This should come with a government wealth warning, as I have not been in the best of form for the last week, but having said that, both Cardiff City (winning 13.0) and Watford each way ( 67.0) secured big Championship paydays for us in the last 7 days, so hard to complain too much, but I will anyway !
Championship: Blackpool- Derby County
I have already sent subscribers seven previews/ eight selections for today, from the Football League and Ligue 2, one of which is below. They still have a couple of J-League previews to come for the Saturday morning action, to sign up to this comprehensive service, click here !
Championship: Watford- Burnley
Schalke are without striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (34-16-4 all comps), also missing are fellow striker Ciprian Marica (21-7-6) and suspended defensive midfielder Jermaine Jones (29-2-6), only CL match he missed was the 2-2 home draw with struggling Montpellier, which is interesting.
Tuesday March 5th
Nice late goal for Nantes to start the week..... long may it continue !
The afternoon email yesterday produced plenty of enquiries and questions and I spent several hours dealing with them all, but thank you for the respose !
Nothings Im-pozzo-ble
Paris SG are 8-1-0 in their last nine Ligue 1 starts, where they have enjoyed an average of 60% possession and a 21-1 goal difference, Ibrahimovic has scored eight of those, but I like the fact that eight other players have got on the scoresheet over this sequence.
Valencia are vastly experienced at this level and they are unbeaten in nine home Champions League starts, but they are a bit of a flat track bully at Mestalla and tend to perform less well against the really big name teams.
Interesting fixtures tonight, clubgowi have previewed four and those of you signed up to receive the free newsletter (look right !) have already received two of them, for the rest of you, here are a few snippets from today's email.
Championship:
Big game for "our " Watford tonight, as they would move up into second place in the Championship (which would give us the top two) with a win at Bristol City.
League 2 : Oxford United - Burton Albion
Serie A:
On the road, Genoa are 2-2-6, but have only conceded 13 goals, just one less than 3rd placed Lazio, they are well organised, disciplined and keep their shape well, they have performed well against the top clubs conceding just two goals and collecting five points from visits to Lazio, Udinese, Milan and Inter.
No Andrea Pirlo or Giorgio Chielleni for Juventus, who even given their resources, face a daunting 17 days with Serie A matches against Chievo and Fiorentina, a Champions League trip to Glasgow and Coppa Italia semi final against Lazio.