Wullie

When Grealish is playing, I always look for whoever is up against him, fancy Azpi most down that side, 9/2 with 365.

I can't believe Man City are favourites at Stamford Bridge.

Fancy Ritchie for a card today up against Sarr, 4/1 with 365.

Bayern/WBA games Seguin Green Mowatt Johansen Barbet Livermore Nielsen Sane to score

Fuck me. They didn't used to let you double those specials up, good to know.

Barcelona are a car crash that you can't take your eyes off.

Napoli look dynamite.

Duarte Munoz Fekir Torro Suarez Le Normand Guardado Vidal Double-doubles for the 18:30 Spain games

So any club that rotates its squad for any competition (despite the fact these clubs have ~70 games a season to play, and a squad of at least 25 players to keep happy) is then showing disdain for that competition. This is amongst the maddest shit I've ever read on here, from someone who purports to know about football. Any change to a team from one game to the next is a signal of contempt, that the goal is not to win that competition. Liverpool played Divock Origi last week against Milan, and Sadio Mane was on the bench. Froggy thinks this shows Klopp has disregarded the Champions League. And why does he think this? All part of some bizarre push back at someone posting that they were amused at Man United getting knocked out of the League Cup, like anyone gives a stuff.

You're right that I have the years wrong, I used the year of the final instead of the year of the third round tie. Oh no! That makes David Silva a reserve player! See, people would have more respect for you if you just went "ah yeah they do pick strong sides actually, fair enough, they're the big exception", instead of trying to claim that Riyad Mahrez, who they paid £60m for, counts as a reserve, whose very presence on the field shows disdain for the competition. You just make yourself look bloody ridiculous.

The problem with your well considered analysis is that I (and everyone else) know this to be objectively false and I can look up the teams they put out and post them on here. Man City always play very strong League Cup teams, typically much stronger than their Champions League counterparts. That has been a well established fact for basically a decade. Against Wycombe the other night, they played with a front 6 of Lavia (kid), De Bruyne, Mahrez, Torres, Sterling and Foden. Against Preston last year, a third round front 6 of Foden, Gundogan, David Silva, Bernardo Silva, Jesus and Sterling. Against Oxford in 2019, in the third round, they didn't even bother rotating kids into the back four, team was Danilo, Kompany, Otamendi, Stones, Zinchenko, Mahrez, Foden, David Silva, Brahim Diaz, Jesus. How far back do you want me to go? WBA, R3 2018, no sign of even a token youth player this time: Danilo, Stones, Mangala, Delph, Bernardo Silva, Yaya Toure, Gundogan, Sterling, Jesus, Sane. These are not "reserve sides". If the bar for a disdainful reserve side is set at rotating a couple of kids into a team worth £300m+ then we've lost all sense of what words mean. Just because you say something (in some weird attempt to defend even the mildest criticism of Manchester United) doesn't make it true.

It would be really terrible for clubs like us if they binned it. That Premier League limbo zone with nothing much to play for is depressing enough without one of the only possible trophies being taken away.

Man City treat it with such disdain that they've only won 6 of the last 8.

Don't fucking believe PSG have won it with the last kick two games running. Typical PSG injury time with a red and Neymar getting booked.

Maxi Gomez booking for a 225/1 shot please

I posted the slip above, just a 50p double-double. I put 6 slips on so I had more than half the outfield players covered, was confident there'd be loads of cards, just a case of hoping enough of them gathered on one slip. Absolutely ridiculous evening tonight. 6 games in Italy and Spain and all 12 teams picked up at least 2 cards, as well as plenty of goals. One of my most successful betting nights ever, easily.

I absolutely love Getafe, really hope they don't get relegated this season because they have been an absolute card banker for years. Also had winners on the 3 cards for all 4 teams, and 4 and 5 cards each in Spain.

Need Maksimovic in the book for 150/1 shot

Bologna-Genoa (17:30ko), Getafe-Atleti (18:30) averaging 3.75, 2.75, 3.4 and 4.4 team cards per game respectively. Getafe and Atleti's games at the weekend had 13 and 10 cards, and tonight is a Madrid derby. Law of averages says there should be a decent chance of hitting a few targets. I'll be having some double-doubles.

It's all kicked off in Spain at the death.

Got the double up in Italy, meanwhile in Spain both players were subbed off before half time. Hoping that will void it so I can pocket a tasty £2 profit.

Love that finish from Koulibaly.

Few 50p double-doubles for an interest. Brice Balde Rui Samir Di Lorenzo Arslan Busquets Quini Araujo Milla Zambo-Anguissa Walace Koulibaly Becao Garcia Escudero

Same card double as me.

Same card double as me.