⚽ Sportsbet.io ⚽ Spanish La Liga ⚽ Football Pool Discussion Thread 2025/2026

[jeremypwr]

Congrats to B1g4udge for winning the Round 1 Yellow Cap

[notblox1]

Very good start for B1g4udge with 4 exact predictions in La Liga pool, congrats on opening season with a win.
I expected to win more points in first round but luckily I am not on the bottom as worse 
I feel this is going to be interesting season ahead of us.

[cryptofrka]

Finally a good start in this one - usually I have worst results here.

Quite a disappointing start from Real Madrid - saw a few glimpses of the game and they looked so one-dimensional.
Their midfield is mostly legs and no creativity, when a team sits deep like Osasuna did it's hard to find gaps if you rely only on your attackers going 1v2.

[darbitmobilerecovery]

Congratulations Biga on your first win on your first time.

Newbie luck? Or mafia trick to let you think you can win something and when you are fully commited show you the real intentions?.

Jokes asides, enjoy your freebet.

Heading towards the second round, Real Madrid is gonna improve? I need also goals for the madness(you know what im talking about).

[paco92x]

We're kicking off Gameweek 2 with Betis vs Alavés — a nice 1.85 on Betis. Seriously considering putting some money on that.

Or… do some of you believe Alavés can shock La Cartuja and snatch a point — or even the whole bounty?

[notblox1]

We're kicking off Gameweek 2 with Betis vs Alavés — a nice 1.85 on Betis. Seriously considering putting some money on that.

Betis scored first goal but I dont trust them this season, and this match looked like a 1:1 draw to me, and this is what I wrote in Superbru.
In this round my biggest question is who is scoring more goals, Barcelona or Real Madrid, but hot weather in Spain can make them slow down.

[LTU_btc]

We're kicking off Gameweek 2 with Betis vs Alavés — a nice 1.85 on Betis. Seriously considering putting some money on that.

Betis scored first goal but I dont trust them this season, and this match looked like a 1:1 draw to me, and this is what I wrote in Superbru.
In this round my biggest question is who is scoring more goals, Barcelona or Real Madrid, but hot weather in Spain can make them slow down.

Yeah, this season I also have lower expectations about Betis. After all, they don't have Antony anymore who was their best player in 2nd part of the season. One of key players Isco is also injured. Anyway, still went with Betis win today. Their playing at home amd odds looked too attractive to miss, So far everything looks fine.

[slaman29]

Just wanted to share the result of my freebet



Sometimes it pays to follow mafia.

BUT!

Also WTH @cryptofrka in 2nd place this pool. Every season mafia is being more and more visible.

Betis scored first goal but I dont trust them this season, and this match looked like a 1:1 draw to me, and this is what I wrote in Superbru.
In this round my biggest question is who is scoring more goals, Barcelona or Real Madrid, but hot weather in Spain can make them slow down.

Yeah, this season I also have lower expectations about Betis. After all, they don't have Antony anymore who was their best player in 2nd part of the season. One of key players Isco is also injured. Anyway, still went with Betis win today. Their playing at home amd odds looked too attractive to miss, So far everything looks fine.

That was super lucky win in the end, plenty of chances on both ends so I should be thankful to come away with points. But personally, I feel like Betis is just a good team that needs to jell properly. Actually having rando guys like Antony come in only works for short term but longterm they just need to stabilize some of their young signings or promotions from academy.

Still 10x better than teams like West Ham tho

Anyway my small ticket should pass now, normally I don't do 2x bets but this is just to complete my journey

[Trofo]

This pool is now soft closed. I will still leave a possibility for few day to pick up some straggler. It will be officially closed when GW2 starts. There is 24 of us that paid but one person did not enter the pool yet.

Money on escrow
Sportsbet.io sponsorship - 18 mBTC
Participants fees - 24x0.5= 12 mBTC

That gives us cool 30 mBTC which will be split in following way.

Rewards
1. Place - 12 mBTC (fees are paid from this prize)
2. Place - 7 mBTC
3. Place - 4 mBTC
4. Place - 3 mBTC
5. Place - 2 mBTC
6. Place - 1 mBTC
Highest overall yellow cap - 1 mBTC

Remarks:
*There is no sharing of the prizes, Superbru has implemented tie-breakers and I will use their final table as basis to pay out rewards
*First prize in this pool pays transaction for this pool and SerieA pool since it will be the biggest. Inputs will be consolidated beforehand so that final transaction shouldn't be that expensive

BTC has grown so much that these numbers look low now, we can just hope it will continue in the same way and prizes will be some much better before pool ends.

This pool is now closed. Rewards are as in above post and in OP. One change in remarks, first place in this pool pays only for this pool transactions.

In the end I decided to split different pools to different addressees, maybe they will not finish on the same day and to have clearer situation.
I think I like this setup where I collect all the money on one addy and then consolidate it on separate ones. Seems to me we save a lot on transaction fees.
Tx to move funds to new addy: 89293f77257d4d1608d4d3df1d0ed483709d78fbd6631502395fdce3bde0ba2d

New escrow address for La Liga pool, holding 30 mBTC: bc1qtx8qvx5l8u6yrnz2ezcqprzxnd9dq42wjl3wmh

[cryptofrka]

Also WTH @cryptofrka in 2nd place this pool. Every season mafia is being more and more visible.

I actually started really bad in most of them - but when you play them all you need to be near the top somewhere
PL, CL and Championship are the ones where I see myself winning something. If I have a good result in the others, it will be mostly luck.

GG on your bet, now put all winnings on PAOK going through in the 2nd leg.

[darbitmobilerecovery]

Betis falling short but ended up winning at least so they dont lose so much terrain, is good for me to see Giovani Lo Celso in a good level and happy, not only because he is from my city but also because he is a key player in our national team, i never understood how and why he cant go much bigger in europe. First in PSG and after on Spurs.

[slaman29]

Damn, last night result was about to become a lesson of 'when you want to boost your multibet, don't be tempted by stupid 1.2x odds like Barca vs Levante, the relegation candidate'. On my real ticket.

But on this freebet ticket, 1.2x LOSE



Did not oc watch the game, but just look at the timeline. Winning 3-2 because of own goal in last minute is not the way we want to be defending title. Barca better beware!!

GG on your bet, now put all winnings on PAOK going through in the 2nd leg.

LOL are you kidding? Cause I'm really gonna do it, somehow I listen to picks from BSFL if odds are good like Rijeka!

[cryptofrka]

GG on your bet, now put all winnings on PAOK going through in the 2nd leg.

LOL are you kidding? Cause I'm really gonna do it, somehow I listen to picks from BSFL if odds are good like Rijeka!

Well, Rijeka is a cointoss team. PAOK is in my opinion a favorite to go through - but the last time I checked the odds were close to 50-50.
In that case I would not touch it - only if odds on PAOK somehow increase, which is not likely to happen. They will probably drop further in case Rijeka sells important players before the game.

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Regarding Barca - you watch the game and simply know they will find a way to win. I think that they don't even care about defending in some easier games.

[slaman29]

Well, Rijeka is a cointoss team. PAOK is in my opinion a favorite to go through - but the last time I checked the odds were close to 50-50.
In that case I would not touch it - only if odds on PAOK somehow increase, which is not likely to happen. They will probably drop further in case Rijeka sells important players before the game.

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Regarding Barca - you watch the game and simply know they will find a way to win. I think that they don't even care about defending in some easier games.

That is how I approached . In BSFL if the YESNO question has PAOK go thru, then that means they have in my opinion 50-60% chance to not win. But like you said if odds are very close then its not so worth.

Ya, I try to watch the replays in the morning but problem is somehow I will hear the result already so when you watch a game and your team is losing but you know the win is coming, psychological effect is you feel like they are relaxed and don't care anyway. I love how Flick told the team there was no desire after winning big the first match, and they prove their desire in 2nd half.

I think it was good win in the end. 1st half experiment with Rashford and diff mid, 2nd half old Barca and cumulative blasting 30+ shots.

[paco92x]

Anyway my small ticket should pass now, normally I don't do 2x bets but this is just to complete my journey

Barcelona managed to avoid yet another defeat after being 2 goals down. At halftime, I was ready to place a bet on Barca to turn the game around, and the bookies were only offering a 3.65 coefficient.

The bookies must have learned that if any team can pull off a comeback at halftime, it’s Barca. How many times did this happen last year? I think it was surely 4 or 5 times.

[Sandra_hakeem]

Actually, I've lost all expectations on Betis after failing to resign Antony yet for the new campaign, after having an excellent performance in the  second half of the season. He was a key player for them, scoring and contributing to many goals in the league; another key player in the squad is Isco, who is currently injured.

The were really lucky to have won the match at the end with plenty of chances from both sides. It was an impressive one from the boys giving their best to get away with a huge three points. From my own point of view, Real betis under pellegrini has been showing a top-class act since last season. Although they haven't been among the strong contenders for the La Liga title, they have been superb in europe.

[darbitmobilerecovery]

Until now im not doing well in any of the predictions pools for this season at all, i mean i never start this bad across all the pools, the only good thing i can think is, i can only go from less to more, so lets see when i start to grab big points.

The msot incredible for me is i cant collect any exact at all, and this is happening for me in every single pool.

[slaman29]

Holy what Getafe won 2 games out of 2, what's going on in this world now lol. You know counting out relegated teams, last season only Getafe scored less goals than Manchester United in all big leagues.

Barcelona managed to avoid yet another defeat after being 2 goals down. At halftime, I was ready to place a bet on Barca to turn the game around, and the bookies were only offering a 3.65 coefficient.

The bookies must have learned that if any team can pull off a comeback at halftime, it’s Barca. How many times did this happen last year? I think it was surely 4 or 5 times.

I think they did this 10 times last season (winning after being 2 goals down) so its not like its strange happening. My big regret is I'm not around during the games, instead of taking Barca 1x2 at 1.2 I should be taking them when they go behind, I bet I could make 2x or 3x all the time. Like you showed, even bookies know all about Barca's possibilities for comeback.

[darxiaomi]

I hate Getafe as a team, they are a waste of football, they dont want to play at all, they only make the impossible to not play, and if they score a goal, my god, they are gonna to be the most "anti-football" team in the world, they start to make fouls, fake injuries, make non sense substitution to delay the game, and everything in the playbook of a dirty player.

In the other side, Sevilla is looking for another bad season it seems, yesterday i saw the last minute of them, and my god it was a complete disaster.

[buwaytress]

No, on the contrary, you need to bet on Real with a handicap of -1 or -2, if we are talking about vulnerable teams then it is Liverpool which concede too many goals  

Can someone send a team of assassins to Atletico? I see they forgot that the head coach can be changed in the usual way. It's not that Atletico killed my good multi-bet, I just want to help the guys.  

Should have listened to this advice from you. I started avoiding Atletico since the end of last season (forgetting of course their big wins in the final days). Now they're a step away from being in the shitpile where Valencia and Sevilla have occupied for 3 seasons. Alongside Girona now.

I hate Getafe as a team, they are a waste of football, they dont want to play at all, they only make the impossible to not play, and if they score a goal, my god, they are gonna to be the most "anti-football" team in the world, they start to make fouls, fake injuries, make non sense substitution to delay the game, and everything in the playbook of a dirty player.

In the other side, Sevilla is looking for another bad season it seems, yesterday i saw the last minute of them, and my god it was a complete disaster.

I hate them too, as Slam pointed out, a team that scores the lowest in all the big leagues are statistically -- and reality -- the most boring team to watch. The problem now is should I back form and see them win 3 in a row? I have an itch.