Saturday FA Cup picks

It is FA Cup weekened again and there is no shortage of excitement around the big Manchester United versus Liverpool game tomorrow. Personal opinion is Liverpool will get drilled but who knows, maybe they pull a rabbit out of the hat.

For today I've made the following picks:

Blackburn to beat QPR
Fulham to beat Peterborough
Everton to beat Scunthorpe
Arsenal to beat Leeds (no repeat of 2010 heroics methinks)
Aston Villa to be Sheffield United (although they sure as hell better than they played against Sunderland!)

Will post my Sunday picks later in the day.

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Inter Milan, Espanyol and Real Madrid tonight

Inter Milan are in action tonight with Leonardo taking charge in a tricky fixture against Napoli.

Three bets which appeal to me tonight and I have taken them in a trixie combination:

• Inter Milan to beat Napoli
• Espanyol to beat Atletico Madrid
• Real Madrid to beat Levante

I have also doubled up with individual outright bets on Inter and Real Madrid.

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English Premiership punts

Some big games tonight in the English Premiership and all eyes are going to be on the Arsenal versus Manchester City fixture.

In all honesty I have no idea how to call this fixture so I am steering clear of taking a punt on it.

I have split my bets over a Yankee combination of the following results:

Blackburn to beat Liverpool
Aston Villa to beat Sunderland
Newcastle to beat West Ham
Chelsea to beat Wolves

Was tempted to include Spurs to beat Everton but chickened out with Everton having home ground advantage...

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Saturday soccer punts!

So another weekend of football is here before things start winding down for the festive season. A last chance to make a few bucks.

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The only international soccer bet which really jumps out at me is Spurs playing host to Chelsea and favouring the home side for a win.

Chelsea are going through a shocking run of form and just don't look like a team which is gelling. Spurs on the other hand appear to be riding high on self belief.

Voltbet are offering me 18/10 on Spurs which I think are tasty odds.

On the domestic front I am backing Kaizer Chiefs to beat Free State Stars but I think it should be a really entertaining game.

Happy punting.

Betting for Sunday World Cup games

Australia were my early outside pick but the more I look at it the more unlikely it is that they will spring any kind of surprises this year.

Bearing in mind that I like Germany to go all the way to the final, it makes for today's fixture between the two as quite an interesting trade off.

I've backed the Germany to either win 1-0 (5/1) or 2-0 (11/2) when the two sides meet later today.

In the other fixtures for the day Algeria take on Slovenia. The bookies favour Slovenia slightly but I think there might be a bit of a surprise here and would be keen to take Algeria at 7/1 to win 1-0.

In the Serbia versus Ghana fixture I would lean toward Serbia where you can get 9/2 for a 1-0 win in favour of the Serbs.

Happy punting!

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