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The Pacman's Midweek Multiple

The Pacman's Midweek Multiple RSS / Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 22 October 2007 /

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I didn't exactly get off to the greatest of starts last week with my multiples column, having tipped a lay of Russia in the football and a back of Pakistan in the 1st ODI against South Africa. But I'm not going to sit here all miserable and blame myself for doing my dosh. No, I'm going to sit here all miserable and blame others for doing my dosh. And in particular: Steven Gerrard for that miss, Rooney for fancying himself as a left-back and getting caught in a compromising position (where have we seen that before?) and Frank Lampard for eating everyone's packed lunch earlier in the afternoon meaning everyone went hungry. England are in real trouble now and are a 3.15 shot to make it to the European Championships next summer. Workers in chip and beer factories in Austria and Hungary are already fearing job losses.

But let's not dwell on last week's losses for too long. After all, I'm sure those nice men at the bank will give me another mortgage.

I see Roma are available at just 1.52 to pick up three points tomorrow night against Sporting Lisbon. Normally I'd be rushing to the front of the queue to get with some high-quality Totti featuring in a good outfit but on this occasion the price just seems wrong. Roma have come off the back of a 4-4 home draw against Napoli and were spanked 4-1 at home to Inter Milan just a couple of weeks ago. Sporting Lisbon are no world-beaters and lost 1-0 to Man Utd just like Roma did, but I think they'll have just as much of the ball as the home side and if star striker Liedson is given half a chance, maybe he can score half a goal. I'm laying Roma at 1.5 to win on Tuesday night.

Rooney and Rio return to the cold of Eastern Europe as Man Utd travel to Dynamo Kiev looking for their third win of the campaign. I suspect the winners of this tie will be the pub owners and the ticket touts of Kiev and I don't want to have a guess at who will actually win the match, as that would just be guesswork. Man Utd have won both matches in the competition by a 1-0 scoreline, whereas Kiev have lost 2-0 and 2-1. Goals should be at a premium here and I'm going with under 2.5 goals at 1.79.

Benfica play hosts to Celtic on Wednesday night and after back-to-back defeats in their first two games, they need three points, pure and simple. Or is that just hearsay? No, it really is the case. Celtic are a bit like that Matt character from "Game on" - capable of people performing minor miracles at home, but less comfortable once they step out, as a 3-0 thrashing at the hands of Rangers at the weekend showed. Benfica are beginning to show some solid domestic form and there's every chance that they will put in an enlightened performance at the Stadium of Light. Actually, there's an even money chance and that's good enough a price for me and I'm backing Rui Cost and co at 2.0.

The Pacman's midweek multiple comes to 10.35.