That's it for 2011!

All I can say is - 2011 couldn't come to an end at a better time.

Liverpool v Newcastle United X

Southampton v Bristol City over 2,5 goals

Manchester United v Blackburn 1 and over 2,5 combined goals [I wouldn't want to be in the players' shoes in that changing room...]

Arsenal v Queen's Park Rangers Robin van Persie to score the first goal

Bolton v Wolverhampton X

Chelsea v Aston Villa under 3,5 goals

Norwich City v Fulham Grant Holt to score at anytime

Stoke City v Wigan 1

Swansea v Tottenham X-2 (hallftime-fulltime) [exact opposite, beautiful]

Middlesbrough v  Peterborough United 1

Burnley v Hull City over 1,5 goals 

Reading v Ipswich Town 1

Sheffield United v Hartlepool United 1

Scunthorpe v Chesterfield over 1,5 goals 

Fin de siecle

Well obviously it's not fin de siecle ('end of the century' in French or so I've been told) but those are the last few games this year.

Liverpool v Newcastle United (30.12, 19:45) X (4.00)

Southampton v Bristol City (30.12, 20:45) over 2,5 goals(1.75)

Manchester United v Blackburn (31.12, 12:45) 1 and over 2,5 combined goals (1.45)

Arsenal v Queen's Park Rangers (31.12, 15:00) Robin van Persie to score the first goal (3.25)

Bolton v Wolverhampton (31.12, 15:00) X (3.10)

Chelsea v Aston Villa (31.12, 15:00) under 3,5 goals (1.53)

Norwich City v Fulham (31.12, 15:00) Grant Holt to score at anytime (2.50)

Stoke City v Wigan (31.12, 15:00) 1 (1.65)

Swansea v Tottenham (31.12, 15:00) X-2 (hallftime-fulltime) (4.60)

Middlesbrough v  Peterborough United (31.12, 15:00) 1 (1.65)

Burnley v Hull City (31.12, 15:00) over 1,5 goals (1.26)

Reading v Ipswich Town (31.12, 15:00) 1 (1.62)

Sheffield United v Hartlepool United (31.12, 13:00) 1 (1.53)

Scunthorpe v Chesterfield (31.12, 13:00) over 1,5 goals (1.20)

Let's finish 2011 in style! Aaaaaand last but not least...

Even though it's a bit old and it's not Christmas, the latter part still applies. HAPPY NEW YEAR :)

Draws bonanza

That was a very unusual gameweek in the EPL, only 1 home team (Man United) getting a win...five 1:1 draws too is probably a statisticians dream (I'm sure OptaJoe had a few cool facts about it on twitter!)
  

Chelsea v Fulham Daniel Sturridge to score at anytime

Bolton v Newcastle both teams to score

Manchester United v Wigan 1 to win and over 2,5 combined goals scored

Liverpool v Blackburn exactly 4 goals

Sunderland v Everton 1 either at halftime or at fulltime

WBA v Man City over 2,5 goals scored

Stoke v Aston Villa 1 either at halftime or fulltime

Club Brugge v Zulte-Waregem 1

AA Gent v Westerlo 1

Lokeren v Sint-Truiden over 2,5 goals 

4/10, another rather low scoring week. The only thing making me feel slighlty better is this piece of skill by a Cadiz player, Dieguito:

  

Maravilla!

Christmas, Christmas...

...football never sleeps though (I still might be under the impression of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps I've just watched, in true yuletide fashion).

 

Chelsea v Fulham (26.12, 13:00) Daniel Sturridge to score at anytime (1.90)

Bolton v Newcastle (26.12, 15:00) both teams to score (1.53)

Manchester United v Wigan (26.12, 15:00) 1 to win and over 2,5 combined goals scored (1.50)

Liverpool v Blackburn (26.12, 15:00) exactly 4 goals (5.00)

Sunderland v Everton (26.12, 15:00) 1 either at halftime or at fulltime (1.85)

WBA v Man City (26.12, 15:00) over 2,5 goals scored (1.57)

Stoke v Aston Villa (26.12, 19:45) 1 either at halftime or fulltime (1.55)

Club Brugge v Zulte-Waregem (26.12, 15:00) 1 (1.35)

AA Gent v Westerlo (26.12, 20:30) 1 (1.25)

Lokeren v Sint-Truiden (26.12, 20:30) over 2,5 goals (1.70)

I've been winning money.

Despite severe lack of time to post anything new, I've managed to get a few bets right so thought I might share them with the world:

Sevilla v Real Madrid over 1,5 goals

Atletico Madrid v Betis over 1,5 goals

Lazio v Sporting over 1,5 goals

Besiktas v Stoke 1X

Maccabi Haifa v Schalke over 1,5 goals

Anderlecht v Lokomotiv Moscow 1X

Hannover v Vorskla Poltava over 0,5 goals in the first half

Club Brugge v Braga 1X

AZ Alkmaar v Metalis Kharkov over 1,5 goals

Bayern Munich v FC Koln 1 and over 2,5 combined goals scored

Benfica v Rio Ave 1

Blackburn v Bolton over 1,5 goals

Wolverhampton v Norwich over 1,5 goals

Newcastle v WBA over 1,5 goals

Man City v Stoke over 2,5 goals

Everton v Swansea X either at halftime or at fulltime

Fulham v Man United Wayne Rooney to score at anytime

Tottenham v Chelsea over 1,5 goals

Haven't really won as much as I'd like but hey, at least it gives you confidence. Also, as you can see I got pretty damn good at predicting the number of goals. Or at least that there's going to 2 or more in a game.

EPL tips coming up on Monday morning. Till then, MERRY CHRISTMAS! 

A short period of hibernation.

Right, I simply won't have time to look at the fixtures this coming weekend as I'm swamped with work; I'll try to do bits and pieces over the festive period but I think it's safer to say that I'll be back properly only in early January after my exam. There are going to be other things appearing though so stay tuned!

There it is.

The worst weekend in history.

Arsenal v Everton 1 to score over 1,5 Everton didn't muster a single shot on target in their last 2 games yet somehow managed to lose only 1:0 on both occassions. Lucky.

Norwich v Newcastle 1 either at halftime or fulltime

Liverpool v QPR X either at halftime or fulltime

Manchester United v Wolverhampton 1 and under 3,5 combined goals scored

Swansea v Fulham X Fulham missed a penalty just to go 2 down moments later in the dying minutes of the game. Sweet.

WBA v Wigan 1 Wigan haven't won 2 games in a row in the EPL since 2006. Cheers, Martinez.

Sunderland v Blackburn 1 a stopagge time winner for Sunderland, close one...Martin O'Neill having an instant impact?

Chelsea v Manchester City both teams to score

Inter v Fiorentina X either at halftime or fulltime

Palermo v Cesena 1 shocker

Atalanta v Catania German Denis to score at any time

Udinese v Chievo Antonio di Natale to score at any time

Novara v Napoli 2 to score over 1,5

Roma v Juventus both teams to score

FC Koeln v Freiburg 1 to score over 1,5

Mainz v Hamburg X at either halftime or fulltime

Borussia Dortmund v Kaiserslautern 1 to score in both halves watseful Dortmund, beautiful goal by K'lautern.

FC Twente v NEC Nijmegen over 2,5 goals

AZ Alkmaar v De Graafschap 1

Excelsior v Heerenveen 2

PSV v NAC Breda 1 to score over 1,5

VVV Venlo v Roda Kerkrade 2 Venlo: 1 win in 15 games thus far, goal difference on -26. Best time to get a breakthrough result? Against an in-form Roda team (3 wins on the trot) who have also helped by getting their goalkeeper sent off and missing a penalty at 1:0 to Venlo. FML.

FC Utrecht v Feyenoord both teams to score

Celtic v Hibernian 1 to score in both halves

St. Johnstone v Motherwell X at either halftime or fulltime

Podbeskidzie v GKS Bełchatów 1 either at halftime or fulltime

Ruch Chorzów v Korona Kielce 1 and under 3,5 combined goals scored

Legia Warszawa v Cracovia Kraków 1/1 absymal display from Legia, toothless upfront and lucky in the back.

ŁKS Łódź v Śląsk Wrocław 2 another injury time winner, they really are trying to give me a heart attack.

Lechia Gdańsk v Jagielonnia Białystok under 2,5 goals

AA Gent v Germinal Beerschot 1 yet another shocker.

Club Brugge v Sint-Truiden 1

Sporting Lisbon v Nacional 1 and under 3,5 combined goals scored

Rennes v Brest both teams to score

Sochaux v PSG over 2,5 goals should I take comfort in the fact PSG were 'absolutely dominant' in that game?

AS Nancy v Ajaccio 1

Valenciennes v Montpellier X2

Marseille v Bordeaux 1 so without an incentive (like progressing through a Champions League group, for instance) Deschamps' side is painfully average.

Lille v Dijon both teams to score

Real Betis v Valencia (10.12, 19:00) both teams to score (1.80)

Real Madrid v Barcelona 1 you really have to feel for Mourinho; he plays defensively – Barcelona beats him comfortably. He opts for a more attacking formation and presses Guardiola's team – his big guns don't turn up and he's on the losing end again.

Athletic Bilbao v Racing Santander 1 there is nothing more frustrating than the checking Livescore and seeing the result you want just to refresh the page, the green blinking light on the left hand side now gone, and the result changed. For fuck's sake.

On this day...

...10 years ago died Josef Bican. Many of you have probably looked surprised at the screen, read the name once again and whispered 'Who?' to themselves. Nothing to be concerned about too much - unfortunately not that many people know that we're talking of a man who was, arguably, the most prolific goal scorer of all times.

During his career spanning a quarter of a century he has played for a host of clubs in Austria and Czechoslovakia. He's become a true symbol and legend of Slavia Prague, a club for which he has scored – according to the team's website – an astonishing 961 goals in 514 games! In the 1943/44 season he scored 57 goals in 24 games, which surely is a record in its own right. At Slavia, he's been noted to have scored 4 goals in a game on 20 occassions, 5 goals in 6 fixtures, once he's scored 6 and, quite remarakbly, he's netted 7 goals 4 times, too! Bican undoubtedly owns much of his goal-to-game ratio to his pace: he has reportedly been able to run 100 meters in 10.8 seconds at a time when the world record was around the 10.4-3 mark, therefore putting the Czech striker on par with top contemporary sprinters. In the days of rather stationary and bulky defenders the forwards' sheer speed must have given him a huge advantage.

                                                 Josef Bican during his Slavia Prague days

Due to the turbulent times in which he has lived and played, he represented Austria and, later, Czechoslovakia. In 1934 he was a member of the famed Austrian Wunderteam under Hugo Meisl, one of the most feared sides of the early 1930's and probably the first internationally recognised 'dreamteam' to never win a World Cup, a feat shared by the Hungarians some 20 years later. It has been said that Bican and another member of the national team, Matthias Sindelar, have attracted crowds to the training sessions at their respective clubs as they have entertained them by displaying unseen level of skill or, like Bican, have shot the ball at empty bottles and, much to the joy of the people gathered, have usually hit most of them. I think most of us could name at least a few modern day strikers who would dread the prospect of such a training drill...

Just before the war Bican applied for the Czechoslovakian citizenship yet the legend has it that due to a clerical error he has not received it in time to represent the country in the 1938 World Cup.

War days and the time immediately following it have seen him play for Slavia where he has kept notching up the awards for the league's top striker, an accolade he has received 12 times in his career. This amazing achievement has earned him the 'Golden Ball' as the greatest goalscorer of the 20^th century which was awarded to him by the International Federation of Football Historians and Statisticians (IFFHS). Ironically, the very same organisation denied him a similar title just a few years earlier, ignoring the goals Bican scored for Slavia during WWII. It has also counted 'only' 643 league goals scored by Bican, a number which has not been conclusively agreed on; another great striker and Bican's contemporary, Franz Binder, claimed the Slavia Prague forward to have scored in excess of 5,000 goals, however this figure is mathematically improbable and can only be treated as a testament to Bican's scoring prowess. A fair estimation of Bican's carrer – as opposed to league – goals could be in the region of over 1250-1300 goals.

Bican gained a very high profile off the pitch as well yet after he's retired he has been forced by the communist regime to work at a railway station and lost the status as well as wealth he has acquired over the years, effectively drifting into obscurity. Only in 1989 he and his family managed to reclaim some of it and Pepi – as he was nicknamed - had again started to be recognised as the legend he most definitely has been.

An elephantine amount of games for the weekend.

No nonsense, straight football.

Arsenal v Everton (10.12, 15:00) 1 to score over 1,5 (1.57)

Norwich v Newcastle (10.12, 15:00) 1 either at halftime or fulltime (1.87)

Liverpool v QPR (10.12, 15:00) X either at halftime or fulltime (2.00)

Manchester United v Wolverhampton (10.12, 15:00) 1 and under 3,5 combined goals scored (2.05)

Swansea v Fulham (10.12, 15:00) X (3.20)

WBA v Wigan (10.12, 15:00) 1 (1.62)

Sunderland v Blackburn (11.12, 15:00) 1 (1.80)

Chelsea v Manchester City (12.12, 20:00) both teams to score (1.62)

Inter v Fiorentina (10.12, 19:45) X either at halftime or fulltime (1.65)

Palermo v Cesena (10.12, 19:45) 1 (1.60)

Atalanta v Catania (11.12, 14:00) German Denis to score at any time (2.40)

Udinese v Chievo (11.12, 14:00) Antonio di Natale to score at any time (1.80)

Novara v Napoli (11.12, 19:45) 2 to score over 1,5 (1.95)

Roma v Juventus (12.12, 19:45) both teams to score (1.75)

FC Koeln v Freiburg (10.12, 14:30) 1 to score over 1,5 (1.95)

Mainz v Hamburg (10.12, 14:30) X at either halftime or fulltime (1.70)

Borussia Dortmund v Kaiserslautern (11.12, 14:30) 1 to score in both halves (1.83)

FC Twente v NEC Nijmegen (10.12, 17:45) over 2,5 goals (1.42)

AZ Alkmaar v De Graafschap (10.12, 18:45) 1 (1.12)

Excelsior v Heerenveen (10.12, 18:45) 2 (1.50)

PSV v NAC Breda (10.12, 19:45) 1 to score over 1,5 (1.18)

VVV Venlo v Roda Kerkrade (11.12, 11:30) 2 (1.83)

FC Utrecht v Feyenoord (11.12, 13:30) both teams to score (1.42)

Celtic v Hibernian (10.12, 15:00) 1 to score in both halves (no odds available)

St. Johnstone v Motherwell (10.12, 15:00) X at either halftime or fulltime (1.57)

Podbeskidzie v GKS Bełchatów (09.12, 17:00) 1 either at halftime or fulltime (1.62)

Ruch Chorzów v Korona Kielce (10.12, 12:30) 1 and under 3,5 combined goals scored (2.60)

Legia Warszawa v Cracovia Kraków (10.12, 17:00) 1/1 (1.91)

ŁKS Łódź v Śląsk Wrocław (11.12, 13:30) 2 (1.70)

Lechia Gdańsk v Jagielonnia Białystok (11.12, 16:00) under 2,5 goals (1.55)

AA Gent v Germinal Beerschot (10.12, 19:00) 1 (1.35)

Club Brugge v Sint-Truiden (12.12, 17:00) 1 (1.26)

Sporting Lisbon v Nacional (10.12, 20:30) 1 and under 3,5 goals (2.05)

Rennes v Brest (10.12, 18:00) both teams to score (2.20)

Sochaux v PSG (10.12, 18:00) over 2.5 goals (1.95)

AS Nancy v Ajaccio (10.12, 18:00) 1 (1.75)

Valenciennes v Montpellier (10.12, 18:00) X2 (1.48)

Marseille v Bordeaux (10.12, 20:00) 1 (1.78)

Lille v Dijon (11.12, 16:00) both teams to score (2.45)

Real Betis v Valencia (10.12, 19:00) both teams to score (1.80)

Real Madrid v Barcelona (10.12, 21:00) 1 (2.35)

Athletic Bilbao v Racing Santander (11.12, 18:45) 1 (1.37)

Getting over 50% with this mammoth-like amount of predictions is going to be a pretty decent turnout. On a slightly unrelated note there's going to be a little feautre on here this coming Monday.

How many games can possibly go wrong?

The majority, it seems.

Chelsea v Valencia 1 to score over 1,5 goals

Racing Genk v Bayer Leverkusen X either at halftime or fulltime

Borussia Dortmund v Marseille 1

Olympiakos Piraeus v Arsenal 1

A.P.O.E.L Nicosia v Shakhtar Donetsk X/1

FC Porto v Zenit St. Petersburg Hulk to score at anytime

Barcelona v BATE Borisov 1 and over 2,5 combined goals scored

Viktoria Plzen v AC Milan under 2,5 goals

Manchester City v Bayern Munchen 1

Villareal v Napoli 2 to score over 1,5

Inter Milan v CSKA Moscow 1 either at haltime or fulltime

Lille v Trabzonspor 1

Basel v Manchester United under 2,5 goals

Benfica Lisbon v Otelul Galati 1 to score in both halves

Ajax Amsterdam v Real Madrid both teams to score

Dinamo Zagreb v Lyon 1:2

6/16; group D and F results (especially with the goals being scored at exactly the 'right' times) + just plain old bad luck mean this terrible result. Oh well, onto the weekend I suppose.

Weekend & final Champions League

Motherwell v Hibernian 1 (game suspended and cancelled following a floodlight fire)

Bayer Leverkusen v Hoffenheim 1

Bayern Munchen v Werder Bremen over 2,5 goals

Borussia Moenchengladbach v Borussia Dortmund both teams to score

Schalke 04 v FC Augsburg 1 to score over 1,5 goals

Sporting Gijon v Real Madrid 2 and over 2,5 combined goals scored

Barcelona v Levante1 and over 2,5 combined goals scored

Atletico Madrid v Rayo Vallecano 1

Genoa v AC Milan  at either halftime or fulltime

Napoli v Lecce 1 

Juventus v Cesena 1/1

Fiorentina v Roma X

Man City v Norwich 1 to score in both halves

Tottenham v Bolton 1:0, 2:0 or 3:0 (correct result)

Aston Villa v Manchester United under 2,5 goals

Everton v Stoke City Leighton Baines to score any time

Wolverhampton v Sunderland 1

Montpellier v Lorient 1

Ajaccio v Lille Moussa Sow to score any time

Ajax Amsterdam v Excelsior Rotterdam 1 to score in both halves

Feyenoord Rotterdam v PSV Eindhoven both teams to score

VC Westerlo v Club Brugge 2 either at halftime or fulltime

Anderlecht v Oud-Heverlee Guillaume Gillet to score any time

Sporting Lisbon v Belenenses 1

 

17/23, the best result so far which is definitely a major confidence boost :)

 

 

Champs League below: 

Chelsea v Valencia (06.12, 19:45) 1 to score over 1,5 goals (1.75)

Racing Genk v Bayer Leverkusen (06.12, 19:45) X either at halftime or fulltime (1.85)

Borussia Dortmund v Marseille (06.12, 19:45) 1 (1.60)

Olympiakos Piraeus v Arsenal (06.12, 19:45) 1 (1.91)

A.P.O.E.L Nicosia v Shakhtar Donetsk (06.12, 19:45) X/1 (5.50)

FC Porto v Zenit St. Petersburg (06.12, 19:45) Hulk to score at anytime (2.00)

 

Barcelona v BATE Borisov (06.12, 19:45) 1 and over 2,5 combined goals scored (1.67)

Viktoria Plzen v AC Milan (06.12, 19:45) under 2,5 goals (1.83)

Manchester City v Bayern Munchen (07.12, 19:45) 1 (1.60)

Villareal v Napoli (07.12, 19:45) 2 to score over 1,5 (1.80)

Inter Milan v CSKA Moscow (07.12, 19:45) 1 either at haltime or fulltime (1.95)

Lille v Trabzonspor (07.12, 19:45) 1 (1.44)

Basel v Manchester United (07.12, 19:45) under 2,5 goals (2.15)

Benfica Lisbon v Otelul Galati (07.12, 19:45) 1 to score in both halves (1.62)

Ajax Amsterdam v Real Madrid (07.12, 19:45) both teams to score (1.53)

Dinamo Zagreb v Lyon (07.12, 19:45) 1:2 (8.50)

For something slightly different

While waiting for the final game this weekend to be played later today, I thought it'd be a good idea to write a short review of a book I've recently read. Below are the fruits of my labour.

 

Andrew Jennings, Foul! The Secret World Of Fifa: Bribes, Vote Rigging And Ticket Scandals, HarperSport, 2007.

Football supporters often disagree – sometimes it's a dubious decision by the referee that sparks an angry reaction from one group of people and cheering from others; yet another time it's a transfer between two bitter rivals. However one thing - almost invariably – unites all fans across the globe and that's the contempt in which football's governing body is held. For years, the allegations of misappropriation of power and corruption have struck FIFA left, right and center. Andrew Jeninngs' book goes one step further in actually providing proper foundations for such claims.

Jennings is an investigative journalist and has previously written on, among other things, the misdemeanours within the International Olympic Committee. Here, he's spent four years uncovering the dirty games top football officials are involved in. His research results in a truly shocking story. From vote rigging (which, it could be argued, should invalidate Sepp Blatter's re-eelction as the head of FIFA) through endemic nepotism and fixed tenders to blatant bribery, this book is a horrifying account of how people controlling one of the world's largest organisations which ought to promote and further the development of football are mostly concerned with regulating the cash flowing into their own pockets. The apparatus created by Joao Havelange and good ol' Sepp seems to be tailor-made for people interested in exploiting their position of power in all imaginable ways. After all, it takes some audacity to claim that your organisation is 'committed to transparency' just to refuse the provision to the public of the financial data of the president's office... Certain figures stand out of the crowd with others not being in the spotlight at all times although the general message is clear – the game itself might be beautiful but the people running it are an unpleasant bunch of money obsessed wheeler-dealers.

The style is free-flowing and vibrant; I found it really difficult to put the book away at times, with one scandal chasing another. Short chapters dealing with issues one at a time make the reader feel as if he was right beside the author who's trying to interview one of the top-dogs in a five-star hotel somewhere in the Caribbean or is sending yet another e-mail to FIFA's finance director in a vain attempt to shed more light on Blatter's expenses. Having said that, there is a lot of names being mentioned throughout and, quite understandably, a person not so much into football might find it hard to follow exactly who the culprit was this time; the appendix at the back of the book should prove helpful. In case you'll be doubting the basis on which certain claims are made, the list of the documents used is also given at the back, alongside notes explaining some key events and things that had happened in even more detail.

While reading Foul! I've often been left dumbfounded as to the sheer level of disgusting activities people running the administrative body of the world's most popular sport engage in. I guess that if you say 'no way they did THAT!' to yourself at least a couple of times and will never be able to look at Blatter and co. the same way after finishing the book then the author has succeeded in proving his point. Go and get it!

The Euro twentytwelve draw is in!

BUT, you can access the groups everywhere so let's rather focus on something else!

Motherwell v Hibernian (02.12, 19:45) 1 (1.83)

Bayer Leverkusen v Hoffenheim (02.12, 19:30) 1 (1.70)

Bayern Munchen v Werder Bremen (03.12, 14:30) over 2,5 goals (1.42)

Borussia Moenchengladbach v Borussia Dortmund (03.12, 14:30) both teams to score (1.75)

Schalke 04 v FC Augsburg (04.12, 16:30) 1 to score over 1,5 goals (1.44)

Sporting Gijon v Real Madrid (03.12, 17:00) 2 and over 2,5 combined goals scored (1.62)

Barcelona v Levante (03.12, 19:00) 1 and over 2,5 combined goals scored (1.38)

Atletico Madrid v Rayo Vallecano (03.12, 11:00) 1 (1.55)

Genoa v AC Milan (02.12, 19:45) X either at halftime or fulltime (1.67)

Napoli v Lecce (03.12, 19:45) 1 (1.35)

 

Juventus v Cesena (04.12, 14:00) 1/1 (1.70)

Fiorentina v Roma (04.12, 14:00) X (3.20)

Man City v Norwich (03.12, 15:00) 1 to score in both halves (1.60)

Tottenham v Bolton (03.12, 15:00) 1:0, 2:0 or 3:0 (correct result) (2.85)

Aston Villa v Manchester United (03.12, 17:30) under 2,5 goals (1.85)

Everton v Stoke City (04.12, 15:00) Leighton Baines to score any time (5.00)

Wolverhampton v Sunderland (04.12, 16:00) 1 (2.35)

Montpellier v Lorient (03.12, 18:00) 1 (1.75)

Ajaccio v Lille (03.12, 18:00) Moussa Sow to score any time (2.10)

Ajax Amsterdam v Excelsior Rotterdam (03.12, 19:45) 1 to score in both halves (1.38)

Feyenoord Rotterdam v PSV Eindhoven (04.12, 11:30) both teams to score (1.44)

VC Westerlo v Club Brugge (03.12, 19:00) 2 at either halftime or fulltime (1.33)

Anderlecht v Oud-Heverlee (04.12, 13:30) Guillaume Gillet to score any time (no odds available)

Sporting Lisbon v Belenenses (05.12, 19:15) 1 (1.20)

In all fairness though, every game in group B is going to be an absolute joy to watch and Poland finally might even go through!