It's been just 24 days since Real Madrid defeated Liverpool to become European champions for a 14th time but we're ready to do it all again as the 2022-23 Champions League tournament kicks-off this afternoon in Reykjavik.
Four teams are in action in what is effectively a mini-tournament of two one-off semi-finals and a final, which will be held on Friday evening. The winners of which will enter the First Qualifying Round alongside the likes of Cluj, Ludogorets, Ferencvaros, Bodo/Glimt and conquerors of Real Madrid in last season's competition, Sheriff Tiraspol.
Both of today's Preliminary Round matches (and Friday's finale) will be held at Víkingur's ground in Iceland, so depsite them officially being the away team against Levadia Tallinn (Estonia) they'll gain home advantage. La Fiorita from San Marino will also meet Andorran champions, Inter Club d'Escaldes, at Víkingsvöllur in Reykjavik.
La Fiorita are regulars at this stage of the competition but they've never won a game in European competition. The best they've managed are a 0-0 draw with Linfield in 2017 and a 1-1 draw with Maltese champions Birkirkara in the Europa Conference League.
That would explain why the Andorrans are 3/5 favourites to win. This will be their third season in Europe and they've notched a couple of wins already, against opposition from the Faroe Islands and Albania.
A win to nil could be on the cards for Inter considering La Fiorita have scored just three goals in 20 European matches to date. That can be backed at 6/5 with Bet365.
Estonian teams don't normally feature this early in the competition, usually joining in the next round. Last year's representatives Flora made it to the second qualifying round thanks to a win over Hibernians of Malta before exiting at the hands of Legia Warsaw 3-1 on aggregate so champions Levadia Tallinn should have some quality about them.
But the game being a single knock-out tie in Iceland could be a leveller and from the outside this one looks like it could be a toss of a coin. It's 9/5 for Levadia to win inside the 90.
Super Single
- Inter Club d'Escaldes to win to nil 6/5 Bet365
Racing Tips
Rizzel has three selections for Tuesday with the NAP coming in the second race at Newbury.
US Open Fantasy Golf Competition Winner
The Caddy delivered us a brilliant 30/1 winner at the US Open but for one member it there was a fantastic 1-2-3 in our Fantasy Golf Competition. Congratulations to @ianhopkinswbk who selected the top three players on the final leaderboard in his team at the weekend.
Matt Fitzpatrick, Scottie Scheffler and Will Zlatoris meant he finished on an uncatchable -16 for the weekend, a full 10 strokes better off than 2nd place Duncanpoundcake who scored -6. DC1903 finished in third, whilst fourth placed was shared by Tinyboy11 and mjedl.
@ianhopkinswbk‘s first place finish sees him win a £50 free bet as well as a fantastic £200 travel voucher from our friends at Golf Travel Centre.
- 1st @ianhopkinswbk – £50 free bet & £200 in travel vouchers
- 2nd @Duncanpoundcake – £25 free bet
- 3rd @DC1903 – £15 free bet
- T4th @Tinyboy11 and @mjedl – £5 free bet each
Well done all the winners, we'll be in touch on Tuesday by email with details of your prize.
As always, let us know your tips and predictions for today in the comments section below and good luck with all your bets!
In December 2020 we sadly 
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Floresta EC
V
Volta Redonda
22:00
Brazilian Serie C
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE -EVENS- (BETWAY)
side bet
Volta redonda double chance and btts 7-4 (BETWAY)
dreadful card tonight and this best of a sorry batch of games for me.
Volta redonda slight favourites and should be scoring against floresta who have been conceding 2+ often recently.
Volta though seen BTTS in 7 of last 8 away games.
*** Volta only kept 1 clean sheet in their last 24 away games going back a year ***
This stat is the main reason for this bet as floresta don’t score many.
This fixture last season was 1-1 and could be similar today.
1-1 or 1-2
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Finished 1-1
Both bets landed
I notice duncanpondcake mentioned above in the golf competition.
If you read this are you the same guy that used to post on the racing thread years ago ??.
Used to take heed of his racing tips, didn’t post often but obviously knew his gee geez.
Just wondered 🏇🏌️♂️
Goal short in the the Stjarnan game last night for the icelandic goals treble 👎 missed pen in the 70th minute aswel……
Jamie’s Kenneth’s acca came up and I went with one of jwpepper’s which was GIBH Norway and Iceland so cheers 👍 bbts also came up in that but not o2.5. Didn’t chance either of these
02.38 Los Angeles Angels – Kansas City Royals (MLB)
LA Angels -1.5 Handicap @2.05 (Bet365) ❌
Under 8.5 total runs @2.05 (Skybet) ✅
Good luck with your bets today.
South Korea 11.30am
Daegu
Suwon
Btts double 21/10
Good luck
Lost finished 1-0 to daegu
Saburtalo Tbilisi win
Akranes O 3.5
Finland
Atlantis
Akatemia
Over 2.5mgs double evens
Over 3.5mgs double 16/5
Good luck
Levadia vs Vikingur Reykjavik
Bet builder @ 23/20 (Whill)
Over 1.5mgs
Over 1.5 cards each team
Small stake
Bet builder @ 29/20 (Whill)
Vikingur over 0.5tgs
Levadia over 2.5 cards
Good luck today 🤞
both teams to score
newells old boys v argentinos juniors
william hill 11/10
NAP lost
both teams to score
gimnasia v racing club
william hill evens
NB WON
double on above
william hill 16/5 lost
A few weeks away yet but Dundee UTD are a massive 3/1 to win at Kilmarnock on the first day of the season ( 2/1 draw no bet ), these prices won’t last utd should be closer to 13/8 just to win game
Finland
Atlantis
Akatemia
Over 2.5mgs double evens**WON**
Over 3.5mgs double 16/5**LOST** no 4th in akatemia game
Kria v Reynir Hellissandur
Iceland 4th division
9pm
BTTS 8-11 NAP/NB 🇮🇸 double stake as it’s a shit price
4 small side bets on bet builder
BTTS and over 4.5 at 23-20
BTTS and over 5.5 at 6-4
BTTS and over 6.5 at 5-2
BTTS and over 7.5 at 7-2
All at BETWAY………….
Kria beat reynir here in march 10-2 😂😂
Reynir seen 5 or more goals in 11 of last 12 games including conceding 16 11 and 10 in 3 of them.
Kris have lost 8-1 and 10-1 recently but odds of 1-33 for Kria to win suggest a repeat of the march game is possible 🧟♀️
Has Kria match postponed?
Current Kria score at half time: 4:1 ;-)
Cheers Chris, which site can I find score please…
The only place I could find it live was on the Betway website (where I placed my bet)
Thanks Chris, will take a look
Excellent shouts 👏🏻👏🏻
INPLAY 70 mins 2-0
FC Dinamo Batumi vs FC Torpedo 2008 Kutaisi
Dinamo Batumi to score next goal
11/10
INPLAY 70 mins 2-0
FC Dinamo Batumi vs FC Torpedo 2008 Kutaisi
Dinamo Batumi to score next goal
11/10
WON
77 min penalty
Small stakes on them to score next (4th) ONLY because 2 out of the 3 goals have been from penalties and I believe they can score without!
21/10
78 mins INPLAY
Forgot to mention away team gone to 10 men too
4th goal scored!
I wrote the odds wrong though it was 11/10 not 21/10
INPLAY 0-2 HT
Romania U19 vs France U19
Looking at the stats France are dominating big time!
Double stake on over 3.5 mgls 4/7
Half stake on over 4.5 mgls 7/4
Very poor ended 1-2 :( sorry guys I thought 1-4 or 0-5
One more!
INPLAY HT 1-0
Gremio RS U20 vs Santos FC PB U20
Gremio are dominating according to the stats
Last h2h was 2-0
Gremio to score 2nd goal at 4/6
You may want to double this with the France U19 3.5 mgls tip 🤔
Gremino U20 just score 👍
INPLAY 75 mins
Corinthians U20 to score 5th goal!
10/3
Longshot but having a good day and could well land
92 min goal! WON
Been a good night on the inplay betting 👍
Probably the last one…
INPLAY 32 mins 1-2
FC Levadia Tallinn vs Vikingur Reykjavik
Over 3.5 first half goals 13/8
WON
Tonight’s been great! Will leave it as that! Tea in oven, 12 hour shift at 6am! Will see what’s inplay tomorrow night 👌
One more :p
INPLAY 74 mins 1-5
FC Levadia Tallinn vs Vikingur Reykjavik
Over 6.5 mgls at 5/6
Bloody hell!
76 min winner
Going for over 7.5 goals at 11/10 👌
LOST
I got too greedy with that one! That’s it! Been a quality night over all. Hopefully will comment with a couple tomorrow after work :) NIGHT ALL!!
It’s worth noting if you bet inplay that not many teams like to end on an odd number after the 5th team goal (they seem to mainly end with 6,8 or 10 goals) With the bet above I was edging on the home team to score a 2nd if am honest!
Not many like to go above 5 team goals either. I’ve seen countless games at 4 or 5 nil at HT but yet end only on 5 team goals (Saving embarrassment to the opposition maybe)
What muck r u talking richard?
Levadia vs Vikingur Reykjavik
Bet builder @ 23/20 (Whill)❌
Over 1.5mgs✅
Over 1.5 cards each team❌
Small stake
Bet builder @ 29/20 (Whill)✅
Vikingur over 0.5tgs✅
Levadia over 2.5 cards✅
A Vikingur card short of both became less likely the more they scored!
Norwegian cup tomorrow 👌
Well done winners today 👏🏻👏🏻
Dont no to much about argentina
Cordoba v San lorenzo 1.30am
Looking at San Lorenzo recent fixtures 10 of their last 11 games has seen bts. Cordoba has seen bts in 6 of their last 8 games. Hoping both teams can find the back of the net here.
Btts 19/20 bet365
Good night, Good luck, God Bless
Kria v Reynir Hellissandur
Iceland 4th division
9pm
BTTS 8-11 NAP/NB 🇮🇸 double stake as it’s a shit price
4 small side bets on bet builder
BTTS and over 4.5 at 23-20
BTTS and over 5.5 at 6-4
BTTS and over 6.5 at 5-2
BTTS and over 7.5 at 7-2
All at BETWAY………….
Kria beat reynir here in march 10-2 😂😂
Reynir seen 5 or more goals in 11 of last 12 games including conceding 16 11 and 10 in 3 of them.
Kris have lost 8-1 and 10-1 recently but odds of 1-33 for Kria to win suggest a repeat of the march game is possible 🧟♀️
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Well this just crawled over the line.
Finished 9-5
FULL HOUSE 🇮🇸👍😂
Cracker elvis
Cleaned up there Elvis 👍