Fair play to the Arsenal! They swatted aside West Brom with ease on Wednesday, making a mockery of those who thought they'd have a tough night at The Hawthorns (hands-up!).
Their 6-0 win wasn't even the biggest on the night though, as Southampton hammered Newport County 8-0 to complete a midweek of comfortable wins for Premier League clubs in the Carabao Cup.
On Thursday it's the Gunners' north London rivals Tottenham who need to turn in a performance as they welcome Portuguese minnows Pacos de Ferreira who lead 1-0 from the first leg.
The Harry Kane saga has dogged Spurs start to the season but it looks like he's commited his future to the Lilywhites and the England captain is 15/8 to score first in a game that the Premier League side should dominate.
Rangers' plans have been thrown in to disarray with the news that an unspecified number of players, as well as manager Steve Gerrard, were unable to travel to Armenia due to an outbreak at the club. The Gers are still 1/2 to win against Alshkert after they made heavy weather of the first leg, winning 1-0 at Ibrox.
The starting XI may be depleted but they should still be good enough to see it through and book their place in the Europa League group stages.
Rivals Celtic travel to AZ Alkmaar to defend a 2-0 first leg lead. Anyone who has seen Ange Postecoglou's side in recent weeks will know that it isn't in Celtic's nature to sit in and defend so it could be an open match in the Netherlands.
The Hoops have banged in 24 goals in their last six matches and look capable of scoring on the road but it's hard to find value around the goals markets. Over 2.5 goals is just 4/9 (Bet365) and even throwing in BTTS only takes that to 4/6. So let's add in Over 2 Celtic corners to take it to even money.
LASK look too short at 8/15 to qualify from their tie with St Johnstone. The Saints held their Austrian counterparts to a 1-1 draw in Linz last week and deserve more respect than the 11/8 on them to qualify. Callum Davidson have been draw specialists of last so don't be surprised to see this one go the distance. The draw can be backed at 23/10 or St Johnstone for the win on the draw no bet market are 6/4.
Aberdeen ground out a 1-0 defeat in Azerbaijan last week to give themselves a fighting chance to qualify against Qarabag. There's a fine tradition of European nights at Pittodrie and it would one of the biggest results in the Dons' recent history if they can book a place in the Conference League group stages.
Aberdeen are 13/8 to qualify or you can back them at 21/20 to win inside the 90 minutes.
Super Single
- AZ v Celtic – Over 2.5 Goals, BTTS and Over 2 Celtic Corners 1/1 (Bet365 BetBuider)
Longshot Acca
- All five British teams to qualify 19/2 (Bet365)
Upcoming Matches & Tips
- Thu 4.00pm – Alashkert v Rangers Match Preview & Tips
- Thu 6.00pm – Roma v Trabzonspor Match Preview & Tips
- Thu 6.00pm – Rosenborg v Rennes Match Preview & Tips
- Thu 7.00pm – St Johnstone v LASK Linz Match Preview & Tips
- Thu 7.15pm – AZ Alkmaar v Celtic Match Preview & Tips
- Thu 7.45pm – Aberdeen v Qarabag Match Preview & Tips
Thursday's Racing Tips
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As always, let us know your tips and predictions for Thursday in the comment section below and good luck with all your bets!
Europa League
AZ vs Celtic
Over 4.5 1st Half Corners
4/5 @ Skybet *NAP*
Carreno busta (tennis)
Roma win
1/1 @ paddy
Morning Humble,
Notice you are doing tennis 🎾 player every day, do you fancy anything else in tennis today? Thank in advance
Morning @mmac, i have also done a double of frances tiafoe and liam broady to win. Odds is 1.2/1 with paddy power. I was going to put it up as an official tip but hate putting up too many tips, best of luck.
No joy with my red card at Shakhtar LOSER .Plenty of yellows but no red
Well done all winners last night
Couple of bets which centre around the Rangers game.
Rangers clean sheet – 11/10 single
Rangers win
Galatasaray win
1.21/1 double
I know plenty won’t agree with this but 1/2 on Rangers to beat this team is generous in my opinion. They are about as easy a tie as you will get in Europe and the starting 11 Rangers will be able to field today is going to be very strong even with the Covid outbreak. Alashkert haven’t scored after three league games in the Armenian league and offered no threat with Rangers down to 10 men for a full half in the first leg. It’s worth noting that all 3 league games they’ve played have been at home as well. It’s only 11/8 for a win to nil so may as well just go with the clean sheet at similar odds. Rangers should win comfortably tonight and Galatasaray also need a win to go through. Gala have won two from two in the league and I think their European pedigree will see them through tonight.
Agree with you Invincibles, Rangers should be beating this team covid outbreak or not. The heat should be the most difficult part of the game really. See the odds have dropped from last night as well so must be a few people taking advantage 😅 good luck mate 🤞
Cheers mate. Yeah as soon as I heard who was missing and saw the team that can still be put out for today I thought odds were about as good as you will get. Reckon odds will have shortened again now because people are realising how strong a team Rangers can field.
Rangers may well win but I would never back a team away from home in Europe who don’t need to win and are odds on especially without their manager and a few players.
Hence why I took the clean sheet rather than win to nil.
🚴♂️ Cycling 🚴♂️
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Vuelta – Stage 12
To win
🚴♂️ Matteo Trentin @ 15.00 ⭐
🚴♂️ Andrea Bagioli @ 20.00 ⭐
🚴♂️ Jan Tratnik @ 35.00 ⭐
🚴♂️ Thymen Arensman @ 81.00 ⭐
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Rangers to win both halves and Rangers to have the most corners in each half
17/2 pp
Yes well done to the Arsenal who smashed an Albion side which was largely made up of the local boy scouts group.,😃
AZ v Celtic
Couple of punts in this one
Callum McGregor score from outside the box 33/1 Sky
Edouard ( if he starts ) score a header 22/1 Hills
Not often I comment on the site but I think BET365 have got their prices wrong as a bet builder for Celtic tonight! Ange has already stated that they will go for it tonight and I just cannot see them not scoring. There were 16 corners last week(8 each) and with what is at state and both teams going for it the 5 each does not seem a hard line to cross. Only 3 bookings last week but the ref was lenient and with Tiego Martins reffing tonight that figure should only go one way – up!
good luck should you follow!
Celtic to score
Celtic 5+ corners
AZ 5+ corners
Each team to receive a card
7/2
Rangers, Celtic, Aberdeen & St Johnstone all to score @ 2/1 (WHill Boost)
Alashkert vs Rangers
Bet builder @ 5/4 (bet365)
Rangers to win and Morelos to score
Over 2.5mgs treble @ 3.1/1 (WHill)
Zilina vs Jablonec
Hammarby vs Basel
Vitesse vs Anderlecht
Particularly like all the Scottish sides to score tonight, may not see all 4 winning but no reason they can’t find the net.
Good luck all 🤞🤞
NAP: CSKA Sofia – Plzen BTTS @1.9
NB: Legia Warsaw – Slavia Prague BTTS@1.72
both with bet365
Combo To Win @ 18.51 ⭐
⚽ Olympiakos
⚽ Rennes
⚽ PAOK
⚽ Shamrock
⚽ Partizan
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Combo @ 8.60 ⭐
⚽ HJK/Fenerbahce 2-3 goals
⚽ Vitesse to qualify
⚽ Gent -1.5 AH
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Combo @ 13.45 ⭐
⚽ Galatasaray/Randers – over 2.5 goals
⚽ Alkmaar/Celtic – 2nd Half – over 1.5 goals
⚽ Antwerp/Omonia – over 2.5 goals
⚽ Elfsborg/Feyenoord – btts
⚽ Roma/Trabzonspor – over 2.5 goals
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Bit of a punt tonight David Turnbull of Celtic to score vs az at 4/1 unibet. Scored a hatrick last game and has already scored (twice) in these qualifiers last round vs jablonec.
Good luck with your bets tonight 👍
Thursday tips
Spurs/sturm/bodo
All to win/o1.5tgs
4/3 bet 365 NAP
Aberdeen/st Johnstone
Double chance double
23/20 hills NB
Can’t see either of the dons or saints losing tonight, I know I’ve banged the LASK drum for the past 2 and a bit years but they are miles away from being on the level of the team they had that smashed sporting (twice) and psv.
Az v Celtic betbuilder
Both teams to score
Both teams to be carded
Both teams 4+ corners each
12/5 bet 365
This promises to be a fast open attacking game, all the ingredients you look for when betting on goals/cards/corners
4 bets for me today –
Alashkert v Rangers
AZ v Celtic
Each team 1+ corners each half – 2/1 – Skybet – NAP
—
St Johnstone over 10 BP’s
Aberdeen v Qarabag – 2+ gls
7/10 – PP
—
AZ to win
AZ DC
Over 3.5 cards
Over 8.5 corners
21/10+ – PP safety wi 3/4
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AZ v Celtic
Over 2.5 gls, over 2.5 cards & Over 5.5 corners
7/10 – PP
Afternoon all,
One I like for St Johnstone game tonight. LASK been racking up corners in this competition, they’ve hit 7, 11 & 13 in the last three games. Think it’ll be a tight game but fancy them to hit more tonight and this landed in the previous game too 🤞🏻
LASK -2 corner handicap 13/10 bet365
Gl!
Afternoon gents,
Rubbish couple of days but looking for a more fruitful Friday and I’m taking on this Russian Cup game which could either rocket things into orbit or end up circling Uranus…
CHAYKA VS. TORPEDO MOSKVA (3.00pm)
Bit of a quality mismatch on paper but the last 3 meetings have seen the smaller side netting and ending in 2-1 scorelines:
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE
(11/10, williamhill) ⭐⭐
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE 1ST HALF
(4/1, williamhill) ⭐
Best of luck today!
1-0…equaliser never came 👎
Europa League & Conference ACCA
Kairat -2 9/5
Union Berlin -2 11/8
Sturm Graz -1 8/13
Galatasaray score 2+ goals 8/11
Legia Warsaw v Slavia Prague BTTS 4/5
32/1 👍🏻
Good luck everyone
🇪🇺GALATASARAY v RANDERS
🇪🇺STURM GRAZ v MURA
🇪🇺ROYAL ANTWERP v OMONIA NICOSIA
◾A Goal in Both Halves Treble
▪️4.41/1, Hills
🤞🤞🤞
Europa League Qualifiers
Alashkert v Rangers:
Btts @ 6/4 (NAP)
Adding AZ v Celtic for a btts double @ 2.83/1
Both with Bet365
Turgid 0-0 and red card didn’t help this ❌
Lincoln Red Gimps to score at 4/7
Roma to win at 4/11
1.14/1 (NAP)
St Johnstone v lask
Pen taken 2/1 hills
Gl
Rijeka
Shamrock
Antwerp
Over 1.5mgs evens
Btts treble 9/2
Good luck
both teams to score + over 2.5 goals
misr elmaqasah v pyramids
skybet 11/10
NAP lost
Rangers clean sheet – 11/10 single ✅
Rangers win
Galatasaray win
1.21/1 double ✖️
Double downed already due to an unbelievably poor rangers performance. Clean sheet makes up for it thoigh, glad I went for that at slightly lesser odds rather than the win to nil
I would imagine a few accumulators have just went down.
Vitesse v Anderlecht
Union Berlin v KuPS
Over 2.5 Goals double @ 6/4
No luck with one out of two. ❌
Union had a comfortable lead – lesson learned.
Go again tomorrow.
both teams to score
akhmat grozny v arsenal tula
ladbrokes 13/10
NAP
both teams to score double
godoy cruz v union de santa fe
akhmat grozny v arsenal tula
ladbrokes 3/1
NB
Couple of longer shots for Celtic game
Fonn witry Ags 6/1 (alkmaar)
Over 15.5 match corners 10/1
Good luck
3 Scottish teams tonight, players to get carded wi WH, 3/3 pays 100+
Murray Davidson 23/20
Scott Brown 15/8
Carl Starfelt 4/1
£1 doubles
£2 treble (34/1+)
last nite pish…………….. not enuff goals in iceland…………..
tonite…………..
az btts & overs, o6.5 corners, furuhashi atgs 9/4
legia warsaw, royal antwerp & partizan belgrade overs 8/1
GL all with a bet on………………
both teams to score
akhmat grozny v arsenal tula
ladbrokes 13/10
NAP WON
both teams to score double
godoy cruz v union de santa fe
akhmat grozny v arsenal tula
ladbrokes 3/1
NB WON
Fantastic, well done
cheers mmac
On fire goalden well in
Cracking shouts Goalden 👍
thanks macca and hull
Europa Qualifiers – AZ v Celtic
Bet Builder:
Btts
Btts to receive a card
AZ over 3 corners
Celtic over 4 corners
Celtic to qualify in 90mins
@ 9/2 with Bet365
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Llacuabamba
V
Juan Aurich
21:30
Peruvian Segunda Division
BTTS and over 2.5 match goals 17-20 🇵🇪 NAP 🇵🇪.
BTTS and over 3.5 match goals 8-5 🇵🇪 NB 🇵🇪
Both at bet Victor bet builder
Llacuabamba BTTS and overs 2.5 in 8 of last 9 home games with 7 of the 8 BTTS and over 3.5 goals.
Aurich BTTS in last 5 games, 4 were BTTS and over 2.5 and 3 over 3.5
Prediction (a Desmond)
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Lincoln Red Gimps to score at 4/7
Roma to win at 4/11
double at 1.14/1 (NAP) WON
Well done all winners
Good shout on the double Macca – can’t beat those Lincolnshire Gimps 😀
11 hours ago
Not often I comment on the site but I think BET365 have got their prices wrong as a bet builder for Celtic tonight! Ange has already stated that they will go for it tonight and I just cannot see them not scoring. There were 16 corners last week(8 each) and with what is at state and both teams going for it the 5 each does not seem a hard line to cross. Only 3 bookings last week but the ref was lenient and with Tiego Martins reffing tonight that figure should only go one way – up!
good luck should you follow!
Celtic to score
Celtic 5+ corners
AZ 5+ corners
Each team to receive a card
7/2
Home & Hosed with 20 mins to go !!
Lovely stuff Bobo sir 👍👍
Well done
St Johnstone v lask
Pen taken 2/1 hills WON ✅
Gl
Well done all winners
Nice work Jonesy 👍
Thursday tips
Spurs/sturm/bodo
All to win/o1.5tgs
4/3 bet 365 NAP❌
Aberdeen/st Johnstone
Double chance double
23/20 hills Nb❌
Az v Celtic betbuilder
Both teams to score
Both teams to be carded
Both teams 4+ corners each
12/5 bet 365✅
Nothing doing with the NAP or NB, looks like
Bodo goal short for 1, the other let down by Aberdeen and st Johnstone both losing at home. Something salvaged with the betbuilder landing easily. Well done all winners
No joy with my Cal Mac goal LOSER
4 bets for me today –
Alashkert v Rangers
AZ v Celtic
Each team 1+ corners each half – 2/1 – Skybet – NAP LOSE
—
St Johnstone over 10 BP’s
Aberdeen v Qarabag – 2+ gls
7/10 – PP 👍👍👍
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AZ to win
AZ DC
Over 3.5 cards
Over 8.5 corners
21/10+ – PP safety wi 3/4 👍👍👍
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AZ v Celtic
Over 2.5 gls, over 2.5 cards & Over 5.5 corners
7/10 – PP 👍👍👍
No joy with the cards though
Scott Brown only player to get booked so 1/3
Good stuff Alves – nice work 👌
That was a tough watch but will take it ☘️
Winner at 9/2 ✅
Europa Qualifiers – AZ v Celtic
Bet Builder:
Btts
Btts to receive a card
AZ over 3 corners
Celtic over 4 corners
Celtic to qualify in 90mins
@ 9/2 with Bet365 ✅
Cracker
Cheers Cocker 👍🏻
Well done Andy 😀
Cheers Hull 👍🏻
Aberdeen at home, what an embarrassing display
Against one of the mighty football nations
Evening gents,
It’s a South American game I’m looking at for the main bets and all roads lead to a rare trip to the Argentinian top-flight 🇦🇷
ESTUDIANTES VS. SAN LORENZO (10.45pm)
Looks like the hosts are favourites for a reason and whilst the most recent form is usually the most important, it’s good counsel to look at patterns within previous meetings – particularly if they are teams that meet regularly season in season out.
On that note, it may be worth noting that San Lorenzo have either beaten or held the hosts to a stalemate in every one of the last 8 H2H’s – that’s quite some stat for the Argentinian top tier!
It doesn’t look like a high scorer and it does look like a possible 0-0 or 1-0 scoreline but I’d sooner stick pins in my eyes than bet on a low scoring outcome – instead, I’ll take on the corner angle with a longer shot on a f/t draw result:
OVER 9.5 CORNERS
8/11, bet365) NAP ⭐⭐⭐⭐
OVER 10.5 CORNERS
(6/5, bet365) NB ⭐⭐⭐
FULL TIME RESULT = DRAW
(5/2, 10bet) LONGSHOT ⭐⭐
Best of luck!
No luck with the Turnbull goal tonight ❌ back for tomorrow’s games. Well done all with a winner
All bets down tonight
Well done all winners
Wta Chicago
Mladenovic d Svitolina @ 3/1.
These two are set to take to the court soon. Mladenovic has played some very good tennis recently, though her results continue to be inconsistent. She can never been trusted with the house, but she’s worth putting something on her to upset top seed Svitolina. Svitolina has been throwing in some really iffy performances on and off over the last year or so and I’ve seen signs in recent matched that she may do the same here. With one eye on the bigger prize of US OPEN next week she might not give it the 100 percent she needs to get past a tricky opponent who leads the H2H 2-0. Worth a punt at these odds.
🇪🇺GALATASARAY v RANDERS
🇪🇺STURM GRAZ v MURA
🇪🇺ROYAL ANTWERP v OMONIA NICOSIA
◾A Goal in Both Halves Treble
▪️4.41/1, Hills
✅✅✅
👍
Great price and great form Jamesy 👌
Europa League
AZ vs Celtic
Over 4.5 1st Half Corners
4/5 @ Skybet *NAP*
**LOST** – Two short, got it wrong with the 1st Half being all about goals. 10 Corners in the second half 🤦🏻♂️
WD all winners!
tonite…………..
az btts & overs, o6.5 corners, furuhashi atgs 9/4 WON
legia warsaw, royal antwerp & partizan belgrade overs 8/1 LOST
WD all with a winner………………….
Nice shout on the 9/4 yan ould goose!
Do Skybet still do the corners after full time offer? One to linz at the death was worth £350 to me but settled as a loser. Ref definitely gave it.
They certainly have done in the past so worth getting in touch. Not sure why they do it to be honest as it doesn’t sit within the 90 (+) minutes play and most often it’s a corner awarded but not taken that let’s folks bets down.
I’d get on to them and quote that they have been upheld previously on Skybet – they might honour it – nowt lost 🤞
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Llacuabamba
V
Juan Aurich
21:30
Peruvian Segunda Division
BTTS and over 2.5 match goals 17-20 🇵🇪 NAP 🇵🇪.
BTTS and over 3.5 match goals 8-5 🇵🇪 NB 🇵🇪
NAP won again, NB didn’t again
Well done winners today 👍
All good when the Nap wins Elvis old bean 👍
🦉🦉 night owl🦉🦉
O’Higgins
Everton de Viña del Mar
at midnight
Chilean Primera Division
BTTS 21-20 (HILLS)
Last 4 head to head here seen BTTS.
Prediction 1-1
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Was tempted myself Parsley – looks too big a price…I’ve gone rogue in Paraguay instead though 😂
Carreno busta (tennis)
Roma win
1/1 @ paddy
*lost*
Adding one for a late Night Owl and it could be worth following corners in this Paraguayan Cup fixture…
MIL PALOS VS. 12 DE OCTUBRE (12.30am)
Bet365 have this down as a home game for 12 De Octubre but I’m pretty sure it is at Mil Palos’ place.
There’s a pretty big gap between the two sides and these Copa Paraguayan games have a distinct gulf in ‘quality’ compared to many of the other SA inter-country competitions.
I would be tempted by goals but if 365 do have it wrong then there will be a slight advantage for the hosts potentially making life harder for the better side to score which is a recipe for lots of pressure, not as many goals BUT a higher corner count.
Not worth going mad on but a potential edge:
OVER 10.5 CORNERS
(10/11, bet365) ⭐⭐
Best of luck!