Our brand new BETDAQ TIPS pundit GREG WALKER. got off to the perfect start midweek with his selection of Republic Of Ireland on the Asian Handicap.
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His next preview covers Saturday’s LIVE encounter between Deportivo v Barcelona (9pm)
Over to you Greg……
Deportivo v Barcelona; Live on Sky Sports: Saturday 21.00pm.
WANTED-DEFENDERS!
Gerard Pique, Carlos Puyol, Dani Alves, Eric Abidal are all out injured for the away trip to the Riazor this Saturday and things are getting so bad at the back for FC Barcelona that there was talk of bringing in Ireland’s John o Shea on an end of season loan! To add to the Catalan’s problems they will be forced to continue with hard man midfielder Javier Mascherano as dodgy makeshift centre-half number one alongside fellow midfielder Alex Song who I am sure by now is telling his agent “I didn’t sign up for this”. To add to Song’s grief he arrived a day late back for training from international duty with Cameroon with rumour that his passport went missing and too top his week off completely his Cameroon team were knocked out in a play-off by Cape Verde and have shockingly failed to make it to next years African Nations Cup Finals!
A good time to play FC Barcelona?
Question: Is there ever any good times to play FC Barcelona? Answer: Yes, A) the morning after their squad Christmas party and B) After a two games International break. After the last International break (one game) Barca coach Tito Vilanova started the game with superstar Leo Messi on the bench(but he wasn’t that jetlagged as he came off it to score twice in a 4-1 win defeat of Getafe). Two Internationals in a week plus jet lag plus a Champions league game coming up next Tuesday will surely force Vilanova’s hand and push him to rest Messi and Sanchez, his South American internationals, and give a deserved start to David ‘El Guaje’ Villa. Barca have conceded at least once in their only three Primera away fixtures this season however came away with all three points on each occasion.
Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Are You Watching?
On Saturday night FCB travel to the Galician city of La Coruña to tussle with third from bottom Deportivo La Coruña in the atmospheric Riazor stadium. Depor, once champions themselves way back in 1999-2000, are once again back in with the ‘big boys’ after a short one season stint in the Segunda Division from which they emerged as champions and are now rightly back in the division for which they have been accustomed too. Whilst the blues and whites currently sit three from bottom they certainly have not shamed themselves on their return to the Primera Liga. Outside of one away hammering by Mourinho, Ronaldo and co. they have coped quiet well. They have played three at home and lost once and that was, in my view, unluckily to Seville. La Coruña’s manager José Luis Oltra Castañer usually try’s to be little bit cautious in how he sets his teams up however playing in front of 35,000 vociferous Galicians against the team everyone wants to beat then the only card he can play is the offensive one. The home side’s two in-form strike partners, Riki and Pizzi (there’s a headline there somewhere!) will undoubtedly be a handful for the FCB makeshift centre-half pairing and if, as I expect, Messi is rested then it could be a valuable point or three for Deportivo and high fives all round at the Real and Atletico Madrid camps.
Betting on BETDAQ-Greg’s Picks:
BACK 2 Points Deportivo La Coruña on the ASIAN Handicap PLUS (+1/1.5) @ 2.21
Profit / Loss to date: +2.92 points
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