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Results for tag: ronaldo
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Jun 27, 2012 at 10:44:26 AM
[u]Match Odds[/u]
Portugal's results appear to be welded to the performances of Cristiano Ronaldo. After a quiet start to Euro 2012, the captain has scored three goals in two matches and the team has started to look like plausible tournament winners.
Portugal beat their neighbours 4-0 in a friendly at the end of 2010, but that was a while ago now and Spain gave the impression that the result of that game mattered less to them than it did their local rivals.
That's not the case here. Spain will be writ large in the history books if they win this match and one more at the weekend. As Opta have noticed, the European and world champions have 17 wins from their most recent 18 competitive games, so there seems to be value in backing them to win in 90 minutes at 2.02.
There is a concern,...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on May 29, 2012 at 08:38:09 AM
In order to get a steer on the players that are worth backing to top the scoring charts at this summer's Euro finals, it's worth surveying the history of the tournament to pick out trends that can inform your judgement and narrow down a long list of contenders into a shorter one.
[u]History lessons[/u]
One of the first observations that stands out is that this tournament has always been a reputation maker for Golden Boot winners. Several winners had struggled to put their stamp on the global game at international level before coming of age at the finals.
In 1984, France captain Michel Platini was a Ballon d'Or winner going into the tournament thanks to his performances for Juventus, but the French public hadn't seen the best of him at the World Cup two years earlier. That all...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Apr 17, 2012 at 02:07:12 PM
[u]Bayern Munich v Real Madrid, 19:45, Sky Sports 2[/u]
When the Champions League reaches the semi-final stage, does a side's progress to this point of the competition tell us anything about what's likely to happen this week?
Most of Real and Bayern's games have come against weaker sides so surely, for example, Real's outstanding form in the competition to date is no guide to how they'll fare against the Bavarian giants. Then again, 10 games is a decent body of evidence so it's possible to draw some conclusions about the team's strengths and weaknesses.
[u]Match Odds[/u]
Having watched both teams several times this season, my feeling is Real Madrid have a slightly better chance of winning the game. They've won nine of 10 Champions League games and 27 of 33 league fixtures (84%...