⚽ Sportsbet.io ⚽ Spanish La Liga ⚽ Football Pool Discussion Thread 2023/2024

[Trofo]

Valencia and Espanyol playing today, do anyone know the reason, since all other matches are in the same time

I guess theirs is the only match that does not have any influence on fight for European positions or relegation battle and they used the opportunity to get a bit more TV rights cash for LaLiga without compromising fairness. Did not check other games but this one is played literally for nothing. Both teams are firmly stuck in the middle of the table.

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[slaman29]

Valencia and Espanyol playing today, do anyone know the reason, since all other matches are in the same time

I guess theirs is the only match that does not have any influence on fight for European positions or relegation battle and they used the opportunity to get a bit more TV rights cash for LaLiga without compromising fairness. Did not check other games but this one is played literally for nothing. Both teams are firmly stuck in the middle of the table.

I was the dumbest one ever, picked 3-2 home victory, thinking that sure, both clubs nothing to play for, so they should both be strolling down the park and just trying to create more records, score more goals, etc etc Instead we get 2 goals and 5 cards and Valencia outattempting their opponent without scoring.

Some things don't ever change.

[LTU_btc]

I just wasted 2 hours of my life watching Barca game, it was so boring without much action. I'm sure that all 8 other games was better choice to watch...
Cadiz draw with Realkeep them in fight for spot in league and in last round they will play against already relegated Alaves. Mallorca also achieved important win. Levante win against Alaves didn't helped, they're already relegated. This is only team which I will miss in La Liga.

I guess theirs is the only match that does not have any influence on fight for European positions or relegation battle and they used the opportunity to get a bit more TV rights cash for LaLiga without compromising fairness. Did not check other games but this one is played literally for nothing. Both teams are firmly stuck in the middle of the table.

Yeah, you're right, they always do same thing with meaningless games. Now all 10 games in last round also scheduled to play at same time, but I'm sure they will re-schedule meaningless games to different time slots.

[Trofo]

New challenge is up guys. This time I opted for two La Liga games. Just had a feeling there will be more drama here than in Serie A. Go make your predictions, I believe this is our last challenge of the season.

You have rewards stated in OP if you are curious. I plan to pay out as soon as I get all BTC addressees. If you know you are in the money you can already start sending me PMs with addresses.

[slaman29]

New challenge is up guys. This time I opted for two La Liga games. Just had a feeling there will be more drama here than in Serie A. Go make your predictions, I believe this is our last challenge of the season.

You have rewards stated in OP if you are curious. I plan to pay out as soon as I get all BTC addressees. If you know you are in the money you can already start sending me PMs with addresses.

More drama than Serie A where title is decided? But actually, I agree, with nothing to play for, maybe you get some frustrated players or teams that say what the hell let's see if we can score 10 goals today. Go Barca!

Good thing I don't have to send you an address. This me trying to find something good to say about not being in the winning position lol

[Trofo]

New challenge is up guys. This time I opted for two La Liga games. Just had a feeling there will be more drama here than in Serie A. Go make your predictions, I believe this is our last challenge of the season.

You have rewards stated in OP if you are curious. I plan to pay out as soon as I get all BTC addressees. If you know you are in the money you can already start sending me PMs with addresses.

More drama than Serie A where title is decided? But actually, I agree, with nothing to play for, maybe you get some frustrated players or teams that say what the hell let's see if we can score 10 goals today. Go Barca!

Good thing I don't have to send you an address. This me trying to find something good to say about not being in the winning position lol

Somehow, everybody gets what they need in Seria A. It is not like premier league where every small club dreams to enter the history as the team that took title away from favourite. I am expecting clean wins for both Milan clubs. Would love that I am wrong though.

[casperBGD]

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Somehow, everybody gets what they need in Seria A. It is not like premier league where every small club dreams to enter the history as the team that took title away from favourite. I am expecting clean wins for both Milan clubs. Would love that I am wrong though.

not that I am good at Calcio, but I expect some more pressure from Sassuolo, to push Milan for the title
what happens if they have same number of points?

looking more at bottom, Venezia should be an easy win, but somehow do not think that Salernitana will miss their chance to secure next season in Serie A, will see

[slaman29]

Somehow, everybody gets what they need in Seria A. It is not like premier league where every small club dreams to enter the history as the team that took title away from favourite. I am expecting clean wins for both Milan clubs. Would love that I am wrong though.

You couldn't have said it any better, this was EXACTLY what I was talking to my friend about when discussing which team is going to play their hearts out and which won't. I don't know the history so well but Gerrard never won the premier league with his team, and he hates Manchester, and he is a pro, but there was the millions they would get you mentioned in another thread which my friend also mentioned which he says will mean City will have an easy game.

But everyone will remember Villa if they take City's title away, just like even though City won by goal difference on 2 last minute goals, I don't remember the year but I remember the team that almost did it is QPR. Weird right?

[buwaytress]

Tempted to just not watch any football tonight and finish up pending work instead, though I was kind of interested to see Real Madrid play to see if they would give any clues to THE match in a week.

I actually kind of hope they rest all their key players. I like rested players but I think more than a week and you sacrifice game sharpness, which I hope our boys will have playing their final game on Sunday.

[tomahawk9]

just passing by to say that i had a great time in this season of La liga pool. Dissapointed that i didn't finish in the top spots, but still, i enjoyed all the discussion and banter that we had over the past 9 months, lovely community we have here    never forget 'FC Barcelona and both teams to score' duo that lasted for like a month or something and made some of us win a few bets and helped us get some correct predictions   Lol  and also all those posts shitting on sevilla chokers 😂🤣

anyway, best of luck in this final round of the pool

btw, we'll have a double guard of honour tonight. La liga champions vs copa del rey champions, how often does that happen, eh? you love to see it

[darxiaomi]

Yes the final round has arrived.
Who can be the winner? MoSalah (vd309) or CasperBDG?. Good luck for both in this final round.

If not a disaster  occurs i think i can finish in third position.

For the last place with reward we have another close fight, between Harkorede and Sojourner.

And we have one man in the shadows if i not see bad, rdbase winning for now the highest yellow cap.

Anyways thanks Trofo for made this possible and, all for participating.

Good luck for all.

[Trofo]

just passing by to say that i had a great time in this season of La liga pool. Dissapointed that i didn't finish in the top spots, but still, i enjoyed all the discussion and banter that we had over the past 9 months, lovely community we have here  

Glad you enjoyed it, hope to see you here next year, maybe you liked it enough to join in the Serie A as well.

So I expected Real to play without their first team players tonight and picked x2 on Betis considering it as free money. Then they started with all the best players and I thought bet is lost. In the end 0:0 was good enough for me.

[Harkorede]

For the last place with reward we have another close fight, between Harkorede and Sojourner.

And then there's hahay too in the contest for the 4th Position, I doubt I'd be able overthrow both Sojourner and Hahay though, but it's been the closest I've ever come in the La Liga pool, despite being a Barcelona fan, I just don't follow up with other teams as much as do with the first 4-5 teams, hence my consistent poor performance.

I've actually always joined the pool, so there is always something to look forward every weekend and the competition and discussion here is always nice, so regardless of how it goes down, I'll definitely be in for next season too, if there's one.

[Trofo]

I've actually always joined the pool, so there is always something to look forward every weekend and the competition and discussion here is always nice, so regardless of how it goes down, I'll definitely be in for next season too, if there's one.

There is one for sure. I plan on running these for as long as we have more than 10 players and I am quite sure that we should have minimum of 15 players next season as well.

With the generous Sportsbet sponsorship and free bets + a bit extra chipped in by buwaytress we always have a financial structure that basically guarantees that everyone will end up with more money then they have put in. Really don't know how we don't have tons of players

[slaman29]

I've actually always joined the pool, so there is always something to look forward every weekend and the competition and discussion here is always nice, so regardless of how it goes down, I'll definitely be in for next season too, if there's one.

There is one for sure. I plan on running these for as long as we have more than 10 players and I am quite sure that we should have minimum of 15 players next season as well.

With the generous Sportsbet sponsorship and free bets + a bit extra chipped in by buwaytress we always have a financial structure that basically guarantees that everyone will end up with more money then they have put in. Really don't know how we don't have tons of players

Oh man oh man I am for sure in. I don't know why people have a problem with fees when it's as you guys say, so much more worth it to pay this fee and get so many chances for freebets and prizes.

I do know it was quite a lot if converted to money in Asia, and the EPL fee was probably quite big but if you spread it over 38 games, the price becomes what you would bet anyway in one day on one or two games.

[buwaytress]

Harko, yeah you and me in it till the end! I've managed to lose positions in all the pools in the final quarter, which is a bit sad (it's always sadder to slowly regress rather than slowly progress) but I think if anyone gets something at all it's a pretty damned fine achievement. Not to mention the wonderful friendships of the bastards.

Good luck to Barca you and Slaman next season!

I've actually always joined the pool, so there is always something to look forward every weekend and the competition and discussion here is always nice, so regardless of how it goes down, I'll definitely be in for next season too, if there's one.

There is one for sure. I plan on running these for as long as we have more than 10 players and I am quite sure that we should have minimum of 15 players next season as well.

With the generous Sportsbet sponsorship and free bets + a bit extra chipped in by buwaytress we always have a financial structure that basically guarantees that everyone will end up with more money then they have put in. Really don't know how we don't have tons of players

I myself was guilty for not always joining the challenge too, and that truly was free money in the beginning I believe as not everyone joined at first!

10 people I am almost sure will be here, is there anyone who won't join from here?

[slaman29]

Valencia's win was... unexpected. Or so I thought because adding a prediction to win was supposed to be a surprise upset/win and I switched to Celta Vigo but there it went, just couldn't even score lol

Real Madrid not getting Mbappe is the best news for me ever btw. They're going to court to sue PSG now good. Want more distractions for them for next season.

[LTU_btc]

Damn, it was so difficultto watch Barca today, same like in previous round. It was meaningless game for Barca, but it's disrespect for fans to play like today. While for Villarreal it was important game and they deserved to win and earn place in UEFA Conference League in this way.
While Sevilla managed to beat Athletic and leave them without UEFA cups in this way.
After all, it was bad season for Barca. Xavi bring some bright colors when he come, but that loss against Eintracht was painful. For me this season in pool was bad too, especially considering that I was 3rd last year, now dropped to 9th. Already waiting for next season to go up again .

[slaman29]

Damn, it was so difficultto watch Barca today, same like in previous round. It was meaningless game for Barca, but it's disrespect for fans to play like today. While for Villarreal it was important game and they deserved to win and earn place in UEFA Conference League in this way.
While Sevilla managed to beat Athletic and leave them without UEFA cups in this way.
After all, it was bad season for Barca. Xavi bring some bright colors when he come, but that loss against Eintracht was painful. For me this season in pool was bad too, especially considering that I was 3rd last year, now dropped to 9th. Already waiting for next season to go up again .

Sigh you and me both, luckily I didn't have to watch it and just learned it from waking up and seeing my phone. Which ruined my Monday for me as usual.

Villareal definitely deserved to win but Barca after making so much progress and clinching 2nd spot should have ended the season for their fans.

Don't worry about pool, we go again for sure next season. This was supposed to be the pool I thought I would do well, but I ended up finishing 11th, which is really bad even worse than Serie A which I picked at random

CasperBGD has won La Liga and EPL pool. WOW

[vd309]

Great competition guys. Congrats to @CasperBGD amazing performance and well deserved win. I was 1.5 pts behind him before the last 3 games and had to put some unpopular predictions and hope for the best.  Thanks @Trofo for putting in the work and organizing this for us.