WHAM-BANGERS AND PAIN-MEISTERS

It was a high-scoring week in the EPL! Check out our wham-bangers (the wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am variety) and pain-meisters (a little S&M, anyone? Kneel, fool!)

Liverpool vs Portsmouth - Final Score: 4-1
The wham-bangers: Benayoun, Distin (own goal), Mrawurari, Torres (2 goals)

Chelsea vs Aston Villa - Final Score: 4-4
The pain-meisters: Shevchenko (2 goals), Ballack, Alex, Maloney (2 goals), Laursen, Barry

Tottenham vs Fulham - Final Score: 5-1
The wham-bangers: Keane (2 goals), Huddlestone (2 goals), Defoe, Dempsey

Sunderland vs Manchester United - Final Score: 0-4
The wham-bangers: Rooney, Saha (2 goals), Ronaldo

Today’s Astro EPL Fixtures

ESPN

01 Dec 2040 Chelsea vs. West Ham United
01 Dec 2255 Blackburn Rovers vs. Newcastle United
02 Dec 0130 Wigan Athletic vs. Manchester City(Delayed)

Starsports

01 Dec 2255 Portsmouth vs. Everton
02 Dec 0110 Aston Villa vs. Arsenal

So how did our Week 5 Home Underdogs fare?

In our Sept 15, 2007 post on the relevancy of the “Home Underdog”, I listed out Portsmouth and Derby as the small teams most likely to do well in a small team/big team face-off when they play in their respective home turf.  (they were facing Liverpool and Newcastle, respectively)

Here is what the MPOFE predicted for the Portsmouth – Liverpool game:

Cantona Kickems: 2-2
raZor^r3dz: 0-1
Small Potato: 0-1

Actual Score: Portsmouth 0 – Liverpool 0

And the Derby – Newcastle game?

Cantona Kickems: 1-2
raZor^r3dz: 1-0
Small Potato: 0-3

Actual Score: Derby 1 – Newcastle 0

Bold prediction? 4 out of 5 EPL games involving the home underdog will result in a favorable score for the Rocky Balboas of the EPL. The season is long, so we’ll see …

Home Underdogs for EPL Week 5

home un·der·dog /ˈʌndərˌdɔg, -ˌdɒg/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[home uhn-der-dawg, -dog] –noun
~ a team expected or favored to lose but playing in its home stadium

We sometimes blog about our game predictions theories for upcoming EPL games every now and then – but this week we like to introduce a new weekly segment tagged as “Home Underdogs“.

OK, I can picture that “WTF?” look on your face right now … but hear my wisdom, o’ blessed people! See, when you make a habit of always:

(a) predicting a small team playing at home against a big team to win (or draw)

I guarantee you will achieve a far better prediction accuracy rate than when you make a habit of always:

(b) predicting on the big team to win over the the small team playing at home

So, I hereby introduce this week’s small potato teams playing at home against bigger, stronger, more formidable opponents:

1. Portsmouth

2. Derby County

Check out our MPOFE Game Predictions here to check out the so-called “big teams” they will be playing.