interception is like 3 seconds before anything happens if you see he is running all the way up, anticipating a cutback before anybody realizes.

He played not to his level in the game actually, gave away 3 or 4 dribbles too easily, but this is football. You can play not so good and still win with clinical strikes.

Wolverhampton scored 94th minute goal to give me 3 full points, I'm surprised not many other people predicted them to win, they just beat Chelsea the same scoreline:) Very happy with my week in the end. You know if you look at tipsters even on the forum, our pool are doing better than most of them. Do all of you bet?

[LFC_Bitcoin]

@slaman - I bet, yes. I don’t bet with my bitcoin these days though, I use a fiat bookies.

This weekend I picked 4 games in an accumulator/parlay with BTTS (all 8 teams had to score).
I lost by 1 goal damn it

Congrats on a great weekend in the pool btw.

[leea-1334]

It has been an okay week for me,,, I honestly do not know how to get better scores. Got a exact ones with 1-0 but lose out on many because of last goals and lucky goals. Do not forget to make Everton pick tonight!

Yes to slaman, I bet on football but if you see my predictions you know I lose money. I can win on spurs games but the odds are not really good so I have to win 2 times to make 1 losing bet equal. And if you see, they are in this pattern of win 2 or 3 times and lose 1. So frustrating!

[hilariousetc]

Not only do Wolves score in the fourth minute of injury time to thwart my correct score, but that then gives another correct score and the full three points to slaman29 who breaks further away from the rest of us. He's now 23.5 points away from me in tenth place and that's going to be hard for anyone to catch I think. A top five place isn't out of reach yet though at only 8.5 points. It's still pretty close from place 5 to 19 really and I think any of those players still have a chance of winning something.

Champions League is on tomorrow so for those playing don't forget to put your predictions in for that.

[o_e_l_e_o]

Well, an offside goal for Everton thanks to Walcott's poor positioning, and Mina being very lucky not to be sent off for his challenge on Success.

This game should currently be 0-0 with Everton on 10 men, rather than Everton 1-0 up and without a red card. If I were an Watford fan I'd be pissed, but it plays in to the hands of my prediction, so I'm not. I do think the league needs VAR though.

Edit: No sooner do I post and Watford equalize. I've predicted 2-1 Everton so another goal from them would be nice.

Double edit: 2 for Watford in 2 minutes. And Everton missed a penalty. Ouch. Karma is served.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Well, an offside goal for Everton thanks to Walcott's poor positioning, and Mina being very lucky not to be sent off for his challenge on Success.

This game should currently be 0-0 with Everton on 10 men, rather than Everton 1-0 up and without a red card. If I were an Watford fan I'd be pissed, but it plays in to the hands of my prediction, so I'm not. I do think the league needs VAR though.

Edit: No sooner do I post and Watford equalize. I've predicted 2-1 Everton so another goal from them would be nice.

Double edit: 2 for Watford in 2 minutes. And Everton missed a penalty. Ouch. Karma is served.

I predicted Everton 2-0 Watford.
That was a late, late equaliser for Everton, think they probably deserved it though.

Just done my predictions for the next round of matches, I know it’s early but why not?

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Last post in here 10/12/2018 - Get the fuck outta here!

Bump - Get your predictions in gentlemen, really looking forward to this weekends games

[BitcoinSupremo]

This week was a good comeback for me with 2 correct scores and 2 results so far, jumping 4 positions ahead and only 13 points behind 5th place. Let's see if this is just like last year where I picked up steam in late December and ended 4th in the final rankings.

[Hhampuz]

Well I was unable to make my predictions and missed out on 6 games getting 0 on them all, no auto-picks anymore?

Gg..

[o_e_l_e_o]

There's nothing in the rules about default picks being disabled after a certain week or anything like that. All it says is that everyone gets 15 default picks per season. Since you haven't used any so far, you should be getting default picks on those 6 games. Maybe it waits until all the games in this week are over before adding them in?

[Hhampuz]

There's nothing in the rules about default picks being disabled after a certain week or anything like that. All it says is that everyone gets 15 default picks per season. Since you haven't used any so far, you should be getting default picks on those 6 games. Maybe it waits until all the games in this week are over before adding them in?

This is all I see.. :/

[slaman29]

panjul, you did really well this round. I got so many predictions that I knew I should have changed, but I made them last week and I thought to myself, maybe it's better I don't overthink and let my original predictions stay. Of course this was the same thing I usually ask myself every round so it's no surprise some weeks it works out others it won't.

No surprises tonight, should be Arsenal Chelsea and Liverpol win, right guys?

[tokeweed]

There's nothing in the rules about default picks being disabled after a certain week or anything like that. All it says is that everyone gets 15 default picks per season. Since you haven't used any so far, you should be getting default picks on those 6 games. Maybe it waits until all the games in this week are over before adding them in?

This is all I see.. :/

I don't even bother looking at my results anymore.  Lol.  I just log in, do a little point and clicking, type my scores then leave. 

Isn't there a prize for making the highest score for one set of fixtures?  That's the only thing that's been making me stay.

[buwaytress]

@LFC How're you feeling today? I honestly thought we were going to see a parked bus after 1-1, but I guess we can credit Mourinho for still trying to attack. Two fortuitous goals from deflections, but you don't get those goals if you don't take your chances. Alisson made a mistake, but it wasn't a bad one, so we lost the chance for a clean sheet. Still 8 goals to make up the difference on City, not that I'm worried. One day we're going to get our top 3 back into gear!

But look at the pool! EIGHT of you predicted 3-1! I did a 2-0, thinking it'd be a tight game.

Meanwhile, another big 6 slipped up. Arsenal? Even Mikhi couldn't save them, but Mourinho must be missing him big time.

What a day to be Liverpool!

[o_e_l_e_o]

This is all I see.. :/

Looks like you've been credited with your default picks now that the week is over.

Isn't there a prize for making the highest score for one set of fixtures?

Yes. 0.01 for the user who scores the most in a single week, and 4 runner-up prizes of 0.005 (your entry fee back).

I did a 2-0, thinking it'd be a tight game.

I did 2-1 for the same reasoning. The game was so one sided though. Liverpool could easily have had 4 or 5.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

@LFC How're you feeling today? I honestly thought we were going to see a parked bus after 1-1, but I guess we can credit Mourinho for still trying to attack. Two fortuitous goals from deflections, but you don't get those goals if you don't take your chances. Alisson made a mistake, but it wasn't a bad one, so we lost the chance for a clean sheet. Still 8 goals to make up the difference on City, not that I'm worried. One day we're going to get our top 3 back into gear!

But look at the pool! EIGHT of you predicted 3-1! I did a 2-0, thinking it'd be a tight game.

Meanwhile, another big 6 slipped up. Arsenal? Even Mikhi couldn't save them, but Mourinho must be missing him big time.

What a day to be Liverpool!

I think Klopp has had us playing with the handbrake on until a week or so ago. Our last 3 or 4 games have been much more high energy games with the pressing like last season. I think we were trying to save ourselves so we peak at the right time.

Man Utd were crap today, 2nd best all over the pitch.

Let’s see what happens in the CL draw tomorrow.

Edit - And how am I feeling - ECSTATIC



Edit 2 - Thought I did well on my predictions, clearly not well enough as I fell to 3rd yesterday & only got back into 2nd today