Made a bit more progress on the mini console today and although I said I would have removed the beta wording this week it still remains but should be taken off early next week.

I had to laugh this week when I saw the match fixing allegation regarding the Norwich andDerby match as that was where most of our seasons profit has come from!

Nice to have a full set of games to look at but it is still very early in the European leagues and more patterns need to develop. Then we should be able to find HT/FT, over/under, HT result bets amongst others. I got my ticket for the Sporting Gijón game against Osasuna on Sunday and I do fancy Gijón to win but is unlikely I’ll ever include them in any bets on this. You have to avoid betting with your heart rather than your head as the bookie often ends up the winner. They are down the bottom of the table but the way the fixture list is Gijón, Racing Santander and Real Betis  are the only teams to have been through that 4 game mangle (Sevilla, RM, Barca and Villarreal) and they lie 14th, 19th and 20th. Once a few more teams have been through that the bottom half should even out. The Madridderby is on Saturday night as well and that should be a good match. Just hope Atletico actually stand up and play but I could see a draw there.

On to this weeks games

Bolton v Blackburn (English Premiership: Saturday 3pm BST)

This is the 3rd season where I have dig around corner bets and I like to think I have a decent angle on things and know what sort of prices I want to see when I see the fixtures. This game stuck out when I saw it and hope I have made the right choice. The Asian Handicap corner line is very tight here as it’s Bolton -0.5. I was expecting to see something a little higher and think the figures might be slightly uneven for Bolton as they had a game against Arsenal where the gunners had 10 more corners. In the other 2 Bolton home games they have won by 2 and 1 corner and average a respectable 6 corners in these 3 games. Taking their away games as the average stays at 5.8 compared to the Blackburn average of 4.5 in all games and 4.6 in the away games. Looking back at last seasons data the line we have would have produced a winner in 23/38 games (Bolton at home andBlackburn away) which is 60% and equates to odds of 1.65 which is much less than the 1.9 on offer. I think it will be close but hopefully close our way.

++ Asian Handicap Corners – Bolton (-0.5) @ 1.9 on Bet365 (1pt)

Carlisle v Peterborough (English League One: Saturday 3pm BST)

Carlisle started the season on fire with 4 wins and a draw but since then have been in freefall losing 5 in a row. I have just seen on the BBC site they also have a loan goalkeeper making his debut and so probably wouldn’t want Peterborough to be coming to town. In a reverse to Carlisle Peterborough started badly losing 3 of the first 4 but since then are unbeaten in 6 games with 4 of them wins over Leeds and the MK Dons who are both in the top 6. The evens quote on draw no bet appeals but I think I will risk the win bet here.

++ Win Market – Peterborough @ 2.8 on Sporting Bet/Ladbrokes (1pt)

Auxerre v Rennes (Ligue 1 France: Sunday 5pm CET)

The French league is a bit of a funny one in that Lyon have dominated it for so long and it is also characterised by a lot of low scoring games. Before the international break Rennes beat Lyon 3-0 which was huge. Rennes’s problem so far this season has been too many draws as they have only lost 1 of 8 games, but have drawn 4. On the opening day they drew 4-4 with Marseille but since then they have been tighter than a tic tac lid letting in 3 goals in 7 games, are unbeaten in the last 6 and leaked just one goal in the last 5. Auxerre have been a bit inconsistent and lost half their games this season and the 3 wins they have came against teams in the bottom 4. Rennes themselves have not scored away yet this season and survived on their defensive record. I hope they can break that this time and with their run of form I think it’s unlikely Auxerre can win so the Asian Handicap is the obvious bet.

++ Asian Handicap/Draw No Bet – Rennes (0) @ 2.2 on Bet365 (DNB) (1pt) – 2.17 on Stan James (DNB) and 2.23 on Pinnacle (AH)

3 points staked on the weekend.

Good luck in whatever bets you do.