Hat-Trick!

Not bad - despite Birmingham going a goal behind and Bristol City going two goals behind, all three tips from Friday came in.

Tomorrow's tip is more of the same. Landskrona v Angelholms is a game that both teams need to win to stand any chance of getting into the promotion play off place in the Swedish Superettan, which is a tight race - any one of ten teams are still in with a chance. Unlike some of my recent recommendations, I'm going to go for dutches for half time and full time. There's a  54.5% chance of a draw in this game at half time so Landskrona/draw is worth dutching as is Landskrona/draw at full time. Insurance is Angelholms to be ahead at half time and draw/Landskrona at full time - the latter might be a nice surprise if the game ends in a draw.

There are a few games in England and Scotland that are already on my radar for the coming weekend but they're still at research stage at the moment so I'll post any comments on them when I'm satisfied that they're worth investing in.

Helsingborgs Remain Unbeaten...Just

Helsingborgs 3, Djurgardens 3: A very, very, very late equaliser by new signing Alexander Gerndt saved Helsingborgs' unbeaten home record. The goal not only completed his hat-trick but also saved me £16 ($25) as I was so confident that Helsingborgs wouldn't loose that I'd laid Djurgardens at 9.0.

Helsingborgs played the entire second half with ten men after Marcus Lantz was given a straight red following a two footed tackle on Djurgardens' Kennedy Igboananike, who had opened the scoring a couple of minutes earlier. Despite their nunerical disadvantage, Helsingborgs were leading 2-1 after 57 minutes - which is arguably where I should have traded out - however, the insurance was in place and I was going to let the bet ride when Gerndt scored his third.

Aftonbladet has clips from the game here, may be up on Youtube tomorrow.

Overall the last couple of days have been interesting to say the least - a 73p loss on Betfair which was offset somewhat by the 1p overall profit on the half time insurance bet of draw/Djurgardens. I spent more than that on my lunch today but arguably the most significant thing that's happened over the last couple of days is that I successfully laid Safari Guide at Kempton yesterday - so the bizarre July 'winning' streak was snapped at four and I'll be recommending some more lays when some worthwhile prospects come up.

Abdellaoue Hat Trick As Valerenga Smash Start

Valerenga 8, Start 1: the visitors got off to a good...ummm...start when they scored in the 12th minute but it was all downhill from there.

I thought there'd be goals in this game, but I wasn't expecting nine! Mohammed Abdellaoue filled his boots with a hat trick and is now four goals ahead of former Spurs, Wolves and Valerenga striker Steffen Iversen (now with Rosenborg) in the leading goalscorer table: there are a few clips on YouTube showing what Abdellaoue is capable of and it he's that good I can't imagine him playing in Norway for much longer.

Bonus: here are the goals!



In Sweden, Trelleborg beat Halmstad 1-0 thanks to a goal from Mattias Adelstam twelve minutes from time - Trelleborg really were very good value for the win so I hope you benefitted from that one.

Yesterday's profit on Betfair: £3.51! I decided to invest some of the profit on one of the major European leagues - more of which later in the week.