THERE'S just one day to go to Scotland's biggest game for 22 years and I'm feeling the tension.
Serbia vs Scotland and Northern Ireland vs Slovakia are two of the play-off finals for a Euro 2020 place and Kevin Mac has posted his Serbia vs Scotland match preview.
First of all we have the small matter of a few games to look at on Wednesday including Betfred Cup ties between St Mirren vs Morton, Stranraer vs Hamilton and Airdrie vs Edinburgh City.
There were plenty of cup tips on the site on Tuesday and some good winners including SlipsTips and Scott with his VIP Tips.
And well done to Jamesyfc with a 6-1 accumulator on goals to be scored in the both halves of four matches.
My both to score treble was a Cove goal short as they crashed at Dundee and that was a disappointment considering the form the Highlanders have shown.
Elsewhere on Wednesday there are a pile of international friendlies including Belgium vs Switzerland, Denmark vs Sweden, Holland vs Spain, Portugal vs Andorra and France vs Finland.
I don't like betting on friendlies but if you have good enough team news or even wait until line-ups are revealed they can be profitable.
I've decided just to go with a Betfred Cup double. I'm taking both to score in the St Mirren vs Morton derby and Airdrie to beat Edinburgh City at home.
Both to score has landed in the last six meetings between Saints and Ton and it's usually a hard-fought battle between close rivals although no fans will make it less fiery.
League One Airdrie hammered Clyde 5-0 on Saturday and will be confident of improving their run against League Two Edinburgh.
Hamilton should bounce back from their 8-0 nightmare defeat at Rangers when they go to Stranraer but I can't back them at 1-3.
- It's also the eve of the delayed Masters at Augusta and The Caddy has posted tips so check them out.
I've already said I can't see past Bryson DeChambeau while I'm also on Tyrrell Hatton each way. I'm also on Jason Kokrak and Louis Oosthuizen each way.
DeChambeau has a massive advantage at any course he plays these days due to his length and the scary thing is he's trying to go even longer. As he long as is fairly accurate he will stay out of trouble on a track that has no rough. The US Open champion will reduce many holes to a pitch and putt while average players will have maybe 170 or 180 yards to the hole by taking a more direct route.
The one weakness in DeChambeau's game can be his putting but as long as he holes his fair share he could be there or thereabouts.
I'm hoping to see Rory McIlroy up there as well but his odds are short for someone who hasn't won a Major since 2014 while Dustin Johnson is also expected to challenge.
However, I'm taking bigger each-way punts on players at longer odds. Tyrrell Hatton has been in great form on both sides of the Atlantic and must surely win a Major sometime soon.
Jason Kokrak is a big hitter and can be a great putter and he and Louis Oosthuizen have played well in this season's Majors.
My final bet is Bernhard Langer to be Top Senior at 11-2 each way. Now that he's over 50 Phil Mickelson is the odds-on favourite but hasn't enjoyed a good year.
Age is in his favour though so if you reckon he's win this market and Langer can be second then back the German each way in case Lefty slips up. Langer's still a great player who wins regularly on the Senior Tour and his accuracy rather than length should keep him in the game here. Probably the only other person who can win this one is Fred Couples who is also 11-2.
Also enter our fun Masters contest with prizes up for grabs.
Betfred Cup Double
- St Mirren vs Morton btts
- Airdrie
- (2-1, McBookie)
Masters Tips
- DeChambeau to win (8-1, BetVictor)
- Hatton ew (28-1, William Hill) – 9 places
- Kokrak ew (70-1, bet365) – 8 places
- Oosthuizen ew (55-1, William Hill) – 9 places
- Langer top senior ew (11-2, Paddy Power) – 2 places
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PP doing btts in Serbia Scotland, Northern Ireland Slovakia & Hungary Iceland at 11/1, free fiver after hitting the bar Monday night. Had BTTS,4+ corners & 20+ BP’s each team at 12/1 then had a 7fold GIBH at 39/1+ either the swedish game, 1-0 after 9 mins and finished that way. Fancy Serbia -1 at 21/10 also, had them 23/10 but had 5 games last for goals that never happened wi Tony Finao top 20 finish at Masters
BTTS in Thursdays 19.45 KO’s Euro 2020 qualifiers
Belgium v Switzerland Wednesday NAP
Over 2.5 gls 3/4
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Serbia v Scotland Thursday NAP
Serbia -1.0 asian handicap 2.300
*REPOST FROM YESTERDAY*
International friendlies tomorrow. A lot of people will write these off as pointless meaningless games which for the most part I guess they are but from a betting angle I noticed something interesting in the last round of friendlies. Quite a few games saw at least 3 cards / 30+ booking points land:
France Ukraine – 3
Switzerland Croatia – 3
Holland Mexico – 6
Germany Turkey – 4
Austria Greece – 5
Luxembourg Liechtenstein – 3
Malta Gibraltar – 7
Montenegro Latvia – 4
Denmark Faroe Islands – 4
Belgium Ivory Coast – 4
England Wales – 3
Japan Cameroon – 3
Naturally the odds offered on these, being friendlies, were very generous. Sky have priced up the vast majority of this next glut of friendlies as well and once again the prices look good. Never something to go big on but definitely worth putting together an acca or two on.
In truth the referee appointments for this round of games look decent as well. Some of the most card happy whistlers from various respective domestic leagues are in action so the only real question is does all that go out the window when it comes to friendlies or not.
I’ve picked out a treble (there were loads of candidates in truth) based on the latter criteria, ie, that these guys still seem to flash the cards no matter what the competition or what’s at stake. All three are prolific domestically and in European club football and all three have shown card counts of 3/4 upwards in international friendly action before. On top of that the three fixtures in question are between relatively closely matched opponents which should mean they are a bit more competitively contested than a run of the mill friendly.
15/1 treble
30+ match booking points
Romania v Belarus (Georgi Kabakov)
Bulgaria v Gibraltar (Sebastian Coltescu)
Switzerland v Belgium (Jerome Brisard)
5/2 single (NAP)
Bulgaria v Gibraltar 30+ match booking points
10 fold
20+ match booking points 58/1
30+ 5580/1
3 games above plus:
Greece v Cyprus
Albania v Kosovo
Lithuania v Faroe Islands
Malta v Liechtenstein
Turkey v Croatia
Luxembourg v Austria
Germany v Czech Republic
GL all
Interesting post.
40+ points is all that’s available on Sky now
All prices still available waggy you just need to go to each game for the 20+. 30 plus should be available in the tab for booking points.
I was looking in the wrong section. Cheers. Good start Greece is up 👍
I just can’t see how we can beat Spain tonight. Frank de Boer is going back to his boring 443 system with a second string Dutch team. He already announced most of the team. Spain will rotate too, but their bench is so much better. I like Spain DNB @ 1.76
It is a pointless friendly, so don’t go crazy on this
Would you back de graafschap to win tonight mr O?
No, not for me. NAC Breda is full strenght now after having a lot of covid problems. They lost 4 in a row because of that. I am leaning towards the over 3 goals asian line
Had a mixed night in Perth
Over 3 cards in the match 21/10 WINNER
Over 1 United card 11/18 WINNER
Over 1 card each team 5/1 LOSER
Over 1 Saints card 13/8 LOSER
I will settle for that . Well done all winners .
Penalties for me tonight . Pen awarded and scored at .
France v Finland 17/5
Belgium v Switzerland 7/2
Holland v Spain 19/5
Doubles and Treble
All 3 up pays 174/1 Hills price boost
Also on a pen to be awarded in the same games
State of Origin just started – NSW v Queensland. Should be a NSW win and they’re heavily odds on so not worth backing. Going for the scorers and cards:
Josh Ado-Carr try in both halves @ 6/1
Yellow card in both halves @ 17/2
Both with WH
Punt – Josh Ado-Carr Man of the Match @ 50/1 with Paddy Power
Big win for NSW 34-10 as expected. 2 yellow cards but but both in the second half.
Try’s in each half for Addo-Carr though for a lovely 6/1 winner ✅
He should’ve got MOTM in my opinion but went to Cleary. Good start to the day!
Just missed your bet this morning but great to see Rugby (Union and League!) tips on here and class shout on Ado-Carr on the 6/1. I would also agree he deserved MOTM. An exciting weekend ahead for Rugby fans!
Cracking shout on addo Carr. I left the game alone after game 1 but if I’d gone with my game 1 bets of tedesco and Wighton both to score I’d of won
Cheers lads. Was a good game and now for the decider at Suncorp next week. I was there in 2005 to see a decider. Great stadium and unreal atmosphere!
I’ll be back with rugby tips this for the weekend 👍🏻
Tennis Inplay
adrian Mannarino to win 1st set and win match
61/50 Marathonbet £10 returns £22.20
Thanks for that Mr F 👍
DE GRAAFSCHAP v NAC
STRANRAER v HAMILTON
ST MIRREN v MORTON
A Goal in Both Halves Treble
3.66/1, William Hill (boost)
last nites bets LOST no cove goal suppose their 2 reds didnt help……………
tonite
stranraer plus 2 at 5/6
stranraer o1.5tgs 4/1
stranraer win 15/2
stranraer to score, airdrie & st mirren overs 9/2
glentoran W o3.5mgs 10/11
o4.5mgs 23/10
o5.5mgs 9/2
previous h2h ended 4-3
2020 punt stranger things have happened
San Marino to score
Andorra to score
Belgium v Swiss over 2.5 gls
34/1
Inplay Russian div 1
Orenburg to win 81/50
£22.20 returns £58.16 marathon
Bookings for me again in the League cup tonight
20 + St Mirren booking points 2/1
20 + Morton booking points 11/10
40 + Booking points in the match
All at Skybet
Each team over 1 card 9/2 Hills
afternoon cocker, GL should be a feisty affair even with no crowd………….. would probably have gone along tonite as love the renfrewshire derby, think ive mentioned it before but funniest thing ive ever seen was at the old love street the paisley panda throwing bars of soap into the morton crowd to the tune of chers gypsies, tramps and thieves…………… near caused a riot 2 older morton supporters managed to evade the feds and stewards to get on the park and set about the panda, the paisley daily express had a brilliant strap line on the back page the following day was something along the lines of ” tons fans attack panda for last bar of soap” ………….. was brilliant
Haha .I`m surprised that Greenock mob never threw them back . ( Only joking Morton fans )
For anyone looking to bet in this years Masters and not sure about the November date this year, I can say that nearly everything is the same whether it’s played now or in April, the weather will be the main difference with rain and wind forecast, with it being hurricane season that’s no surprise, we could see round stoppages at any time and lack of light could be an issue, the course wouldn’t be watered at this time of year but we are forecast rain anyway, on a golfing front I’m hoping to see BRYSON DECHAMBEAU tear the course apart, which he could very easily do
My Bets
ADAM HADWIN top 40 finish
2/1 paddy power
Adam Hadwin is 3/5 to make the cut so the 2/1 for a top 40 is a value play, his two tournaments played have seen top 40 finishes
2017 T 36
2018 T24
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BERND WIESBERGER top 40 finish 11/8 paddy power
Bernd Wiesberger is 3-1 for top 40 finishes in his 4 tournaments at the Madters with the other time being a tied 43rd
2015 T22
2016 T34
2017 T43
2018 T 24
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RICKIE FOWLER top 20 finish
2/1 william hill
Rickie Fowler is 5-1 for top 20 finishes in the last 6 years
2014 T5
2015 T12
2016 T69
2017 T11
2018 (2)
2019 (T9)
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GRAEME MCDOWELL not to make cut
4/5 888sport
Graeme McDowell is 6-3 for not making the cut in his 9 tournaments played
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JUSTIN HARDING top 40 finish
5/2 Boylesports
In his only Masters played he finished T12 last year
The main difference is no azaleas and no traffic.
Not the same without the Augusta roar.Scores could be low in my opinion.
John Rahm for me @ 10/1 with WH
Another kick in the teeth for liverpool.
Gomez out for a long period.
God i hate international football.
3 of the back 4 out for a long time.
NITEMARE.
Nobody cares. Nothing to do with a betting site.
If you mean Gomez of course we care. Team news and injury reports are always of interest when betting.
And your comment El Gonner has exactly what to do with a betting site
I wouldn’t worry alex as Fabhino is back after the International break,he will cover until January when two defenders will be brought in.Liverpool will have already secured deals i’m sure.
Sab Marino v Latvia
Under 2 Asian goal line at 2.050*****(NAP)
Correct score 0-1 at 11/4
best of luck
—Double—
De Graafschap O1.5 TGls
Havant v Dulwich – O2.5 MGls
2/1
2 POINTS
No second goal by Graaf – lost.
Evening gents,
No joy yesterday but good news re the serious head injury that Nicky Hunt received…game ended up abandoned after the incident in the last couple of minutes.
No serious damage the neck/head as initially suspected 👍
Onto warmer climes for me and I’m hoping this one doesn’t end on a bitter note…
LIMÓN VS. GUADALUPE (9.00pm)
Up until this time last year, the most recent 11 H2H’s between these two had seen both sides scoring – alas both of this years games bucked that trend but I’m looking for this one to get back on track!
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE
(4/5, bet365) NAP ⭐⭐⭐⭐
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE & OVER 2.5 GOALS
(13/10, bet365) NB ⭐⭐
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE BOTH HALVES
(16/1, bet365) LONGSHOT ⭐
Best of luck!
Tlaxcala F.C.
V
CSD Dorados de Sinaloa
23:00
Mexican Ascenso MX
Btts 6-5 (hills) NAP.
Not doing a write up until my luck turns 😢.
Home team are favourites to win but it’s them I’m most worried about .
Prediction draw.
Hopefully 1-1….
Dorados on a run on 19 games no clean sheet no worries
Easy😎😎
Can’t find your langer tip mr f could you point me in the right direction, cheers
Welcome back @sean567 👍
Got it, had clicked on the headings at top instead of going into actual golf section. Couples normally starts well and falls away, Mickelson has been hopeless recently so fingers crossed 🤞🏻
Langer has a chance for sure.
Lol it’s only been a few days mate, I usually don’t do too much over the international breaks, Much prefer to focus on club football.
Goal scorer treble
Piatek
Giroud
Batshuayi
14/1 skybet
Stranraer
Morton
Over 1.5tgs double 17/10
Btts & overs double 4/1
Good luck
Apologies main double is 0.5tgs double
Anytime goal scorer double:
Alvaro Morata (Spain)
Fransisco Trincao (Portugal)
@ 5.04/1 with SkyBet
Punt – Morata to score first and Spain to win 3-1 or 3-2 @ 80/1 with SkyBet
Bombed out 👎🏻
No 2nd half goal in Holland ends my treble early, good luck all with a bet tonight.
BAHIA O1.5GL
CD VIDA U2.5GL
BAHIA WON WHILE CD VIDA PP
glentoran W game off so using my voided stake on in play finland 2 up
finland win 6/5
Jaguars de Cordoba v Atletico Junior kickoff 9pm
Bet builder
Btts and double chance Atletico or draw 8/5 (365)
Stranraer
Morton
Over 0.5tgs double 17/10**WON**
Btts & overs double 4/1**LOST** no winner in Morton game 1-1
Main double landed
Well done all winners
nice yin dc…………. did think it was o0.5tgs ye were on son………………
Well in dc👍👍
tonite
stranraer plus 2 at 5/6 WON
stranraer o1.5tgs 4/1 WON
stranraer win 15/2 WON
stranraer to score, airdrie & st mirren overs 9/2 LOST
glentoran W o3.5mgs 10/11 VOID
o4.5mgs 23/10 VOID
o5.5mgs 9/2VOID
plus didnt want to mention it before in the wee rite up a did on yesterdays thread re stranraer but was a young family member of mine just signed and playing tonite scored the 1st stranraer goal…………. GALLUS…………..
just need finland to hold to spain for the win for a fairly hefty 6/5 in play…………. fingers crossed
Good shout on Stranraer crane
Good call on stranraer
Well in crane cracking prices 👍👍👍
Nice one.
cheers macca/mr f…………..
Superb stuff Crane 👏🏻
Belgium v Switzerland Wednesday NAP
Over 2.5 gls 3/4 👍👍👍
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Serbia v Scotland Thursday NAP
Serbia -1.0 asian handicap 2.300
glentoran W game off so using my voided stake on in play finland 2 up
finland win 6/5 WON……………
THAT’LL DO……………… WD ALL WITH A WIN
👍👍👍
nite owl
alianza o1.5tgs, chico o1.5mgs 11/5
No joy with 🇱🇻 Latvia didn’t think I could lose with my Nap as I couldn’t see them scoring 3 but they did.
Well don all winners
Jaguars de Cordoba v Atletico Junior kickoff 9pm
Bet builder
Btts and double chance Atletico or draw 8/5 (365) ✔️
Final score 2-2 👍
Tlaxcala F.C.
V
CSD Dorados de Sinaloa
23:00
Mexican Ascenso MX
Btts 6-5 (hills) NAP.
Not doing a write up until my luck turns 😢.
Home team are favourites to win but it’s them I’m most worried about .
Prediction draw.
1-1 on 35 minutes
⚽😁 winner😁⚽
nite owl
alianza o1.5tgs, chico o1.5mgs 11/5 WON
that’ll do me……………….