UEFA Champions League:

Benfica made it through to the Europa League final on Thursday, we are on them outight at decent odds and everyone in the clubgowi data base was sent the preview below on March 13th, seven weeks ago.

They won 3-1 at Tottenham that night and are now trading at circa 1.75 for the final later this month.

We are on Benfica outright (see foot of email) and with a 1-0 lead from the first leg and holding a seven point lead at the top of SuperLiga with just four rounds to play, I am very pleased with our position, the title should be done and dusted before the semi final and then their entire focus can switch to this competition, well almost. They do have a domestic cup competition semi-final with rivals Porto next midweek, so a case that they might want to get through the game tonight with the minimum of effort and that is almost always, the Portugese way in any case.

I wrote in the results update on Wednesday, that " it "feels" like we are about to go on another strong run". That hasn't happened yet, but we had a small profit on the Europa League games yesterday and took an outright position and already have wonderful value with that. The vibe is very good going into the weekend and we have six newsletters scheduled over the next three days, which will cost long term subscribers about 8 euros.

Wednesday May 15th

The two AFC matches have already been played, Guangzhou won 2-1 and Reysol 2-0 .

AFC Champions League:Central Coast Mariners-Guangzhou Evergrande

Thursday April 4th

Only Europa League for me today, three brief previews, however, we have plenty to get through tomorrow and I will have the normal Friday Ligue 2 previews at 10.00 UK time and a follow up at 16.00 with J League and any other Friday news.

Europa League: Benfica-Newcastle United