Mixed weekend in which Walter Smith did us few favours

Total Goals Guys / Total Goals Guys / 10 October 2007 / Leave a comment Free £25 Bet

The Total Goals Guys take a retrospective look at their weekend selections

Some poor tactical decisions by Walter Smith cost Rangers and 2 goal backers dearly on Saturday. Any of the 50,440 in attendance could tell you that playing Kris Boyd as a lone striker simply doesn't work and this match was further evidence of this. Hibs took the lead on 61' when left-back David Murphy headed home from a corner. With half an hour on the clock you would have assumed the home side would have got themselves back into it by at least drawing level but this wasn't the case and if anything Hibs looked likely of getting a 2nd before playing out time for a famous 1-0 victory.

We all but promised goals at the Emirates and two were scored within 14 minutes as Philippe Senderos turned in a bit of a trundler from a corner, following up a 7th minute Robin Van Persie thunderbolt (77mph by the way!). This put the Gunners 2-0 up in a game they eventually ran out 3-2 winners.

We also hinted that Man Utd could well be due an explosion of goals and despite an early sweat at Old Trafford the goods were delivered in an impressive 2nd half display. The performance was particularly impressive from the attacking trio of Carlos Tevez, Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney. Carlos Tevez showed great speed, skill and composure to net the 1st on 54' and black-eyed Red-Devil Ronaldo doubled the lead 5 minutes later with a close range header. Utd were in a comfort zone they had yet to experience in a match this season and proved too much for Wigan who eventually went down by four goals to nil.

2 goals were delivered in both our La Liga fixtures on Sunday night and both at good prices. Deco (17) and Messi (20) sent Barcelona en route to a 3-0 victory over big spending Atletico Madrid, who experienced a first defeat at the Camp Nou in almost 4 years. Real Madrid left it late in their home tie with Recreativo with Van Nistelrooy not putting the campeones ahead until 73' and had 2 goal backers such as ourselves in a real sweat until Higuan made it 2-0 in the last minute.

The balance is almost unaffected at £45.35 so the result at Ibrox was a bit of a blow to say the least . .

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