da prosport bet： Football is so unpredictable that betting on it can break your heart. Imagine your fortune-making accumulator down the drain because a ball went in off a beach ball, or because Wayne Rooney scored. You just couldn’t make it up. On the other hand, one lucky (read: nutcase) fan stuck a fiver on Leicester being top at Christmas and won himself a cool £5000.
da 888casino： So you can understand the type of game it is – one where superstition can play a massive part given the fine margins between such highs and lows. One where putting your left sock on before the right can seem to make a world of difference. I know on big game days I always put my socks on before my shoes.
For Manchester City it probably seems like there’s something supernatural tracking their performances, too. This time last season is when the wheels started to come off City’s title defence, and their lack of consistency so far this season means they’ll probably worry about the same thing happening again.
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Or even worse, at the start of this season, City were flying so high that they didn’t only break their own club record of successive wins, but they were almost given the title already by mid September.
But you can’t win the title by September – and definitely not when you’re Manchester City. For a start, it’s not a win if you don’t come back from a losing position, or so it seems for City. You don’t win if you’re leading for the whole game, do you?
But nonetheless, Pellegrini’s side were able to gather a head of steam and put themselves in a great league position, and had they not been able to do that at the start of the season, they’d be in a dreadful position at this point. If Vincent Kompany is out for a few weeks more, and Aguero and Silva aren’t yet fully match sharp, then there are a few problems still ahead for the blue half of Manchester.
Indeed, Wilfried Bony is hardly happy at being left out for a still-unfit Aguero, and making your second choice striker unhappy is not a smart move when your other striker is Sergio Aguero, a man so perennially injured that you worry when you see him celebrate.
Injuries and form have played a significant role in City’s season. Without Kompany, Aguero and Silva, City would always struggle, but that’s just City in a nutshell – they don’t mind being behind nor do they mind adversity. They know they can overcome it. They so often do.
After breaking all those club records at Crystal Palace in September, thanks to a last gasp Kelechi Iheanacho goal, City fell apart against West Ham and since then inconsistency has reigned. But when City face Palace again this weekend, perhaps they’ll be hoping that the return fixture will precipitate an upturn in form to counter the downturn they suffered the last time they played the Eagles.
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With Silva and Aguero starting to regain some sort of sharpness, City can hope for the chance to start to put a run together. The captain will be out for a few more weeks, and whilst he is sorely missed by his defence, Otamendi and Mangala are starting to form a partnership by themselves. Neither of them are Vincent Kompany, but they’re hardly awful defenders.
But more importantly, City are the ultimate in confidence football technology. They are a team built to keep going once they get going, before some sort of grinding halt. They won their last six games of the last campaign and the first five of this one, poor form for the next half a season, but you wouldn’t bet against another big run of wins at the end of this campaign.
That wonderful run halted after a win against Palace earlier in the season, and it’s Palace again for City at the weekend. With City being such a supremely superstitious bunch, even in the unpredictable nature of football, I wouldn’t bet against City stringing together the wins needed for a title charge.
Nor would I bet against their luck changing at the weekend, against exactly the same club where their fortunes changed just a few months ago.
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