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Rooney’s Odds Slashed Following Recent Accomplishments

maryann — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:43:04 +0000

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney is just doing so good considering his contribution to his team’s Carling Cup semi final victory last January 27. He had a significant part in the success of the Red Devils.

Manchester United actually beaten their local rivals, Manchester City, in one of the most awaited Manchester derby games in several years. And Rooney, naturally showed what he has got by scoring his 21st goal of the season in injury time at Old Trafford. The team, with the help of Rooney most especially, was able to secure a place at Wembley.

At this point, Sky Bet offers Rooney at odds of 7/4 to be named as PFA Players’ Player of the Year. The sports betting firm actually slashed the striker’s odds from 5/2 to 7/4.

“Rooney is in the form of his life. All England fans must be just hoping he can take it on to South Africa this summer”, said Sky Bet’s football betting expert Dale Tempest.

Rooney is also into the betting on the FIFA World Player of the Year award. He is currently at odds of 10/1 to be voted as FIFA World Player of the Year.

While the Red Devils are now favorites to win the Carling Cup final against Aston Villa. They are at odds of 2/5 to win next month’s big event.

It really seems that because Rooney is doing good, therefore Manchester United is also doing good. Well, Rooney is one of the key players of the team and if he does excel in performance and so as the team. But then, aside from Rooney, there were also some others who also did well in the recent games. They also deserve the recognition, indeed they also had a significant part in the success.

Aston Villa Now the Favorites to Win the Carling Cup

maryann — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:46:35 +0000

After their 6-4 win against Blackburn Rovers at Villa Park the other day, January 20, Aston Villa became favorites to win the Carling Cup. William Hill regarded them as the club to most likely bring home the cup trophy.

To win the cup, the Birmingham club are listed at odds of 11/8. However, if what club will be their opponent, it is still not clear. Most probably, it will be revealed next Wednesday.

William Hill deemed Aston Villa as a good choice, they are likely to win the Carling Cup because of what they have showed at Villa Park.

Aston Villa can be remembered taking a 1-0 lead into the second leg but then within half an hour fell two goals behind after a brace from Croatian Nikola Kalinic.

However, Martin O’Neill’s men didn’t just allow the opponent to continue leading in score. With a goal, they fought back and then secured an equalizer from the penalty spot.

While Manchester United are listed at odds of 7/4 to win the cup trophy. And Manchester City at odds of 2/1 also to win the cup trophy. They were actually able to take a 2-1 lead to Old Trafford following the first leg of Tuesday.

After the Semi-Final Leg 2 will be the Final event which will be on February 28. We are all near to the revelation day, soon we will know who will really dominate the Carling Cup. Will it really be Aston Villa? Or will it be another club? Soon we will know the answer for these.

Meanwhile, what we can just do is to watch out for the next event. Let us discover which of the clubs will make it to the Final. For now, let us just enjoy being close to the revelation day.

Manchester United as Favorites to Win the Carling Cup For One Online Bookmaker

maryann — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:48:20 +0000

It is now on the news, Manchester United is truly now recognized as favorites to win the Carling Cup by one online bookmaker. It is actually the ever popular William Hill that considers Manchester United as Carling Cup favorites at 6/4.

It was after the team qualified for the semi-finals of the said competition that the online bookmaker regarded them as the favorites. William Hill indeed expects that the Red Devils will defend at said odds, the trophy that they have actually won last March.

Manchester United qualified for the semi-finals by beating team finalist of last year, Tottenham Hotspur. Because of this, they are then anticipated to play against Manchester City, a team that has been chasing for a win since their victory in the competition year 1976.

The online bookmaker regarded Man City as favorites for the Carling Cup at 5/2. While other semi-finalists like Aston Villa at 11/4 and the Blackburn Rovers at 9/2.

Manchester United will play against their local rivals soon and so William Hill also set odds for them as favorites to beat the said rivals at 4/6 in the two-leg semi-finals. And the Manchester Club at 11/10 to get a victory.

Villa, in the other semi-final, set at 8/15 to beat Rovers currently at 11/8.

A lot of bettors really consider the odds being set by bookmakers, online and land-based. Most especially by a bookmaker like William Hill, they regard its odds as important, thus it is not surprising if they make bets based on their odds.

But of course, odds are odds. They are just like product of predictions, assumptions or the likes. What they try to imply might be eventually for real but might be not as well.