Category Archives: Cheltenham 2022

The Road to Cheltenham 2022 Week 7 Bet 5

The Soccer Saturday Price Boost this week is Bournemouth, Chelsea, and Leeds all to win Boosted from 7.0 to 10.0
The first match on the treble is a Championship clash between Hosts Bottom of the league Wycombe Wanderers and 4th placed Bournemouth. In form, Bournemouth have won all of their last 4 away games and 7 of their last league games only losing to Brentford at home last week. With Swansea and Barnsley both on level points with Bournemouth, Bournemouth need to win today to keep the others from stealing that all-important play-off spot. Wycombe have shown that even though they are flat bottom of the league they still have the ability when playing teams at the top of the league drawing against both Swansea and Watford at home. Generally, though they lose and by 2 goals when they do. The last time these two teams met Bournemouth won 1-0, and they have scored 2 goals or more in each of their last 4 away matches. Bournemouth need to win!

Chelsea are hosting Fulham this evening and have a mixed bag of results at home having goalless draws against Manchester Utd and Brighton and a dreadful drubbing of 2-5 by West Bromwich Albion. with their only victory in the last 4 home games being against Everton which ended 2-0. Although I have said that if bookmakers put Fulham into a boosted Acca you should avoid it like the Chinese Bat Flu they have come out and Drawn against Arsenal and Crystal Palace, beaten Liverpool 0-1 and lost just one against Aston Villa in their last 4 away games. That said, Fulham have never beaten Chelsea and their last 2 trips to Stamford Bridge have both ended 2-0. Chelsea are hanging onto that last Champions League 4th place spot precariously, but aided by Leicester’s 1-1 draw against Southampton last night. A win this evening would still see them in 4th place but keeping that all-important 3 point buffer between them and West Ham. Chelsea Need To Win!

Leeds Utd travel to Brighton today in a game which is of vital importance to the hosts. Only 7 points separate Brighton from Fulham and a win for Brighton today would see them a little closer to safety. Leeds Utd have won 2 and lost 2 of their last 4 away games and conceding goals in all of them. Their form over the last 8 games played has seen them win just 3 times drawn 3 times (twice Goalless) and losing to West Ham and Villa. Brighton’s Home record doesn’t read much better winning one drawing goalless against Everton and losing against Leicester and Crystal Palace. They have only beaten Southampton and Newcastle in their last 8 league games
As with every Soccer Saturday Price Boost, SkyBet offer 3 outcomes and this week they have offered this last game as the alternate options
Option 1
Bournemouth, Chelsea & Leeds all to win (was 6/1) Boosted to 9/1
Option 2
Bournemouth & Chelsea to win & Brighton to draw with Leeds (was 6/1) Boosted to 9/1
Option 3
Bournemouth, Chelsea & Brighton all to win (was 4/1) Boosted to 6/1
My final £5.00 goes on
Option 1 £2.00
Option 2 £2.00
Option 3 £1.00


The Road to Cheltenham 2022 Week 7 Bet 4

Australian A League has become a bit of an obsession of late and today Melbourne City Hosted Newcastle United Jets. 17 minutes into the game and the odds finally reached 2.0 and I stuck my fiver on it. Newcastle, again, scored at the wrong end and 2 more Melbourne goals and 87 minutes Newcastle decided it was time to score in the right goal
A win is a win 😁

The Road to Cheltenham 2022 Week 7 Bet 3

Punchestown day 2 and SkyBet are again paying 7 places and have boosted “The Great White” to 2.1 to place
It is currently 2nd Fav at 7.5 to win
Yesterdays similar bet won so why not try it again. To quote Sporting Life ” THE GREAT WHITE was beaten a long way behind Low Lie The Fields here in January but it was a different matter at Limerick last week where he was impressive. He’s up 11lb but still on a lowly mark and a quick double beckons.”

 

The Road to Cheltenham 2022 Week 7 Bet 2

The Punchestown Festival gets underway today and as SkyBet seem to want to give money away on their boosted bets of late I thought it rude not to take them up on one of their boosts in the 15:40 where they are paying out on 7 places instead of 4 if there are 18 or more runners. The boost is Scholastic placing at odds of 2.0 This is entirely an impulse bet and can’t do any worse than that damned Melbourne team not even being able to score in the second half earlier!!!

The Road to Cheltenham 2022 Freebet Week 6 Summary

Week 6 was infinitely better than week 5 with a clean sheet as far as the qualifying bets go
Bet 1 Was Leeds v Liverpool on Monday 19th April and was BTTS “Yes” placed In-Play 22 minutes into the game at odds of 2.0 – Won £5.00
Bet 2 was a “Half Time/ Full Time” Bet in the Aston Villa v Man City game which again was placed at 2.0 on “Away/Away” which also won £5.00
Bet 3 was a SkyBet Special where they boosted Mo Salah to have 1+ shots on Target from 1/8 to Evens) – he scored in 3 minutes flat – Another fiver>
Bet 4 was tense. The Soccer Saturday Price Boost featured Watford, Barnsley, and Norwich all to win boosted from 5.0 to 7.0. Barnsley held on after scoring after 2 minutes right up until 98th minute where Rotherham had an unprecedented 16 shots of which 7 were on target. Never has my finger hovered over the cash out button as much 😰😱 My nerve however held and paid off with a £30.00 Profit
Bet 5 went back to good old nearly reliable BTTS “Yes” in the Reading v Swansea game getting 11/10 (2.1) making me another £5.50
This gave me a total Profit on the week as £50.50
On Sunday I stuck £5.00 on to get a matched free bet on the Man City v Spurs game just before half time at odds of 4.0 (3/1) and as everyone knows Tottenham failed to turn up to the game – £5.00 loss but an extra £5.00 free bet
Bet 1 it should be noted was a “Game of two halves” where SkyBet will give a £5.00 fre bet if you bet £5.00 cash in-play
So in summary £15.00 in free bets added this week and a Total profit of £45.50 for the week making a campaign total profit of £32.22 when I take previous losses into account.

The Road to Cheltenham 2022 Week 7 Bet 1

For those of you who are just joining this series of bets I am placing 5 bets per week of £5.00 with SkyBet at odds of 2.0(evens) or better to earn a £5.00 free bet each week to use in next years Cheltenham festival. I already have £75.00 and this is just the start of week 7.
Bet No 1 this week is an In-Play bet of £5.00 at odds of 2.2 in the Sydney v Melbourne Victory game this morning. Sydney scored first in 6 minutes but there was no other score upto half time. Melbourne have had 2 shots on target so far and time is running out. With luck they will net the ball in the second half. With the exception of the Melbourne City game they have scored in the other 3 of the last 4 away games as they have scored their most away goals in the second half in the last 15 minutes of the game.

The Road To Cheltenham 2022 Week 6 Bet 5

Contrary to what I tweeted last night I will not be placing the final bet on the carabao cup this afternoon as I am working nights and would have had to wait up to place the bet in play to get the odds. I have however placed the qualifying bet on the Reading v Swansea game at 2.10 in play at a stake of £5.15 (the 15 p is just to tidy my account balance up and round it to a nice round figure 😁)
As I write this Reading have just scored – half way there already 👍🤞🤞💰

The Road to Cheltenham Week 6 Bet 4

SkyBets Soccer Saturday Price Boost is bet 4 this week with Watford Barnsley and Norwich all to win
Watford host Millwall today and have a 100% home “Win to Nil” record from the last 4 games and have accrued 53 pts from their 21 Home games. In contrast Millwall have earned themselves just 31 pts from the same number of away games. When playing Millwall at home Watford have won 4 out of the last 5 games only drawing 0-0 in November 2012.
Barnsley are at home to struggling Rotherham and will be pushing to get a play-off place and a win today will see them level on points with Bournemouth. Having won 5 of their last 8 games this shouldnt be too much trouble for this in-form side. Rotherham’s abysmal form has seen them lose 5 times from their last 8 games pretty much sealing their relegation. Barnsley have won all 3 of these two sides previous meetings in the championship league winning 4-0 in the only home fixture and conceding a total of just 1 goal in all three games.
The only away side in this treble is League winners Norwich City who are being hosted by 8th place Q.P.R. If Norwich win today it would be their 8th consecutive away match without defeat, and having scored in 81% of their 21 away games they have only lost 4 games all season 3 of them being to teams in the top 5 of the league.

The Road to Cheltenham 2022 Week 6 Bet 3

This boost has been available for some time but I have been waiting for the team sheet to come out.
Salah has an average of 3.6 shots per game and an average of 1.5 shots on target per game achieving at least 1 shot on target in 12 of his last 13 starts.