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[icopress]

Screw Spezia and extra time goal. Of course I had 1:1 in the pool for this one. Perfectly sums up my season so far. Those late goals never come when I need them for the ticket.

Doesn't matter, I am hoping for at least one correct score from the evening games. Roma should have easy job hopefully judging from pool picks, waiting for them on my ticket, and then Juve - Milan game to finish it all off. Should be goals for sure.

You are not the only one who suffered from this belated goal ... although I confess to the Serie A pool, I feel like a fish in water.



But the situation with Juventus and Milan is not as clear as it seems at first glance, because I also initially chose a draw for this match, but I remembered a desperate fight against Liverpool and still decided to give a tiny advantage to Milan, (I hope I was not mistaken, and I hope I did the right thing by not taking into account the Juventus victory over Malmo FC). 

[Davidvictorson]

Screw Spezia and extra time goal. Of course I had 1:1 in the pool for this one. Perfectly sums up my season so far. Those late goals never come when I need them for the ticket.

Doesn't matter, I am hoping for at least one correct score from the evening games. Roma should have easy job hopefully judging from pool picks, waiting for them on my ticket, and then Juve - Milan game to finish it all off. Should be goals for sure.

You are not the only one who suffered from this belated goal ... although I confess to the Serie A pool, I feel like a fish in water.



But the situation with Juventus and Milan is not as clear as it seems at first glance, because I also initially chose a draw for this match, but I remembered a desperate fight against Liverpool and still decided to give a tiny advantage to Milan, (I hope I was not mistaken, and I hope I did the right thing by not taking into account the Juventus victory over Malmo FC). 

My prediction for the game tonight is Juventus 0- 2 AC Milan. Juventus has not been in form this season as they are in the 16th position and AC Milan 2nd place on the table. Well, we'll see how it goes.

[casperBGD]

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My prediction for the game tonight is Juventus 0- 2 AC Milan. Juventus has not been in form this season as they are in the 16th position and AC Milan 2nd place on the table. Well, we'll see how it goes.

table position does not count in all-italia derby, IMO
what a shitty round for me, and it is going to where I thought I will be, in the pool bottom

did not saw the pool, but two results so far, 2 points, it is probably a spoon, not sure about Roma and Lazio, probably was not much people to consider both of them leaving points, but Sassuolo as well, Genoa catch me by surprise, Venezia as well
waiting to see what Juventus and Milan are up to tonight, but I am watching Valencia of course

[Harkorede]

Screw Spezia and extra time goal. Of course I had 1:1 in the pool for this one. Perfectly sums up my season so far. Those late goals never come when I need them for the ticket.

Doesn't matter, I am hoping for at least one correct score from the evening games. Roma should have easy job hopefully judging from pool picks, waiting for them on my ticket, and then Juve - Milan game to finish it all off. Should be goals for sure.

You are not the only one who suffered from this belated goal ... although I confess to the Serie A pool, I feel like a fish in water.



But the situation with Juventus and Milan is not as clear as it seems at first glance, because I also initially chose a draw for this match, but I remembered a desperate fight against Liverpool and still decided to give a tiny advantage to Milan, (I hope I was not mistaken, and I hope I did the right thing by not taking into account the Juventus victory over Malmo FC).  

My prediction for the game tonight is Juventus 0- 2 AC Milan. Juventus has not been in form this season as they are in the 16th position and AC Milan 2nd place on the table. Well, we'll see how it goes.

Juventus have not been at their best form so far this season, but I knew they'd win the match tonight.

It's halftime already and it's pretty much of an even match so far, just the early goal scored by Morata has been the difference. the match is still much open and could still go either way.

[Trofo]

Juventus have not been at their best form so far this season, but I knew they'd win the match tonight.

It's halftime already and it's pretty much of an even match so far, just the early goal scored by Morata has been the difference. the match is still much open and could still go either way.

It was a very well executed counter attack by Juve and nice finish from Morata. I still think this one will end 1:1 as per my prediction, should be a goal in 90+ minutes to give me back at least a little. Lost so many correct scores in last minutes this week across all pools.

Also lost all my tickets on what I considered very secure picks, Roma was one of them, total break down in second half. Considering taking a break from betting for a week or two to reset lady luck component

[leea-1334]

Back from vacation and I see I did an Oopps I dropped to 11th place after the matches so far  I also had Spezia game at 1-1 until they ruined it by winning, so I guess a lot of us got screwed over by that one,,,

Mourinho has his first defeat also so he must now be tempted to do what he did at Spurs. Take a lead and try to defend.

[leea-1334]

This has to be my best performance ever in a starting week anywhere in any league for predictions. 1 exact and 2 close scores, and even,,, if I stuck to 2-1 I would be 2 exacts!

Did anyone watch the games and were they as exciting as the scorelines? Parlays of BTTS must be at least 4x.

[Trofo]

This has to be my best performance ever in a starting week anywhere in any league for predictions. 1 exact and 2 close scores, and even,,, if I stuck to 2-1 I would be 2 exacts!

Did anyone watch the games and were they as exciting as the scorelines? Parlays of BTTS must be at least 4x.

Did not watch the games but I did get winning multi which had Inter and Atalanta games on it. BTTS in Seria A is almost like free money. I still can't believe bookies are giving us such high odds. This is 3rd season in a row where I am playing just BTTS market in Italy.

[casperBGD]

This has to be my best performance ever in a starting week anywhere in any league for predictions. 1 exact and 2 close scores, and even,,, if I stuck to 2-1 I would be 2 exacts!
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yeah, last night scores were mostly expected, and results came as expected, so there is many exact scores
I missed Bologna, or to say it better Genoa, since I did not catch any of their results so far

regarding BTTS, yeah, a lot of goals in Serie A last season, not following much, but rarely one can see results 2:0 or 0:1, it is always 2:1, 1:2, 1:3, it would be interesting to see how many matches last year were 3 goals exact, probably the most in all scoring ranges

[Harkorede]

This has to be my best performance ever in a starting week anywhere in any league for predictions. 1 exact and 2 close scores, and even,,, if I stuck to 2-1 I would be 2 exacts!
~snip

yeah, last night scores were mostly expected, and results came as expected, so there is many exact scores
I missed Bologna, or to say it better Genoa, since I did not catch any of their results so far

regarding BTTS, yeah, a lot of goals in Serie A last season, not following much, but rarely one can see results 2:0 or 0:1, it is always 2:1, 1:2, 1:3, it would be interesting to see how many matches last year were 3 goals exact, probably the most in all scoring ranges

Both games so far today has ended numerous goals and both ends...

I'm actually surprised by Juventus match against Spezia, I wasn't expecting a tough game for Juventus tbh.. But Spezia took the game to them, I was able to watch the first 15-20 minutes and I can say there was no sense of inferior feeling from the way Spezia played.

Juventus can at least boast of a win after 5 league games 

[leea-1334]

Yes everyone indeed,,, BTTS is quite good but I took it a step too far last night, as the two late games after Juventus were only one-sided wins, I think,,, it could be that a wiser choice for a very big parlay maybe is over 0.5 goal for all the games but then again it just needs 1 0-0 to take it all down.

Still very happy with where I am even though 4 of us are tied in first place for this week

[casperBGD]

Yes everyone indeed,,, BTTS is quite good but I took it a step too far last night, as the two late games after Juventus were only one-sided wins, I think,,, it could be that a wiser choice for a very big parlay maybe is over 0.5 goal for all the games but then again it just needs 1 0-0 to take it all down.

Still very happy with where I am even though 4 of us are tied in first place for this week

you can't expect to have BTTS in any game Serie A, Milan was expected to win, but Venezia is obviously very weak
Cagliari lost against Empoli, really did not expect that to happen, but my pool position shows that I do not follow Calcio as other competitions, and what I expect from Cagliari is not in line with their team and ambitions, last season we successfully avoided relegation in last rounds, but this season seems to be a harder one

[Harkorede]

Cagliari lost against Empoli, really did not expect that to happen, but my pool position shows that I do not follow Calcio as other competitions, and what I expect from Cagliari is not in line with their team and ambitions, last season we successfully avoided relegation in last rounds, but this season seems to be a harder one

I had Empoli to win 2 - 0, which mean I got all 3 points... It's actually surprising to see that it was just 4 players from the pool that went with Empoli, I literally didn't do much in-depth analysis with the pick, I just checked recent form I guess and decided to go with Empoli, Cagliari have become a victim of their last two season's performance, that had a pretty good run for sometime during that season and were at some point tipped to likely feature in Europe irrc, but finished the season way below average, they'll probably just keep battling it out of the relegation zone like they always do.

[rdbase]

I had Spezia yesterday against Juventus while they were up 2-1 it was looking good for a while.
Put Empoli as a draw so should of put Spezia for it instead.
Goals come out of nothing in this league it seems.

There is a good looking special for today's matches with all the heavy hitters Napoli, Lazio & Roma to score over 1.5 goals looks solid:

Only have about 40 minutes until it closes as I took it when it first became available about an hour ago, so there is still time for those who didn't see it.
Here is the link:
https://sportsbet.io/sports/event/sportsbet-specials/daily-specials/thursdays-matches/serie-a-multi-bet-614c44b3494b1183e3067dcf

[buwaytress]

There is a good looking special for today's matches with all the heavy hitters Napoli, Lazio & Roma to score over 1.5 goals looks solid:

Probably good for Napoli and Roma but not so sure about Lazio, mind you, I'd love for them to hit a lot too. Not big enough a special for me, as well so I avoided (I know, I'm so arrogant).

Been spending a lot of my freebets willy nilly including those big ones won from promotions on these specials, haven't won anything big since the yellow cap prize from first match day EPL. Need to consider smaller ones like these maybe huh!

[buwaytress]

^ Nyeh, I knew Lazio were going to be a problem there, but Roma also only managed to score one -- quite nice that Tammy Abraham remembered what his gaffer's favourite scoreline was and gave it to him;) He will be sweating on Pellegrini missing matches from his red (second yellow).

Hats off to you, leea-1334! You managed to keep your great start and win 18 points.

[leea-1334]

you can't expect to have BTTS in any game Serie A, Milan was expected to win, but Venezia is obviously very weak
Cagliari lost against Empoli, really did not expect that to happen, but my pool position shows that I do not follow Calcio as other competitions, and what I expect from Cagliari is not in line with their team and ambitions, last season we successfully avoided relegation in last rounds, but this season seems to be a harder one

Trofo would disagree actually, and in almost all the big leagues now BTTS seems a good one if you make a multi with the high scoring sides and weak defence sides. I think always multi Inter, with Real, with Man United

Hats off to you, leea-1334! You managed to keep your great start and win 18 points.

Thank you! Too bad no prize for yellow cap here but I am happy to climb up the rankings for this strange league (strange for me)

[Trofo]

you can't expect to have BTTS in any game Serie A, Milan was expected to win, but Venezia is obviously very weak
Cagliari lost against Empoli, really did not expect that to happen, but my pool position shows that I do not follow Calcio as other competitions, and what I expect from Cagliari is not in line with their team and ambitions, last season we successfully avoided relegation in last rounds, but this season seems to be a harder one

Trofo would disagree actually, and in almost all the big leagues now BTTS seems a good one...

BTTS is a great market but I usually play it only on games between similar opponents. For instance I would never played it on Milan game, that one had clear home win written all over it. Got all my Serie A games correct except for Cagliari, can't believe they lost and without scoring a goal.

[buwaytress]

Thread love! Who backed Atalanta? Superbru's down for me so I'm not sure what I did haha (old me would have gone for Atalanta, new me probably Inter win). Martinez being his usual self but all 3 goals in the first half and am just switching over while Liverpool take a half-time break.

Taking a tiny bet on a comeback. Inter's well worth it.

[morvillz7z]

Taking a tiny bet on a comeback. Inter's well worth it.

Well, Inter didn't complete a full comeback but at least you nailed the exact score, that gotta feel good!

I must say this was one of the better matches of the season so far, with plenty of chances in front of both goalkeepers, some pretty nice goals, and of course late drama.

One thing i don't understand, and i'm not sure i agree with, is why Dimarco took the penalty. I'm not saying it was a poorly taken penalty, but with Dzeko still on the pitch, Sanchez and Perisic also available, why would you choose a defender who came on as a sub to take the penalty? I don't recall Dimarco taking a penalty for Verona last season, odd move by Inzaghi.