Betfair punters profit from wild weekend!
Serie A is officially the fourth best league in Europe and is derided for a lack of entertainment but those who ignore the criticism and tune into the Italian action available on Betfair Live Video were treated on a thrilling Sunday in which despite two goalless draws, matches averaged three goals.
AC Milan, Napoli and Inter Milan all showed signs that they'll be fighting for the title all the way until May while there were costly defeats for Juventus, Lazio and Roma that will prove difficult to recover from and Sinisa Mihaljovic enjoyed a 20-minute spell that may have saved his job at Fiorentina.
The table-topping Rossoneri fought back from 3-1 and 4-3 down at home to entertaining Udinese, with Antonio Cassano coming off the bench to set up two goals, meaning that he has provided three assists in 37 minutes on the pitch since signing from Sampdoria. They are [2.0] to finish first.
Inter Milan confirmed that their chances of winning the scudetto once again are far from dead though by coming from behind to beat Catania in Sicily and they'll be third if they win their games in hand against Catania and Fiorentina, hence odds of [3.45].
The result of the weekend however belonged to Napoli - the team we declared the best in Italy in the first half of the season only for them to undermine us with a meek surrender away to Inter - who finally delivered on the big occasion by overcoming Juventus 3-0 courtesy of an Edinson Cavani hat-trick.
The Uruguayan forward scored three headers, the last the most impressive of all, to pull level with Capocannoniere holder Antonio Di Natale on 13 goals. He's [3.85] to be top goalscorer, while Walter Mazzarri's side are still [15.0] to take their challenge for the championship to a positive conclusion.
Elsewhere, Roma squandered a goal advantage at Sampdoria after two horrific pieces of defending by half-time substitute Juan, Fiorentina fought back from 2-0 down to triumph 3-2 over Brescia and Lazio suffered a crushing loss in one of three fixtures where punters stood to win significantly more betting on the correct score on Betfair.
Struggling Lecce triumphed 2-1 at the Stadio Olimpico to deal a severe blow to Lazio's faltering title bid and potentially keep trainer Luigi De Canio in work and anyone who had £10 on that outcome on Betfair made £351.50, compared to £200 with SportingBet.
A tenner on Bologna's 2-0 victory in Bari - in which Marco Di Vaio found the net once more - returned £209 and the same stake on Cagliari's 2-1 success at Parma paid out £175.75 whereas the same wagers with Ladbrokes and Blue Square respectively earned just £110.
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Published: 10 Jan 2011
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