Well,i am really sick to put my preview on this unpredicteable league.

Reds are on the second place and are hosting on Saitama stadium the Frontale squad.Usual both are powerful on their home grounds with poor results as travelers.Both are able to score easy but also with problems in defence this season.This must bring us a nice game today with for sure some goals.Bookies are already prepared for this situation giving poor odss for over 2.5-1.55 for example at GB.

Urawa played a friendly on 18..preparing for this game,Urawa Reds 3-3 with University of Tsukuba (HT 3-1)

GK: Yamagishi

DF: Nishizawa, Kondo and Hashimoto

MF: Okano (HT Hamada from Youth), Uchidate (HT Sakamoto), Naoki Yamada, Koike and Takahashi (HT Nagata from Youth)

FW: Takasaki and Sergio (HT Hayashi).

It is probable to have a same formation today against Kawasaki with Abe, Hosogai and Horinouchi all missings for this game from their defence line.

I see here a tough gameand a possible surprise with Frontale leading the game to a good result for them.

If i stay to remember, i find that rarely i touched a bet for over 2.5 goals at odd so lower,like in this case.Sure don't have value to place high stake on it but it can be a good choice for combo's with normal stake.

We all saw what was happening yesterday in Gatorade Cup,with AZ destroying (5-0) their lower opponent, Maastricht a team who is relatively on the same value as Haarlem.

Gert Aandewiel ,Haarlem's coach said that they will try to remain in the game and he will field a 4-3-3 formation.On the other part,Ajax in full sqad have a lot of motivation for this Cup and will probably play for the trophy ,once again ,with PSV (as for the title,were PSV have a clear advantage) and AZ.

Very important game for the romanian side here,cause one of Rapid's mainly target is to get a qualification to the next stage in UEFA Cup.After 0-0 at home with PSG and another draw, 2-2 away at Hapoel , and with just one hard game remaining to play , away at Panathinaikos , Rapid will make everything for three points from this game.
Won't be easy,Mlada being a hard opponent ,with a lot of massive players in squad.In last round they managed to obtain a draw even if they playedwith a man less in that 1-1 away at Slovan Liberec. With a full squad for today and with just one game played in UEFA,0-1 at home with Panathinaikos, Mlada will try to obtain at least one point here.

Rapid without Stancu,Burdujan and Dica but with their nationalgoalkeeper Coman,the past goalscorer from national league Mazilu and with Zicu all in best form ...

With a very good run lately and with higher experience in this kind of games i see a clear advantage for the home side.But the goal(s) should be seen after a very tigh and even first half.

First game from this round in Romanian league and one in wich Rapid are playing with their gates closed, cause the stadium was suspended after the last incidents between suporters.
Rapid is in must win situation here cause their place in championship is lower then their aspiration for this season.If the fight for the title is out from question (it was out also before the first round IMO) they still have their chance for a european place.The most important thing is their form ...seriously improved in past games.Also their boss have decided to increase the players contracts.
Mazilu and Marius Constantin trained separately in last days while Stancu and Griffiths are having little medical problems but Lucescu could count on them and for sure midfielder Karamian will be back after his injury from the game with Dinamo.
I don't think that Gloria can make a surprise today.I have heard some rumours about their coach,Sabau,past player at Rapid who possible have a promise from Rapid's boss to take his team from winter.If this thing is sure,Razvan Lucescu,actual coach of Rapid probably know better and will make everything to beat him today.
Standings and previous H2H results:
6. Gloria Bistrita 10 5 1 4 14 - 7 16p
8. Rapid Bucuresti 10 4 4 2 12 - 10 16p
2001/02: 5-0
2002/03: 3-1
2003/04: 3-0
2004/05: 3-1
2005/06: 1-0
Overall at Rapid's ground:
16 14 1 1 37-10
I was oscilating between over 2.5 goals here and this asian handicap.Finnaly i decided that a 2-0 win for the home side could be taken seriously in discussion.
Probable squads:
Rapid:Coman - M.Constantin, V.Maftei, Rada - Badoi, N.Grigore, C.Lazar, A.Karamian - Buga, V.Moldovan (Burdujan), Zicu; Coach: Razvan Lucescu;
Gloria:Albut - D.Matei, Abrudan, Muresan, Sepsi - Sg.Costea, Nalati, Marginean (Pacurar), Paduretu - Negrean, Zaharia; Coach: Ioan Sabau .

The game was postponed due to a heavy rain,but for tonight they are expecting to play in same conditions.Once again,i will take Mets for several reasons.
The Mets have the look of a very good side again and the Cardinals will need to get runs early to put pressure on the Mets hitters,because if the Mets score early,and I bet they will,the Cardinals will have trouble reeling them back in,also the Mets hitters are strong from the start of the game untill the finish.The Mets bullpen although not the greatest will hold the Cards to about 1 run after the 7th inning if the Mets starters do their jobs,that is an advantage as the Cards bullpen is decimated,their closer in Wainwright is not the best as even the base hitting Padres could hit him,and Looper and Jhonson will struggle to hold this Mets line up.

Finland is in must win situation here but for this think they will have to push harder,cause the home team isn;t anymore one of the amateurs sides. They drew 0-0 in Belgium(!!!),and another draw for this time away in Azerbaijan, 1-1 and one lost game, 0-1 in its latest match against Poland .
Their style is based on full defending and until now this works fine for them.No squad problems for today.

Finland on the other hand started with a win 1-3 in Poland,drew 1-1 against Portugal and drew 0-0 in Armenia.Finland will miss three important basic players Tainio, Eremenko, Johansson while defender Markus Heikkinen is suspended.I am sure that they should be more than happy with a 2-0 win here...

Hambug won yesterday and the difference is now 2 points.I have strong objection to this idea,that Munchen will let anyone win the Bundesliga.Stuttgart has a lot of good players and they appeared to take high position in championship,but but they managed to fail the season ..

1. Bayern 31 21 7 3 60-27 70
12.Stuttgart 31 8 16 7 32-32 40

The odds for a home win are too lower to assume the risk, even if i believe that Bayern will win this game possible with two goals difference.Stuttgart is not a sparring parnter so i think that over 2.5 for a reasonable odd is the best choice here.Another very good odd could be tried for HTvs FT with a win for Bayern managed only in second half.

In the beginnig of the season Stuttgart won the game in Munchen 2-1 and maybe now we will have another 2-1...) Bayern: Kahn – Sagnol, Demichelis, Lucio, Lahm – Schweinsteiger, Hargreaves, Scholl, Zé Roberto – Makaay, Pizarro.

Denmark second division game between the worst team from league,already relegated and a middle one wich have travelled here thibking to take all the points to assure another presence at this level. The straight odd for away win good at 1.57, i have 1.80 in my local , but i also think that the game should end with more than 3.5 goals.