A few weekend picks

After the disaster area that was last weekends sporting picks I seem to have got back on track midweek with some decent winners. Once again theres plenty of games to chose from this weekend football wise. I have one eye on the rugby later on today but I think il throw up my football picks first and get them out of the way.

Liverpool V Birmingham
I’m not sure what Benitez was thinking last weekend, resting Gerard and Torres against Portsmouth backfired badly and its very important at this early stage that Liverpool take everything possible from every game. With a little more positive attitude they could have snatched all 3 points last week but didn’t and I don’t expect them to slip up two weekends in a row. Midweek was a more respectable draw away against FC Porto in the Champions League. At home they are more potent, their only two home games this year consisted of a respectable 1 – 1 V Chelsea and a 6 – 0 drubbing of Derby.
Birmingham on the other hand play quite badly away from home despite an away win V west ham a few weeks back. Steve Bruce is set to keep the same side which started last weekend's 1-0 home win against Bolton. Birmingham have conceded an average of 2 goals away from home so far and I cannot see them scoring against Liverpool's solid defence. Games like this are key if Liverpool are to be genuine contenders this season.
I expect home advantage to be enough in a comfortable win for the pool.


Arsenal V Derby County

So much was predicted for these two pre-season and for one it’s gone according to plan. Nobody gave Derby a chance of survival and despite an excellent home win last Monday night against Newcastle its still very hard to see them staying up. Arsenal on the other hand are flying. Top of the table and playing some excellent open football it seems Henry is most surely a thing of the past. The impressive form carried on midweek where they put three past Sevilla at home to start of the champion’s league in the best of style. Arsenal's key man, Cesc Fabregas is in the form of his career and others including Adebayour are playing with huge confidence. I won’t go into much detail here, its damage limitation for Derby and they will be hoping to keep the score respectable. In games such as these they know they have little chance and will be more focused on getting results against the “lesser “ teams in the league. Even with a few injury problems Arsenal at home will record a comfortable home win.




PICKS
Liverpool -1.75 (2.1 @ bet365) 2 points
Liverpool clean sheet (1.78 @ betfair) 2 points

Arsenal – 1.75 A ( 1.8 @ bet365) 10 points


Arsenal -1.75 is a max bet for me, ive had two max bets so far on the blog and both have won so heres hoping to keeping that record intact