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

[KTChampions]

Chelsea said no to Ronaldo for this 

  Time for Ronaldo haters (but Chelsea fans) to suffer.

City broke my next multibet and failed to win the powerplay at 3-3 (I made an additional bet with 1.97 odds of them winning). On the one hand I'm happy (I'm rooting against City) on the other hand the weekend started off badly and continues the same way. Will United surprise me tomorrow, but in a positive way? 

[swogerino]

Chelsea said no to Ronaldo for this 

  Time for Ronaldo haters (but Chelsea fans) to suffer.

City broke my next multibet and failed to win the powerplay at 3-3 (I made an additional bet with 1.97 odds of them winning). On the one hand I'm happy (I'm rooting against City) on the other hand the weekend started off badly and continues the same way. Will United surprise me tomorrow, but in a positive way? 

I am no hater of anyone or any team in specific but this week I can already say it will be the worst in terms of betting for all the Premier League season,despite Premier League being a league full of surprises rarely I have seen 3 out of the 3 favorites to not win their games in the same day,so that is something truly unique from this league up until now.

For tomorrow Liverpool should win,and should want to win even more after seeing City left 2 points in tonight game,so I exclude any surprise from Manchester United tomorrow night.

[rdbase]

Just can't seem to guess which matches would end up being draws.
If you would of told me Manchester City would be one of them, I would be laughing at you.
That was just City being lazy and leaving it til the second half to try and score a couple back.
Dismal performance for the first three weeks of the pool. Not even half the amount of points as the leader has.

[KTChampions]

Time for Ronaldo haters (but Chelsea fans) to suffer.

City broke my next multibet and failed to win the powerplay at 3-3 (I made an additional bet with 1.97 odds of them winning). On the one hand I'm happy (I'm rooting against City) on the other hand the weekend started off badly and continues the same way. Will United surprise me tomorrow, but in a positive way? 

I am no hater of anyone or any team in specific but this week I can already say it will be the worst in terms of betting for all the Premier League season,despite Premier League being a league full of surprises rarely I have seen 3 out of the 3 favorites to not win their games in the same day,so that is something truly unique from this league up until now.

For tomorrow Liverpool should win,and should want to win even more after seeing City left 2 points in tonight game,so I exclude any surprise from Manchester United tomorrow night.

Arsenal and Tottenham won. In addition, we still do not know who is now in the group of favorites that will fight for the championship. As for unpredictability, last season in Serie A is unbeatable.
United with Casemiro on the rise (I heard that he will be in the game) do you think 1.66 is enough compensation for the risk given that Liverpool have their own obvious problems? I will definitely bet on United tomorrow and if I win any money today I will place some special bets 

[Igebotz]

Can someone enlighten me why that Trippier red card was changed to yellow after VAR? It was an ugly start, quite high and in very promising goal situation. Even Trippier did not complain after getting it He knew he had no other way to stop De Bruyne.

Different matches, different players, same situation, different call. It was far too soft for a red card, and I believe the Everton player was unlucky to get red for the same counter tackle. Well, what can I say. 

[LTU_btc]

Just stop season now and award title to Arsenal. We have 60 players in the pool, but just few of them managed to get points from 3 today's games. I was surprised to see West Ham not favoured by bookmakers against Brighton, but seems that it was not without reason. I have no words about City abd Chelsea results today, but this is why we love EPL.

[Hhampuz]

Can someone enlighten me why that Trippier red card was changed to yellow after VAR? It was an ugly start, quite high and in very promising goal situation. Even Trippier did not complain after getting it He knew he had no other way to stop De Bruyne.

Different matches, different players, same situation, different call. It was far too soft for a red card, and I believe the Everton player was unlucky to get red for the same counter tackle. Well, what can I say.  

I'd say they were different situations. The tackle on de bryune was above the knee, studs away from the body, and without any real risk of injury, granted it was a chance for a goal but that comes secondary with these types of tackles it seems. The everton tackle was more dangerous - ankle area with the studs facing the leg.

Imho, they both could have been red but some refs will have a preference either way (although a majority may be leaning more towards one decisions).

[CLS63]

I had a very unlucky day in the pool. 

None of my picks won today. Chelsea and West Ham couldn't even get one point. And Manchester City had big issues about defeating Newcastle. Chelsea's losing 3-0 was inexplicable to me. Their scoring problem was very obvious and I believe this shows that they immediately need a proper striker. Manchester City were also bad at defending today. It wasn't the Manchester City we were accustomed to watch.

Biggest teams of the league continue to get surprising results for now.

[Igebotz]

Different matches, different players, same situation, different call. It was far too soft for a red card, and I believe the Everton player was unlucky to get red for the same counter tackle. Well, what can I say. 

I'd say they were different situations. The tackle on de bryune was above the knee, studs away from the body, and without any real risk of injury, granted it was a chance for a goal but that comes secondary with these types of tackles it seems. The everton tackle was more dangerous - ankle area with the studs facing the leg.

Imho, they both could have been red but some refs will have a preference either way (although a majority may be leaning more towards one decisions).

Both players did not go for the ball, they both obstructed a counted attack that could have resulted in a goal, both came from behind, both studs went sideways, no direct contact, both players knew it was a last-ditch effort. I'd say that decisions are sometimes made based on the intensity or outcome of the game. Overall, it was an excellent game.

Arsenal sitting on top of the league is akin to an elegant sitting on top of a tree. They would run out of gas soon, and I can't wait to see the #ArtetaOut movement 

I moved 22 places up!! It was a good weekend afterall from 61- 32nd position.

[Trofo]

Different matches, different players, same situation, different call. It was far too soft for a red card, and I believe the Everton player was unlucky to get red for the same counter tackle. Well, what can I say. 

I'd say they were different situations. The tackle on de bryune was above the knee, studs away from the body, and without any real risk of injury, granted it was a chance for a goal but that comes secondary with these types of tackles it seems. The everton tackle was more dangerous - ankle area with the studs facing the leg.

Imho, they both could have been red but some refs will have a preference either way (although a majority may be leaning more towards one decisions).

Both players did not go for the ball, they both obstructed a counted attack that could have resulted in a goal, both came from behind, both studs went sideways, no direct contact, both players knew it was a last-ditch effort. I'd say that decisions are sometimes made based on the intensity or outcome of the game. Overall, it was an excellent game.

Arsenal sitting on top of the league is akin to an elegant sitting on top of a tree. They would run out of gas soon, and I can't wait to see the #ArtetaOut movement 

I moved 22 places up!! It was a good weekend afterall from 61- 32nd position.

I am not arguing that it is obvious red card, I am arguing that VAR had no reason to even call the referee to check that decision. It is borderline red card, maybe a bit more red than yellow (55-45) and as such I feel that whatever ref decided in first place had to be final call.

It was definitely not an obvious mistake. But I always love to see City dropping some points so there is that at least

[DireWolfM14]

Whatever may happen, we are in for an interesting season, to say the least. Keep it up gunners and we're cooking

I don't want to jinx it, but it sure is nice to see the gunners at the top of the table.  

Otherwise, it's been rotten weekend for my predictions, and it doesn't look like I'm alone.  Very few points all around with all the upsets, and draws.  Now I'm questioning my prediction for tomorrow's match, and I always pick Liverpool.

One other highlight of the weekend, however was seeing Jesse Marsch celebrating those three goals against Chelsea (sorry, igehhh.)  I think it was the second goal, when he spiked the water bottle; he looked like a NFL linebacker taking a pick-6 to the house and spiking the football.  That was funny as hell.

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I didn't see the Everton match, so I don't know what happened there, but I was surprised by the VAR and the ref reversal on that De Bruyne tackle.  That looked more red than yellow to me too, but I tend to agree with Trofo...  MC dropped points.  

[Harkorede]

Whatever may happen, we are in for an interesting season, to say the least. Keep it up gunners and we're cooking

I don't want to jinx it, but it sure is nice to see the gunners at the top of the table.  

Otherwise, it's been rotten weekend for my predictions, and it doesn't look like I'm alone.  Very few points all around with all the upsets, and draws.  

It was a complete bloodbath with my predictions too, I went completely off the railroad with most of them, just way too may upsets from one week, I could only get 2 close result outcome and 3 points in total  well having just 4 people on double digits show have averagely shitty the week is for almost everyone.

Now I'm questioning my prediction for tomorrow's match, and I always pick Liverpool.

Would anyone get near even Man United to score at least a goal today ?, Let alone go all out for a Man United win, that'd be tough. I'm of the opinion that this will be a low scoring game even if Liverpool secure the full 3 point and regardless of Man Utd's goal conceding records in their last 2 games.

[hilariousetc]

Just stop season now and award title to Arsenal. We have 60 players in the pool, but just few of them managed to get points from 3 today's games. I was surprised to see West Ham not favoured by bookmakers against Brighton, but seems that it was not without reason. I have no words about City abd Chelsea results today, but this is why we love EPL.

Tonight's match is another tough one and I have no idea what's going to happen. Liverpool are on back to back draws against shitty teams and Man U are on two losses to shitty teams. I think there's either going to be lots of goals and a lot of cards/action, or they'll cancel each other out and it'll be a 0-0 bore draw or something. Liverpool are obviously the better team and are the favourites but Man U have the home advantage so I honestly don't know what to expect. I'll be watching it so I'm hoping it's lively at least.

[swogerino]

Just stop season now and award title to Arsenal. We have 60 players in the pool, but just few of them managed to get points from 3 today's games. I was surprised to see West Ham not favoured by bookmakers against Brighton, but seems that it was not without reason. I have no words about City abd Chelsea results today, but this is why we love EPL.

Tonight's match is another tough one and I have no idea what's going to happen. Liverpool are on back to back draws against shitty teams and Man U are on two losses to shitty teams. I think there's either going to be lots of goals and a lot of cards/action, or they'll cancel each other out and it'll be a 0-0 bore draw or something. Liverpool are obviously the better team and are the favourites but Man U have the home advantage so I honestly don't know what to expect. I'll be watching it so I'm hoping it's lively at least.

Most probably both teams want to restart their good run after starting the new Premier League season not in the best of the ways especially for Liverpool because Manchester United just started the way that they ended up the last season so not a lot to be surprised here.The surprise would be if Liverpool still does not win tonight,that would be a real surprise as we would see a team that these last years has always fought for the title to be in the bottom of the standings by not winning.

I personally expect a huge win with a tennis result from Liverpool against Manchester United tonight.

[mole0815]

I don't know much about it (in the Premier League ) but it was enough to improve me by 12 positions.
Hopefully it will go so well for me in the next weeks

[Trofo]

I personally expect a huge win with a tennis result from Liverpool against Manchester United tonight.

I was expecting the same but now I hear a news piece that could screw with our predictions. Apparently Ten Hag decided to remove Maguire from the squad for Liverpool game. This could screw with our lots of goals predictions since United without Maguire can only be better defensively

Still can't wait for this bottom of the table derby.

[swogerino]

I don't know much about it (in the Premier League ) but it was enough to improve me by 12 positions.
Hopefully it will go so well for me in the next weeks

I lost 7 positions although I don't see it as a very negative week because the first place is just like 8 points away from where I located at 22nd place.We need a few more weeks in order to separate the true fighters for a winning position which this year in the pool will be a lot but I think the prizes up to the 10th place are relevant as those are at 0.01 which is 400% the amount we paid as the entry fee.I am not worried at all at such point even if I fall back a lot of places because there is a lot of time to bounce back.Beside that almost no one got any point from yesterday games except those who like to go against the predictable results.

[buwaytress]

If somebody manages to walk away with money from bets on Premier League I will be really surprised. Of course not counting Buwaytress, he has probably tripled his bank today and then he will lose half of it on Liverpool tomorrow

Chelsea losing made me some yeah, but I was dumb enough to put late bets on Newcastle and Bochum (hahaha). As you predicted, me being so predictable, I've put money on Liverpool... crap odds, I don't ever recall being favoured so heavily against United, but I suppose 1.6x winnings will cover back losses from late bets. Or lose it all =)

Even taking Maguire out hasn't budged odds!

[casperBGD]

will be interesting tonight, with or without Maguire

maybe meme makers would like to see Maguire in, since it will make their job much easier
nevertheless, with all stakes, I do expect Liverpool to win, but it will get harder if they do not score on time, United self-confidence could start to rise after goalless half, for example, with all said, I change Liverpool ML to BTTS as main bet

[swogerino]

This week started with a lot of surprise results and the first half of the last game is also a surprise result.The beaten up Manchester United from much weaker teams compared to Liverpool are now leading 1-0 with the first half that ended just now.I believe we will see a lot of action in the second half.If Liverpool fails to react to this then most probably is already game over for the title fight for them,I would assume they are also on some crisis if they lose tonight and don't come back from such result.