Eastern Europe: 19th -21st Sept

[stefan mardale]

2 Steaua good midfielders out for tonight's game, Paraschiv and Cristocea. Coach Olaroiu has to improvise with Oprita and Bostina, technical players, but not in great form. Hope Bostina will save his place at Steaua, people already started to say that in december he will leave. Dinamo welcomes back keeper Gaev, but i have no idea what's his current form.

[stefan mardale]

Originally Posted by stefan mardale

Dinamo - Steaua >2.5 2.33@Bet365 5/10
Dinamo - Steaua >3.5 4.40@Bet365 1/10
CFR Cluj - U Craiova >2.5 1.95@Pinnacle 5/10
CFR Cluj (-2.5) - U Craiova 1 4.20@Bet 365 1/10
Gloria - Vaslui exact score 1-0 7.00@Pointbet 1/10
Gloria - Vaslui exact score 2-0 7.00@Sportingbet 1/10

Dinamo - Steaua 1-0 final score. Steaua in 10 men from '35, they stayed in defence all game. Last 3 minutes they played in 9 and, finally, they lost.

It started well, but ended with no profit today. Still, those two from yesterday keep us up for the round

[kompressaur]

And i enjoyed watching it all unfold too Stefan. The Dinamo/Steaua was a bugger but heh shit happens. If we could pick the winners all the time we'd all be lying on beaches or in whore houses not hanging about computers and forums.

Looking at the 2 romanian games today

Thursday, 21/09/2006		Best Odds
17:00	Farul Con. - National Buc.	1.75	3.30	4.75
19:30	Rapid B. - Arges Pitesti	1.25	5.25	11.00

I note that the Arges Pitesti have been beaten just 1-0 in their last 4 games and their last 3 v Rapid have ended in low scoring draws. I might consider it if anyone has any favourable thoughts or views.

[stefan mardale]

Right now, i'm interested in Arges (my local team, they are shit) not to score tonight. But, not having this option, i'll probably build it with exact scores, as usual. Back later.

[stefan mardale]

Rapid - FC Arges


Rapid at home, as i said before Nacional game, is very careful and usually keeps a clean sheet. Last season they did that in 13 out of 15 games and this season, except Craiova (which is a... special team), they were able to do that too. Their opposition today is very poor, Fc Arges scored twice in 7 games, against Craiova (again, Craiova) and Jiul. They have an extremely poor coach, Giannini and they constantly deliver extremely unjustified and optimistic statements. Actually, their game so far was horrible and it isn't a surprise they lack scoring. Rapid to keep a clean sheet would've been my option; not having that, i'll compose it with 3 exact scores: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0 (0-0 i hope is out of the question for in-form Rapid).


Rapid - FC Arges exact score 1-0 6.00@Pointbet 1/10
Rapid - FC Arges exact score 2-0 6.50@Pointbet 1/10
Rapid - FC Arges exact score 3-0 8.00@Pointbet 1/10

[A.M.P]

Thanks for your tips Stefan. I saw your picks at other forums too

I've taken Rapid -1.5 @ 2.04 (Bet365) so I hope 2-0 or 3-0 come in for us.

[stefan mardale]

Cheers AMP, good luck with that. My tips are available at http://mardale.blogabet.com/ and i've put them from yesterday at BA too, but this forum is by far my favourite, especially for the 'general chat' section :loon and... for the atmosphere around I've been following you guys for some time (BTW, great last non-league season, AMP) and thought it would be fair to try give something back too

[A.M.P]

Cheers. The powers that be will be chuffed you like this one the best. I'll check your site out now.

[stefan mardale]

Originally Posted by stefan mardale

Rapid - FC Arges


Rapid at home, as i said before Nacional game, is very careful and usually keeps a clean sheet. Last season they did that in 13 out of 15 games and this season, except Craiova (which is a... special team), they were able to do that too. Their opposition today is very poor, Fc Arges scored twice in 7 games, against Craiova (again, Craiova) and Jiul. They have an extremely poor coach, Giannini and they constantly deliver extremely unjustified and optimistic statements. Actually, their game so far was horrible and it isn't a surprise they lack scoring. Rapid to keep a clean sheet would've been my option; not having that, i'll compose it with 3 exact scores: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0 (0-0 i hope is out of the question for in-form Rapid).


Rapid - FC Arges exact score 1-0 6.00@Pointbet 1/10
Rapid - FC Arges exact score 2-0 6.50@Pointbet 1/10
Rapid - FC Arges exact score 3-0 8.00@Pointbet 1/10

This round: 27 units invested, 32.3 back, so +5.3 units Could have been much better, but i'm not complaining