Soccer tip for this Saturday.

[winbet]

Slim,
You have indeed been very sharp in acquiring the best odds, which are now long gone. However, I read a post on another forum, a guy who works for a book and tells everyone what the public are on and then bets the opposite ( can you believe how dopey some people are) well, he reckons the whole world is on CR and says GO USA.

Funny world we live in.:drink:

 

[winbet]

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width="50%"><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD noWrap align=right>Betting on: </TD><TD width="60%"><SELECT id=myBetsBetView style="VISIBILITY: visible" onchange=modifyMyBetsBetView(this) name=myBetsBetView> <OPTION value=marketId=3605499&selectionId=43376 selected>Costa Rica<OPTION value=marketId=3605499&selectionId=352>USA<OPTION value=marketId=3605499&selectionId=34>The Draw</OPTION></SELECT> </TD></TR><TR><TD noWrap align=right>Total matched on this event: </TD><TD>€11,397</TD></TR><TR><TD noWrap align=right>Betting summary - Volume: </TD><TD>€10,221

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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD noWrap align=right>Betting on: </TD><TD width="60%"><SELECT id=myBetsBetView style="VISIBILITY: visible" onchange=modifyMyBetsBetView(this) name=myBetsBetView> <OPTION value=marketId=3605499&selectionId=43376>Costa Rica<OPTION value=marketId=3605499&selectionId=352 selected>USA<OPTION value=marketId=3605499&selectionId=34>The Draw</OPTION></SELECT> </TD></TR><TR><TD noWrap align=right>Total matched on this event: </TD><TD>€11,397</TD></TR><TR><TD noWrap align=right>Betting summary - Volume: </TD><TD>€833 </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

 

[azg04]

Just as a side note, Mexico should bitchslap Guatemala in their little affair, just a side note though...

Mexico is a no mercy team, that's what I like about them, no matter they already qualified, Mexico just play really good football.

 

[-Slim-]

playing in Mexico City cripples anyone..... just that factor alone helps Mexico....

Basically any squad that enters Mexico City looks like a deer caught in you know whos headlights...

 

[winbet]

Mexico is a no mercy team, that's what I like about them, no matter they already qualified, Mexico just play really good football.

I hope that was a tongue-in-cheek post, if it isnt I would stay away from soccer betting if I was you.:drink:

 

[azg04]

playing in Mexico City cripples anyone..... just that factor alone helps Mexico....

Basically any squad that enters Mexico City looks like a deer caught in you know whos headlights...

My friend let me remind you that CR was the only team that broke their strike of 50 years of not losing at the Azteca, not Brazil, or Germany, neither US arty:

 

[-Slim-]

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=yspsctnhdln>U.S. in World Cup tuneup; Costa Rica fights to qualify</TD></TR><TR><TD height=7><SPACER height="1" width="1" type="block"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>By JOHN RICE, Associated Press Writer
October 7, 2005

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<SMALL>AP - Oct 3, 5:32 pm EDT</SMALL>
More Photos</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -- Delayed by stormy weather and displaced by a poultry convention, the weary U.S. soccer team finally arrived here Friday for a game that may have more to do with which players reach the World Cup than which teams do.

For the United States, Saturday's game is a chance to test new players and keep a six-game shutout streak alive in qualifiers. The Americans already are set for next year's World Cup in Germany.

For Costa Rica, this is a chance to win a berth in the tournament before an impassioned home crowd at Saprissa Stadium.

``This is definitely one of the hardest places to come and play, not only because it's a good, quality team but the fans and the stadium are fantastic,'' U.S. defender Eddie Lewis said after an evening practice.

He is one of two players on the U.S. roster to play here.

``I wouldn't say it's the loudest'' stadium, but ``it's definitely one of the rowdiest -- in a very positive way,'' Lewis said.

He apparently wasn't thinking of Costa Rica's qualifier against Mexico in February, when spectators threw objects at opposing players, prompting FIFA to order Costa Rica to play its next game, against Panama, behind closed doors.

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</NOSCRIPT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>U.S. coach Bruce Arena said Saprissa may even be tougher than Mexico City's Azteca Stadium, another building in which the United States has never won.

``It's difficult in different ways,'' he said. ``Azteca: problems with altitude, smog, good field. Saprissa: tough conditions with the fans.''

Bad weather Thursday forced the U.S. team's charter flight to divert to Panama City, where the Americans found hotels full for the Latin American Poultry Congress. The team wound up at a hotel an hour from the airport.

The clouds lifted enough so the team could arrive by midmorning in San Jose, where soccer-mad TV stations broke into programs to show the American team leaving its plane.

The United States hasn't been scored on in CONCACAF qualifiers since losing 2-1 in Mexico City on March 27. The streak will be in danger against a Costa Rican squad looking to reach the World Cup.

``We want to end that string and win classification at the same time,'' Costa Rica forward Alvaro Saborio said.

A tie -- or anything less than a victory by Guatemala over Mexico -- would give Costa Rico the region's third automatic bid to the World Cup.

``The Costa Rica team will play very strong, very fast in the beginning of the game, try to get an early goal and write their ticket to Germany,'' Arena said.

With Mexico already qualified, Guatemala and Trinidad and Tobago appear to be battling for the final chance from the region, a playoff against Uzbekistan or Bahrain.

The Americans assured themselves a World Cup berth with a victory over Mexico on Sept. 3. Only four of the 18 players for this game were on the squad that beat Costa Rica 3-0 in Salt Lake City on July 4.

Forward Landon Donovan is missing from the roster after 20 consecutive World Cup qualifying games.

Asked what he's looking for at Saprissa from the young players, Arena said, ``Can they survive? Can they play?''

``Our team is a long way from being set for Germany,'' Arena said. ``It will take time.'' Key young U.S. players include 20-year-old forward Santino Quaranta of DC United, 22-year-old midfielder Ricardo Clark of the San Jose Earthquakes and 23-year-old defender Oguchi Onyewu of Standard Liege of Belgium. Also on the lineup Saturday is Manchester United goalkeeper Tim Howard. Saprissa, which seats 23,000, has artificial turf. It has been remodeled since the Americans played to a muddy 2-0 loss there in qualifying for the 2002 World Cup.

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[arniesarmy]

TV stations broke into regular programming to show the U.S. team departing their plane? WTF? The only air time the U.S. soccer team would get here is if that plane landed nose first in some cornfield.

 

[quantumleap]

Just as a side note, Mexico should bitchslap Guatemala in their little affair, just a side note though...

Is that due to the fact that they're playing at Azteca? The reason I ask is because Mexico has nothing to play for. Guatemala still has an outside chance so I thought they may come within 1 of the Mexicans.

 

[WildBill]

Is that due to the fact that they're playing at Azteca? The reason I ask is because Mexico has nothing to play for. Guatemala still has an outside chance so I thought they may come within 1 of the Mexicans.

FWIW, Mexico isn't playing in Azteca for this game, but in San Luis Potosi. The stadium there is small so they won't have that bad TV atmosphere of a half-empty stadium. Still about 6,000 feet of altitude.

As for being afraid of playing there, when people are throwing batteries at your head all night long you are going to be afraid! Did having to play a game in front of an empty stadium get them to stop doing that shit? I am glad the Ticos are fired up, they will get tense. The whole damn country just collectively acts like they are going to blow it again. Too funny, the team is going to walk easily into the WC as I have said all along since the last round, yet people are out being schizos about it wondering what is wrong with the squad. Its qualifying people, get in and then move onto worrying about next year. First or third means nothing. The US finished third in qualifying in 2002 and didn't turn out too bad now did they?

And dammit do something in Germany so we can keep this easy qualifying process for us all.

 

[copacabana]

that's because everyone on this board is on cr.

Surely this comment is sarcastic?

Surely you don't think even bettors from this forum could move a price even on soccer?

 

[TANG]

what you guys did to the moneyline at pin is sick up to pk -186

 

[-Slim-]

line is now

CR +112
US +225
draw +221

 

[-Slim-]

also, regardless of Mexico being qualified, Guatemala needing the game etc etc, if you wanna risk it on Guatemala go ahead but be aware, its almost impossible for anyone to go into Mexico and even keep it close......specially a team as limited as Guatemala.....

A month or so ago, when Mexico played Trinidad...we didnt even have a line for the draw in this game. A customer called up pissed about it, I chuckled, put it up for him, he took it for 200 dollars. Game ended 5-0.

 

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[blueedwards]

slim, this comes in...you're my hero.

 

[TTinCO]

Gotta love it....US team ended up in airport hell last night & had to fly in from Panama this morning



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</TD><TD class=tableContentRow width="100%">10/7/05 9:49 AM

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</TD><TD class=normalformcentral width="100%">DETOUR: It was business as usual when the U.S. Men’s National Team left their Miami hotel at 2:45 p.m. ET. That all changed when one of the staff members was briefly left behind and the journey quickly became anything but normal. The charter flight took off for San Jose with an expected arrival time of approximately 5 p.m. MT, and the group settled into their normal flight routine of DVD's, sleep and Texas Hold 'Em.

About an hour out of San Jose, ground control informed the pilots that bad weather in San Jose made landing impossible at the moment. Deciding to head to Panama City to refuel and wait out the storm, the charter touched down about 6:30 local time. And then the wait began. Every weather update contained the same ominous news; meantime, the flight crew fired up a second round of meals while U.S. Soccer officials and hotel staff on the ground were furiously arranging alternate plans. After three hours, the decision was made to stay in Panama City for the night, save for one problem. A huge chicken and egg convention - we're not making this up - had booked nearly every room in the city. Ever resourceful, and with the help of the Intercontinental in Panama City, the team found accommodation in the jungle resort town of Gamboa about an hour from the airport.

After customs officials finally cleared the group, the team departed (without bags) on a winding bus ride through the city, eventually settling in for the night in a magnificent resort at approximately 11 p.m. local time. With 7:30 a.m. wake up calls, the team headed back to the airport for the 45-minute flight to San Jose. Many thanks to Tom King and Pam Perkins of U.S. Soccer, and Heidi from the Intercontinental for their last-minute scramble to find the boys a place to get a good night's sleep.

http://www.ussoccer.com/news/fullstory.sps?iNewsid=250406&itype=113&iCategoryID=0


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[spreadbeater]

Slim,

So what should the play be? Should I play draw and CR or play the other line that Pinny offers. I never bet soccer, so I have no clue about this. THanks.

SB

 

[newbie666]

play the money line.

take costa rica +xxx
and the draw +xxx

costa rica should win this
if not.. there is a guaranteed draw.
very small small small chance. us could win this one...

i suggesst this is a 51% draw and the remaining 49% for cr and usa.

 

[TTinCO]

I'm 4x heavy on CR vs my draw play.

2-0 CR final