Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Big Game Tips: Faroes/N.Ireland

McCann (80th and 67th minutes), Healy (66 & 67) and Brunt (71 & 89) have been subbed in both of the last two N. Ireland qualifiers. Brunt might still be worth a punt seeing as he seems to be subbed later on in the game and especially if he can replicate his scoring against Chelsea last time out on Picklive.

Apart from Brunt, Baird (71, 47 and 54 points), Hughes (36, 56, 38) and Davis (51, 65, 42) have some Picklive history. Lafferty only a few sub appearances. Johnny Evans has a long and solid Picklive history and averages out at over 50 for Man Utd. (40, 57, 65, 55, 56, 53 and 41).

The big decisions to made are goal-related: Will Healy re-discover his scoring touch, will he get hauled off to make way for Lafferty, will Lafferty start and Healy come on to score a hat-trick. Endless.

My tip is to go with Baird and Davis as they've got Picklive pedigree. I'm going to take the risk on Brunt as he does score the odd goal (almost 1 in 4 for WBA). After that I'd suggest a Johnny Evans/Feeney pick unless you fancy a higher risk plan involving at least two of Feeney/Healy/Lafferty dependent on starting line-ups.

And just a note on the live game, an early goal might mean 3 or 4 over the course of the match. Could be a great chance to lay down a strong marker for this weeks jackpot. Tip: start with a conservative strategy until the first goal goes in and then switch to an aggressive approach designed to catch a further goal.

Good luck!

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