Offshore Oscar’s picks for January 24 and 25, 2009
By: Offshore Oscar | January 23rd, 2009
Aston Villa and Genoa each came through exactly as hoped, which more than made up for the Madrid parlay debacle. We are now so solidly into positive territory that FIFA is probably looking into the situation. At this rate it shouldn’t be long before football handicappers have their own WAGs who are featured in tabloid stories around the globe. Until then, I’ll have to keep making due with this stack of Penthouses that I picked up at a garage sale a few years back.
Original bankroll: 1,000 units
Current bankroll: 1,381.2 units
This weekend’s Offshore Oscar plays:
Betting on draws can be heartbreaking and also make matches hard to watch, so let’s string 3 of them together to see what happens.
1 – England is back to FA Cup action this weekend with two Premiership strugglers meeting in the Northeast. Sunderland-Blackburn should be a ho-hum match with both teams thinking more about how to stay out of the relegation zone.
30 units on a Sunderland-Blackburn draw at 3.30 (so a draw will get us back 99 units)
2 – Looks like the most competitive match in Serie A this weekend is in Naples, where the red-hot Blues host AS Roma. It should be a tight match and it could be a 1-1 tie, with Roma scoring early and Napoli getting a late equalizer.
30 units on a Napoli-Roma draw at 2.90 (so a draw gets us back 87 units)
3 – On to Spain and La Liga where Malaga hosts Althletico Madrid. Malaga absolutely crushed Espanyol, while Althletico drew at Almeria. Althletico coach Javier Aguirre is not a happy man so far in 2009 and he should have his team prepared for this match.
30 units on a Malaga-Althletico Madrid draw at 3.10 (so a draw gets us back 93 units)
Odds from willhill.com
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