Bath City – Newport UNDER 2.5 (2.05 @Pinnacle) 7/10
Bath City – Newport 1:0 FT (8.00 @Blue Square) 1/10
Bath City – Newport 0:0 FT (11.00 @Blue Square) 1/10
I think this is my first UNDER bet in these leagues ever, but statistics say it all and I have to take at least a 7/10 bet because the odds seem huge. If you look at Bath City's (1:1, 2:0, 2:0, 1:0, 1:0, 0:1) and Newport's (0:0, 1:1, 2:0, 0:1, 2:0, 0:1) results so far you can see it for yourself. To make it even clearer, Bath City played against a couple of teams that will surely end up near or in the relegation zone by the end of the season and failed to score more than once against them (1:0 at home against Maidenhead and Weston-super-Mare) and Newport has the same problem (1:1 at home against Maidenhead, 0:1 at Hampton).
Newport really has a big scoring problem - their forwards Hughes, O'Sullivan (attacking winger who is out for this match) and Griffin failed to score a single goal this season (only the striker Alsop scored one) and a lot of players came and left during the summer (their best scorer so far is midfielder Bowen). Bath City's strikers Gilroy and Walsh failed to score too, only Edwards scored twice (not in last two rounds though). Bath City's last season's top scorer Partridge is out untill at least October. Both managers are praising their defences, Bath's manager knows Newport County outfit 'inside out' and I wouldn't be surprised with a 0:0 FT result. Newport failed to score a single goal in their away fixtures this season and I don't think Bath can score more than once against a solid Newport defence.
Last time these two teams played a match was back in 2004 – Bath City were playing home and the result was 1:0 for Bath. Even if this match ends up 3:3, I won't be sorry for placing an under bet because I rarely see so much information going towards the same direction...
FT 1:1
Post je objavljen 06.09.2007. u 19:37 sati.