Bet of the week (10th - 12th Nov)

Well, the weekends bets were a complete shambles with Man City unable to beat Burnley. They came back from 2-0 down to lead 3-2 but let in another poor goal to draw the game 3-3. I'd prefer to have Richard Dunne back in my defence if I was Mark Hughes now! They weren't the only ones to screw up as Celtic also drew with bottom team Falkirk 3-3 as well despite leading 3-2 in the 88th minute! Tampa Bay, however, pulled off the biggest shock of the week. Despite tipping them to lose by at least 9.5 points they managed to beat the Packers 38-28.

Very interesting game on in the Copa Del Rey in Spain this week with Real Madrid at home to Alcorcon in the second leg of their tie. Real lost the first leg 4-0 and I doubt they'll be playing any of their first team players as their focus is on league and European competition this year so you can have a punt on Alcorcon to down Real again this week at 14/1. You can also take them on +1 at 11/4 and at 5/6 at +2 goals.

Thursday night football is starting in the NFL this week with the Chicago Bears travelling to San Francisco to take on the 49ers. This will be a close one with both teams having lost last week but I'll have to side with the Bears in this one since the 49ers are on a terrible run of form and lost to the Titans last week who I'd rate a lot worse than the bears so I'll taking them +3 at odds of 10/11.

Lock of the Week (6th - 9th Nov)

All Sport Accumulator came in last week at 11/4 so we hope you had your money on it. Some good games on this week, in general terms and in betting terms. An obvious highlight is the Chelsea against Man Utd match at Stamford Bridge. Man Utd are struggling with some injuries at the moment and this showed in their mid week encouter with CSKA Moscow. We'd be inclined to think that Chelsea could take all the spoils in this encounter and at around evens you could do a lot worse this weekend. Anyway, on with this weeks football picks starting with the English Premier League:

Man City to beat Burnley (2/7)
Not much to say on this one, City should win this match although they've been a bit under par the last few weeks. Burnley have conjured up a few good results this season but they've been at their home ground and the City of Manchester Stadium is a hard place to score a goal , let alone stop the Blues from scoring.

Arsenal -1 to beat Wolves (evens)
A great price for free-scoring Arsenal to beat one of the new boys to the division. They're scoring an average of 3 goals a game this season and I fully expect them to beat Wolves by at least 2 goals. It all depends on whether or not the Arsenal defence/goalkeeper let in a sloppy goal but I don't think Wolves have enough quality to cause them big problems.

Liverpool to beat Birmingham (1/3)
I know Liverpool are playing some diabolical football at the moment but I think they should take out Birmingham at Anfield. I'll be more confident if Gerrard and Torres are on the team sheet on Monday night. No way would I go near the handicap on this one

You can take these matches at around 12/5 which is pretty decent value for what we're betting on but you could add a small bit more value by looking at some other matches around Europe such as:

Barcelona to beat Mallorca (1/6)
Not really sure whats going on with Barca in europe this season but it only seems to be when they're playing Russian teams??? No problems with them in the league this season with 7 wins and 2 draws so far this season. They've won every game at home this season and the trend should continue against a Mallorca side who are only 6 points behind in the league but won't be able to resist the talent of Messi, Ibrahimovic, Xavi, etc...

Celtic to beat Falkirk (2/7)
First versus Last in the SPL

These matches will bring the football accumulator up to just over a lovely 4/1 which we think we'll be taking on this weekend.

If thats not good enough here's how we think the following matches will play out from most likely to least likely. Be warned, We won't be putting these in the accumulator this week!! (maybe the first one....) N.B. for god's sake don't pick them all!!!!

Rangers to beat St. Mirren (1/4)
Rangers at home should be enough to just about guarantee victory but they've let us down too many times this season

Inter Milan to beat Roma (3/5)
Inter have won their last 5 games and sit atop of Serie A while Roma have lost 3 of their last 4 and are in 14th position

Juventus to beat Atalanta (4/5)
Playing well in Serie A this season and playing a lowly Atalanta side who, despite having a recent good run of form, are still in the wrong side of the table.


ALL SPORT ACCUMULATOR

Football

Man City
Barcelona
Celtic

American Football

Indianapolis to Beat the Texans (1/4)
AFC South clash between the top two teams. Texans are on a 3 game winning streak but travel to undefeated Indianapolis who are on great form and will have an added insentive that if they win this game they'll have literally wrapped up the AFC south with them moving to 8-0 and the Texans at 5-4 (if they haven't done so already!)

Packers -9.5 to beat the Buccaneers (10/11)
Packers had a tough time of it against the Vikings last week but they're playing the second worst team in the NFL, statistically speaking. Green Bay should take the spoils in Tampa and we feel they'll win by the 10 point the bookies are asking for.

New England to beat Miami (1/6)
New England are starting to hit top gear and Miami won't relish the prospect of travelling up their in November. Not going to take the handicap on this one but feel free to do so as it will be close to the -10.5 being quoted with a price of 10/11

Nearly 9/2 if you take these 6 selections on, nearly 8/1 if you take the handicap on New England.

Finally, theres an interesting bet on the David Haye v Nikolay Valuev Fight on Saturday night. Haye seems to be acting like he's going for the knockout in this fight and if he does someone is going to get knocked out in our opinion, so we'll be sticking a few sheckles on the fight being over before 9.5 rounds at 3/2.

P.S Don't ask why the font is massive half-way through, I have no idea how to change it????

Champions League games (3rd - 5th Nov)

This weeks accumulator is doing well so far with us just waiting on whether or not the New Orleans Saints can overcome the Atlanta Falcons later on today so fingers crossed! This week we have the Champions league's 4th round of games and there are a few nice prices out there thanks to some upsets in the last round of games.

Only one game that we'll be betting on on Tuesday evening so we're just going to put both Tuesdays and Wednesdays matches in the one accumulator:

Man Utd to beat CSKA Moscow (3/10)
United had abit of trouble putting them away in Moscow but at Old Trafford it should be a completly different story and they should have a fairly comfortable victory

Barcelona to beat Rubin Kazan (4/9)
Barcelona made a show of themselves at home to this team in the last round and we expect them to be out for some revenge. It is tempting to take the handicap on but I'll take 4/9 here.

Sevilla to beat Stuttgart (4/9)
Sevilla gave them a good beating in Germany and they should take care of them easily enough at home. Nice price as well

Arsenal -1 to beat AZ Alkmaar (1/2)
Arsenal should have destroyed this team in the Netherlands but nothing went right for them and they ended up with a draw. I think Arsenal will take care of business this time and we'll be taking the handicap on this one.

This should give you odds of just over 3/1 and hopefully we'll avoid any major catastrophes this time around.

Like last time, if you want to take a chance on something you could look at Dynamo Kiev to put one over on Inter Milan. This time Kiev are at home after giving Inter a scare in the San Siro 2 weeks ago. Maybe they'll pull it off this time with Kiev at 23/10.

Good Luck!