Weekend Review - 23 Sep 2012

Liverpool vs Manchester United

An undeserving win against Galatasaray and makes me wonder if Man Utd should get struck by lightning twice if they cant qualify from the group stages. Galatasaray shows more hunger and if luck goes their way, the match could have end for a defeat for Man Utd.

This weekend match against Liverpool, from my own opinion, is the wrong time to face them. Although they have Europa League and have lesser rest than us, they are starting to gel under Brendan Rodgers. The only saving grace is that they have Luis Suarez as the main striker. Any injuries or bans to him, Liverpool is literally no strikeforce.

We also welcome Darren Fletcher back from life threatening bowel condition and was a surprised to see him on the bench against Galatasaray. Wayne Rooney is still out and we will see RVP in action.

The match handicap is level. I foresee a draw for this match.

Disclaimer: This review is purely my opinion. Want to bet, pls bet at your own risk. 

EPL Prediction League Match Weekend 22-23 September 2012

EPL09: SAT 22/9 West Ham vs Sunderland at 9.55pm SIN/HKT

EPL10: SUN 23/9 Liverpool v Man U at 8.25pm SIN/HKT

GAME ON!

Scoring System
3-Points for a correct outcome (Win, Lose or Draw)
1-point each for correct score on each side.

Double Entry
Later submission shall override earlier submission.

Penalty
Submissions after kick-off will not be admissible. (Disqualification)

Blog Blackout
This Prediction League will be played here but if in the event this blog goes down, we will automatically carry on the league over to the personal blog of Voxeros at http://www.JayWalkOnline.com. Please bookmark this or at the very least stay in touch with one of us as we will also be helping all stay in the loop via the various channels like MSN, Skype, email as well as SPUG Off-Topic Chat.

Midweek Review - 19 Sep 2012

Manchester United vs Galatasary

An easy win against Wigan even without Rooney and RVP, with debut goals from Buttner and Powell. And we begin our European campaign from a visit by Galatasary.

Galatasary, champions of Turkish League 11/12 coached under Fatih Terim, would want to do well since a 5 year absence from the competition. We will also see several ex-Premier League players such as Emmanuel Eboue, Milan Baros, Albert Riera and Johan Elmander.

The Turkish team, has not won on England soil, however Man Utd record against Turkish teams are 3 wins, 1 loss and 2 draw, with the most recent from Besiktas winning at Old Trafford in 09/10 season.

Without Rooney and RVP, Fergie will want to use the same 11 that faced Wigan, for Galatasary match.

Man Utd is giving 1.5 handicap. Bookies are expecting Man Utd to step the pedal from the first whistle, which i doubt so as Man Utd are traditionally slow starters in domestic and European campaigns.

Disclaimer: This review is purely my opinion. Want to bet, pls bet at your own risk. 

Results - EPL Prediction 15 - 16 Sep 2012

We have a relatively straight forward game on Sunday to thank for as most of us scored some points after being floored by Aston Villa the day before, sans Mr White.

So it's a congratulations to Mr White for being the only 6-pointer of the weekend to climb to 2nd position.

Arrenn still hold the pole at this stage but his lead has been slashed to just 3 points ahead of cool402, with the rest of the pack closing in.

Housekeeping Notes: All of this season's tables will be kept in Flickr's photoset. Click Here.

EPL Prediction League "Perfect 10" Hall Of Fame
Perfect 10 = 2 correct-score predictions in a single submission and hence the award of the full 10 points.

1) No one yet!

Marksmen Board (Number of Exact Predictions)
1 Game  - Everton, cool402, Arrenn

Scoring System
3-Points for a correct outcome (Win, Lose or Draw) 1-point each for correct score on each side.

Double Entry
Later submission shall override earlier submission.

Penalty
No points for submission after kick-off. (Disqualification)

Blogspot Blackout
The EPL 2012/2013 Prediction League will be played here but if in the event this blog site goes down, we will automatically carry on the league over to my personal blog at http://www.JayWalkOnline.com/.

Please bookmark this or at the very least stay in touch with one of us as we will also be helping all stay in the loop via the various channels like MSN, whatsapp, email as well as SPUG Off-Topic Chat.

Prediction League Past Winners

Copa America 2004 - WeiMeng

EPL 2004/2005 - Friday13

EPL 2005/2006 - ianrush

World Cup 2006 - edwinsng

EPL 2006/2007 - Voxeros

EPL 2007/2008 - cool402

Euro 2008 - Voxeros

EPL 2008/2009 - Everton

EPL 2009/2010 - ihawk98

World Cup 2010 - Raynaldo

EPL 2010/2011 - Mr White

EPL 2011/2012 - necroastr

Euro 2012 - edwinsng

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Fixture Focus–Spurs (EPL, 15 September 2012)

Reading vs Tottenham Hotspur

Needless to say, fans are frustrated at the moment but I am sure the gaffer is even more frustrated.

It would be interesting to see what formation AVB plays on Saturday and which personnel he deploys. My guess is that Dembele and Adebayor will start while Dempsey will be available from the bench. The players looked out of sorts in the first 3 matches of the season and are clearly struggling to get use to a new system of play. I really have no issue with any system of play, just as long as we play fluid, entertaining, attacking football. This is what Spurs is known for and anyone who tinkers with this is not going to have a happy reception with the fans.

Reading are a spirited side and have won 8 of the last 10 matches at home. Manager Brian McDermott will welcome Jimmy Kebe, the winger from Mali, back into his squad.

Both managers will want to get their first win of the season under their belt. For my sanity, I really want it to be AVB.

COYS!!!

Weekend Review - 15 Sep 2012

Manchester United vs Wigan Athletic

International duties are over and we are back to domestic action. Some updates for Champions League, we are grouped with Galatasaray, CFR Cluj and Braga. Sounds an easy group like last season, yet Man Utd still got dumped out of the group stages and to the Europa League. Hopefully Man Utd will learnt their lesson and never underestimated any team. Whereas for Man City, they are in a Group of Death which have Real Madrid, Ajax and Borussia Dortmund.

We will be facing Wigan Athletic where we lost to them for the first time last season since they promoted to Premier League in 2005. And coincidentally, it was an unbeatan run that Wigan gone through at the turn of the year and beat the drop. Furthermore, they actually have a winter break during the festive season. Still need further proof for England to perform better in World Cup and European Championship?

Roberto Martinez is also another manager that embraced possession football. But some key players have left and the most notable is Victor Moses. Man Utd on the other hand is, wait for this, short of strikeforce as Van Persie and Rooney are injured. Danny Welbeck and Hernandez are waiting for this chance.

Man Utd is giving 1.75 handicap. Doubtful that the handicap will clear. No punt.

Disclaimer: This review is purely my opinion. Want to bet, pls bet at your own risk.

EPL Prediction League Match Weekend 15-16 September 2012

EPL07: SAT 15/9 Aston Villa vs Swansea at 9.55pm SIN/HKT

EPL08: SUN 16/9 Reading v Spurs at 10.55pm SIN/HKT

GAME ON!

Scoring System
3-Points for a correct outcome (Win, Lose or Draw)
1-point each for correct score on each side.

Double Entry
Later submission shall override earlier submission.

Penalty
Submissions after kick-off will not be admissible. (Disqualification)

Blog Blackout
This Prediction League will be played here but if in the event this blog goes down, we will automatically carry on the league over to the personal blog of Voxeros at http://www.JayWalkOnline.com. Please bookmark this or at the very least stay in touch with one of us as we will also be helping all stay in the loop via the various channels like MSN, Skype, email as well as SPUG Off-Topic Chat.

EPL Prediction League

There wont be any prediction this weekend due to international friendlies and World Cup 2014 qualifiers.

Results - EPL Prediction 01 - 02 Sep 2012

You can tell when ihawk98 had a good pick when everybody INCLUDING himself, scored zeros.

Congrats to redherring for being the only one to have faith in the Gunners and handsomely rewarded with 4 points and leapfrogged over 4 places to land at joint-4th position.

Congrats also to Arrenn for being the other only scorer, albeit just 1 point, to extend his lead slightly further to 5 points.

Housekeeping Notes: All of this season's tables will be kept in Flickr's photoset. Click Here.

EPL Prediction League "Perfect 10" Hall Of Fame
Perfect 10 = 2 correct-score predictions in a single submission and hence the award of the full 10 points.

1) No one yet!

Marksmen Board (Number of Exact Predictions)
1 Game  - Everton, cool402, Arrenn

Scoring System
3-Points for a correct outcome (Win, Lose or Draw) 1-point each for correct score on each side.

Double Entry
Later submission shall override earlier submission.

Penalty
No points for submission after kick-off. (Disqualification)

Blogspot Blackout
The EPL 2012/2013 Prediction League will be played here but if in the event this blog site goes down, we will automatically carry on the league over to my personal blog at http://www.JayWalkOnline.com/.

Please bookmark this or at the very least stay in touch with one of us as we will also be helping all stay in the loop via the various channels like MSN, whatsapp, email as well as SPUG Off-Topic Chat.

Prediction League Past Winners

Copa America 2004 - WeiMeng

EPL 2004/2005 - Friday13

EPL 2005/2006 - ianrush

World Cup 2006 - edwinsng

EPL 2006/2007 - Voxeros

EPL 2007/2008 - cool402

Euro 2008 - Voxeros

EPL 2008/2009 - Everton

EPL 2009/2010 - ihawk98

World Cup 2010 - Raynaldo

EPL 2010/2011 - Mr White

EPL 2011/2012 - necroastr

Euro 2012 - edwinsng

As usual:

1) If you have spotted a mistake, please let me know where and what so that I can amend them accordingly.

2) Please check your scores for accuracy as soon as possible before I update the table during the next round of scores. Once the table has been updated, the old table will be overwritten.

3) In case you are still seeing the old table even if I have announced a new update, please refresh your browser to reload the table.

Fixture Focus - Spurs (1 Sep 2012)

Tottenham Hotspur vs Norwich City

We had just finished the summer transfer window, and in case some of you do not know, we had signed 3 new players to the Lane - Dembele, Dempsey and Lloris, the former two from Fulham. 

In our second home game, we will be meeting Norwich, who like us, had just drew 1 and lost 1. AVB would definitely want to have a win, especially at home ground, to start our gear for the top 4 spot by the end of the season. News has filtered out that Dembele might make it to the starting lineup for our game this evening, but Kaboul is out with an injury, so Caulker may take his place.

Norwich, currently managed by ex-Spurs man Hughton, will be missing Lappin, but fellow midfielder Snodgrass will likely make it. We might see our ex-man Bassong starting against us.

A trying time for both teams to make a mark early in the season. With home ground advantage, I do not see any reason why we can lose even a point from this game.

COYS!!!!!