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Quote from: buwaytress on November 06, 2021, 04:45:22 AM

Thanks @tomahawk 9 I've just arrived and will be settling in. Can't wait to meet the awesome SB guys -- got some nice games tonight to watch too maybe if I can convince my SO to keep her eyes to football for a little while (though tomorrow will be an effort for her haha).

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I hope you guys have a great time there! I will also put on my equipment tomorrow and stock up on beer, so I will mentally be with you! By the way, if it's not a secret, did you get there normally? ^{[in the context of covid restrictions, and the presentation of vaccination certificates]} As I understand it, the stadium will be half empty?

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Quote from: buwaytress on November 06, 2021, 04:45:22 AM

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No comment about Xavi, except at least it's a player with the right principles for Barca IMO. How effective he'll be is another question altogether.

i think that with Xavi, fc barcelona has found one of the better solutions. another coach from a foreign country who doesn't know the club would again be out of place here.
Xavi has a contract with the catalans until the summer of 2023 - i think he will bring the fcb back on track.

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Thanks @tomahawk 9 I've just arrived and will be settling in. Can't wait to meet the awesome SB guys -- got some nice games tonight to watch too maybe if I can convince my SO to keep her eyes to football for a little while (though tomorrow will be an effort for her haha).

I'm on Barca today too. I liked Celta's team a lot last season and they did give me a great win 2 games ago, but I'm really really liking what Fati's getting up to and if we can ask Depay to maintain his high effort, they'll outdo Aspas and Mina. It's the value bet for me and on two of my regular accas =)

No comment about Xavi, except at least it's a player with the right principles for Barca IMO. How effective he'll be is another question altogether.

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Quote from: tomahawk9 on November 05, 2021, 10:33:32 AM

Barca are pretty bad right now, but Celta Vigo are 10x worse despite the favorable H2H at home that you mentioned, so i wouldn't blame anyone going for Barca to win in their bet slips, that's gonna be my pick in our pool

talking about Barcelona, Xavi close to joining. Al Sadd confirmed he's leaving, just need the official announcement from the catalan club...Barca fans, are you excited?

If I would be neutral, I doubt that I'd go with Barca win. But now I'm going to back my team, it's time to up finally, otherwise we will stuck in the middle of table.
Can't say that I'm very excited about Xavi appointment. Yes, I want to see him in Barcelona, but few years later when he will gain a bit more experience. With our current squad and no Xavi experience on high level,I have fears that he may end like Pirlo or Lampard.
And fans shouldn't expect too much from him - there is no chance that he will turn Barca into team which fight for La Liga and Champions league titles.

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Quote from: tomahawk9 on November 05, 2021, 10:33:32 AM

talking about Barcelona, Xavi close to joining. Al Sadd confirmed he's leaving, just need the official announcement from the catalan club...Barca fans, are you excited?

It seems it is official, several news portals have published it, XAVI is a new Barca coach. Not much details yet, except that Barca will have to pay something to his previous club. Will be much more info coming in following hours probably.

Must say I am excited to see what he will manage to do with this squad and all those money problems. I am thinking quite a lot despite all the problems.

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Quote from: casperBGD on November 05, 2021, 06:48:51 AM

Barca is going to Vigo, it is usually not that easy for Barca to win there, and interesting statistics is that Barca wins every fourth match, when the odds are around 2 (now @2.1)

moneyline x2 odds? so weird seeing that number next to the FC Barcelona, in a league game no less, as the saying goes "how the mighty have fallen"

Barca are pretty bad right now, but Celta Vigo are 10x worse despite the favorable H2H at home that you mentioned, so i wouldn't blame anyone going for Barca to win in their bet slips, that's gonna be my pick in our pool

talking about Barcelona, Xavi close to joining. Al Sadd confirmed he's leaving, just need the official announcement from the catalan club...Barca fans, are you excited?

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Quote from: Trofo on November 05, 2021, 04:47:11 AM

Yeah, I am crying rivers here for poor you, that has to travel to England to watch Arsenal, what a punishment

Just kidding, I had very mixed feelings when the promo came out. Yes I would love to go watch Arsenal live with all the expenses covered by Sportsbet, but traveling is such PITA at the moment. Then you have high probability of mandatory quarantine and who can afford to lose 10 days, and more importantly how explain it at work?

Heh heh yeah I love crying on first world problems!

To be 100% honest also, I do wish this comes in different circumstances -- and as I said, it was a bit difficult with all the PITA things to do, some of them new to me also, but I'm aware it's much more difficult for a lot of others. I'm "lucky" to be in a country with all the things recognised abroad but my family back home all can't travel if they wanted to, it's really bad over there.

And yeah, for me I work remote so worse case scenario I am inconvenienced but for my partner if we somehow end up with quarantine it would be quite difficult to work it out for her boss.

Anyway, promise to share pictures, and will be "sad" I can't watch other games. I'll cry into the beers at Emirates...

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yeah, feel sorry for you that you have to travel now (joking)
have a nice time there, and bring back victory for Arsenal, this is Sportsbet derby, obviously

regarding league, beside city derby, Valencia plays Atletico, hopefully that could finish without a lose, although Valencia will have another season to forget, as seems at the moment

Barca is going to Vigo, it is usually not that easy for Barca to win there, and interesting statistics is that Barca wins every fourth match, when the odds are around 2 (now @2.1)

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Quote from: buwaytress on November 05, 2021, 03:09:13 AM

I'll actually be unable to see any of these games as I'll be away watching Arsenal instead =D

A LOT of hassle to travel to UK now, and I actually am the easiest. I saw how impossibly annoying it is for people from other lists and/or having different vaccination issues. It really is like they don't want anyone to come visit.

Yeah, I am crying rivers here for poor you, that has to travel to England to watch Arsenal, what a punishment

Just kidding, I had very mixed feelings when the promo came out. Yes I would love to go watch Arsenal live with all the expenses covered by Sportsbet, but traveling is such PITA at the moment. Then you have high probability of mandatory quarantine and who can afford to lose 10 days, and more importantly how explain it at work?

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I'll actually be unable to see any of these games as I'll be away watching Arsenal instead =D

A LOT of hassle to travel to UK now, and I actually am the easiest. I saw how impossibly annoying it is for people from other lists and/or having different vaccination issues. It really is like they don't want anyone to come visit.

Barca survive with Fati (again). But just caught sight of news of Dembele injured (again). I didn't even realise he was ever back, thought he's permanently injured. Feel really sad for these guys.

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Quote from: Trofo on November 03, 2021, 11:44:14 AM

Small bump and info that new challenge is up. Be careful guys we have corners this time around instead of cards as per @tomahawk9 wish. I am really psyched a bout Sevilla derby this weekend so that is the game from La Liga. Did not want to feature Milan again but had to since it is Milan derby

Barca barely winning yesterday but 3 points are only thing that will be remembered from that game.

found me on this one, two city derbies this week in the challenge
I like to watch city derby, no matter which city is in, and Betis and Sevilla derby is a good one, although Sevilla has much more success in it (won almost half matches throughout history)

and one more city derby this week, probably most interesting, in EPL, United and City are playing Saturday

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Small bump and info that new challenge is up. Be careful guys we have corners this time around instead of cards as per @tomahawk9 wish. I am really psyched a bout Sevilla derby this weekend so that is the game from La Liga. Did not want to feature Milan again but had to since it is Milan derby

Barca barely winning yesterday but 3 points are only thing that will be remembered from that game.

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Quote from: casperBGD on November 01, 2021, 03:10:33 PM

one more match in this round, Granada is playing, Maximiano on goal, should be one more 0:0
edit: Sanchez just scored, 0:1

Granda destroyed Levante in the end, really did not see that one coming, was expecting a scoring draw like 1:1. Even had a late ticket with both to score where all other games passed in the end but Levante ruined my combo. Did not watch the match but I am blaming Soldado, he should still be good enough to put one goal past Granada.

We continue with CL matches tomorrow, moment of truth for Barca. They need a win against Kyiv for a fighting chance of progressing trough.

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Rayo let me down, or to put it the other way, I believed that they will be able to win tonight, since they were able to win over Barca
obviously win over Barca was enough for Rayo to take a break

one more match in this round, Granada is playing, Maximiano on goal, should be one more 0:0
edit: Sanchez just scored, 0:1

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Watched the livescore text updates for Getafe-Espanyol. Only 3 goals but 11 yellow cards in the whole game and get this: 17 corners in the game.

Don't know how often this happens in La Liga but I can't even remember the last time I saw 10 cards without a red... This would have been a massive 31-point Soccer Blackjack heh.

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Yeah Dembele is the saddest of all those names for me, other than Fati who lost almost one whole season in this most important stage of his development.

Aguero's injury seems to be compounded too by some heart issue, so we really shouldn't play him again and just assume he's not going to be available.

Good thing our youngsters are playing without fear.

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I HATE predicting draws but yeah [...]

I only predict draws if I have a parallel multi bet that I don’t want to hedge but would upset me to lose. Although partly this is also hedging, but in this case I get nothing but points. As you can see in the La Liga pool, this does not work very well for me, since in just a few rounds I dropped almost 10 positions (but got some bitcoins). Although in the Serie A pool, this tactic works a little better, but still here I lost about 10 easy points when everyone got them. Roll Eyes

Yeah I'm using these prediction pools to "hedge" my actual betting so if I lose money I'm not too disappointed. But still, actually predicting draws goes against my instinct. And yet again, Barca proved that the draws would have been a good strategy in these tight games (imagine saying Barca-Alaves would be tight just a season ago!).

Quote from: tomahawk9 on October 30, 2021, 04:58:11 PM

1-1 Barcelona, mid table during Halloween 🎃 scary stuff, folks 👻

on the bright side, 1 point could mean a lot in the fight for an europa league spot 😂🤣

And hey, winning THAT with a young team would actually be pretty good, and the prize money isn't something to ignore anyway Wink

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Quote from: LTU_btc on October 30, 2021, 04:09:12 PM

Another disappointing result for Barcelona, but our game wasn't that bad as we had recently. It's diffciult to expect big changes in squad from interim coach, especially considering that we have so many injured players. Now it's most importang thing to survive somehow until international break, especially in Champions league next week and maybe after break we will have new coach already.
Our youngsters didn't played bad, but lac of experience in some moments was obvious. And I think it was one of rare games where L. De jong would be useful. And finally, Dest as winger is awful.

Another disappointing result overall but I would say I enjoyed watching the young lads play, the future might not be bad after all.

Gavi and Nico were really impressive and I wonder how they'd fare if being able to play under a more versatile manager ?

Aguero getting injured again is another bad news, meaning Barcelona most likely wouldn't be able to depend on his fitness, the injury list for Barcelona is getting bigger, Fati who's barely got back and Dembele who has never got back 🤔

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1-1 Barcelona, mid table during Halloween 🎃 scary stuff, folks 👻

on the bright side, 1 point could mean a lot in the fight for an europa league spot 😂🤣

Quote from: Trofo on October 29, 2021, 07:03:43 AM

Sure, but do a proper job and give me some margins which will work for all the games. 3 choices as usual, ie under 8, 8-11, 12 and more. Not playing corners often so I don't have a feel for it and I am too lazy do do research Grin

i like the margins, maybe change the 8-11 to 9-11 and we're good to go?

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Another disappointing result for Barcelona, but our game wasn't that bad as we had recently. It's diffciult to expect big changes in squad from interim coach, especially considering that we have so many injured players. Now it's most importang thing to survive somehow until international break, especially in Champions league next week and maybe after break we will have new coach already.
Our youngsters didn't played bad, but lac of experience in some moments was obvious. And I think it was one of rare games where L. De jong would be useful. And finally, Dest as winger is awful.

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