20th Aug: International Friendlies

[kompressaur]

Word Cup qualifing will continue in a couple of weeks but till then we'lll need to get our national football teams primed and ready. Nothing better than a friendly to sort things out and as there is betting on it we will talk about it on TDP

10:00 Japan (2.38) Draw (3.25) Uruguay (2.88) 108%
14:00 Bosnia-Herzegovina (3) Draw (3.25) Bulgaria (2.1) 112%
14:00 Ukraine (2) Draw (3.25) Poland (4.3) 104%
16:30 Tunisia Draw Angola 0%
17:00 Estonia (1.8) Draw (3.6) Malta (5) 103%
17:00 Finland (2.38) Draw (3.2) Israel (3) 107%
17:00 Hungary (1.9) Draw (3.6) Montenegro (5) 100%
18:00 Belarus (5.5) Draw (3.6) Argentina (1.67) 106%
18:00 Lithuania (2.1) Draw (3.25) Moldova (3.5) 107%
18:00 Norway (2.25) Draw (3.25) Ireland (3.2) 106%
18:45 Romania (1.36) Draw (5) Latvia (9.5) 104%
19:00 Turkey (1.83) Draw (3.5) Chile (4.5) 105%
19:15 Bulgaria (2.25) Draw (3.4) Bosnia And Herzegovina (3.5) 102%
19:15 Denmark (3.5) Draw (3.25) Spain (2.2) 105%
19:15 Luxembourg (7.5) Draw (4) Macedonia (1.44) 108%
19:15 Slovakia (2.63) Draw (3.25) Greece (2.62) 107%
19:45 Albania (1.45) Draw (4.5) Liechtenstein (9) 102%
19:45 Italy (1.5) Draw (3.75) Austria (7.5) 107%
19:45 Slovenia (4.3) Draw (3.5) Croatia (1.91) 104%
19:45 Switzerland (1.36) Draw (5) Cyprus (9.5) 104%
20:00 England (1.75) Draw (3.5) Czech Republic (5) 106%
20:00 Germany (1.29) Draw (5.5) Belgium (11) 105%
20:00 Scotland (1.73) Draw (3.6) N Ireland (5.5) 104%
20:00 Sweden (2.75) Draw (3.25) France (2.6) 106%
20:05 Wales (1.67) Draw (3.6) Georgia (5.5) 106%
20:45 Iceland (1.53) Draw (4) Azerbaijan (7) 105%
20:45 Portugal (1.02) Draw (15) Faroe Islands (81) 106%

[BruceG]

Croatia will play w/o captain Niko Kovac. That's the only news in this moment about Croatian squad.

more to follow...

[Naza Man]

what he mean when he keep write 108% and 102% and 106% and elc.... for the games ????

Can you explain pls ?

[Betfly]

Hi Naza Man,

I'm not too good at explaing this but here is one prepared earlier..

Over-round and Over-broke
Adding up the probabilities as shown by the odds of all the participants in an event for a particular Bookmaker gives a percentage. While mathematically the total probabilities of all participants in an event must be 100% (one participant - and only one - can win) Bookmaker?s total percentages are set to add up to over 100% because it?s the amount over 100% that represents the Bookmaker?s profit. A book with a total percentage over 100 is called over-round. A book that adds up to less than 100% is called over-broke which means that a punter could back all the participants and know that the total of their lost stakes will be less than their winnings if they have staked accordingly (a good, if rare, thing).
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Best Books

The %age shown calculates the total book (overround or overbroke) for each event. The larger the book value, the more money the bookies make. The smaller the overround, the more chance the punter has to make money.

The Best Book report provides a list of book values in the market ordered from lowest book value to highest book value.

[Martens]

after being in holidays, i am back !

whart a nice period of our lifes

my treble to beat bookies is 1. Italy @1.5
2. Switzerland @1.35
3. Portugal @1.05

that will be my first bet after holidays, and i am sure it wiil be winner:chicken

[kolivanov]

England at 1.70 for me is good bet...Czechs are not the team they used to be, and now they will be without a few players who retired and a couple that are injured at the moment. New faces in the team that never played together and without motivation, while on the other side they will have fully motivated squad that would like to prove their quality. Odds are solid enough.

[Petrous]

Originally Posted by kolivanov

England at 1.70 for me is good bet...Czechs are not the team they used to be, and now they will be without a few players who retired and a couple that are injured at the moment. New faces in the team that never played together and without motivation, while on the other side they will have fully motivated squad that would like to prove their quality. Odds are solid enough.

Yes, england looks good.

Boath teams have a new trainer. So for boath teams start new era.

I am not happy form our national coach Rada. It was assistant of Last coach Bruckner who is now national trainer of Austria. It is crazy.

Our national team will be still without Rosicky. Out is also Libor Sinko, he was the best player on Euro, the other player who is out is Marejovsky (Reading) - both players are midfilders. The important is that our defender midfilder Galasek finished his career in national team, we will be also without the best striker Jan Koller.

Yes our defend have some quality. We have a great keeper, good defenders like Ujfalusi (Atletico Madrid , Jankulovsky (Ac Milan), Grygera (Juventus), Rozehnal (Lazio), but our midfild we ca not compare with England.
Kovac (Spartak Moskva) and Polak (Anderlecht) are only defend midfilders, Yes, Kovac is good in head play and Polak has a good shot from long distance. Jarolim is a captain of Hamburg (he is still on lawn,typical simulator), Plasil (Osasuna) - he has some quality but he is not good in defend.
What about our strikers - I don´t understand how is possible that Baros is in squad. He is I don´t know exactly 1 and half year wihout goal in national team and still is there. He is dud. Only one thing which he knows is run with the ball directly. The second striker Sverkos (Ostrava) is in good shape. The question is if he has quality on national team. But it is true that he scored on Euro one goal in 20 minut which he played with Portugal.


Here is perhaps squads
England
James - Brown, Terry, R. Ferdinand, A. Cole - Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard, J. Cole - Defoe, Rooney

Czech team
Čech - Grygera, Rozehnal, Ujfaluši, Jankulovski - Kováč, Polák - Jarolím, Plašil, Svěrkoš - Baroš

Prediction: It looks like win for England. Czech team never won on Wemblay. 90000 fans on stadium. It will be great atmosphere there. Only one question about England. Are England superstars able play together??

[Kiko]

Scotland odds on surely has to be a lay?

The squads have had many withdrawels but the fact that Scotland haven't won a friendly at Hampden in something like 12 years is an amazing stat which means laying Scotland is the most sensible bet.

Not much to add bar i think it will be a low scoring dull clash but its an interesting stat...

[Bigkegman]

Originally Posted by GaNgStA kEeKs

Scotland odds on surely has to be a lay?

The squads have had many withdrawels but the fact that Scotland haven't won a friendly at Hampden in something like 12 years is an amazing stat which means laying Scotland is the most sensible bet.

Not much to add bar i think it will be a low scoring dull clash but its an interesting stat...

Got to think the dull clash is a good call - nobody seems interested

no bets in any of the friendlies for me

[kponkpa]

My number 1 pick for today is Hungary to beat Montenegro. Hungary will definitely win and i will add the following teams to make different sets of doubles

Italy, Wales U21, Italy, Kazakstan, Iceland.

I will also try a very small bet on an accumulator comprising these 6 teams

[MicPick]

Originally Posted by Petrous

Yes, england looks good.

Boath teams have a new trainer. So for boath teams start new era.

I am not happy form our national coach Rada. It was assistant of Last coach Bruckner who is now national trainer of Austria. It is crazy.

Our national team will be still without Rosicky. Out is also Libor Sinko, he was the best player on Euro, the other player who is out is Marejovsky (Reading) - both players are midfilders. The important is that our defender midfilder Galasek finished his career in national team, we will be also without the best striker Jan Koller.

Yes our defend have some quality. We have a great keeper, good defenders like Ujfalusi (Atletico Madrid , Jankulovsky (Ac Milan), Grygera (Juventus), Rozehnal (Lazio), but our midfild we ca not compare with England.
Kovac (Spartak Moskva) and Polak (Anderlecht) are only defend midfilders, Yes, Kovac is good in head play and Polak has a good shot from long distance. Jarolim is a captain of Hamburg (he is still on lawn,typical simulator), Plasil (Osasuna) - he has some quality but he is not good in defend.
What about our strikers - I don´t understand how is possible that Baros is in squad. He is I don´t know exactly 1 and half year wihout goal in national team and still is there. He is dud. Only one thing which he knows is run with the ball directly. The second striker Sverkos (Ostrava) is in good shape. The question is if he has quality on national team. But it is true that he scored on Euro one goal in 20 minut which he played with Portugal.

When play the England, we punters have already an advantage, for them a friendly is not a friendly, if then we think that playing at Wembley that players must impress their trainer that the visitors are in a phase of experimentation with the new croach and today will have a midfield with different problems (Petrous Thanks for your news here and in the czech 3d) then I think that this is a good opportunity.

England -1@2.16 Canbet

[mord]

Originally Posted by Mister X

When play the England, we punters have already an advantage, for them a friendly is not a friendly, if then we think that playing at Wembley that players must impress their trainer that the visitors are in a phase of experimentation with the new croach and today will have a midfield with different problems (Petrous Thanks for your news here and in the czech 3d) then I think that this is a good opportunity.

England -1@2.16 Canbet

problem is that this coach will not experiment at all, he is ex-main coachs assistent, and he is calling all the same bad players in there, so I expect horrible tactic and same out form players like Baros, so your bets looks fair to me, but I will not bet against them

[MicPick]

Originally Posted by mord

problem is that this coach will not experiment at all, he is ex-main coachs assistent, and he is calling all the same bad players in there, so I expect horrible tactic and same out form players like Baros, so your bets looks fair to me, but I will not bet against them

[Bigkegman]

ok i've been forced into it

went in to pick up weekend quick slips and ended up putting a golden nugget on a stupid accie

England
Scotland/N Ireland - draw
Hungary
Spain
Croatia
Dunfermline
Wrexham

[Petrous]

Originally Posted by Mister X

When play the England, we punters have already an advantage, for them a friendly is not a friendly, if then we think that playing at Wembley that players must impress their trainer that the visitors are in a phase of experimentation with the new croach and today will have a midfield with different problems (Petrous Thanks for your news here and in the czech 3d) then I think that this is a good opportunity.

England -1@2.16 Canbet

I am back from squash training and I was very surprised that the result was 1:0 for. Sirl on left midfield looks quite good. I am quites surprised taht Jarolim doesnít play. Hmmm quite good game from our players. What a pity that England scored goal in last minutes. It was foul or not and folowing corner. thats question.

We will see what will be the next half. I have bet on England team but CZECH Goooooooo