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

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

If Liverpool lose I doubt it will be at home. Maybe City will grab a point or three in April but I don't think I'd back them to win but too early to tell. Liverpool have Watford at the end of the month which I don't think will be easy but they've lost their last two games now. And then there's the Merseyside derby in March which is always interesting but Everton aren't playing great but did beat the aforementioned Watford today.

Taking any point from Liverpool in Anfield is not possible for any team in the near future, at least not from this aggressive and hungry Liverpool team. In away matches the best a team can do is a draw but I really do not see any team has the ability to do that in this season.

City is too unpredictable lately. I feel like they are following the path of Utd lately. The City we have seen 5 months ago and the City we are seeing now has huge mental deference and football in this stage is a mental game. City needs to improve a lot.

The only team who do better against strong teams may take a point from Liverpool and it could be Utd(I am too lazy to remember if we are already done with Utd). The match against Watford (I do not know when) will be an easy win. Watford is one of the clueless team in this season. They have lost twice from 0-2 lead LOL

[buwaytress]

@hilarious yeah, those games even at draws were high scoring ones, though we all should proooobably have seen the scoreless drab at Newcastle. I'm backing Spurs and Arsenal today, because you can't count on them... and I want them to surprise me.

@Pamoldar. City will be motivated to beat us trust me. They know we'll win the league but if we win it unbeaten it'll wipe their 100-point campaign, 19-point lead, season away from memory. But Klopp, no matter what he says, will want to make sure we slap them soundly. And we want it wiped out from memory don't we?

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

@Pamoldar. City will be motivated to beat us trust me. They know we'll win the league but if we win it unbeaten it'll wipe their 100-point campaign, 19-point lead, season away from memory. But Klopp, no matter what he says, will want to make sure we slap them soundly. And we want it wiped out from memory don't we?

Lose yourself
City might have a motivation but they have to be real that with this mental state (don't believing in themselves, losing faith in their own performance, clueless attacks and poor defense. Although two months is a long time 4th April) threatening an inform team who nearly forgot the test of losing is a dream for them.

Klopp will not need to do anything special to take on a broken City team 😜

[examplens]

Are there any extra points if someone wins a yellow cap and in just next round wooden spoon?
I can't believe whats happened here.

I don't want to downplay the quality of Liverpool, they look really good. But this season very reminds me of 2015/16 and Leicester title win. All other team are below average and except Liverpool, no one looks like a serious team.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Are there any extra points if someone wins a yellow cap and in just next round wooden spoon?

I have no idea but logically there should not have such points. Assuming you are talking about you and in this case I think you still have two more games to see before to get the wooden spoon 😜
Honestly speaking if you look at the points in this round (top 8.5 so far from 8 matches) then we have to say that no one did much good. The results are unexpected for most of the teams except Liverpool.

[DeathAngel]

Are there any extra points if someone wins a yellow cap and in just next round wooden spoon?
I can't believe whats happened here.

It just shows how damn difficult it is to predict results. Apart from l the rest of the league is really competitive & anybody can beat anybody.

[BitSat19]

Most of peoples fail to have good points in this round many strange result I was sure @hilarious will be on top as mostly he love draws but in this round he is also still with only 5 points as have not good enough draws another strange thing for me

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Most of peoples fail to have good points in this round many strange result I was sure @hilarious will be on top as mostly he love draws but in this round he is also still with only 5 points as have not good enough draws another strange thing for me

Too many draws.
Leicester - Chelsea 0 - 0
Castle - Norwich 0 - 0
West Ham - Briton 3 - 3
Utd - Wolves 0 - 0
Burnley - Arsenal 0 - 0
Let's see what we see in Tottenham vs City match.

5 draw out of 9 match, this is something else! I usually do not go with draw much and this is why I see my score is only 5.5 so far. I can not complain man.

[hilariousetc]

Well one game down as a draw so far today and the Spurs/City game is currently 0-0 at half time. Bit of drama in that game as well and it was getting pretty heated towards the end. VAR gave a penalty 2 minutes after the fact. Loris saved it, then he arguably took out Sterling in the follow up. City wanted another pen and Spurs wanted him to get another yellow and sent off for diving. The ref didn't give either. Probably the right decision as it wasn't really clear what happened from the var. The first one was a penalty though but allowing play to go on for two minutes before it's pulled back is ridiculous.

If any team was  capable of ending Liverpool's invincible run, it would had been Manchester United but don't understand what happened the day they played, Manchester city aren't capable of taking even a point. Liverpool will still defeat then without much stress.

Manchester could have got a draw in that game. As Ollie boasted, they were still in the game right until the last kick of the match. United definitely could have got the equaliser as well and they played pretty strongly in the last ten but obviously the second goal in the last minute of injury time sealed it.

Are there any extra points if someone wins a yellow cap and in just next round wooden spoon?
I can't believe whats happened here.

You can have an imaginary fall from grace point from me if you want  .

[tomahawk9]

Most of peoples fail to have good points in this round many strange result

It was a strange Matchweek, half the games ended in a draw...And it's 0-0 at the Spurs Stadium fow now :/

I just noticed that @Hhampuz didn't submit a scoreline for the Spurs vs City, meaning that even with just 1.5 points so far, i will not win the wooden spoon this week *phew*  

[Indymoney]

Now look like its all about Tottenham as City is playing with 10 men and goal down still this match gone with draw as this week we have already many if not then only @Sojourner with points and all others with big red devil. This red card and goal happen just because of mine as I place my bet on City they have red card and one goal down.
Edit: 2 - 0 

[Hhampuz]

I just noticed that @Hhampuz didn't submit a scoreline for the Spurs vs City, meaning that even with just 1.5 points so far, i will not win the wooden spoon this week *phew*  

Man these last three weeks have been brutal.. I've been raking in like 1.5, 4, 1 points IN A COMPLETE ROUND.

Yuk, just about given up too.

[buwaytress]

Now this is what I call a Sunday game worth watching. That penalty put my heart in my mouth, but seriously another 2 minutes before VAR comes? Seriously Spurs and City always have a VAR incident but Pep can't complain about this one, he got it after the fact, and they bottled it.

2 shots, 2 goals for Spurs. City 7 shots and nada.

I'm the only one who predicted a Spurs win, really guys? Hoping the score keeps this way so I get the full 3 points, though I will only regain 17th spot and go farther down from 5th.

Loving this league. Not so much Superbru =p

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

I just noticed that @Hhampuz didn't submit a scoreline for the Spurs vs City, meaning that even with just 1.5 points so far, i will not win the wooden spoon this week *phew*  

Man these last three weeks have been brutal.. I've been raking in like 1.5, 4, 1 points IN A COMPLETE ROUND.

Yuk, just about given up too.

So you gave up!
It is sad and frustrating when you do not predict the matches correctly and end up having low score. You are not alone. I was very much ahead and was leading the leader-board but after crossing the 200 points mark I started to suck in my picks. In constitutive few rounds I had shit scoring and it's going to be the same today too.


City lost their golden chance in that Penalty. Now with 10 men, two goals down, they can not do anything I think. I am in fact guessing that Tottenham will have a clean sheet. Tottenham is looking very confident right now.

This young man Bergwijn was beautiful to watch. It's a dream start for him in Tottenham.

I'm the only one who predicted a Spurs win, really guys? Hoping the score keeps this way so I get the full 3 points, though I will only regain 17th spot and go farther down from 5th.

Loving this league. Not so much Superbru =p

Looks like you are going to get that you wanted however I would love to see at least one goal from City. In so many occasions I predicted the correct scores but after the match the opposite team win with the same goal margin.

[hilariousetc]

Spurs are 2-0 up with minutes to go so I don't think I'm going to get the draw on this one. Five minutes injury time left now. Only sojourner backed the Spurs win and he's currently got the score right.

Most of peoples fail to have good points in this round many strange result

It was a strange Matchweek, half the games ended in a draw...And it's 0-0 at the Spurs Stadium fow now :/

I just noticed that @Hhampuz didn't submit a scoreline for the Spurs vs City, meaning that even with just 1.5 points so far, i will not win the wooden spoon this week *phew*  

Well it depends. You get a handful of deferred picks if you miss games where they put a score in for you. If that's the case you could end up losing still. I remember one round where someone got more points than me all from deferred picks lol. That's really rubbing salt in the wounds. Hhampuz might not have any left though.

I just noticed that @Hhampuz didn't submit a scoreline for the Spurs vs City, meaning that even with just 1.5 points so far, i will not win the wooden spoon this week *phew*  

Man these last three weeks have been brutal.. I've been raking in like 1.5, 4, 1 points IN A COMPLETE ROUND.

Yuk, just about given up too.

We all have bad rounds. I've had a couple of next-to-no points and got the wooden spoon recently. Just part of the game. You can still play for consolation prize spots as well. A good run of form can also really send you up the table especially if others have a bad run.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

buwaytress, you got it. 3 full points for you.

Suck City was not even able to score a single goal.

After the first half I had two bets. First one was attempted to bet for City to win but for some reason I thought it will be too risky so why not pick City to score over 0.5 goal. So I had City to score over 0.5 goals. When Tottenham scored I felt lucky for not betting for City to win but still I was expecting for them to score at least a goal. After the 2nd goal by Tottenham, I was still hopeful for City to score but damn it. Nothing from City!

The other bet was Tottenham to get over 2.5 corners when they already had one corner awarded in the first half. In the whole 2nd half they were able to manage to get only one corner. What a waste of money.

Shall I call it my bad luck. It does not matter what I pick in City, Tottenham, Arsenal, Watford, Chelsea match; I lose the bets.

Feeling annoyed!

[tomahawk9]

I just noticed that @Hhampuz didn't submit a scoreline for the Spurs vs City, meaning that even with just 1.5 points so far, i will not win the wooden spoon this week *phew*  

Man these last three weeks have been brutal.. I've been raking in like 1.5, 4, 1 points IN A COMPLETE ROUND.

Yuk, just about given up too.

That sucks..But you're just 15 pts behind the top 10 and just 25 pts from the top 5, IMO that's nothing...Like @hilariousetc, a couple of good rounds and all of a sudden you're fighting for the main prizes.
I almost gave up too a couple of months ago. I was in the bottom half of the leaderboard (23rd or something), but then i won two yellow caps in like two weeks and with that i was back in the race for a spot in the top 5.

There's still 13 rounds left, it's way too early to give up (:

Shall I call it my bad luck. It does not matter what I pick in City, Tottenham, Arsenal, Watford, Chelsea match; I lose the bets.

If it makes you any feel better, i've lost all of my bets this weekend (bunch of draws everywhere! EPL, Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A) :S

[LTU_btc]

I saw interesting fact somewhere in social media. If Liverpool will win 6 upcoming games (Norwich, West Ham, Watford, Bournemouth, Everton and Crystal Palace), they wil become EPL champions before April. Yes, you heard it right, before April! And guess who would have to honor new EPL champions in the next game? Offcourse it will be Man City

[buwaytress]

I saw interesting fact somewhere in social media. If Liverpool will win 6 upcoming games (Norwich, West Ham, Watford, Bournemouth, Everton and Crystal Palace), they wil become EPL champions before April. Yes, you heard it right, before April! And guess who would have to honor new EPL champions in the next game? Offcourse it will be Man City

That's assuming of course that CITY will win all their games;)

Every additional loss they experience from here onward is 1 fewer game we have to win =p I know, I know, us winning our next 6 games is still a task in itself but if you look at City's next 6, they still have to play Leicester, United (whom they've already lost to twice this season!) and Chelsea...

All due respect to City, and to the teams we're facing, but I see City losing at least 1 of those games.

It would be so sweet to win it at Everton too, though, imagine the uproar!

[hilariousetc]

Has anyone seen the next round of fixtures? They're split over the 8th to 17th but it's another round of nightmare games to pick in my opinion:

Everton v Crystal Palace
Brighton v Watford
Sheffield United v Bournemouth
Manchester City v West Ham United
Wolverhampton v Leicester City
Southampton v Burnley
Norwich City v Liverpool
Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur
Arsenal v Newcastle United
Chelsea v Manchester United


A lot of bang average teams are playing each other and lots that are going to be hard to split. Man City are probably the only team playing at home I'd back straight away. Liverpool should win at Norwich but I'm just waiting for the week they take their foot of the gas and slip up. Norwich are rock bottom of the table but they can easily get out of it.

The other bet was Tottenham to get over 2.5 corners when they already had one corner awarded in the first half. In the whole 2nd half they were able to manage to get only one corner. What a waste of money.

Corners are a weird one. Sometimes there's loads and in other games hardly any at all. I used to put bets on like the enhanced accumulator offers of things like both teams to score, each team 2 corners in each half and each team a 2 cards each or something and it was always the corners that let me down.

I saw interesting fact somewhere in social media. If Liverpool will win 6 upcoming games (Norwich, West Ham, Watford, Bournemouth, Everton and Crystal Palace), they wil become EPL champions before April. Yes, you heard it right, before April! And guess who would have to honor new EPL champions in the next game? Offcourse it will be Man City

Interesting. Will that be a record? I wonder what Klopp will do if it's in the bag so early? Will he field a weaker team yo give them games or keep going for the points record. Maybe he won't even turn up like in the cup haha.