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[tomahawk9]

Bump! time for the Round 3 picks!

Finally, all the teams are back from the break. I'm expecting the main favorites to win this weekend, except for Barcelona, I think that if there's a time for Villareal to get some points at the Camp Nou, it's now, when the catalan club is surrounded by pure chaos and a toxic atmosphere

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[buwaytress]

Bump! time for the Round 3 picks!

Finally, all the teams are back from the break. I'm expecting the main favorites to win this weekend, except for Barcelona, I think that if there's a time for Villareal to get some points at the Camp Nou, it's now, when the catalan club is surrounded by pure chaos and a toxic atmosphere

Well I hope you're wrong, I have some pretty decent parlays all cleared now and waiting a week for Barcelona to win. I could cash out of course, but I have a bad, bad problem with cashout (I never see the point haha).

It's Real I'm expecting to drop points. They haven't scored more than 2 goals for 10 games consecutively now, and I do recall a teeter totter last season early on. Maybe time to bank on some good value bets on both Barca and Real?

[Trofo]

It's Real I'm expecting to drop points. They haven't scored more than 2 goals for 10 games consecutively now, and I do recall a teeter totter last season early on. Maybe time to bank on some good value bets on both Barca and Real?

I was thinking about that myself but decided to wait a bit more. It is still early days and there is no telling how Real will look. I know if I bet against them they will have a penalty in 89th minute and Ramos will score it

Barca is even more of a mystery but I will never play against Barca on Camp Nou but away games are whole different story. Barca was always good at home no matter the team but they often had trouble away so I will try to cash on that.

[webtricks]

Barca is even more of a mystery but I will never play against Barca on Camp Nou but away games are whole different story. Barca was always good at home no matter the team but they often had trouble away so I will try to cash on that.

Barcelona is no longer invincible at Camp Nou. Osasuna beat them in the penultimate matchday last season, the same day Barca lost the league after horrendous error from Bussi. Puig who was the best midfielder of Barcelona against Alaves in the last LaLiga game of the previous season is no longer in the picture. He was sidelined in Champions League by Setien which is understandable due to his acute experience but I was sure he will be starter in Koeman's Laliga Starting XI this season. But it turns out Koeman is more conservative coach than Setien and doesn't even want Puig in the squad, let alone a starter.

Two days left for the first game of the season and Barca hasn't sign any defender. The team only got Roberto at the name of Right Back. Suarez shipped, Vidal shipped, Semedo shipped, Rakitic shipped but signed nobody. Being Barca fan, I have no idea how we gonna perform this season, what to expect from the team. I am no longer sure if we could even make to the CL spot this season. But let's hope for the best. My pick for Barca vs Villarreal game is 3-1 which I entirely made out of emotional connection to Barca. But apart from this game, I was pretty comfortable making picks for rest of the games. I think I will be among Top 3 in this round as well.

By the way, @Trofo would it be nice if we include the favorites of every pool participant in the OP? I would love to know which team does the other participants support.

[buwaytress]

It's Real I'm expecting to drop points. They haven't scored more than 2 goals for 10 games consecutively now, and I do recall a teeter totter last season early on. Maybe time to bank on some good value bets on both Barca and Real?

I was thinking about that myself but decided to wait a bit more. It is still early days and there is no telling how Real will look. I know if I bet against them they will have a penalty in 89th minute and Ramos will score it

Barca is even more of a mystery but I will never play against Barca on Camp Nou but away games are whole different story. Barca was always good at home no matter the team but they often had trouble away so I will try to cash on that.

Yeah, so far English Italian German leagues, no stumbling for the big boys much (sorry United, you're not a big boy anymore) unlike in Ligue 1, but you're probably wise to wait. I did get quite a lot last season from Real on Ramos penalties I won't forget! And the same way for me Barca once the odds get above 1.6 or so at home, which is what I have a few parlays waiting to clear right now, always good value for me,

Anyway, I made 1 draw selection, really need to improve my 10/13 position!

[Trofo]

By the way, @Trofo would it be nice if we include the favorites of every pool participant in the OP? I would love to know which team does the other participants support.

Sure, I will just add them to the table in the OP as a third column. Of course a lot of participants have to let us know their favorite club. This is what I have from the Spanish thread where only a handful of us went public

Trofo - occasional Barcelona supporter but mainly likes to see good match with lots of goals
LTU_btc - hardcore Barca fan. Visca Catalunya! Visca Barca!
Harkorede - I'm rooting for Barcelona
tokeweed - Real...  Just cos I like Hazard

This season I am rooting for Sevilla, I like the way they play and my man Rakitic just joined them. It seems they managed to keep most of team intact and I think they will be top 4 this season for sure and probably even higher.

Rest of you let me know and consider it done. You can either PM me or just put it in the next post here in the topic.

Edit: check the OP
Edit 2: need a little help with that table, why does Bitcointalk name gets split in 2 rows? When I click preview it looks fine but when I post that gets screwed

[slaman29]

Barcelona is no longer invincible at Camp Nou. Osasuna beat them in the penultimate matchday last season, the same day Barca lost the league after horrendous error from Bussi. Puig who was the best midfielder of Barcelona against Alaves in the last LaLiga game of the previous season is no longer in the picture. He was sidelined in Champions League by Setien which is understandable due to his acute experience but I was sure he will be starter in Koeman's Laliga Starting XI this season. But it turns out Koeman is more conservative coach than Setien and doesn't even want Puig in the squad, let alone a starter.

Sadly I have to agree here but that was last season. Today is the new season and tomorrow we play our first game. All is a mystery now and will be revealed;)

By the way, @Trofo would it be nice if we include the favorites of every pool participant in the OP? I would love to know which team does the other participants support.

You just need to put your picks into "lock your picks" in Superbru and you will see all the picks people made. Or do you mean which team you actually support as well? In which case, I'm Barca:)

[tyKiwanuka]

Edit 2: need a little help with that table, why does Bitcointalk name gets split in 2 rows? When I click preview it looks fine but when I post that gets screwed

Because no username is long enough I guess, adding some spaces does the trick:

BTT name	Superbru name	Favorite club
Trofo	Trofo	Sevilla
tyKiwanuka	tyKiwanuka	Favorite club
slaman29	slaman29	Favorite club
buwaytress	Sojourner	Favorite club
LTU_btc	LTU_btc	Barcelona
casperBGD	casperBGD	Favorite club
hahay	hahay	Favorite club
tokeweed	tokeweed	Real Madrid
Harkorede	Harkorede	Barcelona
big_daddy	bigdaddy	Favorite club

Edit: It does not, let me check
Edit2: I made it BTT name, lets see, if this works. If not, you can use this table (maybe change the colours, if you like):

Participants

Bitcointalk Name	Superbru Name	Favorite Club
__________________	__________________	__________________
Trofo	Trofo	Sevilla
tyKiwanuka	tyKiwanuka	None
slaman29	slaman29	?
buwaytress	Sojourner	?
LTU_btc	LTU_btc	Barcelona
casperBGD	casperBGD	?
hahay	hahay	?
tokeweed	tokeweed	Real Madrid
Harkorede	Harkorede	Barcelona
big_daddy	big_daddy	?

Rest of you let me know and consider it done. You can either PM me or just put it in the next post here in the topic.

I don't have a favourite team, only an anti-favourite team, which would be Barca If you do the same for the ITA thread, put Hellas Verona in for me

[big_daddy]

Fav. club in Spain - Rayo Vallecano 
So, my fav on superbru will remain neutral

[Trofo]

Edit: It does not, let me check
Edit2: I made it BTT name, lets see, if this works. If not, you can use this table (maybe change the colours, if you like):

It was BCT name in the beginning and then I changed it to bitcointalk because I wanted some extra space between first and second column and then forum started to play tricks with me. Thanks for the effort, I will try to implement your second solution into my table and if that doesn't work I'll just use yours.

edit: I am reasonably happy how it looks now. check the OP

[webtricks]

By the way, @Trofo would it be nice if we include the favorites of every pool participant in the OP? I would love to know which team does the other participants support.

Sure, I will just add them to the table in the OP as a third column. Of course a lot of participants have to let us know their favorite club. This is what I have from the Spanish thread where only a handful of us went public

Perfect! I am supporting Barcelona since 2010 and will continue to do so. You can add 'FC Barcelona' next to my name.

Rest of you let me know and consider it done. You can either PM me or just put it in the next post here in the topic.

I don't have a favourite team, only an anti-favourite team, which would be Barca If you do the same for the ITA thread, put Hellas Verona in for me

Wooh! That was unexpected! Can I ask why so much hate for Barca?

Although I am Barca fan, I love to watch Real games as well. I like Ramos more than Pique. In India, live LaLiga matches are only streamed on Facebook and it is always fun to watch Real games reading Barca vs Real fans fighting in comment section. 

[tyKiwanuka]

edit: I am reasonably happy how it looks now. check the OP

Still looks a bit messy for me

Wooh! That was unexpected! Can I ask why so much hate for Barca?

Hehe, hate is a too strong word. I don't hate any football team (nor person), I just dislike them. This whole "mes que un club", we are the nice guys, we don't need any jersey sponsor but Unicef can have it etc. is a bit fake to me. I don't like teams/athletes that have a general dominance over ages in their sports - just bores me.
Barca is liked by gaziliions of people and I tend to dislike these teams that are liked by so many; strange I know Smaller clubs and underdogs are more interesting to me, I maybe like the struggle and adversity they face on a regular basis. The only dominator in sports I was fan of, was M. Schumacher in F1 back in the days. All other teams/athletes I root for are rather mediocre, with some success here and there, which is very sweet then when it happens^^
And last but not at least: I can't stand Messi. Not football-wise, but personality-wise. And I am not in the CR7 camp

[slaman29]

All good, some of us can't stand Messi or Ronaldo, but my Barca love affair actually started before Messi exploded, and my dislike for Real was by proxy natural, even before Ronaldo also.

I like Messi as a person, and I think Ronaldo does look so silly standing on his toes or flexing his thigh muscles when doing group photos, but as a person I think he is also good like Messi and they both like the small guy so I respect them both in this way. Who cares what we think about them right though?

Anyway I drop to 6/13 damn. People will say it serves me right for going against the fan picks.

[tomahawk9]

Rest of you let me know and consider it done.

i've been a fan since the early 00's of the greatest club of all time, house of legends like Casillas, C.Ronaldo, Puskas, Zidane, and that's never gonna change    boy what a win that was from yesterday, whew! Sergio 'panenka' Ramos  =)

Fav. club in Spain - Rayo Vallecano 

well hello there fellow madrid neighbour

I can't stand Messi. Not football-wise, but personality-wise.

lately, he's been extremely toxic for Barca...from throwing his teammates under the bus last season cos of "allegedlly" lack of attitude and whatnot, to throwing shades to the board 24/7 since the start of this season...he shoulda been more vocal right after 8arce2ona's biggest defeat in its history, but instead, he went awol and then he came outta nowhere wanting to jump ship, not exactly the behaviour you expect from the captain of the team :/

anyways, are we going to see Suarez playing for Atletico today? i think we are, and i'm gonna back atletico in a single bet, better team than Granada, better manager, H2H favors atletico, easy peasy?

[buwaytress]

Phew, okay, I don't really have a La Liga favourite. It is for sure not Real Madrid though, because I can't stand Galacticos and what it stands for haha (don't get me wrong, I had favourite players in there like Zidane and oh my Xabi Alonso, how I missed you).

I loved seeing Ronaldinho play for Barca, always loved Messi too (seriously all those football memories how can you say you don't love it right?).

And for many years, I rooted for Atletico because of Torres.

But okay for the sake of supporting one team this season, let me say Granada for early season wins just like last season! Southern teams, I love them;) Basque or Andalusian always feel special.

Oh but okay for real? It's time for Sevilla to step up and stop messing around in Europa League!

[Cnut237]

I can't stand Messi. Not football-wise, but personality-wise.

lately, he's been extremely toxic for Barca

The question for this season is whether Barca's disintegration continues. Obviously they've forced Messi to stay, and he's not happy about it. This is a test of how much of a professional he is... are we going to see him giving 100% in every game? Personally I think he will try to give 100%, but obviously it's difficult when you don't want to be there. Surely it's going to affect his concentration and desire.

[Trofo]

Rest of you let me know and consider it done.

i've been a fan since the early 00's of the greatest club of all time, house of legends like Casillas, C.Ronaldo, Puskas, Zidane, and that's never gonna change    boy what a win that was from yesterday, whew! Sergio 'panenka' Ramos  =)

So I am putting you for Barca then?  Just kidding Real VARdrid it is Do you guys remember when was the last time when any team got penalty when nobody from that team even reacted (demanded penalty).

Can't wait for Barca game tonight, really looking forward to see how they will look in the first game of new season. I have my bet on both to score for this one and Villareal to score on another ticket so I hope they will be shaky in the back and hopefully Messi will score or create at least one goal for home team.

[hahay]

When talking about favorite clubs I think it's funny for me personally, because before I was active in betting or not really interested in a bet at first, at least I had a favorite football club in every big league, like Barcelona in the Spanish La Liga, Juventus in the Italian Serie A and beyond. But after betting actively on football, at least the clubs I originally liked have slowly faded away, perhaps because of the many disappointments in betting. lol! So, I don't have a favorite club right now so yeah, with me not having a favorite club at least I think it will make it easier to bet deviates.

[Trofo]

It seems Barca came out with all guns blazing but I am still waiting for their first away game before accepting they will do good this season. I liked their game and they did better than I excepted or maybe it would be better to say that Villareal was very bad tonight. That Kubo guy did more for them after coming on around 75th minute then their whole team before that.

Few things about Barca I noticed and could be important going forward:
- Messi let Pjanic take a free kick so maybe he will be a bit more team player this season, we shall see. Or he lost some of gravitas in the dressing room, still captain though.
- Pique looked sharp and had great game, very important for Barca
- All the Barca kids looked good and hopefully we will see more of them
- Griezman was again terrible, don't know what is happening with him

[tomahawk9]

oops! i've overestimated Villareal and couldn't get a single point off this match. Congrats, @webtricks and @big_daddy, for winning the yellow cap (:

Looking forward to see how Barca performs in away games (next up, Celta Vigo), that's where they lost the most points last season

Do you guys remember when was the last time when any team got penalty when nobody from that team even reacted (demanded penalty).

I do remember it happening a few times in Bundesliga and Premier League last season

- Messi let Pjanic take a free kick so maybe he will be a bit more team player this season, we shall see. Or he lost some of gravitas in the dressing room, still captain though.

i think Messi respects Pjanic and knows he's one of the best free-kick takers in the world and he should be given a chance whenever possible (plus, it was Pjanic's debut, messi was prolly trying to make him feel comfortable, i suppose)