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Barcelona going to make us lose man points this season they are becoming unpredictable as at the end of the match in a goalless draw between Barcelona and Cadiz.
If they managed to score one goal I would have been up by 4points 3 for correct results +1 for slam
Now it's the third draw for Barcelona, who could not beat Cadiz in the last three games, two draws and one loss.
It was A bad match from the offensive side of Barcelona, and he appeared without fangs and completely helpless in front of the humble Cadiz defense, and if Cadiz was one of the worst teams this season,
 A clear confusion in Koeman’s plans was chaos and lack of coordination throughout the team in the match, in addition to the lack of tactical sentences on which the team builds its attacks with a clear defect in the depth of the attack and an exaggerated dependence on penetration from the parties. Koeman still thinks that the team is incomplete and that he suffers from a lack of players, but I do not see anyone who could improve the construction of Barca's playing from the injured players, so are Aguero, Fati and Dembele who will save the club and change its shape overnight if they return to the squad?
Laporta will not find an optimal timing from now to announce the dismissal of Koeman to rectify the situation early and arrange the club and his papers before entering the Atlético match.

The bookmaker are probably just misleading bettors or there's more to odds than the shape of the team.. Barcelona aren't above average as team right now.. I knew something was literally wrong the odds maker a couple of weeks ago when Bayern Munich were valued at over 2 odds against Barcelona in the CL.

Barcelona are down to 10 men, and it's still currently goalless so, maybe Cadiz might get or draw or perhaps all 3 points.

Should be tough for Barca, especially since I have a feeling players are also unhappy and they could (un)intentionally play a bit below their maximum to help Koeman get sacked. Anyway my money today is on Cadiz to score @1.7. Looks like high value odds to me since Cadiz is solid going forward and they scored in both fixtures last season when Barca was much better.

Planning on watching at least first half from the bed to see how it is looking for Barca. Need 1:1 for correct score in the pool, so that is one result that is not happening for sure

Probably there won't be easy games for Barca this season. And game against Cadiz away isn't an exception. I don't really know why bookmakers are giving just 1.45 for Barca win. I'm not so positive about our chances today...

I'm not doing better. I'm struggling not only to get exact scores, but even correct outcomes.
BTW, I can't remember any other games when most of players went with 1:1 prediction like in Osasuna - Betis game. And with 10 minutes remaining, score is 1:1.
EDIT So, Betis had to score and screw up things for most of us .

i've had some pretty crappy rounds too, the current round is the second one where i've been able to get 10+ pts, rest of the rounds were proper dogsh*t

tbf, teams like Barca and Villareal are not really helping us cos they keep underperforming while some underdogs like Rayo are outperforming everyone else

anywho, Cadiz - FC Barcelona...friendly reminder that Barca couldn't beat Cadiz last season (1-1 and 1-2), and that was a much healthier Barcelona 🤔

yeah, I did put some money, although when saw ease with which Real scored, should have put more, nevertheless, pretty happy with the outcome yesterday
Villarreal also showed solid football, maybe first time this season, and four goals against Elche

and yeah, Valencia was down against Sevilla, three fast goals (one own goal) and it was a mission impossible to catch, two loses in a row, fate must be changed on weekend

Another awful round for me. I feel like I will never get correct score, it is tough to even get close ones this season.

On the other hand, games are super entertaining and full of goals. Too bad I did not have time to watch Real yesterday it was stellar performance from whole team.

Pretty pleased with the results, even if I didn't get any exacts, Real remember how to trounce opponents, Celta got their first win, Villareal found their scoring boots too, and even Valencia reminded us not to bet on them!

Still 10 points off the top but I'm cool!


Yeah, I mean, I know he and his team loved their identity, and when they got Suarez it was like an amplification of that. It's great being the underdogs, I know how that feels like, but it's even better to be expected to lose but play like you want to win. I definitely am sure their fans would love them even more playing like this, and yeah, it's the Spanish league -- though now his team isn't Spanish much

I hope you did put some money on the line for that ? It's 4 goals already at half time with Madrid leading 3 - 1..

It's been a really entertaining 45 minutes from both ends, despite being down by two goal, Mallorca are posing quite a lot of attacking threat.

There surely should be more goals to come in the half.


Yeah, I'd agree that they've got much attacking options than they do defensively, hence the need to switch focus to where their strength lies.

Agree about Getafe. For me it's difficult to believe that just 2 seasons ago they were playing in Europa league and even kicked out Ajax. Their squad weren't much better than now and they wrre serious overperforming with their ugly football.Atletico have such big attacking potential with Suarez, Griezmann, Felix and Carasco, but they still struggle to score against underdogs. Seems that under Simeone these things simply can't be different .
And yeah, you have good point - conceding goals against teams like Getafe or Espanyol isn't good sign.

three fast goals by Sevilla, one own goal, but great first half and Valencia scored to make it interesting in second half as well
maybe they could be back

I expect goals tonight in Madrid, maybe over4.5 or even over5.5, seems as perfect setup, Mallorca is not so defensive and Real could fit into this day full of goals in Spain and Italy

That is my take on Atletico this season as well. It seems like Simeone finally decided to try driving without hand break pulled up and let his attacking players play. Maybe they are conceding more goals but their games are much more watchable and results are also good. I really hope they will continue with this new look, it is sort of embarrassing for La Liga Champion to be totally defense oriented. That maybe passes in Italy but I feel Spanish supporters are spoiled with Barca/Real attacking football domination.

I don't recall, but yeah, it hasn't not worked for me and I do have a limit on martingale so even if it doesn't work I won't lose everything. The other streak I like is to bet against a winning streak (aka Man City or PSG to lose) but since I bet on big underdogs anyway, it's hard for me to see a unique opportunity in football but West Ham last season were a good candidate for this. They got on several 3/4 game winning runs, and then the bookies went crazy for them.

Non-scoring streaks also trigger me, Mane, Salah, and all have won me good bets but not super profitable as you say. Martingale gets very scary, very fast, and the risk with these negative streaks is that each addition makes it psychologically more difficult, which is why you only back people who haven't lost confidence. Kane not scoring for four games is an example of that -- and Arsenal should give away a penalty at least


They have been piling on the chances, though, maybe not last night but their 2 games before that are extremely uncharacteristic. Loading up on corners and shots, showing a willingness to use their fearsome front people. Maybe Simeone's allowing a bit more risk, hence the leak at the back.


Nice catch! The stuff you don't realise. Speaking of streaks, anyone betting on Everton against Liverpool finally had some joy last season after 23 games and over 10 years. I wonder how many Evertonians broke themselves on martingale...

Getafe actually broke their perfect record last night, they did not scored against Atletico since 2011, in 20 games, they have 16 loses and 4 draws, without scoring any goals
and last time when they scored, they won 3:2, so I expected them to finish the job last night, after late first half goal, but Suarez did not thought the same, and scored two late goals to keep good score for Atletico


agree, that it is legit, but Getafe is my first pick to get relegated this season, and would skip it for now

It impressive to say the least, Atletico Madrid last two win in all competitions have had to come at the hardest way, Suarez happened to be the hero today.

Atletico Madrid themselves are not being at their usual best, especially defensively, they've conceded almost a goal per fixture so far, and they are nowhere close to playing their toughest fixtures.

Getafe were fortunate to avoid relegation last season, but we can't assume it's too early to say they'll need more than luck to stay up this season if they're not even getting any points.

That is very legit strategy. Was I discussing it with you last season? There was two teams from two different leagues, both without win in first 10 or 15 games. I decided to do just that, martingale until they win. They both won first game I played and I started with very small stake since martingale has a tendency of quickly getting out of hand. So successful experiment but not very profitable.

Oh Suarez, you lovely, lovely beast. Pulled your team out of the dumps once again, of course Getafe's red card helped but they deserved it anyway, double the possession and attempts. Saved one of my bets so far and got me the 1.5 points from Superbru... just wish I'd stuck with 2-1.

Interesting club record too with Llorente the only Spaniard on the team, and the other 10 coming from 9 other different countries!

It's only 6 games but Getafe can't be feeling too good 6 games and 0 points... if I were betting, my money's going to martingale on them from next match onwards

You get my actual point about what Koeman is bringing to the squad, he's literally clueless. It's even understandable when there is a coach trying to implement he's own style or philosophy sometime without the right players or neeed squad, as we've seen with Klopp, Pep and Tuchel, even supposedly tactically outdated Mourinho does have a style he tries to integrate into a team. It's not the same with Koeman and he would make a bad squad worse over the course of the season, if allowed.

So, most people are saying another draw or a slim Atletico win. And that's what I'm going for too...

But is anyone actually considering them losing their perfect record today? Not that perfect means anything. Ask Villareal with 4 draws.


Honestly feel bad for them, just watching. This isn't even a case of sorry lack of talent, like when Arsenal tried to play their old game without the right personnel. This is as if, there's no more plan, no more philosophy, just "let's go out and try not to suffer too much".

When last season Zidane failed to get a single title Ancelotti returned to the position of his former assistant coach Zidane. The return of Don Carlo is the beginning of a performance increase and a change in Los Blancos' playing style with him. Some players who were not so outstanding with Zidane, have become important players with Ancelotti, I am very sure this year Real Madrid will be able to lift the title again..