UEFA Cup - March 12th

Champions League was really good for us, having 4 winners and 1 loss and a profit of 5 Units in these 2 days and taking the overall record to 11W-7L-3P and a profit of 7.1 units.

A few games on UEFA Cup today and some interesting views...let's get to work!


Hamburg -½ @ 1.80 (-125) [2 UNITS]

Hamburg receives the tough Turkish side of Galatasaray. The Turkish go to Nordbank Arena after a a thrilling 4-3 home win against Bordeaux, and Hamburg is walking firm and steady in the UEFA competition, losing only 1 game in group stages, against Ajax in Amsterdam Arena. Galatasaray will miss the Czech international Milan Baros, their top scorer this season in UEFA, and also Mehmet Topal, Servet Cetin, and Emre Gungot. Hamburg's only injury is Guy Demel, who is still questionable. Hamburg will prevail in this game thanks to their home field advantage and the key players Galatasaray is missing. Will be a close game, but the home side will celebrate after 90 minutes.

Werder Bremen - St. Etienne OVER 2½ @ 1.74 (-135) [2 UNITS]

Two attack-minded teams get on the field today and this game has written "lots of goals" all over it. Both teams only think about winning games and scoring games and this will be an offensive showdown. St/ Etienne is great in counter attack and Werder conceeds many goals, but surely they can score plenty too.

Werder Bremen has had a really dissapointing Bundesliga season and their hopes in the UEFA cup are high, cause is their only chance to play Champions League next season. They'll attack since minute 1 and will leave spaces on defense that St Etienne in players like Gomis and Ilan will take advantage of it, as they are a really good couple.

2 Attack-minded teams + shaky defenses = Over 2½ = $$


Zenit St Petersburg +½ @ 1.63 (-160) [2 UNITS]

The defending UEFA and Super Cup champions travel to Italy to face Udinese in a thrilling match where the visitors are planning to continue their successful run in this competition.

Aside from Arshavin's departure, Zenit keep the same team. They even got the high paid Portuguese prospect Dany, and a boost in midfield with Semshov and Hungarian Huszti. Udinese is slowly coming back lately, as they totally lost the pace at some point this year, remaining winningless for 11 games. They defeated Juve and got a point from Roma last weekend.

Udinese don't seem as a reliable team right now, Zenit eliminated Stuttgart on the previous round despite being in the domestic offseason. Zenit will prevail in this game as their experience in these kind of matches it's really important.


Manchester City -1 @ 1.87 (-115) [2 UNITS]

Manchester City has been an inconsistent team all season long, but has shown better football in UEFA cup, especially at home. They already got rid of 2 other Danish teams (Midtjylland and FC Copenhagen) in this competition and at home they have won 3 out of 4 games, PSG was the only team that could get a draw from them.

Aalborg played UCL in the same group with Man U, Villarreal and Celtic, and actually they managed to edge Celtic out for the spot in UEFA Cup. Aalborg totally outplayed Deportivo in the previous round giving them a 6-1 combined score.

Definately Man City is the team called to perform, to win and advance. Their class is in no discussion against Aalborg. With not much to play for in the Premier League, Man City will concentrate in this competition and will be comfortable taking a 2 goal lead to their trip to Denmark.