Blackburn Rovers vs. Newcastle United: odds – home win: 2.10, draw: 3.15, away win: 3.45

Blackpool FC vs. Aston Villa odds – home win: 3.20, draw: 3.40, away win: 2.10

Liverpool FC vs. Wigan Athletics odds – home win: 1.35, draw: 4.35, away win: 9.00

West Bromwich Albions vs. West Ham United odds – home win: 1.90, draw: 3.40, away win: 3.80

Sunderland AFC vs. Tottenham Hotspurs odds – home win: 2.75, draw: 3.20, away win: 2.45

Bolton Wanderers vs. Everton FC odds – home win: 2.60, draw: 3.20, away win: 2.60

Fulham FC vs. Chelsea FC odds – home win: 4.75, draw: 3.50, away win: 1.70

And here is my best bettingtips, odds and analyzes for these games:

Blackburn Rovers vs. Newcastle United, my bettingtips: draw @ 3.15 in odds

Newcastle came back from 0 – 4 to 4 – 4 in the second half, at their own home ground in their last match and that was one of the greatest pickups I have ever experienced.  Not only that they managed to score four goals and “steal” a point, they did it against one of the best teams in the league – Arsenal.   

Blackburn is normally a strong home side, and I agree with bwin odds that they are favorites in this game. But I do not agree on that Blackburn Rovers should be such big favorites as they have become. And that’s why I think that draw is a better pick to bet on. So my first bettingtips in this text is a draw in this game at 3.15 in odds.

Blackpool FC vs. Aston Villa, my bettingtips away win @ 2.10 in odds

Blackpool is this year’s big surprise in Premier League. Until just a couple of rounds ago it felt like they could beat any team in the league, but lately they have started to fall in the table. Blackpool stands with five losses in row now, and my question is how the players and managers will react on their first adversity of the year.

Aston Villa on the other hand is going stronger and stronger now and has started to climb in the league table. My feeling is that Aston Villa will win this game even though the match is on Blackpool’s home arena, and I find 2.10 in odds valuable to bet on. Aston Villa gets my bettingtips in this match.

Liverpool FC vs. Wigan Athletics, my bettingtips home win @ 1.35 in odds

Liverpool has finally found their play and is standing on four straight wins at the moment. At the moment Kenny Dalglish seems to be the perfect solution as manager at Liverpool FC. Liverpool plays with great confidence and then remember that neither Andy Carroll nor Luis Suarez has actually played that much. I think that Liverpool will be a danger opponent to play against for any team now and they showed that against Chelsea last week when they won at Stanford Bridge with 0 – 1. In this game I am pretty sure that Liverpool will take the win and 1.35 in odds is okay for me, my bettingtips goes to the home side.

West Bromwich Albions vs. West Ham United, away win @ 3.80 in odds

West Ham United is still in the bottom of the league, but lately they at least started to take some points. According to me, this is a pretty open game where West Brom has become to big favorites according to the odds. They don’t have a strong form at the moment and have dropped some places in the table compared to the beginning of Premier League. I find the odds on West Ham very interesting and chose to bet on the away win here.

Sunderland AFC vs. Tottenham Hotspurs, my bettingtips away win @ 2.45 in odds

This is also a hard game to predict in advantage. And that fact is also shown in the odds on each side. Even bwin find it hard to separate the teams to much. I find Tottenham as the better team, nothing to talk about there. But the fact that Champions League is coming next week, and the fact that Sunderland are pretty hard opponents when they play home at Stadium of light makes this bet hard to make. But if I have to take a side I choose to place my bet on Tottenham anyway at 2.45 in odds.

Bolton Wanderers vs. Everton FC, bettingtips away win @ 2.60 in odds

 Well, I just spoke about though and tight matches to predict, and here we defiantly got another one. Both according to me and according to bwin since they have exact the same odds on both home win and away win. Everton is a bit stronger at the moment and Bolton has lost some easy points lately. So my bettingtips goes to Everton at 2.60 in odds.

Fulham FC vs. Chelsea FC, my bettingtips away win @ 1.70 in odds

Chelsea had the chance to come closer to the top teams after Manchester United lost and Arsenal only took one point in their last game. But even Chelsea lost their game home against Liverpool and the gap to Manchester United is still 10 points. Chelsea just has to win this game, and since they are in a good shape even though they lost their last game I believe that they will win in this London-derby. My last bettingtips of this round goes to Chelsea at 1.70 in odds.

Best luck with your betting on Premier League wishes

/Amrish

Next round is on the weekend, which is normal on this time of the year when the games come a bit more often then in the beginning of the league. I will give you my best bettingtips on every game that is played in this round, which is spread over several days. First of all I am going to give you all the matches and all the odds so that you can have an overview, and then I will give you my best bettingtips per each match. I will choose to split the text into two texts. All the odds are picked from bwin football betting:

Aston Villa vs. Sunderland, odds: home win: 2.05   draw: 3.35  away win: 3.40

FC Arsenal vs. Manchester City, odds: home win 1.70 draw 3.75  away win: 4.40

Newcastle United vs. West Ham United, odds: home win: 1.80 draw: 3.60  away win: 4.00

Wolverhampton Wanderers vs. FC Chelsea, odds: home win: 6.50 draw: 3.80   away win: 1.50

And here is my best bettingtips for these four matches:

Aston Villa vs. Sunderland, bettingtips:  draw @ 3.35 in odds

Aston Villa is my favourites in this game thanks to their home advantage, but they have not played as well as I thought that they would do, before this season started. They have already sacked their first manager (Martin O’neal) and brought in Gerard Houllier instead of him. But that haven’t either given that positive effect that I think the club was hoping to get.

Sunderland on the other hand has been playing better then I thought and they are hard to defeat. In this game I think that Aston Villa has become to big favourites with “only” 2.05 in odds, which is not value to bet on according to me. I have been thinking which best is the best in this game, draw or away win and came to the conclusion that draw probably is most value bet.

Arsenal vs. Manchester City, bettingtips: draw @ 3.75 in odds

What a great game between two teams that are challenging Manchester United in the top of the table. Both these teams have been going strongly in the last couple of matches and are fighting in the absolute top of the league. My feeling is that Arsenal is a really strong side home at Emirates stadium but that Manchester City can beat any team in the league when they are playing as best. Arsenal is defiantly a favourite to win this game thanks to their home advantage, but the odds (1.70) is way to low to bet on.

Arsenal outplayed Chelsea here at Emirates just after Christmas, but Chelsea’s form is very bad at the moment, so don’t be fooled by that win. And Manchester City has also been playing very well lately so Roberto Manchini is safe on his place as manager.

If Arsenal would pay about 1.90 – 2.00 in odds I would bet on Arsenal, but since we only get 1.70 in odds on the home win, I find 3.75 in odds on draw way more interesting, so that is my bettingtips on this match.

Newcastle United vs. West Ham United, bettingtips home win @ 1.80 in odds

West Ham is in the bottom of the league, while Newcastle is about in the middle. But since West ham sacked Gianfranco Zola and replaced him with Avram Grant they have started to take more points and at least have connection with the teams above the relegation mark.  Newcastle has also sacked their former manager, but it was quite a controversial decision from the owner, because they went well above expectations and that the old manager was also loved by both players and fans.

But that is history now, and now the players and supporters have to stand behind their team and the new manager. Newcastle has Andy Carroll on top and that is one of the best players in the league. I would guess that he is playing for the nation team very soon. He, together with the other players has a good chance to win home against West Ham and I try 1.80 in odds on the home win.

Wolverhampton Wanderers vs. FC Chelsea, bettingtips home win @ 6.50 in odds

This might be a really long shot, but I just cannot bet on Chelsea to the odds that they are standing at. Chelsea has only won one game in their last 8 – 9 games and are falling apart. Something is really wrong with the club, and since Abrahmovic sacked their assistant manager I can’t recognize Chelsea any more.

Wolves are struggling in the bottom of the table and even though the results haven’t gone their way, they still fight in every game. And that is a fact that I think can be the difference in this game. As I wrote, this bet is a big risk bet. But I still think that it is way more valuable to bet on Wolves in this game then on Chelsea.

The rest of the games of this round will be presented in next text.

Blackburn Rovers vs. Liverpool FC, odds: home win: 3.65 draw 3.40   away win: 1.95

Bolton Wanderers vs. Wigan Athletic, odds: home win: 1.68 draw 3.55 away win: 4.85

FC Everton vs. Tottenham Hotspur, odds: home win: 2.45 draw 3.35 away win: 2.65

And the odds and my best bettingtips for these matches:

Blackburn Rovers vs. Liverpool FC, bettingtips: home win @ 3.65 in odds

Chelsea is going bad in the league, Liverpool is going worse of them all. At least compared to the pre expectations that all the experts had on the top teams. This was going to be the year when Liverpool came back to top four, and maybe even challenged for the title. Instead they are on the bottom half of the table, and I can not se any confidence in the team and players.

Yes, Liverpool wins some games here and now. Often they win home matches against poor opponents. But I can not see any stability in the play, and it almost feels like the player doesn’t believe in themselves some times.

Liverpool is a big team and will come back sooner or later. But this year is totally devastating for the team. And as long as Roy Hudgson is sitting as manager, I don’t believe that Liverpool will climb in the table, as fast as many belive.

Blackburn on the other hand is going strong. At the moment they are on the 10^th place in the league and it feels like Blackburn is going strong at the moment. Blackburn’s manager Sam Allardyce has done a great job so far with the club and I think that Blackburn can win this game as well. With the pre conditions I would say that this is a pretty even game. I would have way more even odds on these two teams then bwin has chosen to have. In other words, this is a really good bet on the home team since they pay 3.65 in odds, which I find very high.

Bolton Wanderers vs. Wigan Athletic, bettingtips draw @ 3.55 in odds

Bolton is definitely favourites in this game, both according to me and the betting company. But my job is not to find the favourites in the games, but to find the most valuable bets. And in that sentence I cannot see that the low odds at 1.68 are a bet that I can recommend even though I think that Bolton will win.

Bolton Wanderers is one of the teams (together with Blackpool) that have surprised me most in a positive way. They have been fighting for their existence in Premier League for several seasons lately, but this time they are fighting around the Europe League places. Their Swedish striker Johan Elmander has really woken up this season, after have sitting on the bench mostly with the former manager. But even though all these things speak for a win for Bolton I can not bet on them at 1.68 in odds, I just can not do it. That would mean that they have to win this game over 60 % of the times, and that is not relevant. Instead I feel that the odds on draw is a better bet here and choose draw as my bettingtips in Bolton vs. Wigan.

FC Everton vs. Tottenham Hotspur, bettingtips home win @ 2.45 in odds

Tottenham is going really strong this year as well, and I have to admit that I didn’t belive that Tottenham would go this strong in the league, since they had to focus on the Champions League as well. My feeling was that they had too few top players to play with, and when the schedule became tight they would fall in the league. But that has not been the reason and I really like Tottenham this year. They play an offensive football and are fun to watch.

In this match I think that Tottenham will get a tough match. Everton is a hard opponent to play against and they have been playing very well against the top teams. They took one point against Manchester United home at Goodison, and then they beat Liverpool in the mercyside derby. After that Everton played 1 – 1 against Tottenham away, played 1 – 1 away against Chelsea and beat Manchester City away with 1 – 2 only two matches ago. So the top team that has beaten Everton so far in the league is Arsenal. And my feeling is that Everton will take at least one point here as well, probably all three.

This is a tough game and I am not sure if the home win or draw is the best bettingtips but after some thinking I choose to bet on the home win at 2.45 in odds.

Best luck with your premier League betting /wishes Amrish

According to me, the serious stage started right now, with the third game, because the teams that have started worse then expected have to start win now, to still have a realistic chance to win their grope. The presumptions are that all the grope-winners are directly qualified to the European Championship 2012 and the best second placed team as well. The rest of all the second placed teams will play a play-off (home and away) to complement the 16 teams that will participate in the championship.

In these, coming two texts I will give you my best bettingtips and odds for the matches that I think is most valuable bets. I have chosen to split it into two different texts because of that there is many matches to bet on and many odds. If you want to see all the matches that you can bet on in this round of European Championship’s qualification round, I suggest that you visit bwin football odds and see which tips and odds you find tempting to bet on.

Here are my best tips:

Kazakhstan vs. Belgium, odds -  home win: 6.75, draw: 4.10, away win: 1.45

My bettingtips: Kazakhstan vs. Belgium – away win @ 1.45 in odds

This is a game in grope A, where both of the teams have lost both their matches so far in the qualification. However, I have a strong feeling for Belgium in this game. Sometimes the facts and statistics do not give you the complete picture of the truth and this table is a brilliant prove of that. Because Belgium has played against two of the worse competitors already while Kazakhstan have had an easier start.

Belgium lost at home against Germany in a game that they was playing even against the bronze medallists from the World cup and after that they was close to beat Turkey away but just lost after have got one red card and Turkey turned the game to their favour.

Belgium has an interesting squad this year, more interesting then in a long time. They have many talented players both in the Premier League and young players coming up from their own league. They have made a generation switch which makes it even more interesting. My feeling is that My feeling is that Belgium is way better then Kazakhstan and should win this game even though they are playing away. The odds on Belgium is 1.45 and that are enough for me to bet on them, so that is my first bettingtips.

My second bettingtips from European Championship qualification:

Czech Republic vs. Scotland, odds – home win: 1.70, draw: 3.40, away win: 5.00

My bettingtips: Czech Republic vs. Scotland – home win @ 1.70 in odds

Scotland surprisingly leads this grope (Grope I), but even this time I think that the fact is lying a bit. First of all Scotland has played two matches compared to both Spain and Czech Republic, which are my two favourites in this grope. Second, Scotland has had two easy games so far in this grope against Lithuania and Lichtenstein. Even though they have had two pretty “easy” games they dropped two points against Lithuania and only won with 2 – 1 against Lichtenstein which is way weaker then I had expected.

I saw some of Scotland’s games before the qualification started as well and they have not impressed on me so far. It should be said that Czech Republic was a big disappointment in their first game as well where they lost against Lithuania, but I know that they have way more talent then what was shown in that game.

My feeling is that Czech has great chances to win this game and that the odds is very good here. I would recommend a high stake on this bet since this is one of the best tips in this round. Since Spain is in this grope as well besides these two teams (and for example Lithuania) I think that this is a really important game. I just cannot se how Spain won’t win this grope.

Compared to these teams positions and players I find Czech is better on most of the positions so I bet on 1.70 in odds and really hope that I have made the correct analyze here.

Albania vs. Bosnia, odds: home win: 3.25, draw: 3.15, away win: 2.15

My bettingtips: Albania vs. Bosnia – Away win @ 2.15

Another very interesting bet and odds according to me. Bosnia was very close to qualify to the world cup last year and they have really made great progresses in their game. It is easy to forget, but Bosnia has some of the best attacking players in whole Europe. I am sure that they will fight very well in this grope, and I think that they have good chances to reach European Championship this time.

Albania have shown good defence when they play against better teams on their own home ground, but since Bosnia have so many alternatives on their attacking line I think that the odds 2.15 on the away win feels good. They get my tips in this game.

More matches, bets and odds will come up in next text

I am really looking forward to Chelsea vs Liverpool on Sunday, but even Monday’s game between Aston Villa vs Manchester City feels interesting.

I will list all the matches that is played this round in Premier League with the odds from bwin football betting and then give you my best pick for the round:

Bolton 3.15 draw 3.25 Tottenham Hotspur 2.10

Burnley 2.20 draw 3.20 Birmingham City 3.00

Hull City 2.40 draw 3.15 Wigan Athletic 2.70

Wolverhampton 2.00 draw 3.30 Portsmouth 3.35

Manchester Utd 1.20 draw 5.50 Sunderland 11.50

FC Arsenal 1.25 draw 5.05 Blackburn Rovers 9.50

FC Everton 1.65 draw 3.40 Stoke City 4.90

West Ham 2.20 draw 3.20 Fulham 3.00

FC Chelsea 1.85 draw 3.20 FC Liverpool 4.00

Aston Villa 2.25 draw 3.30 Manchester City 2.80

My pick of the week is a multi-play with two matches:

Manchester United vs Sunderland, home win + Arsenal vs Blackburn, home win total odds: 1.50

I know that this isn’t an all too brave bet, but those who have followed my bets for a longer time knows that I usually don’t bet on the biggest favourites. But this time I really think that both these teams will take pretty easy wins and that’s why I think that 50 % profit is a pretty god payback.

Here’s my thought about these two games and why I pick them as my bets of this round:

Manchester United vs Sunderland

Manchester United has only lost one game so far and that lost came against Burnley, very surprisingly. Beside that they have won all their six matches. It’s very rare that Manchester united drops points against opponents like Sunderland home at Old Trafford.

Sunderland impressed on me with their 5 – 2 win against Wolverhampton last week, but I saw the match and it was way too big compared to how they played. Sunderland got two penalties and at least the first was a wrong decision from the ref. At the same time Wolves deserved go get one penalty that they never got

Man Utd played in Champions league on Wednesday and that might be the only reason why to not bet on them in this match, but they have lots of players to rotate on and I am pretty sure that Sir Alex Ferguson al ready has counted in that in his tactics.

I just can’t se how Manchester united can draw or loose this game and that’s why I pick this as my first pick out of two. With the prerequisite that we have they win at least 5 out of 6 matches like this.

Arsenal – Blackburn

Even Arsenal played Champions league this week. But that’s no excuse to not to win this match against Blackburn Rovers at home.

Blackburn won against Aston Villa last week after a penalty in the 90^th minute. But I am not so impressed with their performance this year either. Blackburn has lost some important key-players this summer and I think that they will fight in the bottom half of the table.

I saw Arsenals match against Olympiakos on Thursdays Champions league round and they really impressed on me. The score was only written 2 – 0, but seen to the chances that they created It would had been more like 6 or 7 – 0.

They totally mashed down the Greek side and Nikopolidis, goalkeeper in Olympiakos, probably played one of his best games ever. It was play against their goal through out the whole game and why it took over 70 min until Arsenal got their first goal is a riddle for me.

In the beginning of this season Arsenal had lots of injuries but now more and more players have come back and on the attacking side they are almost complete now. Arshavin is playing brilliant football at the moment and with players like Van Persie, Fabregas and Eduardo available I can’t se how Blackburn can bring any points home from this match. Even Rosicky is back as winger and now its only Walcott left.

Arsenal has soo many players that can make the difference in a game like this and if they produce half as many chances as they did against Olympiakos, I am pretty sure they will win.

And with that fact I bet Arsenal + Manchester United to a total odds of 1.50.

Best regards

/Amrish

This is bets before the Premier League starts and can be different type of bet/odds that is out at the market. For example, top goal scorer of premier league 2010 / 2011, which team will be relegated, different tips regarding which of two or three teams will end highest in the league and so on.

For every bettingtips that I recommend I will present some different odds for you as well. For example, top 20 – 30 favourites according to the odds for the top goal scorer of the year or maybe top 10 for the relegation. If you are curious about what the other odds is I recommend you to visit bwin.com/ (click you trough to premier league betting and click on what bets you want to see) and see for your self what the different odds are. If I would write down all the odds here, it would fill many pages.

Premier League 2010 / 2011 top goal scorer, odds:

Wayne Rooney, odds: 6.50

Didier Drogba, odds: 6.50

Fernando Torres, odds: 7.00

Robin Van Persie, odds: 12.00

Carlos Tevez, odds: 15.00

Jermain Defoe, odds: 19.00

Darren Bent , odds: 21.00

Marouane Chamakh, odds: 25.00

Nicolas Anelka, odds: 25.00

Steven Gerrard. odds: 31.00

Robinho, odds: 34.00

Emmanuel Adebayor, odds: 36.00

Andrei Arshavin, odds: 41.00

Javier Hernandez, odds: 41.00

Frank Lampard, odds: 41.00

Dimitar Berbatov, odds: 41.00

Cesc Fabregas, odds: 41.00

Louis Saha, odds: 51.00

Peter Crouch, odds: 51.00

John Carew, odds: 67.00

Nicklas Bendtner, odds: 67.00

Nikola Zigic, odds: 67.00

Salomon Kalou, odds: 67.00

Dirk Kuyt, odds: 67.00

Gabriel Agbonlahor, odds: 81.00

Nani, odds: 81.00

Theo Walcott, odds: 81.00

Roman Pavlyuchenko, odds: 81.00

Carlton Cole, odds: 81.00

Bobby Zamora, odds: 81.00

Here are my thoughts regarding the top goal scorer of Premier League 2010 / 2011:

I am pretty sure that we will find the winner of this title somewhere among these players. My first thought was to only present the top 20 favourites but then I realized that I would miss players like Agbonlahor, Walcott, Pavlyuchenko and these are players that defiantly are capable to win this price even thought the chances are small.

According to the odds that bwin’s traders have set, Wayne Rooney is favourite to become top goal scorer in Premier League, tightly followed by Didier Drogba and Fernando Torres. I am about to agree that these are the three players that should be favourites as well. Rooney (6.50 in odds) does most of Manchester United’s goals and he often plays most of the matches. Didier Drogba is supposed to score most of Chelsea’s goals even though Nicolas Anelka did it last year. Drogba takes most of the free kicks and is actually the sharpest striker.

Fernando Torres defiantly scores most in Liverpool, when he is not injured. I remember that Torres stood on 4.50 in odds before last years premier league started, but all his injury-problems probably has taken him down a bit on the odds-list.

All these three players have good possibilities to become top goal scorer in premier league this season, but the question is if its value in betting on them?

I have some other names down in the list, with way higher odds, that are interesting as well. You cannot forget a player who won last year and still is playing in the same team on the same position – Nicolas Anelka @ 25.00 in odds.

If a player like Robin Van Persie can stay away from injuries, he is defiantly a candidate for this title, 12.00 in odds on a bet on Van Persie feels interesting as well.

Since I think that Manchester City can bee one of the teams that will fight in the top of the table, at least one of their players should be mentioned in this list over potential good bets. For me it is clear that Carlos Tevez will be there best goal scorer.

A bit down on the odds list there are players like Berbatov @ 41.00 in odds, which seem interesting. I actually do not like Berbatov’s way of playing and his body language when he keeps whining as soon as he does not get the ball. But at the same time he has so much football inside of him and if the season starts well he might become a top corer.  While we are talking about high odds players, I should mention Gabriel Agbonlahor, Roman Pavlyuchenko and Nani who all pays 81 in odds.

So, which player do I found most valuable to bet on? I would like to place a bet on more then one player. But my best bettingtips is:

Fernando Torres @ 7.00 in odds. If that guy can stay away from injuries he is the only goal scorer in Liverpool who is a sure scorer. All the other top teams have lots of potential goal scorers but Torres is the only striker in Liverpool (besides captain Gerrard).

If you want to gamble a bit and try a player with higher odds, I would recommend Berbatov @ 41.00 in odds or Louis Saha @ 51.00 in odds.

In next text, I will share some other special bets with you.

Now I have presented my thoughts regarding Premier League’s top scorer for you. In this text, I have searched for some other interesting season bets to invest your money on. All the odds is picked from bwin online fotboll betting, and here is my mix of bettingtips and the odds that I choose between:

Premeier League 2010 / 2011 – to finish top 4

Odds:

FC Chelsea, odds: 1.02

Manchester United, odds: 1.12

Manchester City, odds: 1.50

FC Arsenal, odds: 1.55

FC Liverpool, odds: 2.25

Tottenham Hotspur, odds: 3.50

FC Everton, odds: 7.50

Aston Villa, odds: 9.00

This bet means four winners since there will be four teams that will end on top four. That is why the odds are so low compared to other bets. Manchester United and Chelsea will for sure end on top four, everything else would be a great surprise for me. However, at the same time they pay 1.02 and 1.12 in odds. If you want a “safe” bet this are defiantly two sure bets. However, I would not place my money on these since the teams are to big favourites. Maybe I could invest some money on Manchester United at 1.12 in odds but never on Chelsea.

My bettingtips on this bet is:

Manchester City to end on top four @ 1.50 in odds.

Manchester City is my outsider to win the Premier League this year after all their new players that they have bought. Mancini finished strongly last season after have preplaced Mark Hughes as manager and this year he have a even stronger squad to choose from. I feel that teams like Liverpool and Arsenal can find it hard to finish top four and if Manchester City does, at least one of Liverpool or Arsenal have to step aside. I find the odds 1.50 worth betting on here and pick Manchester City to end top four.

Which team will finish highest in the Premier League 2010 / 2011?

Manchester United, odds: 1.20

FC Liverpool, odds: 4.50

FC Everton, odds: 18.00

My bettingtips: Manchester United @ 1.20 in odds

As I mentioned above, Manchester united might was worth betting on to ending top four in the league. Then I find this bet way more worth betting on that top 4. Since I cannot see Everton ending top four, and since I find it hard for Liverpool to end top four this year either, I find 1.20 in odds on Manchester United to finish higher then Everton and Liverpool interesting.

Everton finished eighth in the league last year and Liverpool seventh. Manchester United finished second, only one point behind winning Chelsea. United where whole 22 points before Liverpool and 24 points ahead of Everton last year, and still it is Man United that has bought the most interesting player (Hernandez). Therefore, I almost see this bet as 20 % guaranteed return on investment later in spring even though you should not see betting as sure money.

Teams to be relegated from Premier League 2010 / 2011?

odds:

Blackpool, odds: 1.25

West Bromwich, odds: 1.80

Wolverhampton Wanderers, odds: 3.25

Wigan Athletic, odds: 3.25

Newcastle United, odds: 4.00

Bolton Wanderers, odds: 5.00

West Ham United, odds: 5.50

Blackburn Rovers, odds: 7.00

Stoke City, odds: 7.00

Birmingham City, odds: 7.00

Fulham, odds: 8.50

Sunderland, odds: 11.00

From this list I think that Sunderland, Fulham and Birmingham feels safe to not being relegated after this season. All of them have to strong teams. Stoke and Blackburn feels pretty strong, but I am not that sure over these teams as over the three I mentioned above. Stoke is living a lot on their strong home stats at Air Britannia, where they take lots of their points.

Looking down a bit on the list it is not strange that Blackpool is the biggest favourite to being relegated. According to me its too low odds to bet on @ 1.25. West Bromwich pays 1.80 in odds and that is too low according to me as well, especially since I think that they can avoid relegation this year. So my best bettingtips on which will be one of three teams to be relegated is:

Wigan Athletic @ 3.25 in odds.

Wigan had a tough season last year, and it will probably get even tougher this time since both West Bromwich and Newcastle has joined Premier League. I feel that over 3 times money back on Wigan to being relegated is valuable to bet on and that is what I bet on here.

Good Luck with your premier league betting

/Amrish

I will start to give you all my best bettingtips in the game between Argentina vs Spain and then follow that up with my best tips from Paraguay vs Spain. I have choose to pick the odds from bwin bet on world cup and one of the reasons that I do that is because they have the biggest offer in different odds and betting opportunities of all the betting sites.

There are over 300 different betting opportunities at bwin, which can be compared with most of the sites that offers about 100 different bets per match.

Paraguay vs. Spain, odds: Paraguay to win, odds: 8.00, draw odds: 4.50, Spain to win, odds: 1.40

My bettingtips:

Paraguay vs. Spain – Spain to win @ 1.40

Paraguay has never been in a quarterfinal in the World cup’s history before so this is a very big game for them. But the fact is that Spain never have been further then a quarterfinal before either, which can be hard to think compared to the team that Spain has, and have got for a long time.

I think that the fact that Spain did so well in the European Championship two years ago (when they won the Gold medal) has helped them a lot in this World cup.

It started as it often do for Spain in World cup, they lost against Switzerland with 1 – 0. When that happened, I am pretty sure that most of the Spaniards thought something like “Not this time as well”. Because Spain was, the biggest favourites to win the World cup according to the odds before the championship started and that even thought they have never been in a semi-final before.

Nevertheless, after their loss against Switzerland they came back strongly and won against both Honduras and Chile (2 – 0 and 2 – 1) which took them trough to the second round. In the first match of the second round they played against their neighbours Portugal in a great game where Portugal seemed to bee the strongest team but where Spain made a substitution and that changed the game. Spain won with 1 – 0 after that David Villa (who else?) scored his fourth goal of the tournament.

Paraguay has been doing very well and has only let one goal in so far. They started with 1 – 1 against the former trophy holders Italy and after that they won against Slovakia with 2 – 0. In their last group match they played 0 – 0 against New Zeeland, but in that game they where not forced to win. In the second round they was headed against Japan and won after penalties (0 – 0 after ordinary time).

So none of these teams as impressed that much so far, but still one of the teams will go to the semi-finals. My feeling is that Spain is growing as they are going further and that they have good opportunities to win this game. I do not think that it will be an easy game but I still think that Spain is too good for Paraguay. Actually I would say that the odds on a Spanish win is a bit too low to bet on if it would had been a group-game or friendly, but now when it is a quarterfinal I have a feeling that the Spanish world-class-players will improve their game and win.

Paraguay vs. Spain, correct result: 0 – 1 @ 5.20 in odds

It’s not often that I place a bettingtips on correct result, but this time I have a strong feeling that this game can end 1 – 0 for Spain. I had the same feeling in their game against Portugal, but this time I am going to place a bet on that as well.

As I wrote above, these two teams have not been scoring too many goals forward. In addition, Paraguay has shown a strong defensively strength and I am pretty sure that they will try to hold up 0 – 0 as long as they can. Almost all of the Spanish players are playing in Spanish league for some of the top clubs, and if they come up to a normal standard, at least one of these players should be able to score eventually. Spain has David Villa, Fernando Torres, Xavi, Xabi Alonso, Cesc Fabregas, Fernando Ilorente, Andres Iniesta and the question is for how long time Paraguay can stand up with their defensive line.

I choose to bet the result 0 – 1 to Spain since I think this will be a tight game in the beginning and that Spain will score in the second half. And when/if they do, they are one of the best nations in the world to pass the ball. If you choose to bet on 0 – 1 result for Spain and that is the standing late in the game I can even recommend you to keep an eye on the livebetting. It might being worth to hedge that bet if you have a high stake since the odds is over 5.00.

My best bettingtips from Argentina vs Germany follows in the next text

However, Germany has actually impressed more on me then Argentina, since Argentina where one of my potential winners before the World cup started. Germany came to this World cup without really being one of the favourites, which feels a bit strange now when they have proved so much. Germany is a strange nation when it comes to World cup. They are not often counted as one of the biggest favourites, but still they always makes it at least to the quarterfinals, often further then that. Now the two big giants face again in a world championship and I will try to give you my best game tips from this match:

Argentina vs. Germany, odds: Argentina to win, odds: 2.35, draw, odds: 3.35, Germany to win, odds: 2.85

My bettingtips:

Argentina vs. Germany, Argentina to win @ 2.35 in odds

This is a hard game to predict, but I have a feeling that Argentina is the better side. Those two teams actually played a friendly just before the world cup and that time Argentina won with 1 – 0. In addition, not only that, they where even way better then Germany in that game. But that was then and this is now. Because Germany has shown that, they are a totally different team then theu where in the qualification and the friendly’s. When Michael Ballack got injured most of us thought that Germany was going to get a tough championship. Instead all the youngsters has grown to world class players and are really good at the moment.

Both Mesut Özil, Sami Khedira and Thomas Muller where pretty unknown for most of the non-German people before the World cup started and now its them who are holding the team up. It was those three who outplayed England totally and now they are in a new quarterfinal.

But I think it will end here. Argentina has even better players in their squad with players like Leo Messi, Gonzalo Higuain and Carlos Tevez on the attacking line. They have more players to bring on if it wont work with these, such as Diego Milito, Kun Aguerro and Martin Palermo.

Behind all these attackers, Argentina has De Maria, Juan Veron and Javier Mascherano. There are muscles in the Argentenean team as well, clearly.

This will be a great offensive battle to watch and I think that the South Americans will win with stand as winners. My feeling is that both teams will try to play the way they have played so far in the World cup, which means many players in the attacks. Argentina is the favourites both according to me and the odds and me that bwin offers. But I have leaned to never underestimate Germany, so I keep the stake low.

Argentina vs. Germany, over / under 2,5 goals – Odds: Over 2,5 goals 1.90 in odds – Under 2.5 goals 1.80 in odds

My bettingtips:

Argentina vs Germany, over 2,5 goals @ 1.90 in odds

This is a really good bet if you ask me. Both of these teams are offensive in their way of playing and they have also played like that. Both Argentina and Germany have their strongest players in the attacking line or as offensive midfielders which makes me believe that it defiantly can be more then three goals in this game.

I am a bit surprised that bwin holds under 2,5 goals as favourites in this game since both teams are playing as offensive as they are.  I rather think that this game can end like 4 – 2 in any direction then 1 – 0.  In the second rounds, first matches both Argentina and Germany showed that they keep attacking even though they have the lead, and that is really good for this bet. Germany took an early lead against England but they kept attacking. With fast counter attacks and fantastic passing skills, they made the English players look chocked. The game ended 4 – 1 to Germany and who could have expected five goals in that game?

Even Argentina showed in their game, against Mexico, that they kept attacking after their early lead. They had 1 – 0 but kept playing forward which lead to both 2 – 0 and 3 – 0. After that, Mexico scored a goal but Argentina’s win was never threatened.

Therefore, I have big hopes that it will be scored at least three goals in this game, maybe even more, and am happy to get as high odds as 1.90 on this bet from bwin sportsbetting odds. This time I choose to bet a higher stake since I find the bet so good.

Good luck with your World cup betting

/Amrish

My tips for the Golden Boot winner are, (note all betting odds used in this football article are from bwin.com)

Lionel Messi – 7/1 & Gonzalo Higuain 18/1 – ARGENTINA

Messi has had an incredible season with La Liga champions Barcelona with 47 goals in all competitions. He goes into the World Cup with a renewed public opinion that he is not only the best player in the world but thought of in a similar vein to Maradona and Pele and is quite rightly the favourite to take the Golden Boot back to Argentina. If Argentina does well in the competition under Diego Maradona, then Messi will surely have a great chance at scoring lots of goals and thus making a success of any wagers on him. At 7/1 I think this is a good bet.

Higuain has burst onto the scene at Real Madrid and looks every bit a quality player. With Messi alongside him he should get chances to score.

David Villa 8/1 & Fernando Torres 12/1 – SPAIN

As Euro 2008 champion’s expectations are high for Spain. Their young forwards Torres and Villa have another two years success and experience under their belt and will be disappointed with anything less than a semi-final place this summer. Both players are under intense scrutiny with massive transfers potentially in the offing for both players. Torres has endured a tough season at Liverpool but his goal scoring ability has never been in question. Villa is a top player who could well be the star of the World Cup in what is an extremely talented Spanish side. A bet on either player to win the golden boot award is not foolish.

Wayne Rooney – 15/2 – ENGLAND

England relies heavily on Rooney and he has shown temperament frailties in the past. In the pressure cooker environment of the World Cup Rooney will be goaded by opponents and this could affect his composure at key moments. If England win the World Cup or come close expect Rooney to be very much in the frame for the golden boot. England’s poor performances since the 1990 semi-final appearance lends me to think playing down Rooney’s chances for this award is sensible, but I have never hoped I am wrong more in my life! Other England players who often score are Frank Lampard at 100/1, Steven Gerrard at 80/1 and Peter Crouch at 70/1. Crouch always does well against lower quality international sides and could grab four or five goals in the group stages if he plays in the matches.

Cristiano Ronaldo – 16/1 – PORTUGAL

Cristiano Ronaldo has continued to score lots of goals from midfield and is reaching an incredible peak in his career. Clearly one of the best midfielders in the world this strong and agile player strikes fear into every opponent. If Portugal do well Ronaldo will score goals. At 16/1 I am tempted to back Ronaldo as his goal scoring pedigree at every level he has played at is totally proven and Portugal will look to Ronaldo for goals and leadership. And it does not take a genius to realise how motivated he will be for the World Cup.

It is a scary thought for any team. Hopefully Messi, Ronaldo et al will reward our faith in them and produce some amazing football this summer at the 2010 World Cup.

By Malcolm Clarke