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CS Universitatea Craiova – ASA Targu Mures
CS Universitatea Craiova started the new season with a 1-2 defeat away to Pandurii. That came as little surprise though as Pandurii finished third in the league last term, only four points behind winners Astra, and qualified for Europe. The fact that the winner came as late as three minutes into stoppage time suggests CS U Craiova did very well. That is backed up by the 59% possession and 18-5 in shots in favor of the guests.
Craiova were also considerably better on home turf than away towards the end of the season, picking up six wins and a draw in their last seven home games. They hope to extend that streak when they welcome Targu Mures to Stadionul Extensiv tonight. They have kept their best players during the summer and have added Cape Verde striker Rambé to their ranks as well as experienced goalkeeper Nicolae Calancea.
Things are looking promising and the club is hoping to improve on their 8th position from last year. We believe they have every chance of doing just that.
ASA Targu Mures did well last season and ended 6th in the league. The second half of the season was nothing less of a disaster though as they went without a win in their last 11 league games including 8 defeats. They also lost several key players during the summer including Ionut Balaur, Ramiro Costa, Sasa Balic, Cladiu Voicule, Nicolas Gorobsov, Paul Parvulescu and Marius Tucudean. The replacements haven’t been as impressive and they could be in for a struggle this season.
Targu Mures boss Dario Bonetti had to field six Liga 1 debutants in their 1-2 defeat to newly promoted Gaz Metan Medias in the season opener. It could take several weeks until he has got his team working the way he wants and we believe they are in for another defeat tonight.
Date & Time: 1 Aug 2016 – 17.30 CEST
Competition: Liga 1 (Romania)
Match: CS Universitatea Craiova – ASA Targu Mures
Pick: CS Universitatea Craiova Asian Hcp -1
Highest Odds: 1.65 @ bet365
Stake: 15 EUR
Rating: 2/5
Result: 2-1, money back.
Newly promoted RB Leipzig are heading to bottom of the table MSV Duisburg tonight in the sixth round of the Frauen Bundesliga. Duisburg are still winless and faced heavy defeat in their last league outing to Eintracht Frankfurt (1-5). The Zebras have already conceded 21 goals this season while only scoring four and will struggle to stay in the division.
They still have to do without Sarah Freutel, Alexandra Emmerling, Jelena Prvulovic and Brooke Denesik, and received another blow as Danish centre back Emilie Henriksen also will miss the game due to illness.
RB Leipzig hope to pick up their second win of the season and were happy to see all their international players come back healthy and raring to go after the break. Elvira Herzog, Michela Croatto, Julia Magerl and Korina Janez all trained with the team this week and look sharp.
We’re rather confident of an away win here.
Date & Time: 3 November 2023 – 17:30 GMT
Competition: Bundesliga Women (Germany)
Match: MSV Duisburg – RB Leipzig
Pick 1: RB Leipzig Asian Hcp -1
Odds: 2.05 @ bet365
Stake: 15 EUR
Rating: 2/5
Result: 1-1, bet lost.
To say that Ajax’s start to the season has been poor is an understatement. In fact, Ajax are incredibly enough bottom of the Eredivise table after their opening eight games, the worst start ever for the club. It came as little surprise then when head coach Maurice Steijn was relieved of his duties and replaced with Hedwiges Maduro on an interim basis. He did not fare much better in his two games in charge, a 0-2 loss to Brighton followed up by a 2-5 loss at PSV. This led to the club appointing John van’t Schip as their new manger on a two year deal.
van’t Schip has only had a few days to prepare for tonight’s game against struggling Volendam, but just having a permanent manager, let alone a club legend, in place must be seen as a boost. Also, the visitors are the worst away team in league, having lost all their four league outings this season, scoring only four goals in the process while conceding a whopping 12.
This is the perfect rebound spot for Ajax and despite their struggles so far, we believe they will go all out here and win this comfortably.
Date & Time: 2 November 2023 – 19:00 GMT
Competition: Eredivise (Netherlands)
Match: Ajax – Volendam
Pick 1: Ajax Asian Hcp -1.5, -2
Odds: 1.86 @ bet365
Stake: 15 EUR
Rating: 2/5
Result: 2-0, bet won! (half win)
Pick 2: Ajax HT/FT
Odds: 1.72 @ bet365
Stake: 15 EUR
Rating: 2/5
Result: Half time score: 0-0, bet lost.
Pick 3: Over 3.5, 4 goals in the game
Odds: 1.925 @ bet365
Stake: 15 EUR
Rating: 2/5
Result: 2-0, bet lost.
Chelsea get a welcome break from league football when they welcome Championship side Blackburn Rovers to Stamford Bridge tonight. A place in the Carabao Cup quarter finals is at stake and the Blues aim to go all the way.
Rovers are expected to make some changes to the team that lost 0-1 at home to Swansea at the weekend and Jake Garrett, Adam Wharton, Dilan Markanday and Andrew Moran all could get a start here. Captain Lewis Travis will start but Rovers’ manager Jon Dahl Tomasson will have to do without top scorer Sam Szmodics who is nursing an injury picked up at the weekend.
Chelsea could also give some of the non regular starters a chance to shine, with the likes of Armando Broja and Ian Maatsen. We could also see Enzo Fernandez and Mykhailo Mudryk, who missed the league defeat to Brentford at the weekend, start.
Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino said: “We will try to play with our best team. Some players will need to rest because after Saturday’s game we can’t take risks. But, in general, we will try to play our best team.”
We will take his word for it and expect Chelsea to win this rather comfortably.
Date & Time: 1 November 2023 – 19:45 GMT
Competition: Carabao Cup (England)
Match: Chelsea – Blackburn
Pick: Chelsea to win & Under 4.5 goals
Odds: 1.73 @ Skybet
Stake: 15 EUR
Rating: 2/5
Result: 2-0, bet won!
