Arsenal strolled into the Carbao Cup semi-finals wih a 5-1 win over League One's Sunderland and tonight another six teams vie for a place in the last four of the competition.
Both Tottenham and West Ham's squads should be in decent shape after suffering some outbreaks in recent weeks. David Moyes is desperate to mark his progress at the Hammers with some silverware while Antonio Conte, who was an FA Cup winner as Chelsea boss, is aiming to land Spurs' first piece of silverware since 2008.
There's little between the sides in the Premier League so no result would surprise here. West Ham look the value bet at 5/2 but it'll all hinge on the team news from North London.
Thomas Tuchel is enduring an usually tough time at the moment at Chelsea, who have won just one in five. He'll have up to eight players missing though including Kai Havertz, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Romelu Lukaku, Timo Werner, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Ben Chilwell.
Postponements have mean hat Brentford haven't played for almost two weeks. Thomas Frank‘s squad have a clean bill of health and he's expeced to put out a strong line-up. Again it's going to be crucial to keep an eye on the line-ups but if it's second string Chelsea line-up then 13/8 Brentford on the Draw No Bet market could be worth an interest.
Both Jurgen Klopp and Brendan Rodgers have bemoaned the fixture congestion in December so expect them to ring the changes against each other tonight. Liverpool's fringe players have proven more than capable of a number of occasions and can be backed at 4/5 to win inside 90 minutes. For accas, Over 2.5 looks solid at 3/5 – it's a bet that's landed in seven of the last eight meetings.
In Scotland Celtic's price has been absolutely hammered following the news of St Mirren's plight. The Buddies sought, but have been denied, permission to postpone the match after stating they were “unable to field a team for either match with a significant number of first-team players and staff unavailable”
The Hoops are therefore just 1/7 at the time of writing and will no doubt go off even shorter. Over 1 Celtic Goal and Over 6 Celtic Corners stands an excellen chance at even money on a Bet365 BetBuilder.
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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 
Venezia Lazio o/2.5mg NAP
10/11
Today ,
Roma
Monaco
Over 2.5 mg’s double 2/1 skybet
Goodluck today all…….
Wednesday tips
Inter to win/o1.5tgs
Ajax to win both halves
5/4 bet 365 NAP
NB will be up later once I see team news, it was supposed to be a Melbourne city/Celtic corners double but the games in 🇦🇺 are off.
Brentford
Spurs
Liverpool
All 3 games over 1.5 match goals at 1/1 (NAP)
Spurs v West Ham
Spurs to win at 23/20 (NB)
Best of luck
My £20-£200 personal challenge.
First hurdle cleared with Bet1💫
Bet2
Venezia v Lazio. Venezia don’t seem to have a problem scoring when playing on home soil and Lazio are a free scoring team either home or away. Mind you, Atlanta are a free scoring team and they were shocking in their 0:0 bore draw yesterday.
Big admirer of the way Sassuolo play their football. I fancy them to win at home today, but a safer choice is to have them to win or draw. (Double Chance)
With this horrible Omicron variant about, this does have a huge factor in team selections or whether games are postponed.
My Bet 2 of my challenge is
Venezia v Lazio. btts (7/8)
Sassuolo to win or draw v Bologna (3/8)
£31.42-£82.00
Not going are way
Skybet are doing £7.50 PL RAB instead of your weekly £5 free bet. They’ve replaced the £6 inplay bet with this so need to opt in weekly if you fancy it. Can only do doubles on RAB selections though
St Mirren v Celtic
3+ corners each half
—
Leicester v Liverpool
3+ corners each half
—
Brentford v Chelsea
Over 1.5 gls
EVENS +
Betfair free spins 4fold, using the edge so cash back if 3/4. Pays just under 5/2
Chelsea to qualify
Liverpool to qualify
Venezia v Lazio – 3+ gls
Roma v Sampdoria – 3+ corners & 1+ cards each team
7/2 that should be 👍
Girondins Bordeaux Or Draw
Empoli Or Draw
Brentford FC Or Draw
Draw Or Leicester City FC
Venezia Or Draw
should be easy x26.76 odds as stats suggest.
Hellas Verona FC – ACF Fiorentina
Vlahovic, Dusan @1.94
Dusan Vlahovic the Serbian now has 33 goals in the Italian league in a calendar year – a repeat of Cristiano Ronaldo’s record. If Vlahovic scores against Verona, he will surpass the famous Portuguese.
worth a punt
🇳🇱 WILLEM II v NEC NIJMEGEN – NEC Nijmegen Double Chance
🇳🇱 AJAX v FORTUNA SITTARD – Ajax -2
▪️Double
▪️Evens, Ladbrokes
Hoping for 3rd time lucky in the Netherlands tonight!
Had a free bet with William Hill so stuck on a longshot acca 👇
🇮🇹I NTER MILAN v TORINO
🇮🇹 EMPOLI v AC MILAN
🏴 ST MIRREN v CELTIC
🇳🇱 AJAX v FORTUNA SITTARD
🇨🇵 LORIENT v PSG
🇪🇸 ATHLETIC BILBAO v REAL MADRID
▪️A Goal in Both Halves Acca
▪️14.45/1, William Hill
🏴 St Johnstone v Ross C
🔘 Bet: o3.5 cards/o1:5 St Johnstone cards – 23/25 (Unibet) NAP
Bottom v second bottom and so much at stake should hopefully see a feisty and closely fight game.
– St Johnstone have been getting plenty of cards at home this season. They average 3 a game at McDiarmid Park and have recently hit: 3,4,5,4,2,3,3 at home. Only once in their 9 home games have they not had 2+ cards.
– Ross are also seeing plenty of cards. They average 2.5 cards away from home and have seen: 4,4,2,2,1,4,3,2 in their away games.
– To top it off, the ref tonight is the one and only Willie Collum who is averaging nearly 4.5 cards per game.
I contemplated swapping St J 2+ with Ross 2+ as I usually think away teams are more likely to be booked but St J’s home stats are so impressive, I’ve gone with them. Both teams to get o1.5 cards is 6/5 which has a great chance I think.
Good luck all 👍🏻
One more from me.
🏴 Hibs v Aberdeen
🔘 Bet 1: o3.5 cards – 3/4 (Unibet) NAP
🔘 Bet 2: 3+ corners each team/1+ cards each team – 5/6 (Skybet) NB
I was surprised to see o3.5 as generous as 3/4 (it’s about 1/2 or 4/7 everywhere else). 3/4 is usually a bit low for me to NAP but I really fancy this so I’m putting it on here anyway.
– Aberdeen’s away matches have been seeing plenty of cards. There’s been: 6,5,5,7,7,9,5,5 in away games.
– Aberdeen single handedly average 3 cards away from home and the reverse fixture saw a whopping 8 cards. Teams come in to this in 6th and 7th place so hopefully a tight, closely fought game will bring out the cards.
– Finally, tonight’s ref is A. muir who averages a whopping 5.5 cards per game.
As for the NB bet – that would have landed in 7/9 Aberdeen away games and 6/9 Hibs home games. Like the reverse leg, I can see this being another closely fought affair which gives this a great chance of landing I think.
– Hibs average just under 7 corners at home and concede on average nearly 5. Aberdeen average just under 4 corners away.
🏴 St Johnstone v Ross C
🔘 Bet: o3.5 cards/o1:5 St Johnstone cards – 23/25 (Unibet) NAP ✅✅
🔘 Both teams 2+ cards – 6/5 ✅✅
🏴 Hibs v Aberdeen
🔘 Bet 1: o3.5 cards – 3/4 (Unibet) NAP ✅✅
🔘 Bet 2: 3+ corners each team/1+ cards each team – 5/6 (Skybet) NB ✅✅
A late flurry of Aberdeen cards brings home another full house tonight. Lovely stuff.
Well done all winners. 👍🏻👍🏻
St Mirren v Celtic
I think the buddies willbe feeling a bit miffed at having to play this match and could take out their frustrations on Celtic
Over 4 cards in the match 5/2
Each team over 1 card 12/5
Bet365
Celtic over 3 1st half corners 10/11 WH
Having a go at 10 to a grand in around 6 bets, bet 1 tonight to give the kitty a boost
Inter, PSG, Napoli, Celtic all the score 2 +
Ajax to score 3+
Pays 3/1
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Evening gents,
Portugal again for me and I’m targeting this cup tie featuring the mighty Sporting taking a trip down the road to a much less grand city rival…don’t think they’ll have it all their own way though…
CASA PIA VS. SPORTING LISBON (8.45pm)
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE
(11/8, bet365) NAP ⭐⭐⭐
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE
OVER 7.5 CORNERS
(2/1, bet365) NB ⭐
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE
OVER 7.5 CORNERS
SPORTING WIN AFTER PENALTIES
(33/1, bet365) LONGSHOT ⭐
Best of luck 👍
BTTS 6-4 at SKYBET shaky.
Can’t see casa pia troubling sporting unless sporting rest players.
I was thinking 0-1 or 0-2.
Hope it’s 1-2 now for your NAP 👍
Took all of 8 minutes to trouble them Elvis 👍
I’ve seen the Celtic line up, and yet again it’s a night to swerve team goals again for me, so it’s corners with corners and cards from Easter road for the NB
Celtic 6+ corners
Hibs v Aberdeen
3+ corners and 10+ bp each team
11/10 skybet NB
Liverpool v Leicester
Leicester to win at 7/4
Liverpool name a weak side Leicester go stronger.
Best of luck
tonite…………….
my wee local team have good few players out with covid but celtic by no means at full strength either, having a dabble on this……………
st mirren btts & overs 12/5
GL all with a bet on………………..
both teams to score + over 2.5 goals
monaco v rennes
bet365 6/5
NAP
both teams to score double
troyes v brest
utrecht v twente
bet365 5/2
NB
treble on above
william hill 7/1
Ligue 1 – full card tonight so got to be some drama and going for penalties:
Clermont Foot v Strasbourg
Penalty taken @ 13/8 (NAP)
Clermont Foot v Strasbourg
Lorient v PSG
Nice v Lens
Penalty taken treble & trixie @ 17.24/1 (boosted)
All with WH
Lyon and Metz are very high on the red card charts this season and play tonight so also using up free bets with Paddy Power on a red card @ 9/2 and both teams red @ 65/1
Clermont v Strasbourg game has been postponed so stake returned
Nothing doing after that ❌ I see the double red is up in bye Marseille game though
Ralston AGS 11/2
Hbs v Aberdeen both teams 2 cards or more 7/4
Last night’s nap lost in no thanks to a 4th minute Groningen red card ☹️
🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Mirassol U20 v Palmeiras U20
Brazil paulista under 20
Ko 10pm.
Palmeiras to win 13-10 (SKYBET) NAP 🇧🇷
🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Hibs
Leicester
Empoli
Over 0.5tgs treble evens
Add st Mirren over 0.5tgs 4 fold 16/5
Good luck
Neco Williams (Liverpool) to be booked 10/1 Bet 365. As low as 9/2 elsewhere.👍
Liverpool v Leicester City
Leicester City to win at 7/4 WON
That was quick
It’s 1-2 after 19 minutes macca ?.
Have you purchased some new tarot cards 😁
Bet365 payout Elvis for 2 nil up 👍
No tarot cards needed for this game elvis lol,there was only going to be one outcome.
Aaah, well on macca and your team win too.
Everyone’s a winner
Celtic over 3 1st half corners 10/11 WH ✅✅
Up even before half way of 1st half 😁
All good in Portugal – 1-1 with 8 corners at h/t…Nap and Nb in early doors – just need Sporting to win on pens for the longshot now 🤔😂
CASA PIA VS. SPORTING LISBON (8.45pm)
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE
(11/8, bet365) NAP ⭐⭐⭐ ✅
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE
OVER 7.5 CORNERS
(2/1, bet365) NB ⭐ ✅
😉👍
Nice shooting hull
Well played
Headline …Celts to stroll something around 1/10 pmsl 🤣 winning at football is hard 😆
Throw in PSG and Napoli at home
Hibs
Leicester
Empoli
Over 0.5tgs treble evens**WON**
Add st Mirren over 0.5tgs 4 fold 16/5**LOST**
Well done all winners
Chelsea
Liverpool
Spurs
All three games over 1.5 goals at 1/1 (NAP) WON
Spurs v West Ham
Spurs to win at 23/20 WON
Liverpool v Leicester
Liverpool to win at 7/4 WON
Well done all winners
Couldn’t of asked for much better a nice price winner and then Liverpool go through to semi’s.
Well played macca, redmen definitely put us through the ringer tonight! What a team!
I wasn’t expecting us to progress tbh jamesy,the logical choice was taking Leicester,but if you look at how the changes were made and it just shows how good a manager Klopp is.
That should say Leicester* to win
Klopp made changes at half time and now Liverpool are 3-3,penalty shoot out.
Wednesday tips
Inter to win/o1.5tgs❌
Ajax to win both halves✅
5/4 bet 365 NAP
Celtic 6+ corners
Hibs v Aberdeen
3+ corners and 10+ bp each team
11/10 skybet NB✅
Inter goal short for the NAP but NB lands, well done all with a winner
tonite………………….
st mirren btts & overs 12/5 LOST
absolutely delighted and over the moon with the loss as zip zip in paisley, its looking good for us to lift the league again now with sir gio at the helm, hopefully get it tied up before wee nippy and her pals at the SPFL and SFA hand another title in the direction of the east end of glasgow……………..
WD all with a winner………..
🇳🇱 WILLEM II v NEC NIJMEGEN – NEC Nijmegen Double Chance (0-1)
🇳🇱 AJAX v FORTUNA SITTARD – Ajax -2 (5-0)
▪️Double
▪️Evens, Ladbrokes
✅✅
3rd time lucky!
No joy with the free bet acca.
Well in mate
Don’t know how you can say the league is tied up with half the season to go mate ? Still 3 Glasgow derbies left.
boofle i didnt say its tied up…………….. just hope we do get it over the line before wee nippy and her forces of evil hand another title to celtic like they did with their 9th in a row during first round of covid……………..
Well done shaker in Portugal 👍
League rules stated the season could be decided after 75 % of the season was gone. If anything, Rangers won the covid title last season, fan free. Still, let’s see how it pans out. Long way Still to go Crane.
boofle the facts still remain no matter what anyone says celtic were handed a title when rangers could still of mathematically won it, hearts were relegated when could of mathematically stayed up, dundee were denied promotion when could of still mathematically went up………………… that was the 3 establishment clubs all denied a fair fighting chance in the same season 100% FACT
Use we’re playing terrible and we had taken 27/29 points and yeah you’ve a point of course but be honest with yourself.
Covid shafting us again for an Old firm crowd and didn’t help anyone last year especially us but if it’s happens again although I can’t see it and use we’re top with us so much behind and getting beat off Hamilton at home and drawing wae $hite to be 13pts behind and we’re awarded it fair enough and you’d take it Craneguy.
As You say but mathematically it was possible n just never know but as I say if yer honest with yourself we were running away with it.
As for last season covid shafted us right from the off when they were making it up as they went.
GL on 2nd January…you got a ticket? 😉 👎