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

[buwaytress]

^ I did see the goal from Ronaldo and it is certainly of high quality but didn't strike me as anything fantastic. Such are the high standards we have become accustomed to haha.

Speaking of being spoiled by high standards, feels weird to be disappointed by the Newcastle win, even though a tough fight was to bw expected, and a slim win to be savoured. Cannot remember so many offsides from a team (9) when home. Only wish we didn't have to rack up the cards like that.

On to City now. Any chance of upset?

[darxiaomi]

No, I'm watching it in the city game, but it seems a complete surprise to me that Wolverhampton lose by 3 goals at home against Brighton.
I did not see the liverpool game but although it ended 1 - 0 I see that Liverpool dominated the entire game and the figure of Newcastle was their goalkeeper.

The city-leeds can be a 5-3 like a 5-0

[Welsh]

On to City now. Any chance of upset?

I wasn't expecting much, but I did want to watch a exciting game. I expected City to win, but scoring so early as kind have put a dampener on it for neutrals, and well us Liverpool fans. I don't see Leeds fighting their way back now, seems City are up for it. Leeds not so much.

This could go right down to the wire this, I think Newcastle will likely fold in half for City though, unlike against us today. Although, we should have scored more, we had the opportunities, it felt like Jota, and Mane had 3/4 between them, pretty clear cut chances.

[Joca97]

For me now in this pool first place is really far away and i think after this awful round and a pretty unlucky one for me i dont stand a chance of getting that first place if something insane dosent happen. Even that 5th place is too far away now aswell. I can just hope to stay at top 10 until the pool ends honestly

[casperBGD]

Liverpool and City winning as usual, but Newcastle will be a CL contender next season, if second part of this season is any sign
Burnley is on the run, expected win over Watford, and with 13 points from last six matches, they are now almost secured in Premier next season

as I said already, Leeds is our only chance, but those are slim as well, Championship is closer than ever, we have to win over Chelsea tomorrow

[swogerino]

Liverpool and Manchester City doing their jobs today.This is coming to an end as I think after this week ends only three other remains plus some additional fixtures that were postponed before.It will be interesting to see who will come on top as Champions of the Premier League this year,being one of the leagues which is open up this late as who will be the Champions.

On the pool I am happy to have found 2 correct scores for Burnley and Manchester City,it has been ages since I haven't done so in the pool so happy about that.

[rdbase]

No, I'm watching it in the city game, but it seems a complete surprise to me that Wolverhampton lose by 3 goals at home against Brighton.
I did not see the liverpool game but although it ended 1 - 0 I see that Liverpool dominated the entire game and the figure of Newcastle was their goalkeeper.

The city-leeds can be a 5-3 like a 5-0

Fairly close in the score. It ended 4-0 without any hesitation from city in this match. They just kept putting them in the back of the net without any opposition from the Leeds keeper.
Had 5-1 and gave Leeds the benefit of the doubt to put atleast one in and it came close near the end of the match. But Ederson was just too good today.

Looks like Norwich has accepted they will get relegated from the way the bottom of the table is now with Watford needing to win their next 4 games to stay in the premier league for next season. But the announcers of the match were saying Norwich will be playing the champions league and will be keeping their current manager on the trip back to that league next season.
So it sounds like a done deal.

[tomahawk9]

For me now in this pool first place is really far away and i think after this awful round and a pretty unlucky one for me i dont stand a chance of getting that first place if something insane dosent happen. Even that 5th place is too far away now aswell. I can just hope to stay at top 10 until the pool ends honestly

i think you're still in the race for the top spots, you just need a yellow cap (or at least a lot of correct scores) and hope that the others miss a few correct scores, the latter is difficult but not impossible

btw, I believe this is the closest premier league pool we've had so far (?) three and a half rounds left and the 1st place race is still wide open, nail-biting end of the season!

anyway, i'm gonna go celebrate Real madrid's league title! cheers and good luck guys 💪

[buwaytress]

@Welsh yeah as soon as the early goal went in and then I saw coach talk to his players, I knew damage control, not fightback, was on the cards. Worked til the restart... shame but I'd be a fool to expect anything else (guess I called myself a fool for betting on Leeds).

No, I'm watching it in the city game, but it seems a complete surprise to me that Wolverhampton lose by 3 goals at home against Brighton.
I did not see the liverpool game but although it ended 1 - 0 I see that Liverpool dominated the entire game and the figure of Newcastle was their goalkeeper.

The city-leeds can be a 5-3 like a 5-0

Yeah, I did pick Brighton since Wolves suck at home, just didn't expect them to score so many without reply. Wolves stopped winning 1-0 some time ago, but they now also seem to no longer concede fewer than 2 goals...

Went for City 4-1 and of course, Leeds couldn't even score the 1 goal I thought they would. Now City's wiped out the GD advantage we had in one day (but it's okay, I thought we'd have to pip them by points eventually anyway).


@Joca: Take it from me, I think I topped the pool for more than half the season, and then very quickly went at one stage 15 points away from the top, and then in 2 weeks it's back at a more breathable level. 4 more game weeks ++ there's plenty of time for collapses and breakthroughs.  No point giving up.

[rdbase]

For me now in this pool first place is really far away and i think after this awful round and a pretty unlucky one for me i dont stand a chance of getting that first place if something insane dosent happen. Even that 5th place is too far away now aswell. I can just hope to stay at top 10 until the pool ends honestly

i think you're still in the race for the top spots, you just need a yellow cap (or at least a lot of correct scores) and hope that the others miss a few correct scores, the latter is difficult but not impossible

btw, I believe this is the closest premier league pool we've had so far (?) three and a half rounds left and the 1st place race is still wide open, nail-biting end of the season!

anyway, i'm gonna go celebrate Real madrid's league title! cheers and good luck guys 💪

You got the yellow cap for this weeks pool play just by the looks of the top few on the leaderboard and the scoreline(s) they picked.
Those correct scores do really make the different as from I understand those give you the slam points which determines the winners if it is so close like it is for this week.

This year does seem too close to call who will win it. Because those being in the top 10 will have a shot at first place in the pool with Manchester city having four matches left in their season so Liverpool is the only one who has a shot at first place in the league.

[swogerino]

Ah Arsenal,I had it 2-2 and West Ham played well and tried hard to equalize but they could not.I would have got 6 points from today games but I am still happy with just 3 points with only the exact score of Tottenham vs Leicester.I doubt many persons in the pool found that Everton would beat Chelsea tonight,it was the biggest surprise game of the week.Tomorrow Manchester United vs Brentford,I think United will have an easy win and most probably even a clean sheet.

[casperBGD]

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Those correct scores do really make the different as from I understand those give you the slam points which determines the winners if it is so close like it is for this week.

slam points are based on number of results picked correctly, five results one, eight results two, ten results three, but not on exact scores
for slam points does not matter if you have only result, close one or exact

important win for us over Chelsea (hedged in the pool with Chelsea win, but hopped for the best), Richarlison scored, but it is on Lampard, he obviously had some good vibes with Chelsea, avoiding relegation is still far away, but this one keeps up in the race with Leeds, do think that Burnley is secured, with three wins in a row and good form

[leea-1334]

important win for us over Chelsea (hedged in the pool with Chelsea win, but hopped for the best), Richarlison scored, but it is on Lampard, he obviously had some good vibes with Chelsea, avoiding relegation is still far away, but this one keeps up in the race with Leeds, do think that Burnley is secured, with three wins in a row and good form

Just saw also that it was Azpi error that led to the goal, seems like he was also at fault a couple of games ago against Arsenal,,, and then of course there is the defensive error that led to other goals, like it seems to be a trend for their last few games now, the mark of a defence that is not at their peak of confidence.

Everton will most likely stay up as their other competitors are not exactly reliable. Good luck

[buwaytress]

Early congratulations to you toma for the yellow cap! Thought I had a fighting chance as Arsenal did look like they were going to get their third for another exact score but it stayed and you leapt into first place -- nice!

2nd and 3rd (me and Harko) have the exact same scoreline as you, couldn't have known that unless locked in so whatever happens, you take yellow cap 2-1 the absolute favourite scoreline tonight, so just need Brentford to smack one in... and a few brave fellas picking the draw (hasn't United taught us enough to dare though?) will hope for more.

[tomahawk9]

convincing win from United, clean sheet and good football... a good farewell at Old Trafford for Juan Mata, Matic, and also Ronaldo?

Early congratulations to you toma for the yellow cap!

oi friend! looks like we're both sharing the yellow cap this week!   Harko couldn't keep our pace and finished 2pts behind us. Still, what a dramatic end-of-season  

[Harkorede]

convincing win from United, clean sheet and good football... a good farewell at Old Trafford for Juan Mata, Matic, and also Ronaldo?

Early congratulations to you toma for the yellow cap!

oi friend! looks like we're both sharing the yellow cap this week!   Harko couldn't keep our pace and finished 2pts behind us. Still, what a dramatic end-of-season  

I actually wasn't following the weekly leaderboard, at least not since after Man Utd draw against Chelsea, I just put in my picks all at a go with "Que sera sera" in my mind, and I never even reviewed them during the course of/after any game.

It's really the closest pool I've been in at this stage of the season, usually the first position is almost usually decided by now.

[Ulven]

Congratulations to you both Tomahawk9 and sojourner  !!!

I'm thinking if it is possible to get the correct score for all the matches next week, what if I get the free bet 6-6 and I don't know if someone in the pool is thinking about this

[Trofo]

Congratulations to you both Tomahawk9 and sojourner  !!!

I'm thinking if it is possible to get the correct score for all the matches next week, what if I get the free bet 6-6 and I don't know if someone in the pool is thinking about this

I know I will never get that 6-6 bet right. I don't think I ever had more then 2 or 3 correct there. My solid position in our pool (14) is a reuslt of consistency. I am in the top half every week but never even close to the yellow cap. I don't think I had a single one in 3 years of this pool and maybe just a few in other pools where we have a lot less people.

United actually looked good tonight in some moments but then they started giving out balls in their half like crazy, they can be very happy that Brendford did not punish them in those moments.

[swogerino]

I had Manchester United for a clean sheet win at 2-0 but then I don't know why I was not convinced that they were going to win and changed to a draw 2-2.This shows that luck plays a big role in the pool beside skill as it is just luck that brought me to change the result and lose the points,I know many other persons in the pool change often their predictions after having put them so I would say we should never touch the initial prediction because rarely the changed one comes true.

[leea-1334]

Congratulations to you both Tomahawk9 and sojourner  !!!

I'm thinking if it is possible to get the correct score for all the matches next week, what if I get the free bet 6-6 and I don't know if someone in the pool is thinking about this

I know I will never get that 6-6 bet right. I don't think I ever had more then 2 or 3 correct there. My solid position in our pool (14) is a reuslt of consistency. I am in the top half every week but never even close to the yellow cap. I don't think I had a single one in 3 years of this pool and maybe just a few in other pools where we have a lot less people.

United actually looked good tonight in some moments but then they started giving out balls in their half like crazy, they can be very happy that Brendford did not punish them in those moments.

Yes, well done friends,,, this season I managed one yellow cap and that was enough for me, paid back the participation fee so absolutely great already!

Regarding Bet-6-6? I have never even got TWO right, so no need to dream of getting all six. It is way easier than winning Superbru 10 out of 10 and still, no one ever got it right or close,,, second prize is 10k$ for 5 out of 6 right?