Topic: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread - page 565. (Read 146473 times)

Probably won’t be on the forum tomorrow, so I’m going to wish everyone a Merry Xmas
Enjoy the holidays , but don’t forget your picks for  Boxing Day - 1st match is 1.30 .

One late goal in two matches cost me a perfect score and that's all it takes to screw up a potentially decent round. Of course the opposite is also true and late goals can get you the perfect score but it stings more with the losses. Even worse is when you would have been the only person to get the score right and that happened this week twice with the 0-0 I went with on Bournemouth/Burnley game and Rodriguez went and scored in the 88th minute to take all the points away and then the same in the Brighton/Sheff United game but that was an early goal. tomahawk9 also went for the 0-0 on that one but missing out on six points would have made that round a pretty decent one for me.


Yeah. Mattle40 is shooting up the table and got the yellow cap this week. Up six places and only 10.5 points behind the fifth place position now after being quite low down on the table for most of the season. When people have bad weeks like a lot of us did it's a lot easier for people to climb the table very fast.

Fam > Family
LFC > Liverpool FC (obviously)

So that makes famLFC 😀

Damn you guys!!! I thought you all knew it.

Anyways, I do understand some football 🤪 and not just gamble. However in gambling, the losing stakes are high though LOL

This pool is really very close call for the toppers. And yes, I am getting tired of seeing tokeweed ahead of me all these times. Just don't slow down 😘

Sorry to hijack this thread guys, I played last season but I gave up and just focused on the Champions League pool (where at least I still have a chance). But just to confirm,,, if I had played this season I would be even worse than all of you guys. I mean,,, Spurs has never been so bad. Why is Son always getting red cards now, it can only mean he is so frustrated just like all the fans, which just shows during the game.

I feel like we should not even get top 4 now because we would just again lose so badly if we have to divide attention to champions league next year.

I can beat all of you for worst score with 1.5 points. That has to be an all time low (for people who submitted predictions because some forget & get 0).

Do I get a prize for biggest loser of the weekend?



I keep trying to be clever & go for weird results to try & catch up in the league. Safe to say it’s not a good look

Worst round to me also. Frustrating is mildly speaking.
It's really too bad because Manchester United has not in the CL, probably they will have a big chance to win there. There are all teams so good, and they can play his counterattack style football.

So, my 7.5 points this weekend is not bad result . But I'm disappointed that I got 0 points from Sunday games. Can't wait for Boxing Day matches, it should be fun!

famLFC is Pamoldar and buwaytress is Sojourner, I remember I asked this question myself some time ago.

You call that pathetic? I only got 3 pts. FML! 😂

the 'lfc' probably refers to Liverpool Football Club, so I think fam_lfc is either @Pamoldar or @buwaytress.

Found this on the Manchester United subreddit: https://twitter.com/statmandave/status/1208778185023860738

I didn't watch the game but sounds like he played fairly decenty.

fam_lfc is Pamoldar, I’m sure I saw him announcing his love for Liverpool FC before.

Pogba is living the dream, earning loads with no repercussion if he plays like dog shit

Just wondering...  Who's fam_lfc again at Superbru?

And LOL_United.  They should sell Pogba back to Juve and if Juve gets lucky enough to hire Pep (could be on 2021), I think Pogba's most likely gonna be sold again as Pep hates huge egos in his squads.

You are right still wide open for top players I am also going awful for last few weeks but still very positive hopefully in next three rounds going to have some good points.

So I finished the weekend with 5.5 points, pathetic. I’ve been awful for about a month now, I keep getting the wrong results by like 1 goal all the time recently, very frustrating.

Long way to go though & a lot can change, hell somebody outside the top 10 could still win.

There are a lot of games over the festive period so lots of opportunity to pick up a lot of points.

Man Utd have got me wondering all day, How they were to beat Man City flawlessly, I could bet my whole life on Man Utd to win today, even after the halftime I assumed it makes it more valuable to bet on them since they'll win eventually, but then the rest is history.

Another costly mistake for me, I could sworn that I picked Chelsea to win 2 - 1, but somehow, someway it was Tottenham I picked 😔

It's the Christmas period - the best time to look for 'value' odds. Teams with small squads (and United is one which is quite amusing considering how much their squad costs) tend to struggle a lot and have strings of bad results.

It's the same every year, I've just been picking the wrong ones

There's no doubt that they're on different levels, but Flamengo & Monterrey both gave Liverpool good games and I think it would be good exposure for the lesser known leagues. Almost seems unfair that some of the best players in the world come from places like Brazil and Argentina but nobody really cares about their domestic leagues. It would be interesting if they did it as a one off tournament at some point as a trial. I don't think it's that much different from the Euros or World Cups either in terms of classes of teams. It's always one of the big boys that win it and nobody really has a chance outside of the big four or five teams but I don't really think that detracts from it. It's always nice to cheer on the underdogs as well and you never know there might even be some surprises.


I went for the 1-1 draw. United losing 2-0 is a joke. Spurs currently 2-0 down as well and playing very poorly. Went for the 1-1 draw on this game as well but I can see Chelsea scoring more.


The last two rounds have been very unpredictable. I've barely got any points from them both.

Predicting winners have become really difficult or is it just me? Matches are becoming extremely unpredictable. When I was almost believing that Manchester United is back, it lost from Watford. I mean seriously! Who loses from Watford, you have to play utterly nonsense to be beaten by the side which won only single game in 17 games.

Meanwhile me after having 5th awful week in a row:

Watford 2-0 Man Utd with just over half an hour to go. I went for Watford to win in my predictions, I have to start taking risks as tokeweed was pulling away at the top.

I think Pep will.  He was being groomed to take over at City in preparation once Pep leaves.

I think the problem will always be Europe, at least that's the opinion of Asian federations, and even South American. The winter and summer breaks seem to be non-negotiable and almost part of the European football culture, whereas for everyone else, the calendar year is how the season starts. Schools in the global south start in January, so does football, so does basically everything else. We have a 2019 season, but Europe has a 2019/20 season, school and everything starts in July/August in Summer I always found that strange too.

So if the Federations found a way to sync their calendars, it would work out. And definitely a big club world cup proper tournament every 2 years even would be super, but then the international qualifiers and the other continental cups would suffer because their players would be playing club football. I don't know the solution either, but there definitely has to be a better way.

I will say though, that club competitions like these ARE important, otherwise the hegemony in Europe continues and we get shittier and shittier football in our regions in the south.

But back to EPL. I'm going to try and catch the Hornets game to see if they can improve on their showing against Liverpool and beat United. 5/1 isn't too bad for a home game right?

Also, why the hell do Newcastle keep winning and Palace keep losing? Didn't watch that game but every time I see either play, Palace surely has better football.

It's getting harder to catch up with tokeweed these days. We both started with same points in this round but he is well ahead than me now. I was lucky to have exact pick for City match or I could be more behind.

Tottenham match is tricky tomorrow, in fact the other match between Watford and Utd is tricky as well. Watford is a team always harmed my picks. Let wait for tomorrow 😛