First bullet dodged! Day 3

I am adopting a new motto for the challenge - research is everything! As posted earlier in the day the two Copa del Ray ties interested me. Having checked a bit further into things, it turned out that the games were both second legs of the tie. My initial fancy was for the Eibar game as Osasuna are absolutely awful. The odds actually started out better than the Celta v Valencia game also and would take less time to hit.

However both Eibar and Celta had commanding three goal leads in their favour. Upon checking line ups, Eibar pretty much had a second string out. I wasn't confident in Osasuna's abilities to make the most of this fact either. Watching the game, there were no shots, and the game was really slow.

The Celta game however looked much more promising and open. As both games kicked off early at 6pm I was rushing to check team news and line ups. With the exception Iago Aspas who was benched, Celta still fielded a strong side and were looking good and more importantly, looking likely to score against a poor Valencia side.

As a bonus through checking line ups, the odds for over 0.5 goals had dropped to 1/8 after half an hour of play. It was on! 

A goalless first half wasn't too much of a worry, and with the Eibar game producing zero shots on or off target I was confident in my choice.

Celta kept my waiting slightly longer than I'd have liked, but did make the breakthrough on 61 minutes through Guiseppe Rossi (who seemingly has been around for years but is only 29 still). Our 1/8 shot had made us a profit of £1.52 to take us up to a total of £13.62!

And Eibar v Osasuna? Yep, that finished 0-0.