Pay Plays Pool: Leicester vs Chelsea
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Last year's Champions will be hosting this year's favorite on Saturday evening in rainy England. Even though Leicester is not performing great in Premier League this season, while Chelsea is crashing their opponents and is comfortably first in the whole Premier League, I still think that this game will be competitive. That is the best part of Premier League - it is the league with the most unexpected results, so buckle your seats and be prepared to get entertained in this match between Champions..
Leicester City F.C
The Leicester City has created arguably the biggest miracle in sports history last season. Before the season started they were named as one of the worst teams and experts saw them being relegated. Well, Leicester had different things on their mind. GMs did the magnificent job in creating this beautiful attacking trio of Vardy, Mahrez, and N'Golo Kante. The defense was also working as one smooth machine with Wes Morgan as the main piece. Also, Claudio Ranieri got his last shot at the big scene after his bad years with teams like Chelsea, Inter, and the Greece National team.
All those pieces fell perfectly together and Leicester won the Premier League. If you had not followed this story and it is hard to imagine the odds of it happening, let me tell it. The odds were 1 to 5000 thousand. It means that if you bet 200 dollars before the season on them, you would have won one million dollars. Pretty nice investment, huh?
This season is not that perfect in Premier League, though. Leicester has lost N'Golo Kanter during the off-season and it looks like they did not find a person to fully replace him. Leicester is 15th in the League with 21 points and they are 28 points behind the first place. In other words - they will be happy not to get relegated to the second league because they only have 6 points advantage over the 18th position, which gets relegated.
However, Leicester is doing great in the Champion League. They have won their group and will make sure to go as far as possible in the play-offs. If they could pull off a victory in the Champions League this year, all the losses in Premier League would be forgotten in a second.
Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy is the main attacker for Leicester City. He is also playing for the English National team at the moment. Last season he made an incredible record scoring in 11 consecutive games in the Premier League. Also, he was nominated as a player of the year last season. What a brilliant player, right?
Well, it was not like that all the time. 5 years ago Jamie Vardy was still playing in the lowest divisions, playing in fields not better than the ones in Sunday League and was a no-name. However, he kept working and scoring. He kept believing. That is when he landed the contract with Leicester City FC. Leicester was mocked by all the critics for paying Vardy one million dollars per year. Everyone thought that it was a big waste of money. What did Vardy do? He just kept scoring; he helped Leicester city to reach the Premier League and then to win it.
Who is making fun of Vardy now? Nobody. Vary's career could be a fairytale for kids to read. It fulfills all the requirements. That is what happens when you don't stop believing in yourself and your club.
Chelsea
London Chelsea is more commonly called the aristocrats. Of course, they wear blue and they are proud to be a team from one of the highest class London neighborhoods. However, it does not matter how proud you are off the pitch unless you can prove your skills on it.
London Chelsea was struggling to do so last year. They were playing terrible and finished the league somewhere in the middle. For a club like Chelsea, anything except first place is not great. However, ending up without a spot in the European competitions is terrible and unforgivable. That is why Chelsea made a lot of changes during the off-season.
The main change was signing with Antonio Conte and N'Golo Kante. Yup, Conte with Kante brought some nice winds to this Chelsea team. With Antonio Conte as a head coach, it looks like all the players have found their rhythm again. I have big respect for Jose Mourinho, but he really surprised some great talents last year, while leading Chelsea. It was mostly his fault that Chelsea failed miserably last year because Conte shows that this team is nothing more than spectacular when having a right coach.
So far Chelsea is first on the table and has a 5 points lead over Liverpool. Chelsea won 16 games, had one draw and only lost 3 times. If that is not spectacular enough, Chelsea also had a 13 game winning streak in the Premier League, which is the second greatest of all time.
That being said, there is still a lot of work to do for Chelsea to become Champions. There are 18 more games to be played and teams like Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City, or Man United will always wait for any mistake of Chelsea. They lost to Tottenham in the last round and that was a sign to all over teams in the League that Chelsea is actually beatable.
Diego Costa
I have mixed feelings about this attacker. On one hand, he is a brilliant attacker, who is at the moment the Premier Leauge's top scorer with 14 goals and 5 assists in just 20 games. That is impressive and his skills are too.
On the other hand, I hate his personality with all my heart. He is one of the dirtiest players on the planet and you can see him injuring other players on purpose. You can also see him diving. Actually, you can see him doing everything that is considered unfair and unethical on the football field.
The truth is - that makes him a great player and helps him to score those goals. We can argue about if it is morally right, while Diego Costa will be receiving his reward as the top goal scorer and possibly the best player in the Premier League. Good for him, but while he is with Chelsea, I will not be able to support this team. I kind of miss Didier Drogba's era.
Prediction
My sanity tells me that Chelsea will win this game. Not only are they better than Leicester this season, but Leicester will also be playing without Mahrez, who left to help Algeria's National team on the African Cup. He is the main guy when it comes to organizing Leicester's attack, so he will be highly missed. My brains say 2-0 Leicester, but my gut instinct suggests that it will end 1-1.
Presenter: @cryptoiskey
Writer: @writingamigo
Game Starts:
January 14th, 12:30PM/9:30AM ETPT
5:30PM UTC
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Hi it's me again I sent another small play to Steemsports on the Minnesota Twolves vs rockets and I won and it has already been graded and settled but I did not receive payment😩 I made sure like mentioned before that theee ass no blank spaces.
I will look into it for you:)
How are you making these plays? The memo is invalid. You missed the 8 at the beginning, a valid memo for that outcome would be
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.Perhaps you could try using the app itself for placing bets, and thus avoid errors like these.
I copy and paste the side I want and send it directly from my Steem wallet to Steemsports
Diego Costa is not playing against leicester...
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/english-soccer/diego-costa-dropped-by-chelsea-after-row-over-huge-offer-from-china-1.2936582
well that sux - he took the money...to late to change it on steemsports now as it is bricked, but thanks for the heads up ....appreciate.
I wrote the review 10 hours ago, just before the big news. Damn that Costa, maybe it is for the better.
"Good for him, but while he is with Chelsea, I will not be able to support this team" - happened a little faster than expected, haha. Thanks for info @alt1001 It will only make this game more interesting as Leicester's chances grow at least a little.
yep I know, it was breaking news basically.