⚽ Sportsbet.io ⚽ Italian Serie A ⚽ Football Pool Discussion Thread 2023/2024

[buwaytress]

Ah, doesn't 0-0 bring you back to the "good old days"? Lazio at least I thought should have scored, but maybe a starring lineup of Salernitana, Udinese and Torino shouldn't surprise me, neither should 11 yellows and 1 red, huh?

No one in the pool figured that would happen for either game too, is the only silver lining. GG guys.

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[darxiaomi]

hahahahahaha , really interesting, we talked about catenaccio and the Serie A comes back with two tremendous 0-0 in a row.
Surprised by the quantity of player who puts the exact score in the Inter Spezia, seven or eight if i didnt check bad.

Lets see tomorrow.

[Trofo]

I belive all 0.5 mBTC participation free bets have been paid as well as yellow cap free bet for first week. This should be the case for La Liga pool as well. So check your sportsbet accounts since free bets usually have validity of 3 days.

And of course share your big wins for bragging rights, I know I will if they pass 

[casperBGD]

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And of course share your big wins for bragging rights, I know I will if they pass 

I am usually fast down on all free bets, not much to brag on, but will certainly brag if something happens
I think that I played Atalanta whole last season 1:1 in home derbies, and neither finished 1:1, and first one this season, and finished 1:1 with Milan irony

draw round, isn't, but Napoli smashed Monza

[LTU_btc]

I was wondering from where did I got free bets, now it's clear. Already used it on today's EPL and Serie A games, but if I will win it, there won't be anything special to brag for .
Seems that most of us expected from Roma something more than minimal win against newcomers. I see that next round there is some quite big games like Lazio - Inter and Roma - Juventus.

[darxiaomi]

Same here hahaha, i look the freebets and think.... again Steve blessing my account?, i totally forgot this one.

I dont use them maybe tomorrow.

In the pool itself, another season with Juventus being unpredictable? Please no.

[Harkorede]

Same here hahaha, i look the freebets and think.... again Steve blessing my account?, i totally forgot this one.

I dont use them maybe tomorrow.

Yeah, I got mine too, I happened to be browsing through yesterday's fixtures when I saw them and I used 'em all already

In the pool itself, another season with Juventus being unpredictable? Please no.

After the 3 nil win over Sassuolo, I thought it was going to been quite predictable season for Juventus, I wasn't expecting an easy run though, but It's rather too early to be throwing these points away.

Napoli on the other hand seem to be coming for blood this season, 9 goals scored in just two games.

[darxiaomi]

I think Di Maria is a really key player whatever team what owns him, so with his injury Juvetus lost a LOT and became the same team of last year, i see some parts of the game and..... was a truly horrible, a big team cant play in such form.

[casperBGD]

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Napoli on the other hand seem to be coming for blood this season, 9 goals scored in just two games.

Napoli started well, but to be honest, did not had worthy opponents so far
Inter had also two wins and all other title contenders already lost points here and therey and we are just two rounds through

still, I cheer for Lazio this season, and they seem as good for CL position

[morvillz7z]

Last round was absolutely abysmal in terms of total goals scored, with only 13...and to make things worse Berardi was the only Italian to score.

source: google-translated from: https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/24-08-2022/serie-a-solo-13-gol-secondo-turno-italiani-sono-spariti-4402011633489.shtml

On the second day of the championship, only 13 were scored, an average (1.3) that hadn't been recorded since matchday 32 of the 2017-18 season.

I hope goals will be back on the menu with the match between Lazio and Inter later today, there are usually goals between these two, the last five meetings have witnessed BTTS, with the last three also going O2.5.  BTTS at around 1.67 seems like a fair price to me...

[casperBGD]

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I hope goals will be back on the menu with the match between Lazio and Inter later today, there are usually goals between these two, the last five meetings have witnessed BTTS, with the last three also going O2.5.  BTTS at around 1.67 seems like a fair price to me...

what number of matches out brings red card in Italy, asking due to Maximiano being sent-off for handling in first round and did not find is he going to play tonight for Lazio or not?
he paused one match (last round with Torino so far)

as I have read, one match is for formal red cards, two for harsh starts, and three matches suspension if the red card is brought for unsportsmen conduct on the pitch

[morvillz7z]

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I hope goals will be back on the menu with the match between Lazio and Inter later today, there are usually goals between these two, the last five meetings have witnessed BTTS, with the last three also going O2.5.  BTTS at around 1.67 seems like a fair price to me...

what number of matches out brings red card in Italy, asking due to Maximiano being sent-off for handling in first round and did not find is he going to play tonight for Lazio or not?
he paused one match (last round with Torino so far)

as I have read, one match is for formal red cards, two for harsh starts, and three matches suspension if the red card is brought for unsportsmen conduct on the pitch

Regular red cards in Serie A deem 1 game suspension just like most other leagues, Maximiano should be available tonight, but it's up to Sarri to choose between him and Provedel.

Is he any good though, Maximiano?...unfortunate for him to get an early red in his debut. I see that he played for Granada last season and i don't follow LaLiga, bottom five in goals conceded is probably not the best stat...

[Trofo]

I hope goals will be back on the menu with the match between Lazio and Inter later today, there are usually goals between these two, the last five meetings have witnessed BTTS, with the last three also going O2.5.  BTTS at around 1.67 seems like a fair price to me...

I have both to score on both matches today and first one between Monza and Udinese already delivered so I am waiting for Lazio - Inter later on. Should be goals however we look at that game. Both teams with lots of attacking power and not afraid to attack.

It is easy to predict both to score, it is much more difficult to predict correct score for our pool.

[casperBGD]

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Is he any good though, Maximiano?...unfortunate for him to get an early red in his debut. I see that he played for Granada last season and i don't follow LaLiga, bottom five in goals conceded is probably not the best stat...

a bit of topic, but I think he is great (benched tonight, probably due to red card)
bottom five in goals conceived indeed, but bear in mind that he played for Granada, three penalties saved, and some great savings as well (they quickly sold him for a quick buck, since they are now in Segunda)

IMO, future Portugal no.1 keeper

[buwaytress]

Ah, so THAT is where the 0.5 mbtc freebets came from, was wondering why I had 2 of them, and they expired 25th August, so I know they must have come on 22nd... good thing I actually logged in to check too, as I was honestly just almost not able to.

Hope nobody lost them SB probably should do better with notifies though!

Oh and shame on me for not taking Lazio, I thought they were really good value bet, but decided to switch out for an EPL game today in my acca oops.

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Oh and shame on me for not taking Lazio, I thought they were really good value bet, but decided to switch out for an EPL game today in my acca oops.

yeah, I missed them as well, but as a hedge, since I have Lazio to win Calcio this season
Udinese win as well, Monza is probably worst team in Serie A this season

Juventus is playing Roma today, will be interesting, Juve started great against Sassuolo, but proved that it could be a glitch against Sampdoria, and Roma is playing better and better with Mourinho, expect more from them this season

[buwaytress]

yeah, I missed them as well, but as a hedge, since I have Lazio to win Calcio this season
Udinese win as well, Monza is probably worst team in Serie A this season

Juventus is playing Roma today, will be interesting, Juve started great against Sassuolo, but proved that it could be a glitch against Sampdoria, and Roma is playing better and better with Mourinho, expect more from them this season

Ha yeah, I will end up betting on Monza one of these days though, perhaps as long as I see a 10/1 or more odds home game against midtable teams.

11/16 is my position after failing to see the draw from Juve. I honestly thought I was being smart about picking a 2-1 upset... and now Gini broke his leg I didn't know about until only when I saw him missing from squad. I've been SO out of it I will need a week or two min to catch up with everything. Pretty bad performance across all leagues on season start.

[Trofo]

11/16 is my position after failing to see the draw from Juve. I honestly thought I was being smart about picking a 2-1 upset... and now Gini broke his leg I didn't know about until only when I saw him missing from squad. I've been SO out of it I will need a week or two min to catch up with everything. Pretty bad performance across all leagues on season start.

I sort of remember reading that some player on training broke his leg and then Mou sent that player away fro the club but also forgot about it when making my picks. Did not watch Roma yet this season and did not even know Gini actually plays for them. I mean if I think about it I know, but not in my guts when I am making the picks. If you guys know what I mean, you just have a mental picture of some team and Gini did not enter my for Roma.

[buwaytress]

BTTS acca on all tonight's games? Why not? Feeling like switching up my mini 5-leg accas with everything below 2/1:

Pretty dumb?

11/16 is my position after failing to see the draw from Juve. I honestly thought I was being smart about picking a 2-1 upset... and now Gini broke his leg I didn't know about until only when I saw him missing from squad. I've been SO out of it I will need a week or two min to catch up with everything. Pretty bad performance across all leagues on season start.

I sort of remember reading that some player on training broke his leg and then Mou sent that player away fro the club but also forgot about it when making my picks. Did not watch Roma yet this season and did not even know Gini actually plays for them. I mean if I think about it I know, but not in my guts when I am making the picks. If you guys know what I mean, you just have a mental picture of some team and Gini did not enter my for Roma.

If he weren't Liverpool ex and one of my favs, I wouldn't have known either, tbh. Might have mentioned it earlier or maybe in another thread (Europa maybe) but I thought Roma might actually pull off some miracles just for having such a quality midfielder to give more room to Tammy up front.

Now with him out til 2023, oops... I hate to say it, but it's already like a curse to leave Liverpool to seek better pastures, at least, to a seemingly bigger club for more wages. Mane looks like he's bucking the trend, so good for him.

[Trofo]

@LTU_BTC

Damn man, how the hell did you get 5 exact scores? This already feels like highest points yellow cap reward secured for you if we don't get some crazy double game weeks with shitload of games.

Now that I wrote this I realized I haven't posted final rewards yet. I usually leave it a few weeks into the new season to see if we have some late joiners. I'll officially close the pool with first day of September and then post those exact rewards. Same goes for La Liga pool as well.