Centrebet: Qld domination on A-League Horizon!
Tags : soccer, football, a-league, Australia, neil evans, media release, featured5th August 2009, by Daniel Hillege
Debut A-League club Gold Coast Utd has been the best-backed team with leading bookmaker Centrebet to claim the 2009/10 championship title – which blasts off tomorrow night – while Brisbane Roar could help provide a breakthrough Qld derby GF showdown!
Debut A-League club Gold Coast Utd has been the best-backed team with leading bookmaker Centrebet to claim the 2009/10 championship title – which blasts off tomorrow night – while Brisbane Roar could help provide a breakthrough Qld derby GF showdown!
Centrebet media chief Neil Evans said the Roar was a rock-solid $5.50 second favourite behind early fancy Melbourne Victory ($4.00), and both the Brisbane side and Gold Coast would develop “fortress-style” home records that could thrust both into the top half of the A-League finals!
“Brisbane Roar has been a naturally improving squad for a couple of seasons, while in typical Gold Coast fashion, these new boys have hit the ground running! Miron Bleiberg has a very attack-minded squad that, unlike other sides, will not be left lamenting a lack of goals at the end of the season,” Evans said. “Shane Smeltz is a clever poacher and has already been backed in scoring markets with us, while Joel Porter may take a little time to find his feet, but could be a real firmer from $15.00. And behind them is one of the better ‘engine room’ players in Australian football in Jason Culina. I’m tipping Gold Coast Utd to make the Grand Final on debut!”
But Centrebet reports Brisbane Roar has been heavily-backed from $2.50 into $2.30 to start with a win in round 1 over neighbouring rival Gold Coast ($2.67 out to $2.90)!
With two new teams arriving in the national competition punters have spread the championship money around – Gold Coast firming from $9.00 into $7.00, Brisbane $5.75 into $5.50 and the often under-estimated Adelaide Utd again specked at $12.00!
Evans said Perth Glory – for so long the great disappointment of the new A League world – would be the competition’s biggest improver! “They have players who can snap goals, and they’ve also been well fancied by punters pushing them in from an opening $11.00 into $8.50!”
Former Liverpool star Robbie Fowler is not expected to to hit Nth Qld in a goal-scoring Fury – he’s 1.44 Not to Score on debut at home to Sydney FC, with the Fury a $3.25 outsider head-to-head! And Nth Qld is on the second longest line of betting at $15.00 alongside Newcastle, and a $3.65 second favourite to land the dreaded wooden spoon behind favourite Wellington ($3.00)! Evans said there had been “no money” for Sydney FC, even at $8.00, sparking belief they’ll be in for another under-achieving season!
Melbourne will open the A-League tomorrow night a hot $1.55 favourite against the struggling Central Coast Mariners ($6.00), with the Draw quoted at $3.65!
| A-League Rnd 1 - H2H | |
| $1.55 | MELBOURNE VICTORY |
| $3.65 | DRAW |
| $6.00 | CENTRAL COAST |
| $2.10 | ADELAIDE UTD |
| $3.20 | DRAW |
| $3.35 | PERTH GLORY |
| $3.25 | NTH QLD FURY |
| $3.25 | DRAW |
| $2.15 | SYDNEY FC |
| $2.30 | BRISBANE ROAR |
| $3.25 | DRAW |
| $2.90 | GOLD COAST UTD |
| $1.95 | NEWCASTLE JETS |
| $3.30 | DRAW |
| $3.75 | WELLINGTON PHOENIX |
| A LEAGUE – SPECIAL | |
| Robbie Fowler score on Fury debut! | |
| $2.50 | YES |
| $1.44 | NO |
| A LEAGUE – WOODEN SPOON | |
| $3.00 | WELLINGTON |
| $3.65 | NTH QLD |
| $5.25 | NEWCASTLE |
| $8.00 | CENTRAL COAST |
| $9.00 | ADELAIDE UTD |
| $11.00 | PERTH GLORY |
| $19.00 | SYDNEY FC |
| $23.00 | GOLD COAST UTD |
| $34.00 | BRISBANE |
| $51.00 | MELBOURNE |
| A LEAGUE – TOP SCORER | |
| $8.00 | DANNY ALLSOPP (Melb) |
| $8.50 | SHANE SMELTZ (GC) |
| $9.00 | ARCHIE THOMPSON (Melb) |
| $11.00 | EUGENE DADI (Per) |
| $11.00 | BRANKO JELIC (Per) |
| $11.00 | SERGIO VAN DIJK (Bris) |
| $13.00 | JOHN ALOISI (Syd) |
| $13.00 | CRISTIANO (Ade) |
| $13.00 | ROBBIE FOWLER (NQ) |
| $13.00 | HENRIQUE (Bris) |
| $15.00 | JOEL PORTER (GC) |
| $15.00 | MARK BRIDGE (Syd) |
| $17.00 | bar |
| A LEAGUE – C’SHIP WINNER | ||
| $4.00 | MELBOURNE | (out from $3.75) |
| $5.50 | BRISBANE | (in from $5.75) |
| $7.00 | GOLD COAST | (in from $9.00) |
| $8.00 | SYDNEY FC | (out from $7.00) |
| $8.50 | PERTH GLORY | (in from $11.00) |
| $12.00 | ADELAIDE UTD | |
| $13.00 | CENTRAL COAST | (out from $10.00) |
| $15.00 | NEWCASTLE | (out from $14.00) |
| $15.00 | NTH QLD | |
| $21.00 | WELLINGTON | |
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last update : 5th August 2009 11:32
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