The Offside Cup – Quarterfinals Preview

By: Dave Martinez | April 17th, 2008

   

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Hey all.

The thing that started the wheels in motion for this page has been “The Offside Cup” – a tournament I began hosting on the redbulls.theoffside.com page.

While I will update scores there, I figure here would be a good place to talk about other things. Like betting lines.

Now, I am no gambler, but from the get go, I knew the tournament would feature high levels of success for 5 Star teams. Low and behold, in the final 8, we have 4 five star teams representing (and favored overall).

Manchester United
Barcelona
AC Milan
Inter Milan

This round features only one Five Star v. Five Star match up :

Manchester United v. AC Milan

The lowest rated team in this tournament round is Celtic FC, and they face everyones favorite team to hate, Barcelona. But don’t discount Celtics chances – they did eliminate Juventus in convincing fashion last round.

Inter Milan faces Fiorentina in what is sure to be – well – Italian footy at its best.

And finally, we have Tottenham taking on Roma. Roma is a team on fire, and the Totties are deceptively dangerous in this game, with a strong backline, and enough fire power up front to take on all comers. Tough to predict an outcome.

THE ODDS:

+ 2:1 Barcelona
+ 2:1 Manchester United
+ 5:1 Inter Milan
+ 5:1 AC Milan
+ 10:1 Roma
+ 10:1 Fiorentina
+ 15:1 Tottenham
+ 20:1 Celtic

The Quarter Final Round begins today, and continues on to Thursday of next week (4/24) at the stroke of Midnight. Check your emails for the league names and passwords.

TOURNAMENT: THE OFFSIDE CUP
PLATFORM: XBOX 360
TITLE: FIFA 08

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• » The Offside Cup - Quarterfinals Preview |  April 17th, 2008 at 9:47 am | Pingback

  
  
  

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• Paul |  April 17th, 2008 at 9:57 am

  
  
  

  I really see no way Barcelona doesn’t win this tourney with how good they are in the game and how good Roven is. Come on Roven so I can say I lost to the champ!

  

• Dave Martinez |  April 17th, 2008 at 10:01 am

  
  
  

  I think I saw Rovens rating not too long ago – impressive.

  Yea. I favor him. But i still think Celtic and Roma can turn heads.

  

• Matt |  April 17th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

  
  
  

  I’ve got a fiver on the Bhoys!

  C’mon the Hoops! Over and over, we will follow you! (in all mediums! )

  

• David Martinez |  April 17th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

  
  
  

  The guy that plays with Celtic is a Mexican dude who is very very good. Ive played him a few times – nice guy, great player.

  

• OFFSIDE CUPDATES MOVE! QUARTERS BEGIN TODAY! - FIFA 08 - The Offside - New York Red Bulls Soccer Blog |  April 17th, 2008 at 4:46 pm | Pingback

  
  
  

  [...] Here is the link to THE OFFSIDE CUP – QUARTERFINAL PREVIEW [...]

  

• foureyedkoko |  April 17th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

  
  
  

  hey….fiorentina was pretty good too, i was attacking almost all the way through the second game, but he would just not let me shoot and he maybe attacked me 2 or 3 times and one of those was a goal, game over.

  

• Dave Martinez |  April 17th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

  
  
  

  wow thats how i play. crazy.

  

• Roven1 |  April 20th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

  
  
  

  Hey dave,

  I’ve made a new XBL account, is it ok I join with that account instead of the account named Roven1? My other account name is I Roven I.

  

• Dave Martinez |  April 20th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

  
  
  

  dude of course. just head on up and sign on!

  

• Andersen |  April 22nd, 2008 at 5:29 pm

  
  
  

  Woooooooo

  take that betting lines.

  tottenham through

  

• IXI JAM3S IXI |  April 24th, 2008 at 2:12 am

  
  
  

  Lame, I should be in that last 8, I beat A.C. Milan 10-0 he got through because he cheated his way through. LOL. So Dave decides to put him through. llooolll.

  

• Dave Martinez |  April 24th, 2008 at 6:42 am

  
  
  

  James, like I told ya pal, if I cant prove it, I cant enforce it. Sorry.

  Again, your more than welcome to any future tourneys.