Intertoto Cup, Second Round, 1st leg(03.07-04.07.)

OFK Belgrade (SCG) v Dinaburg (LAT) HOME WIN(1.45 at BetAndWin)
This should be an easy home win I believe.OFK are taking this competition very serious and will try to catch the UEFA Cup.Surely,not so famous name,but OFK Belgrade are one of the most talented teams in Serbia & Montenegro,alongside Red Star and are surely one of the most talented sides in Europe at the moment.A few weeks ago,S&M U21 has made a big success and has shown a some very good stuffs in European Championship(Germany).They've reached the finals with five (regular) OFK players: Jokic, Basa, Matic, Stancic, Ivanovic,but that's not all of course.With some other guys like Vaskovic(national team player)-rated as one of the best midfielders in S&M, Kolakovic(surely one of the best strikers in the league), young Mrdakovic(ex-player of Anderlecht and Gent,the best OFK striker), experienced goalkeeper Damjanac,plus a few other young guns,...,this team looks very impressive indeed.But,they didn't play an offical matches for a while(except U21 members),so the stakes should be a resonable IMO. (P.S. There are a some rumours about Stancic's transfer to Red Star,but no big deal IMO as OFK Belgrade SHOULD have too much for Dinaburg even without this guy)

Dinamo Minsk v Sartid Smederevo HOME WIN(1.90 at BetAndWin)
I don't know too much about Dinamo at the moment,but I know they have ambitions in this competition(if I'm not wrong,they caused a lot of troubles to some quality sides,like Wolfsburg,in the past) and it's the most important thing here.They've easily eliminated the Polish side, Odra in the previous round.Sartid played an excellent football last season,but are without a bunch of key players in this season campaign: Bogdanovic(the best player and captain), Mudrinic, Spasic, Zivkovic, key striker Marko Pantelic(signed for Red Star),...Although Sartid still have a prety respectable squad,they are surely not as strong as they used to be.Mirosavljevic is the only REAL striker in the squad and it's a huge problem at the moment.The hosts will try to make an advantage before the second leg and I don't expect any calculations from their side.Add the fact that Dinamo are in the middle of the season that makes a big difference here.The odds are very attractive IMO.

Does anyone know where you can find the fixtures for the 2nd round games this weekend?

www.uefa.com/Competitions/IntertotoCup/
They should appear on that page later in the week.

cheers IrishTW - I'll keep a look out

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3 Jul-14:00 Dinamo Minsk v Sartid 2.00 3.20 3.20
3 Jul-14:00 Spartak Moscow v Kamen Ingrad 1.50 3.60 5.50
3 Jul-14:00 Vardar v Gent 2.25 3.20 2.75
3 Jul-14:30 Wolfsburg v FC Thun 1.40 3.90 6.50
3 Jul-15:00 Esbjerg v Nice 2.50 3.10 2.50
3 Jul-15:00 Hibernian v Vetra Rudiskes 1.40 4.00 6.00
3 Jul-16:00 ZTS Dubnica v Slovan Liberec 2.50 3.10 2.50
3 Jul-18:00 Spartak Trnava v Sloboda Tuzla 1.61 3.50 4.50
3 Jul-18:30 NEC v Cork City 1.44 3.75 6.00
3 Jul-19:00 Odense v Villarreal 2.75 3.20 2.20
3 Jul-19:00 Westerlo v Zlin 1.83 3.20 3.75
4 Jul-16:30 OFK Beograd v Dinaburg 1.40 4.00 6.00
4 Jul-17:00 Genk v Marek Dupnitza 1.40 3.75 7.00

[PompeyPunt]

Seems the bookies are not listing anymore oods for this game much, Teplice v Jaroslavl.

The news seemed to be that many first team players from Jaro were not travelling for this game, and neither was the coach Jaro are stuggling from relegation in Russia at the moment, and Teplice now have a fully available squad to choose from.

Can't hardly find any books on this one now, Interwetten did go 1.80, doubt that still exists.

Betfair have a skinny 1.48 on offer now. But interesting nevertheless, will keep an eye on it.

Sartid player Sasa Antunovic has left the club three days ago.So,exactly 7 players left the club,while there are no a new signings at the moment.Even top striker Mirosavljevic could leave the club.

The newspapers said the Minsk side isn't a bad team at all and could be a very tricky opponent for Sartid as S&M teams traditionally have pretty big problems against sides that use "the Russian style of play".There are a four Belarus U21 players,plus a one national team player(captain Voledenko).

Dinamo Minsk are in the middle of the season.After 12 rounds, they are league leaders(9-1-2, 21:8) ,with 5-0-1,7:1 in the last 6 six matches,plus they have easily beaten Odra in the previous round of IC.

With the last season's squad,Sartid would easily beat Dinamo for sure,but now...Their chance lies in the rematch in Smederevo,while I expect at least a narrow 1:0 win for the hosts on Sunday.Not 100% sure bet,but it's definitely a good deal with price around 1.90-2.00.

Good Luck!

[Marek76]

you can get Teplice -1 @1.741 @ Pinnacle , Pompey

[PompeyPunt]

Cheers Marek

Hibernian v Vetra Rudiskes 1.40 4.00 6.00 bet365

Small support on Vetra from my side (or x2 @2.28 GB)
From BBc site:

Hibernian manager Tony Mowbray faces an injury crisis going into Saturday's Intertoto Cup clash with Vetra Vilnius. Ian Murray, Kevin Thomson, Derek Riordan, Jonathan Baillie, Paul Fenwick and Stephen Glass are all not fit enough to face the Lithuanians.
Defender Gary Smith is also doubtful for the second-round, first leg at Easter Road.

No single warm up game. Back in training for a week.

Vetra 10 games into new season 3-5-2. They lost one game in last six and conceding only 3 goals.
Low scoring game maybe 1-1 or 0-1.

Low scoring game maybe 1-1 or 0-1

FT Hibernian 1 - 1 FK Vetra

Well done Heniek

Saturday results:

FT Spartak Mosc. (Rus) 4 - 1 Kamen

FT Wolfsburg 2 - 3 Thun

FT Esbjerg 1 - 0 Nice

FT Hibernian (Sco) 1 - 1 FK Vetra

FT Dubnica 1 - 2 Liberec (Cze)

FT Slaven Belupo (Cro) 2 - 0 Vllaznia

FT Teplice (Cze) 1 - 2 Shinnik Yaroslavl

FT Vardar Skopje (Mac) 1 - 0 AA Gent (Bel)

FT Trnava 2 - 1 Sloboda Tuzla

FT NEC Nijmegen 0 - 0 Cork City

FT OB Odense (Den) 0 - 3 Villarreal (Spa)

FT Westerlo (Bel) 0 - 0 Zlin