CIS Insurance Cup 7-8th Nov

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CIS Insurance Cup

07 Nov 11:45 Celtic v Falkirk 1.20 5.50 10.00
07 Nov 11:45 Kilmarnock v Motherwell 1.80 3.25 3.75
08 Nov 11:45 Hibernian v Hearts 2.50 3.10 2.50
08 Nov 11:45 Rangers v St Johnstone 1.16 6.00 10.00

odds bet365

[SonicReducer]

Any traditions for resting players here? Guess Celtic got such a good squad that they will anyway field a pretty solid side.

Guess Hibs Hearts is quite interesting as its embarassing to lose the match Looks overish to me, what do you think?

[Betfly]

Bear in Mind celtic full strength needed a late Mcgeady goal to win at Falkirk.

Maybe Falkirk +1.5?

Strachan surely to play the Fringe players Balde/Riordan etc..

All the rest of the teams will put out strongest team available.

[SonicReducer]

I actually got Falkrisk +1,75 which sounds pretty high in my opinion. Yeah, its a nice opportunitiy for players like Riordan.

[SonicReducer]

u think rangers will field the best 11 players too?

[Betfly]

Originally Posted by SonicReducer

u think rangers will field the best 11 players too?

Le Guen will be desparate to beat St Johnstone.
He will not have the luxury to "rest " players.

Bet 365 go 1.875 +1.5 on st John in the Asian H/cap.

Would not touch it though as the "European" rangers side might show up.

[Betfly]

RE +1.5 against Celtic

This bet would win in 4 of last 6 league matches Celtic played!

LAST 6 MATCHES

Celtic 2 1 Hearts 04/11/2006
Kilmarnock 1 2 Celtic 29/10/2006
Celtic 2 1 Motherwell 21/10/2006
Dundee Utd. 1 4 Celtic 14/10/2006
Falkirk 0 1 Celtic 01/10/2006
Celtic 2 0 Rangers 23/09/2006

[Parahandy]

Celtic will definitely play a number of fringe players against Falkirk. This is the 3rd season running Celtic have played Falkirk at home in this cup and they have fielded plenty of reserves in both previous matches.

Last season it was 1-1 after 90mins with Celtic winning in extra time and the season before Celtic won 8-1.

Falkirk are going well and as has been mentioned above gave Celtic a very hard game a few weeks ago in the league, going down 1-0 to a fairly late goal. Celtic have good depth to their squad and players such as Balde and Graveson who are coming back from injury look likely to play. Jan Vennegoor of Hessellink might feature too as he needs games to recover his sharpness after a lie off.

Falkirk on the handicap looks a reasonable shout given their current good run of results, though without wanting to take anything away from their last two goal laden wins, it should be borne in mind that these matches were against the bottom two teams in the SPL. I don't think they'll find it easy scoring goals at Parkhead.

Hibs and Hearts will be at full strength, though in the case of Hearts the players and fans opinion of what is their best team, seems to differ from whoever is picking it. Hibs should have beaten them a couple of weeks ago in the league but their blundering goalkeeper is a liability and has cost them dearly for some time now. A hard one to call.

Defeat for Rangers would be unthinkable in the present situation but there's no doubt they are vulnerable and morale must be low. PLG can't afford to shuffle the team very much. Would be a brave man or a fool who piles in at those odds.

I fancy Kilmarnock to beat Motherwell at Rugby Park as they will be all out to prove the 5-0 drubbing at Fir Park in the league was a freak result. That game sparked an upturn in Motherwell's fortunes but they look a bit short in attack. Killie have been playing well since that mini disaster and have left Edinburgh in recently with 3 points from Tynecastle and a draw at Easter Road on Saturday.

[milners]

not really much for me to get involved with to be honest. Don't like much on here. Celtic are too short for their reserves and Stokes is on fire. Next there is Killie who i don't think are that good although i fancy them to beat Motherwell with out McDonald but too short for me. Hibs vs Hearts and i expect this to be close with Hibs having a decent record against Hearts another tough game to predict. Rangers are far too short against division 1 leaders and it wouldn't surprise me if they go there and get a result against a very poor Rangers team.

[Bigkegman]

Motherwell without McDonald are nothing special and St Mirren should have beaten them at the weekend. Both teams will be up for this but Killie will want to show them that the 5-0 result was a freak. Home win.

Rangers and Celtic IMO will both win. Falkirk will be up for it but with a few Celtic players on their way back like Van Vinegar of Heffelump (or whatever) the celtic fringe players are not exactly fringe players so I can see it being 3 or 4 if early goals are scored in both games.

I'm going to side with Hearts in the other tie. It will be very close and should be a good game to watch (i'm working........doh) so won't be able to see it.

[kompressaur]

Kilmarnock v Motherwell used to always suit the away team but thats changed the last few seasons i believe. Motherwell used to have a great record at Kilmarnock and Kilmarnock are well known for being piss poor midweek in cups. Over 2.5 would be my only recommendation in this. Over 2.5 with extrabet seems fair to me.

[Beanie]

I'll be having 2pts on Motherwell @ 4.40...decent record there, looked to be creating plenty v St Mirren, and Malpas has the defence sorted out. Plus its midweek cup footie which means a definite stay away from odds on shots IMO.

[blackadder]

I fancy over2.5 on Hibs and Hearts

They scores and resieves a lot of goals.
Hibs goal record 20:15 (10:8 home)
Hearts goal record 20:14(9:8 away)

No important squad missings i think.

According to H2H they have 12 overs from 18 games.
The last 3 Cup results( soccerbase):
Hibs 0:4 Hearts 2006
Hibs1:2 Hearts 1994
Hibs 2:1 Hearts 1979
Maybe cover with 1:1 just in case.
Another options should be both teams to score.