“They'll be dancing in the streets of Skopje tonight”…and tomorrow… and for a good while yet after North Macedonia stunned Germany in Wednesday's World Cup qualifier in one of the biggest shock results in international football in many a year.
Joachim Löw has already signalled his intent to leave his post after Euro 2020 but his departure may be hastened after that result, Germany's first defeat in a World Cup qualifier since England beat them 5-1 in 2001.
In another surprise result, Scotland scored four without replay against the Faroe Islands 🙃! It was a welcome result for Steve Clarke's men who are now second in Group F 💪, behind favourites Denmark.
Harry Maguire's late winner made it three wins form three for England who look likely to cruise through another qualifying group, while Northern Ireland were held to a 0-0 draw with Bulgaria.
The good news is that we can now put international football to bed until the build up to the serious business of Euro 2020 begins.
There's little happening on Thursday but for the early risers there's action from the A-League live on BT Sport 3 in the shape of Central Coast Mariners v Adelaide United which Tolu has kindly previewed for us here.
And don't forget that it's Good Friday on Friday so that means there's a full card of Championship, League One, League Two and National League games to look forward to. Our team have already posted some thoughts on a trio of live matches to kick-start the weekend.
Match Preview & Tips for Thursday & Friday
- Thu 9.40am: Central Coast Mariners v Adelaide United Preview & Tips
- Fri 12.30pm: Doncaster Rovers v Charlton Athletic Preview & Tips
- Fri 5.30pm: Barnsley v Reading Preview & Tips
- Fri 8.00pm: Birmingham City v Swansea City Preview & Tips
- Sat 8.00pm: Arsenal v Liverpool Preview & Tips
Thursday's Racing Tips
Alan Thomson is sweet on an improving Mark Johnston stayer at Chelmsford City
Golf Tips: Valero Open & US Masters Build-Up
The Masters is just over a week away and The Caddy sets the scene on who could be in contention at Augusta in this year's first major. He'll be covering the tournament in detail next week but in the meantime you can join the debate on who's like to be rocking the green jacket by the end of next weekend.
Before that most of the big hitters will compete at the Valero Texas Open this weekend and The Caddy has opted for local resident Abraham Ancer at 25/1 as headline pick of three.
Good luck with all your bets on Thursday!
In December 2020 we sadly 
Real Zaragoza vs FC Cartagena
La Liga 2 🇪🇸
Thursday 1st April, 20:30 ⏰
Despite being 4th from bottom, Zaragoza actually have the 11th best home record in the division losing only 4 of their 15 home games winning 7.
Zaragoza have won 6 of their last 7 at home conceding only 1 goal which was an own goal.
5 of their wins in that run and 6 overall have finished 1-0 with their only other home win finishing 2-0, therefore I can see a similar score line here.
2nd bottom Cartagena have only won 2 of their 15 away games this season losing 9.
Only their opponents Zaragoza have a worst away record in the league that Cartagena.
Cartagena have failed to win any of their last 6 on the road losing 5 of them.
6 of their 9 defeats on the road have finished 2-0 or 2-1.
4th bottom Zaragoza host 2nd bottom Cartagena in a big game at the bottom of Spain’s second tier. This could be a tight game that involves plenty of cards but there is something that stood out to me. Both teams respective recent home and away form and also the score lines in those games.
Real Zaragoza to win
7/5 (Unibet)
Real Zaragoza to win 1-0, 2-0 or 2-1
2/1 (Skybet)
Just realised that Zaragoza to win has now shortened to 20/21
And the correct score grouping has also shortened down to 6/4
Just hope Zaragoza go out and do the business now 🤞🏼
Golf
Texas Open
Tournament Winner
CHARLEY HOFFMAN
33/1 william hill (1/5 odds, 8 places)
CHRIS KIRK
35/1 william hill (1/5 odds, 8 places)
RYAN PALMER
28/1 william hill (1/5 odds, 8 places)
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First Round Leader
CHARLEY HOFFMAN
40/1 unibet (1/5 odds, 6 places)
CHRIS KIRK
50/1 paddy power (1/5 odds, 6 places)
RYAN PALMER
40/1 betway (1/5 odds. 5 places)
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Top 20
CHRIS KIRK
21/10 paddy power NAP
Good Luck with the golf tips John.
Well done Elvis on Aucas bet yesterday.👌
2 matches in today’s 🇦🇺 A league involving the 2 form teams in the division who have both won their last 6 games. On paper Adelaide have the tougher game of the 2 away to top of the league Central Coast Mariners, so for that game I’m going for a generic bet where both sides can work for me, but for the first game I can’t see past city, especially after seeing the line ups as western Uniteds 2 best players Sanchez and diamanté are both out of the starting XI (although diamanté is on the bench)
Highlighted Jamie mcclaren scoring run last week with 8 in 5 and tipped him up to continue that and he duly obliged in the last minute to make it 9 from 6 and I’m on him again to continue that against a team he’s scored 8 goals in 5 games against. Adding a couple of singles for this match for player bookings, western are never short of a card or 2 and their 2 biggest culprits this season are uskok and Sanchez, as I said Sanchez isn’t playing so I’m going with the man replacing him in midfield lustica whose picked up 4 yellows in 10 games along with the aforementioned uskok
Western United v Melbourne city
Melbourne city to win/o1.5tgs/mcclaren atgs
21/20 bet 365 NAP
Lustica carded 7/2 skybet
Uskok carded 21/10 skybet
Central coast mariners v Adelaide Utd
Over 2.5mgs
Over 2.5 corners each
Over 2.5 cards
13/10 hills NB
I’ve been on a honking run the past 2 weeks so it’s just 1/2 stakes on these for me
March totals
NAP 8/20 win ratio 40%
NB 8/20 win ratio 40%
Really poor month from me especially as 7 from the first 10 NAPS landed, apologies to those who follow.
Shower of 💩💩 again
Western United v Melbourne city
Melbourne city to win/o1.5tgs/mcclaren atgs
21/20 bet 365 NAP❌
Lustica carded 7/2 skybet❌
Uskok carded 21/10 skybet❌
Central coast mariners v Adelaide Utd
Over 2.5mgs✅
Over 2.5 corners each❌
Over 2.5 cards❌
13/10 hills NB
No apologies needed Sean 👍
Posted last night so prices may have changed.
Australia A League
Western United v Melbourne City (07:35)
Melbourne to win
Over 1.5 Melbourne tgs
Over 3.5 Melbourne corners
21/20 bet365
Also had a punt on this
Melbourne to win
Under 5 goals
Over 3.5 Melbourne corners
23/20 bet365
NPL Western Australia
All 4 games over 2.5mgs 3/1
Good luck
Morning lads
Super League tips for tonight’s matches.
Wigan v Wakefield 6pm
Tom Johnstone anytime tryscorer 13/10
Liam Farrell anytime tryscorer 8/5
John Bateman anytime tryscorer 10/3
Hull KR v St Helens 8.15pm
Tommy Makinson 8/11
Jonny Lomax 6/4
Ryan Hall 17/10
Ben Crooks 15/8
All prices with Betfair
Let’s hope we can pick up where we left off last week!!
Good luck 👍
Bet builder @ 6/5 (bet365) ❌
Scotland win
Scotland over 1.5tgs
Scotland over 5 corners
Faroe Islands over 0 cards
Over 1.5tgs 6 fold @ 2.9/1(WHill)❌
Belgium
Turkey
Hungary
Albania
Germany
Scotland
A total lack of Scotland corners and a shocker from the Germans downs the bets. Thankfully internationals are over 😅
Well done all winners yesterday 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Western Australia NPL
League not long started back but can be a haven for goals, won’t be getting above evens doubles on offer for most goals picks on this league for long!
Double @ 1.1/1 (bet365)
Armadale vs Sorrento over 2.5mgs
Inglewood vs Joondalup BTTS
Double over 1.5tgs @ 1.6/1 (bet365)
Bayswater city
Floreat Athena
Small stakes
Roll up @ 4.2/1 (bet365)
BTTS all games @ 3.7/1 (bet365)
Good luck all 🤞🤞
Final score 3-0 in Peru and very surprised not a single goal from Huancayo 👎 well done all winners!
Will try an >2.5mgs 4-fold in Oz. Western Oz league usually good for a goal or three…
12.00 Armadale v Sorrento
12.15 Bayswater v Perth
12.30 Floreat v Perth SC
12.30 Inglewood v Joondalup
@ 3.4/1 (Skybet)…GL
Just noticed after posting a few have already put similar bets up…sorry, posted before I read any comments as running late…GL to all.
Rubbish, cant pick my nose at the moment…
Glad to see the back end of internationals for a while!!
Trip to Croatia 2nd Division today.
Solin vs Sesvete 3:30pm KO
Solin occupy 2nd from bottom of the Croatian 2 Division.
They may face the drop but they appear to be putting up a decent fight -on home soil anyway!
Their recent home form reads LDWLWDDLD they have scored in 4 out of their last 5 home games with 2 of 4 games seeing them net 2 goals.
Explore a bit deeper and 3 of those 5 home games were against the top 4 teams in the league.
Sesvete haven’t kept a clean sheet on the road for their last 12 away matches.
11 of the 12 away matches have seen their opposition net at least two goals!! They even lost away to bottom of the table Junak Sinj who managed to put 3 past them and win.
12 of the 13 Seveste Away games has seen over 2.5goals.
No surprises thebthat Sesvete are the league leaders for over 2.5 match goals with 82% of their games going over.
H2Hs point to goals – last 4 H2Hs have seen btts.
Last H2H at Sevete’s ground saw Sevete come out 4 nil winners.
Last H2H at Solin’s ground was a 3-1 win to Solin.
With Solin at home and putting up a decent fight more recently against the better teams of the league and Seveste being nothing but leaky on the road I am on goals in this one and Solin to pick up a home win as a smaller stake side bet.
OVER 2.5 GOALS 5/6 NAP
BTTS AND SOLIN WIN 13/5 NB
Did post a write up but not working
CROATIA 2ND DIVISION
SOLIN VS SESVETE 3.30PM KO
Over 2.5mg 5/6
Solin win and btts 13/5
Skybet
Over 2.5mg is NAP
Second is a small stake sidebet
East Fife to score O1.5tg.
Friday
MVV v Eindhoven
MVV +0 asian handicap @ 1.74 with BV
Go Ahead Eagles v Roda JC
Both teams to score @ 1.86 with 10bet
Actually got MVV on my shortlist to win tomorrow at 13/10.
Good luck on both selections 👍🏼
Did post a write up but not working
CROATIA 2ND DIVISION
SOLIN VS SESVETE 3.30PM KO
Over 2.5mg 5/6✔
Solin win and btts 13/5✖
Skybet
NAP came in. SOLIN unable to find the winner.
Note for diaries…Seveste are good for goals -for and against!
Skinny card but quite fancy this one from the Copa Brasil for reduced stakes:
LUVERDENSE VS. RB BRAGANTINO (8.30pm)
OVER 3.5 GOALS
(13/8, paddypower) NAP ⭐⭐
BRAGANTINO WIN & OVER 3.5 GOALS
(9/5, paddypower) NB ⭐
BRAGANTINO WIN & OVER 4.5 GOALS
(4/1, paddypower) LONGSHOT ⭐
Best of luck!
East Fife v Clyde a hard one to call , both teams in the cup on saturday Clyde looking to rest players then and go with a full team tonight , East Fife not in the best of form after beating Clyde 3 1 on there first game back havea winnable cup match at home to Morton , Nathan Austin there on loan froward has returned to kelty , Clyde have steadied the ship in a run of away matches scoring 2 in each match
Clyde getting near to 3/1 again worth an interest
Clyde over 1.5 goals 11/5
Dumbarton v Airdrie
Bit of a relagation battle Airdrie are by far the better team
Airdrie 6/4
18:30
Resende vs Portuguesa RJ
Away win
Odd 2.10 (NAP)
Correct Score 0 – 1
Odd 5.50 (NB)
WON!! finished 0 – 1 for a full house!!
Wd all winners..
NPL Western Australia
All 4 games over 2.5mgs 3/1**LOST**
East Fife btts & overs evens
Lost
nite owl LOST………..
tonite……………
zaragoza & airdrie to score, east fife o1.5mgs 13/10
both teams to score + over 2.5 goals
aucas v delfin
william hill 23/20
NAP WON
both teams to score
santa cruz v recife
william hill 21/20
NB WON
double on above
william hill 3.41/1 WON
Nice full house there oldie 🍺🏆
cheers elvis
👍👍
both teams to score + over 2.5 goals
uni catolica v macara
skybet 11/10
NAP
both teams to score
olmedo v emelec
william hill 21/20
NB
double on above
skybet 16/5
Double @ 1.1/1 (bet365)❌
Armadale vs Sorrento over 2.5mgs
Inglewood vs Joondalup BTTS
Double over 1.5tgs @ 1.6/1 (bet365)❌
Bayswater city
Floreat Athena
Small stakes
Roll up @ 4.2/1 (bet365)❌
BTTS all games @ 3.7/1 (bet365)❌
An inglewood and Bayswater goal short , total 💩
COLOMBIA
02:05
La Equidad vs Deportivo
Cali
Ov25 (NAP)
Odd 2.65
WON!!!!
Another WIN!!!! game ended 2 – 5
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Caldense
V
Atlético Mineiro
21:30
Brazilian Campeonato Mineiro
Caldense to score 6-5 (hills) main stake.
Side bet BTTS and over 2.5 goals 9-5 (hills)
Athletico have won all 5 games scoring 2+ in them all.
They won their 3 home games to nil but conceded in their 2 away games so hoping that continues.
Caldense scored in 4 of 5 h2h here.
3 of last 4 h2h seen BTTS and overs including athletico 1 caldense 2 in their last meeting last February.
Caldense scored in 6 of last 7 games.
Athletico including serie a games conceded in 15 of last 17 away games.
If athletico play a full team and are bang at it they win to nil.
They have shown in their 2 away games in this state cup they don’t mind letting one in as long as they win.
Prediction 1-2 or 1-3
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Haven’t called it a NAP as there is no best bet on tonight’s card, just best of a bad bunch ☹️
Nice one
Cheers Elvis, just dipped in to see what you were on so took Btts at 7/4 in play, happy days, hopefully another goal for fulll house for you👍🤞
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Cheers guys 👍
nice one elvis
Real Zaragoza vs FC Cartagena
La Liga 2 🇪🇸
Thursday 1st April, 20:30 ⏰
Despite being 4th from bottom, Zaragoza actually have the 11th best home record in the division losing only 4 of their 15 home games winning 7.
Zaragoza have won 6 of their last 7 at home conceding only 1 goal which was an own goal.
5 of their wins in that run and 6 overall have finished 1-0 with their only other home win finishing 2-0, therefore I can see a similar score line here.
2nd bottom Cartagena have only won 2 of their 15 away games this season losing 9.
Only their opponents Zaragoza have a worst away record in the league that Cartagena.
Cartagena have failed to win any of their last 6 on the road losing 5 of them.
6 of their 9 defeats on the road have finished 2-0 or 2-1.
4th bottom Zaragoza host 2nd bottom Cartagena in a big game at the bottom of Spain’s second tier. This could be a tight game that involves plenty of cards but there is something that stood out to me. Both teams respective recent home and away form and also the score lines in those games.
Real Zaragoza to win ❌
7/5 (Unibet)
Real Zaragoza to win 1-0, 2-0 or 2-1 ❌
2/1 (Skybet)
Despite Zaragoza keeping another clean sheet at home they couldn’t manage a goal unfortunately 👎🏼 be back for tomorrow’s games 👍🏼
Bets downed in Brasil – ended 1-2 and Bragantibo should have grabbed a 4th goal…played against 10 men for 60 minutes 🙆♂️
Unlucky bro, we move
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Caldense
V
Atlético Mineiro
21:30
Brazilian Campeonato Mineiro
Caldense to score 6-5 (hills) main stake.
Side bet BTTS and over 2.5 goals 9-5 (hills)
Athletico have won all 5 games scoring 2+ in them all.
They won their 3 home games to nil but conceded in their 2 away games so hoping that continues.
Caldense scored in 4 of 5 h2h here.
3 of last 4 h2h seen BTTS and overs including athletico 1 caldense 2 in their last meeting last February.
Caldense scored in 6 of last 7 games.
Athletico including serie a games conceded in 15 of last 17 away games.
If athletico play a full team and are bang at it they win to nil.
They have shown in their 2 away games in this state cup they don’t mind letting one in as long as they win.
Prediction 1-2 or 1-3
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Late goal gives caldense a shock 2-1 win.
🇧🇷 6-5 and 9-5 winners 🇧🇷
See this a 1-1 well done with the tips, see they was well ok top backed them at 8-1 to win with a score. Thanks to this write up so thanks.
Nice😁