Topic: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread - page 281. (Read 140875 times)

Meanwhile,,, guys like me are doing our best and we just cannot get close to the top. But anyway, well done to everyone up there, the games are getting so tough to predict, well they always are anyway, and it is very good and healthy I think to see this happen. It means we have great experts and it means we have now the identities of all the good gamblers  

One day should make a big service of tips and we all start making money

I watched the last two Newcastle games (against Southampton and Chelsea) they were very good. I really had a hard time expecting a team that played hard against Chelsea to lose to Everton, but it happened. it is PL.

whether anyone noticed the way the referee conducted the match? they played so hard without interruption, it was only a matter of time before a foul like Allan's would happen.



You lost 1st place because you haven't enough faith in your Everton. Karma is a bitch.

Thanks,its been pretty rough but the last 3-4 rounds have been amazing for me,was always in the top 5 for the weekly predictions and that has boosted me from 11th position to now 7th position and only 7.5 points away from first place. But now its difficult i aint only chasing 1 player im chasing 5-6 for that first place because all of them are so close. I just hope i can continue this run in the upcoming rounds aswell. Also i think the next round will be a challenge for all.

I saw many pitch invaders - some try to hug player or take selfie, some trying to promote something on their shirt, or running naked to get attention. But I never saw that pitch invader would tie himself to goal post as sign of protest, When I turned in game on TV and saw that's interruoted, I didn't even understood what's going on:
https://www.eurosport.com/football/premier-league/2021-2022/everton-v-newcastle-halted-by-a-protester-who-decided-to-tie-himself-to-a-goal-post-in-the-second-ha_sto8849000/story.shtml

Yeah, it seems that many backed Everton. Don't know why I predicted Newcastle win, during game I was sure that I had draw, so, when Everton scored I wasn't very happy . Anyway, not bad round for me, up to 19th place, season high for me so far.

I had it 0-2 for Newcastle based on the really bad form of Everton recently but yesterday they played well and never gave up until the very end of the game and were then rewarded with that 100 minute goal.Only in Premier League we see this much additional time compared to the other major European leagues and that is also something unique that makes the Premier League stand out from the other major competitions in Europe.

Well done Joca97,lately you have been climbing like no other.

Everton, just couldn't stomach how bad the football last night was -- from both teams.

Still feels like yesterday when Everton were bouncing with Ancelotti and DCL look like the anointed one. Haven't really been following what's been happening but what happened to that castle?

@darxiaomi yeah there's no fair way to do it. There are rounds even with 5 games IIRC, and that's ugly but it is still fair that everyone has the same advantage/disadvantage right?

Oh and welcome everyone to the fight for Top 5. This is the most competitive this pool has ever been, in any pool I've joined, in any season. What a group of dirty bastards we have.


I know it's a little bit of a disservice to Leeds to say so but the Covid break helped them in that instance. They had their bright start to the Championship, just like the season before, but once the season wore on, they were already running on fumes well before the home stretch. Then football got interrupted and everyone had an unexpected months of rest. Season resumed and Leeds powered on.

But you're absolutely right, this has less to do with them running out of energy and more to do with missing players they've been relying on to score goals. I still recall how in Liverpool's title win season, James bloody Milner was our top runner (most distance covered) and by the way some months before also the league's #1. For many seasons Salah's still the top runner among front 3 men, Firmino too when he was fully fit, that's because our attackers run back all the time to defend.

Since KO-ing Arsenal in Carabao Cup, we've played 7 more games than them before the London win and still looked the more energetic in the final stages, so clearly, there is a physical ability to sustain.

My issue was less about Bielsa running his men down, but his refusal to manage games. That's still not enough for me to replace him with Lasso too though. Huddles on the field is not going to magically conjure points because Leeds are anything but not a team oozing with unity and solidarity that is now in question because they lost their unifying soul in Bielsa.

Side note: I found out from new Football Observatory stats that Premier League is not even the top 10 most running-intensive league in the world... I always believed they ran more but you apparently run 3kms more per team per game in La Liga.

What an important win for most of the people on Everton match. When i saw that red card i was thinking that Everton cant possible win and that i lost some really important points. But this 1.5 points for me is huge and im so close to top 5. Also this round gaved us so many leaders on first place. It will get even more intresting now.

It turns out that the luck lord is not with me in this round. All close result and without a correct score LOL
At least in four matches I missed exact score for one goal margin that sucked up 6 points from me.

Yeah it is a bit unfair but it is PITA to sort in a completely fair way. For the pools I run I just pay out the highest yellow cap and don't care about number of the games. I thought about it several times and there simply isn't any good way to do it. Call it RNG and try to do your best on big game weeks

What about next game week for instance? There is only 4 games and let's say somebody gets all correct results, meaning 12 points. He will not have highest yellow cap even though he has 100% of possible points. Then we will have game week 37, this is known double game week where most teams will have 2 games, some even three, there is no more European matches and all postponed games must be finished before last game week. I believe we will have at least 18 games in it and maybe even more.

I dont know if anyone has talking this here.

Do you thing its fair winning the Highest Yellow Cap having 3 more games in a round?. I think No.
I know for one game its ok but 3 games more its a lot.

I do not take away merit because you still have to get it right, but if you have that round your best GG even if one people take the 10 in exact result cant catch, i think its a mistake from Superbru.

I know its not easy and i dont put any vote but its for thinking

Yeah, it'll be the FA cup, although I didn't realise so many Premier League teams were involved still? Anyhow, very happy with the performance yesterday. To be honest, watching that first half I just thought it was inevitable that we drop points yet again after Man City give us a little bit of hope. My fault for not believing in the boys, they've definitely pulled it out of the bag so many times in recent years I should know better.

Manchester United will always be a tricky fixture though, since a lot of the times form goes out of the window. Plus, I do think they've been playing a little bit better as of recent. I would still expect has to win that game, but we definitely have a more difficult fixture list than Manchester City, although they've looked anything, but invincible recently.

I wanna  say FA cup. Did not check actual games yet but since I am playing fantasy I know for about month that this will be blank game week. I guess all other teams are having games in the cup. They could have squeezed something during the working days maybe but it gets complicated. Chelsea has especially full schedule and their postponed game will very though to fit in somewhere due to them being alive in most competitions.

Why is there only 4 games this weekend? A lot of teams still have 2 and some even 3 games in hand so I'm surprised they didn't try squeeze some of them in.


It worked when they got promoted to the PL and it worked when they finished 9th last season against all odds. As for the running less, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago they've been missing Bamford and Phillips from very early on in the season so that's probably why the stats will look bad. People just like to scapegoat managers these days as they're an easy target. Their poor performance is almost certainly down to all the injuries. Phillips is by far their best player and whilst I think Bamford is mediocre he's still their top scorer. They should have just stuck it out with Bielsa. What is Ted Lasso gonna do? I think they're more likely to get relegated with him than Bielsa. If Bielsa stayed and he saved them from relegation it would have only bolstered his standing with the club and fans but I'm assuming the American owners were calling for his head and I'm guessing they had something to do with hiring the American manager as well. Money overrules everything these days.

you have a point here, but United did not take much points with top three teams either this season (or that is just my bias, did not check the facts)
Arsenal was solid last night, but lost on experience, which was widely expected and odds were great for Liverpool, but I had to take Juventus last night

one more tonight, my Everton is playing Newcastle, and relegation fight is reality for us, one win/five loses since Lampard took over

Spurs needed Arsenal to lose to have hopes of Top 4 as I mentioned,,, and more importantly, I am Spurs. How does a Spurs fan ever support Arsenal unless we need them to help us defeat someone else we need to lose more?


100% correct. We saw it already with many stubborn managers,,, do not want to play tactics and play to team strength. If it works to play your game great but if the other team gets better like City or LFC, then defend, let them make mistakes and use everything to break. Bielsa never wanted to learn and Arteta must pay attention to this. They had a great run against lower teams but everybody knows you win leagues by defeating those closest around the top

That all stands true, but still it is a big problem for Arsenal. No katter how good they play they loose without real fight against the very best teams.

United is worse compared to Arsenal by probably all metricks but they will take points against top sides almost regularly. That is maybe the part Arteta has to learn. Sometimes against better teams leave the ball to them and try countering. Arsenal is great but still not on the level to go head to head against City or LFC.

And we have title race once more. I guss there is alot of happy reds this morning.

I hate myself for being the way I am, my position's pretty precarious in the pool after taking risks last week and failing most (Spurs and Everton, I am talking about you especially) and I know 2:1 is the safest bet -- this is a resurgent Arsenal side, pressure is on us to take advantage of City's slip, and well, football is round.

But I'm going to bite my lip and stick with good old 3-0 Reds win. A win is all I need though of course! Liverpool 22/10!

^I am also on Liverpool 2:1 for pool prediction but just both to score on my ticket. This should be toughest game for Liverpool against Arsenal in recent history. Arsenal is in the best possible form at the moment and they are playing some beautiful football. Liverpool is always up for the important games and they usually whip the floor with gunners. Should be an interesting game and hopefully some goals in it. Gonna watch it instead of CL which is saying something

I always hate playing after Man City have dropped points, I always find it a nervy affair regardless who we play. I'm just hoping those defensive fragility in the Arsenal back line, allow us some chances, and most importantly we actually take them. Otherwise, I could easily see this game going down as a draw. We absolutely need to make the most of Man City dropping points though.

I guess we'll see how the mentality monsters cope tonight under pressure.

I went with 1:2 for Liverpool in this match aswell. I think this will be a pretty rough match between this two teams honestly. Arsenal has picked up their form and are playing really good. But after that mistake by Man City dropping those points i need to go with Liverpool in this match.