Season 42

[July Fourth]

LEAGUE ROUND 17 - THE SHOWDOWN - PREVIEW

July Fourth vs NAMO UNITED

July Fourth 124.8 - NAMO UNITED 118.8

This is a grudge match between these 2 teams, NAMO UNITED have risen to be unexpected and only challengers to July Fourth winning another league title this season, NAMO UNITED started the season well winning most of their games before some draws towards the midway point and their only loss of the season coming against backmarkers mikeyboy city, July Fourth had a slower start of the season registering 3 draws in the first 4 games before racking up 11 wins in a row before yesterdays draw to leave us just 1 point ahead of our rivals today, NAMO UNITED have proved to be nothing but an nuisence, power support will most likely be against us once again and also we have not forgotten about the match fixing earlier in the season with them having an alt account in the same league, fortunately we beat their alt account rather easily first time round.

NAMO UNITED have now a hybrid 5*/6* team with development over the last 2 weeks which doesn't suggest they have a lot to offer but if they bring their power support as expected this could turn out to be a more difficult than we expect, Their main threat is the current league top scorer with 14 goals, Lawrence Bott and also top performer Ionut Porumb. Last time they played ND against us but it seems their preferred formation is 4-3N-1-2 but they could use 4-2-1-3 as well as they did in the closing stages of the first meeting that ended as a 2-2 draw with Miku getting a late equaliser for us in which we have remained unbeaten in the league since. We have Ramirez suspended, possibly our best defender quality wise but performance wise our best defender is Dino Childs and he will captain our team today to hopefully a big victory in what we need to get some breathing space against our rivals.

Odds: July Fourth 4/9, Draw 5/2, NAMO UNITED 11/2.

Under/Over 2.5: Under 10/11, Over 10/11
Both Teams To Score: Yes 4/6, No 6/5.

First Goalscorer:
Pietropaolo 9/2
Michu 5/1
Bott 5/1
Miku 5/1
Porumb 6/1
Orth 7/1
Watson 8/1
O'Sullivan 8/1
Papaleo 9/1
Aldemir 9/1
Stuart 12/1
Fabregas 12/1
OTHER SCORER: 8/1
No Goalscorer (0-0 draw): 9/1