There’s nothing to separate a clutch of teams in the Championship and two of them meet tonight at St Andrew’s in search of a win that that would help separate them from the pack.
Ten teams are separated by just two points from 5th place to 14th. West Brom are the team at the head of the pack, one point ahead of tonight’s West Midlands Derby opponents Birmingham City.
The Baggies have made a patchy start to the season, winning only four but their 4-0 win at the previously unbeaten Preston last weekend made the rest of the Championship sit up and take notice. They followed that up with a 1-0 win against Sheffield Wednesday in a match they totally dominated so they bring some momentum with them in to tonight’s derby.
After a strong start to the season Birmingham six without a win (L4 D2) before stopping the rot in midweek with a comprehensive 4-1 win over 19th place Huddersfield.
That win puts a bit of a different complexion on tonight’s match and the bookies are finding it hard to separate them with the hosts at 13/8 versus Albion at 7/4. At a push, West Brom’s greater firepower could be the deciding factor.
In Germany, Mainz have had a tough start to the season and prop up the Bundesliga after six matches where they’ve only picked up one point.
They face another tricky night at Borussia Monchengladbach who picked up their first win of the season last weekend.
The fixture computer hasn’t been kind to the Foals who had to play three of the current top five in their first six games so they’ll relish the chance to put another three points on the board against the bottom-of-the-table side at 11/10. They can also notch a couple of goals. In their other three matches they've notched 10 goals and can add another two at 4/5 this evening.
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No luck with yesterday’s bets. One corner short at villareal and West Ham downed the acca early doors.
Onto tonight one game I like is gladbach v Mainz. Looked at match corners but Mainz don’t like corners much. Gladbach however do! I feel the prices are generous but we’ll see.
A single on gladbach over 5 team corners at 11/8
Half unit on gladbach over 6 team corners at 12/5
Good luck
Early start
Sorry for this waffle
8am
China v Uzbekistan
Last match was 6-0 china. 1-0 at half time
1pm
Japan v Korea
Haven’t played each other for a few years
Bfair
China match over 3.5 gls
China winning half time
Japan match over 2.5 gls
Japan match over 0.5 first half goals
1.57/1
B365
China over 5
21/20
Japans last match against china finished 4-3 so chance of goals. Might chuck a couple of quid on over 5.5. 10/1
Stumbled on this on b365.
A builder double.
Over 5 in the china game
Over 3 in the Japan game.
4.12/1
I’ve went for this.
japan match is the final
fingers crossed for early goals
7-0 china last time i looked
st mirren to beat rangers
going for a score
its at st mirren
2-0 / 2-1
can get around 30/1
3-0 st mirren 65/1
got to be worth a quid
Liverpool v Brighton (SUN)
Over 3.5 goals at 4/5
Over 4.5 goals at 2/1
Arsenal v Man City
Man City to win at 7/5 (NAP)
Saka is a doubt for this game after picking up an injury against Lens midweek and even if he’s 80% it would be foolish of the Arsenal manager to risk playing him so early in the season, whatever happens here isn’t going to determine the outcome of the Premier League winner and Arsenal have bigger games ahead, they have to think long term. Rodri is also out as he serves the last of his 3 match ban for violent conduct. It’s fair to say City aren’t the same team without Rodri that’s evident in recent results but they did pick up an impressive win away to Leipzig midweek which will boost them heading in to this game and Rodri did play that game and I would say that’s why we are getting 7/5 on City to win. Arteta never get’s the better of Pep when it comes to this fixture and with Saka almost certainly out they really do struggle to offer much up front again that was evident in their loss to lens, with all that in mind City look a good bit of value.
Best of luck for the weekend.
Brighton v Liverpool*
SILKEBORG over 9 match corners 4/5
LYNGBY over 4 team corners 11/8.
Summary
Tonight’s visitors have a great corner ratio on the road under Icelandic manager Alexandersson, going back over their last 10 they’ve recorded 4+ in 9 (and a solitary corner against at the time, a well marshalled Brondby). Those 9 games in combined match corners exceeded over 9+! The hosts corner stats is a little miss and hit, but for the majority of games they’ve contributed reasonably well, under long term manager Neilson, they’ve notched up 4 and over, in 7 of last 10 home fixtures . Interestingly these two sides playing each other ( reverse fixtures ) under their current managers have produced the following, 6-6, 8-3, 7-3, 7-4!
Good luck all with bets today ! 👍
Apologies ! Was expecting a far more competitive game, those 4 early quick fire goals really didn’t help….both bets ✖️
Yesterday’s bet won at 21/20
Today’s bet
Portugal primera
Moreirense v Boavista
Both teams to score + over 2.5 goals
Bet365. 6/5
NAP
in play bet
not a big bet
japan v north korea women
b365
both to score second half currently 1-1
over 16 corners currently 9
15-1
Japans done the business
should have had more on china
all good
Kaiserslautern 🇩🇪
Adana Demirspor 🇹🇷
o2.5 mgs/o8.5 match corners double 3.79/1 ,
Goodluck all with a bet 👍
wait for team news for Blues Baggies game. Baggies beat Sheff Wed 1-0 last match playing striker up top , Huffed and puffed against an awful Sheffield side bottom of league after beating PNE away 0-4 3rd place and previously unbeaten .Baggies played without any recognised strikers and outplayed Preston throughout.Corberon does tinker with the system a bit so if he goes with Assante up top on his jack again i wouldnt expect a goal fest from us tonight.Sorry for wafflin, just puttin me tuppence wuth in.Good luck to all with ya bets !! cheers Swede.
Afternoon gents,
Early Italian for tea tonight and opting for cards…main bets will hail from theWest Midlands derby game later on but these may be worth a look!
EMPOLI VS. UDINESE (5.30pm)
UDINESE OVER 2.5 CARDS
(10/11, bet365) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
RED CARD AWARDED
(4/1, bet365) ⭐️
Best of luck!
1 short for Udinese cards and no red…not the fiestiest of Italian games 👎
in play half time bet
not a big bet just for interest
puskas women win
over 9 corners over 4.5 goals
on 6 corners on 3 goals
23/20 b 365
Yourodds acca
F. Dusseldorf v Osnabruck – Fortuna win,2+ team goals & 5+ team corners 23/20
K’lautern v Hannover – BTTS & O2.5gls,3+ corners each & 1+ card each 6/4
Volendam v Utrecht – 3+ corners each,1+ card each & 3+ match cards 21/10
Moreirense v Boavista – BTTS & Moreirense 4+ team corners 11/10
22/1 acca
Best of luck all
Volendam v Utrecht 21/20 not 21/10
BIRMINGHAM VS. WEST BROM (8.00pm)
I’m going for a Betbuilder approach this evening in what should be a tight game:
OVER 1.5 MATCH GOALS
OVER 7.5 MATCH CORNERS
BOTH TEAMS TO RECEIVE A CARD
(1/1, bet365) NAP ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
OVER 11.5 MATCH CORNERS
BOTH TEAMS TO RECEIVE A CARD
(2/1, bet365) NB ⭐️⭐️
WEST BROM TO MISS A PENALTY
(20/1, bet365) LONGSHOT ⭐️
Best of luck with all bets!
Sky have the nap at over 1.5 mgs 7 + corners and 20 match booking points hull 1/1
Nice spot Jonesy – happy enough with the return but took a while to get going 👍
Just focusing on the one match today in Holland 2nd division.
Dordrecht v Cambuur Leeuwarden
Over 10.5 Corners @ 2.0 Unibet
Bet builder @ 2.0 Skybet
Over 2.5 Goals
Both Teams To Score
8+ corners
Best of luck all
evening ladies its been a while i see some of the old rascals are still around……………
tonite…………….
2nd half red in france 9/2
same in brum 5/1
double 32/1
GL……………….
HT Villa goal away from 14/1 shot last night.
Bilbao v Almeria 20.00 – 6/1 PP power price
BTTS,3+ corners & 2+ cards each team
Birmingham v West Brom 20.00 – 22/1+ PP
Jed Wallace to score or be carded + & 1+ fouls
Stansfield to score or be carded
Wallace, Stansfield & Dembele 1+ SOT
ah ah………….. another old stallwart craig alves…………
how you doing sir, your teams almost as pish as us getting :)
Would take some doing Crane. We are honking – Harry Potter we need in, not Graham.
Always felt the prices were generous! Gladbach over 5 corners at 11/8 in before half time! One more for the 12/5 could cash out for almost full profit now
Took a while to get the 11th corner in the 2nd half but it eventually came.
Dordrecht v Cambuur Leeuwarden
Over 10.5 Corners @ 2.0 Unibet ✅
Bet builder @ 2.0 Skybet ✅
Over 2.5 Goals
Both Teams To Score
8+ corners
Well done all winners
Night Owl – Chile 🦉
Quite a bit riding on this game and certainly no dead rubber – it was one of my ‘go to’ H2Hs for goals in recent years so hoping it cones good again…
UNIÓN LA CALERA VS. HUACHIPATO (11.00pm)
OVER 3.5 MATCH GOALS
(2/1, bet365) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE BOTH HALVES
(14/1, bet365) ⭐️
Best of luck!
Both to score 11pm
General caballero v Cerro Porteno
17/20 Hills NAP
More Asian footy
Uzbekistan under 23s v Hong Kong 9am
Japan under 23s v Korea 1pm
Not as confident as the women’s matches
Double
Uzbekistan match
Over 0.5 gls first half
Over 3.5 gls total
Japan match
Over 0.5 gls first half
Over 2.5 gls total
271/50.