Odds on this game was so small for Italy, even with handicap you needed -1.5 to get over 1.5x. I never really understand why people put a lot of money on small odds games, especially when it comes to football, where there are probably a lot more upsets than we think (even a draw is an upset!).
Can't believe Italy is out either. Wow.
Sometimes people get carried away and think there is a 100% safe bet! And then they invest more money to make that safe income, but sometimes it doesn't go that way, which can be seen in this case!
And I lost some tickets because of Italy, who could have thought that Macedonia would celebrate in the middle of Italy?! Not even in my wildest dreams! But my losses are not big, and I won some singles, so I am like on zero!
After this can we say that Macedonia has pretty nice chances to win against Portugal?!
A dice bet on 1.01 is "safer" to me than a football bet on 1.01 or any sports actually. OR even 1.1x on dice you are for sure getting a chance of almost 90% to win, whereas in football these 1.1x odds are never 9 out of 10 games, just always a draw to kill you when you least expect it. Which is why I never go below 1.5x in football (where even that is not easy).
I hope they don't experience what Italy went through. It will be the last world cup of Christiano Ronaldo and I think he will show a good cup performance. But he cannot make the team win alone.
It would be a huge mistake if they thought their opponents were weak. We've seen a lot of surprising results in football matches this year
Well, I just hope whoever deserves it goes through. Italy didn't deserve to go out, maybe, looking back on performances past, but can't say Macedonia didn't deserve it either, to make it this far with a style of defending that the Italians gave up a long time ago.
Ronaldo has to make way for his colleagues. Problem with playing him is you can't play a new team style, you always build a squad around him. That's not good for the next EURO.
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