Chelsea are Wolves playing. Who do you back?
Chelsea. Last season’s double winners. Roman Abromovic’s Billions of Beneficiaries. Drgoba. Malouda. Essien. Anelka. Cole. Terry. Cech. A team of superstars whose surnames are known over the world.
Wolverhampton Wanderers. Perennial relegation scrappers. Not just the bottom of the league thanks to West Ham United being even worse this season. No chance Situs Poker.
And what happens? Wolves beat Chelsea 1-0.
Of course, if you have been following the English Premier League this season, you will have to say that a 3-0 home defeat to Sunderland, Chelsea’s form has been absolutely shocking. They’d slipped from the runaway favorites to retain the title in the fifth in the table. They needed to win the Wolves against Leopfrog Tottenham Hotspur back into the Champions League places. They didn’t get it.
This is a prime example of how to bet on a team’s form before placing a bet. It becomes even more important to look at a team’s recent form if you’re betting on a league that doesn’t follow suit.
The simplest way to check out a team’s form is simply to look at their most recent results. Look at what two teams have done and their last five games and what you should get is a good idea of ​​how the two teams compares.
You may also want to look at what the last few teams have been up to, whether it was earlier in the season, or in previous seasons. Many teams have a ‘boogie team’ that, for whatever reason, they find it difficult to beat. For example, Barcelona are hot favorites who will face the Champion’s League, and when they collide with Rubin Kazan in the 2010 group stages, they’ll be back to make an obvious choice. Barcelona could only manage a 1-1 draw away.
If you’d seen what happened in the group stages the year before, Rubin Kazan with Barcelona’s draw would have been such a shock. They were in the 2009 Champion’s League group stages and Barcelona again managed only one draw away, with the game ending that time 0-0. When Rubin Kazan pulled off an even more shocking result, they traveled to Camp Nou, beating Barcelona 2-1.
These two examples show that teams can look like huge hot favorites when they look like such a hot pick. If you’re serious about trying to win, you can’t go blind and pick a team based on win value or past glories. You need to look at what the team’s done lately, what happened when they last faced their opponents, and anything else that could potentially affect them. Do they have a star player suspended or suffered? Have they just fired their manager? Have they just brought in an expensive new signing?
Football betting is about as cold hard statistics as it is about intuition. You should arm yourself with all the facts and share your cash.
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