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Stourbridge vs Matlock Town
Stourbridge are on a six match winning streak in the league which have taken them up to 6th in the table, just outside the promotion play-off spots but with games in hand. Due to bad weather several games have been postponed in the last few weeks resulting in Stourbridge having played five of their last six league games at home, and War Memorial Ground will be the venue once again tonight when Matlock come for a visit. The Glassboys’ match against Frickley on the weekend was also postponed, giving the players plenty of rest ahead of tonight’s clash. Assistant manager Jon Ford, who will take charge tonight in the absence of Gary Hackett, said to Stourbridge News that confidence is very high at the moment and that the current squad is the strongest he’s seen in his 13 years at the club. We believe that is more than enough for another three points tonight.
Team news: Stourbridge have further strengthened their squad by bringing in midfielder Robert Paratore from Telford. He goes straight into the squad for tonight’s game. Junior Smikle also returns to the squad after his absence.
Matlock are not doing well at the moment and have only one win in their last six league outings. They now sit 14th in the table and have had a season with very mixed results. They were beaten comfortably by 20th placed Stamford in their last league game and the visitor’s boss Mark Hume believes it’s mostly down to player’s attitudes. “The players must think they’re better than they are, it’s got to be a mental thing,” said a frustrated Hume to Matlock Mercury. “They’re letting the club down, the fans down and me down as I’ve shown so much faith in them.” he continued.
Either way, we don’t really see them being good enough to earn anything from tonight’s game.
Date & Time: 7 Mar 2016 – 20.45 CET
League: Evo-Stik Premier Northern (England)
Match: Stourbridge – Matlock Town
Pick: Stourbridge Asian Hcp -1
Highest Odds: 1.81 @ Unibet
Stake: 15 EUR
Rating: 2/5
Result: 4-1, bet won!
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!
