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

[LTU_btc]

Serie A has good competition on both ends of the table but I can't say I enjoy watching Italian clubs play. There is just something missing there for my taste. My first choice is always Premier League or Champions league followed by LaLiga, Bundesliga and only then it comes to Serie A and my local HNL.

I like to bet on Serie A with my staple both to score but I never watch the games

I have similar feelings, don't know exactly why. I rarely watch Serie A games in full, unless Milan, Inter and Juve is playing each other or there nothing to watch from other leagues.
I can't say that I don't follow league completely like Ligue 1, but that long Juventus dominance and boring catenaccio in past played negative impact in my Serie A interest. Despite that in few recent seasons fight for title becomea thing again and it's not low scoring league anymore like it was 10 years ago.

Probably Juve gonna loose 1:0 so I loose both my ticket and what is left of dignity in the pool.

I went with draw, I have nothing to lose on Superbru table, so I can go a bit will with my predictions. And offcourse, Juve won .

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[Trofo]

New challenge is up, don't forget to participate. Not many rounds left till the end of our pools and summer break, make the best of them.

There isn't any big games this week but I found two that should be interesting. I had a lot of Milan lately so this is probably your last chance to predict on their games, gonna try to avoid them for the rest of the season unless some really juicy derby or championship deciding game involving them takes place.

[buwaytress]

So last game I had the gall to put Fiorentina 4-0 and they let me down, and now today they lose... by 4 goals. Don't know what the hell is wrong with them except that I should have learnt my lesson.

A bit annoyed as my Liverpool - Villareal game connection is not working now so waiting for it to return. Taking it out on Fiorentina. Naturally.

[casperBGD]

Inter is having troubles in Bologna, and that could mean they lose top spot
1:1 at half time, and still is

Viola lost 0:4 at home, against Udinese, it does seem as something strange, did not watch the match, but statistics do show that Udinese counter-attacks were killing today
Atalanta is 2:2 against Torino, so complete mess

[Trofo]

So last game I had the gall to put Fiorentina 4-0 and they let me down, and now today they lose... by 4 goals. Don't know what the hell is wrong with them except that I should have learnt my lesson.

A bit annoyed as my Liverpool - Villareal game connection is not working now so waiting for it to return. Taking it out on Fiorentina. Naturally.

Though for that connection problems. That is why I am paying to my provider for all those sports channels premium amounts so I can watch when I want to in 4K without freezing. All those streams and IPTV lists work perfectly just until CL final comes along and everybody wants to watch

I have no idea what happened to Fiorentina, that result sure sounds strange, especially coming from Udinese, a team without any special motivation to finish the season strong.

[morvillz7z]

Those three postponed matches from the 20th round turned out to be so unpredictable, seems like only Trofo picked up a point from the Atalanta/Torino match.

Handanovic being injured for Inter might cost them the Scudetto in the end, what a mistake from their backup goalkeeper Radu for Bologna's winning goal.  

Milan now only needs 10 points from the remaining four games to win Serie A, there is even room for a slight misstep...Inter really should not have lost this one.

[Trofo]

Those three postponed matches from the 20th round turned out to be so unpredictable, seems like only Trofo picked up a point from the Atalanta/Torino match.

Really?? Nobody went for surprise in Atalanta game? I was leaning towards Torino win and settled on a draw but much lower scoring one. I was sure Atalanta is not wining this. You guys realize that Atalanta played 17 home games this season and won only 4 of them. They are perfect example of a team you need to target for win on a way games and to shit the bad at home. Too bad there isn't more of them since the odds always go in our favor in these situations. Not important for me in the end since I am only playing both to score in Italy. Everything else is just plain stupid this season, at least for me.

[buwaytress]

Though for that connection problems. That is why I am paying to my provider for all those sports channels premium amounts so I can watch when I want to in 4K without freezing. All those streams and IPTV lists work perfectly just until CL final comes along and everybody wants to watch

I have no idea what happened to Fiorentina, that result sure sounds strange, especially coming from Udinese, a team without any special motivation to finish the season strong.

This is my main complaint of my current country of residence. There is NO English provider, just a local one. They want you to pay extra for Fox, which I wouldn't mind, if they showed every game (and not even UCL actually). AND they don't even have ALL the games, plus their broadcast isn't even the fastest (about several seconds more delay). The worse is sometimes you get the dreaded Switch version where they just run through all the games, and badly, when goals are already scored.

I went through this last years already, hunting IPTV shit and what nots... so sad there's no (legal) provider exists except these fools... I've been tempted for some time now to get an (not so legal) tv card/dish... Dazn arrived finally a few months ago but? Only boxing. Haha.

[LTU_btc]

As I understand today's games were rescheduled from previous rounds because I already had predictions left on it. I haven't changed anything today. How someone in right mind would predict Inter loss against Bologna or Fiorentina at home destroyed by Udinese 0:4. Only Atalanta draw was somewhat realistic, but definitely not 4:4.

This is my main complaint of my current country of residence. There is NO English provider, just a local one. They want you to pay extra for Fox, which I wouldn't mind, if they showed every game (and not even UCL actually). AND they don't even have ALL the games, plus their broadcast isn't even the fastest (about several seconds more delay). The worse is sometimes you get the dreaded Switch version where they just run through all the games, and badly, when goals are already scored.

I went through this last years already, hunting IPTV shit and what nots... so sad there's no (legal) provider exists except these fools... I've been tempted for some time now to get an (not so legal) tv card/dish... Dazn arrived finally a few months ago but? Only boxing. Haha.

I understand your problem very well. In my country this season Champions league broadcasts moved from TV to streaming service and it's terrible. It's expensive, poor quality, not even Full HD, just 720p,half of games without commentary and these with their picked local commentators - better don't hear it. And on most important games it start lagging, so, this is why I always prefer traditional TV over streaming services. So, I don't have other option than to use some IPTV, so far it works well.
If local services don't satisfy you, maybe it's worh to try something with VPN, DAZN for example. I remember from EPL thread hilarious mentioned that he use it.

[slaman29]

I'm just reading about buway and LTU not getting good service for UCL, I'm shocked this is happening. Are you guys in Europe? I always assumed so since you seem to be able to watch games.

In Asia there are a lot of providers but mainly the countries around here use Astro (it's Malaysian but you can easily get it everywhere), sometimes if you have a "rich" friend Bein. Full English commentary, all of the games, it's satelite but you can also watch on mobile (if you have data which I don't lol).

It's only Conference League that you can't find all games I think they're working on it but you can also subscribe additional packages from ESPN or Fox even for FA cup, la liga, serie a, everything. Pay more get more.

I always thought it was way more better in Europe, huh!

[Trofo]

I'm just reading about buway and LTU not getting good service for UCL, I'm shocked this is happening. Are you guys in Europe? I always assumed so since you seem to be able to watch games.

In Asia there are a lot of providers but mainly the countries around here use Astro (it's Malaysian but you can easily get it everywhere), sometimes if you have a "rich" friend Bein. Full English commentary, all of the games, it's satelite but you can also watch on mobile (if you have data which I don't lol).

It's only Conference League that you can't find all games I think they're working on it but you can also subscribe additional packages from ESPN or Fox even for FA cup, la liga, serie a, everything. Pay more get more.

I always thought it was way more better in Europe, huh!

I am paying for my internet (flat rate, 500/250 optic)+ TV all sports package about 50 EUR per month. That includes Sportsclub 1-10 and Arensport 1-10 which are local sports channels. I have most of the games from Premier League, all games from Serie A, La Liga and Croatian league, all games from Champions League and Europa League, most games from conference league. Also a lot of games from Belgium, Portugal and Serbia but those I am not watching.

In addition to football there is coverage of all major tennis tournaments and all that on my native language. I would love to have English (original) option sometimes but it is what it is. Most of those channels are FullHD and just few of them are 720p (those have shit games anyway). When I hear your troubles my deal sounds like heaven.

And I have all that trough APP, on mobile or other smart TVs when I am traveling. Mobile version has a bout a minute of delay but perfect qoulity and never lags.

[LTU_btc]

I'm just reading about buway and LTU not getting good service for UCL, I'm shocked this is happening. Are you guys in Europe? I always assumed so since you seem to be able to watch games.

Yeah, from Europe. I think that if you live in big European country like Germany, Italy, Spain, or like Trofo who live in Balkans where sports is big thing, watching it isn't a problem, but all these services costs good money.
In my little country sports coverage never been on great level. Just few years ago just some selected games from EPL, La Liga or UCL were shown on TV, so, they didn't left other choice than to look for illegal streams. Now with OTT services things is getting better, but there is lot of room for improvement. For example they give just 3-4 Bundesliga games with commentary  each round, delay from real time is close to 1 minute and so on.

I am paying for my internet (flat rate, 500/250 optic)+ TV all sports package about 50 EUR per month. That includes Sportsclub 1-10 and Arensport 1-10 which are local sports channels. I have most of the games from Premier League, all games from Serie A, La Liga and Croatian league, all games from Champions League and Europa League, most games from conference league. Also a lot of games from Belgium, Portugal and Serbia but those I am not watching.

Sportklub and Arenasport is good channels, I wish to have something similar in my country. I'm paying about 15 EUR for decent internet and I would have to pay about 20 EUR for subscription to get all sports included (TV3 Sport, Viaplay and Setanta), but I'm not satisfied with streaming services, especially Viaplay.

[leea-1334]

I know Astro very well but if you support a club that's not so big you will not find all your games. Spurs is more shown nowadays but maybe still missing 25% of the games, especially if there are other big games, at the same time,,, Spurs is very bottom. So I don't pay for any channels actually instead I subscribe to online Spurs content, it is not live games but you get to watch inside content which is fine for me.

Here if you want to get great sports (football) you pay equal to about almost 10% of salary which to me is way too much money. I rather watch some stream and get annoyed by ads for one or two times a week.

[slaman29]

@Trofo @LTU_btc

Yes, I know the very rich people here have different satellite dishes with different services like Sky (it's illegal actually but the government stopped caring years ago) and some cafes and sports bars even openly show it to attract customers and nobody gets in trouble.

50 euro per month sounds like a good price to me (not if I convert).

@leea same then because for a full sports package here (which almost covers everything) it's 150 per month (not including the broadband and regular fee), which of course nobody pays for (most people never earn more than 2000) so if you ask them to pay almost 10% salary just for sports, forget it. It's cheaper to use that money to go buy food/drink at a restaurant every match and watch there on big screen which is what many of us do anyway.

[darxiaomi]

I didnt know was difficult to you to see the UCL in TV.

Here in Argentina we can see this in ESPN or FOX SPORTS (already the same owner now). Price? in Argentina its a non sense maybe for internet connection of 300 and all the TV signals if you are new and choose one of the promotions 10 usd.

[casperBGD]

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And I have all that trough APP, on mobile or other smart TVs when I am traveling. Mobile version has a bout a minute of delay but perfect qoulity and never lags.

do you use just one service for all that, or several
since I do not have Arenasport (it is at other provider) and for more than three Sportklub channels, it is additional payment
basic, that cover Eurosport and Sportklub 1-3 is around 30 EUR (there is an app for all channels, to watch on travel, but it does not cover you if you travelling in Serbia, and hotel has other provider network), and to have all, with Arena, it would probably be around 70 or something, although I do not need that, do not have time to watch all these that I have

it would be a booger next season, since Premier league is going to be on Arena, which is not at my provider, but there is a catch, since provider owner bought Southampton, so we will probably watch Southampton only

[Trofo]

do you use just one service for all that, or several
since I do not have Arenasport (it is at other provider) and for more than three Sportklub channels, it is additional payment
basic, that cover Eurosport and Sportklub 1-3 is around 30 EUR (there is an app for all channels, to watch on travel, but it does not cover you if you travelling in Serbia, and hotel has other provider network), and to have all, with Arena, it would probably be around 70 or something, although I do not need that, do not have time to watch all these that I have

it would be a booger next season, since Premier league is going to be on Arena, which is not at my provider, but there is a catch, since provider owner bought Southampton, so we will probably watch Southampton only

I am having all that trough one service, Max Tv offered by T-com, that is at least 3 different packages and every one adds something to the price. I got good deal when I switched to them so I have a discount. It is exactly 350kn for all that so a bit less than 50EUR. I am lucky that I live in area of interest for operators so I actually have cables for several operators running to my apartmant. Basically it cost them nothing to plug me in so I guess they wet comfortable going a bit down with the price.

[buwaytress]

Yeah I am really familiar with Astro. Used it myself when I was in Asia. Did not realise it had become so expensive now.

Again, my only complaint is the services I can legally buy here are okay BUT not in English. Which is not so bad of course, but I do understand the language a little and it is poor quality... At least when you are used to the standard of English commentators.

Dazn, yes, as I mentioned. Available in my country since December but only Boxing.

VPN watching is not reliable...

Anyway. Napoli. Raced to 4 goals. Should be happy everyone got the one point huh.

[buwaytress]

I know Trofo and others are busy with real life, so I'm just going to have to congratulate myself here for the possible yellow cap, and an inch closer to the top. All correct outcomes so far, it'll be really special if I get 2 more correct and hit 3 slam points. Finally, a no-draw strategy is working out.

And yes, I realise 100% I'm jinxing myself, but this late in the round, just happy to be where I am.

In other news, Milan are one win away from securing Top 2 spot, but this really does look like it'll go down to the wire won't it?

[casperBGD]

I know Trofo and others are busy with real life, so I'm just going to have to congratulate myself here for the possible yellow cap, and an inch closer to the top. All correct outcomes so far, it'll be really special if I get 2 more correct and hit 3 slam points. Finally, a no-draw strategy is working out.
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congrats man
it is a 1st May, and it is a holiday here in Balkans, usually celebrated outside of home, with barbeque on open space
did not watch matches today, but followed Everton and an important win over Chelsea, would that be enough to save the season, who knows

back on topic, Lazio had a solid come-back last night, to win over Spezia, seven goals