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06/04/2010 - Frisco, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Coach Schellas Hyndman has struggled to produce wins for FC Dallas this season but, even with two wins after 10 matches, still has the club in good shape entering its final game before the World Cup break.
Dallas has accumulated 12 points through 10 matches, with half of those points coming from draws. Although Hyndman would like to enter a three-week break for the Texas club with a win, another draw would probably suffice.
FC Dallas (2-2-6) hosts the San Jose Earthquakes (5-3-2) on Saturday night at Pizza Hut Park and Hyndman realizes San Jose is a team that's "getting results that they weren't getting last year."
San Jose is just two wins away from matching last season's win total, and has more than half of the points it finished with in 30 games last season through just 10 this year.
"They're a good team," Hyndman said.
Dallas has only been shutout once this season, a 1-0 loss to the unbeaten Los Angeles Galaxy, but has just 11 goals through 10 matches.
Jeff Cunningham leads Dallas with four goals, but three of those are penalties and Hyndman needs his top striker to regain top form. He scored 17 goals last season to lead MLS, and most of those came in the second half of the season.
Dallas doesn't play again until June 26 at Chivas USA. San Jose is off through June 25, when it visits Real Salt Lake.
So, San Jose and coach Frank Yallop will also be hoping to enter the break on a positive note. The Earthquakes have just one loss in their last six matches, 3-1 at Toronto FC last weekend.
San Jose rebounded with a 2-2 draw at Eastern Conference leader Columbus this week and sits just two points behind defending MLS champion Real for second in the West.
Yallop is confident after the result against Columbus, which finished with the best regular-season record in MLS the last two years. San Jose is finding ways to get results, which impresses the veteran coach.
"We would have lost that last year, definitely," Yallop said. "They'd have beat us 3-2, 2-1. But the team doesn't want to lose."
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“You play to win the game!”
Those are the words of notoriously intense head coach Herman Edwards. Unfortunately, from a bettors’ perspective, most coaches don’t feel that way about the NFL preseason. August is a time to evaluate young players, finalize the depth chart and pray your star players stay healthy.
The trick to making money during the exhibition schedule is identifying coaches – like Edwards – who can’t stand losing even when there's nothing on the line.
The New York Jets betting won 15 of 21 preseason games and went 14-7 against the spread (ATS) during Edwards’s five-year tenure with the club. In his first season as the Kansas City Chiefs field boss, the team improved from 0-4 to 2-2.
Identifying win-a-holics like Edwards is a good start if you plan betting the preseason – even though most say you shouldn’t ... but what the hell do they know anyway?
Here’s a brief rundown of two teams that have a habit of winning during the second-stringers’ season, and another club that has a good chance of exceeding this year.
Playing in the media hub of North America can be stressful but the press can’t write anything negative about the way Tom Coughlin’s boys play in the preseason. The Giants won and covered all four games last summer, improving their record to 7-1 both straight up (SU) and against the spread over the last two years.
Coughlin has shown he’s not afraid to give his starters more time in the second preseason game than most of his colleagues, no doubt one of the reasons his team has been so dominant.
Bettors can count on America’s team early on. The Cowboys are 14-6 both SU and ATS since 2002 in warm-up contests. Former coach Bill Parcells, the coach of the team the last four years, has an intimidating, in-your-face presence – surely a reason Dallas has had so much early success.
The Big Tuna won’t be strolling the sidelines with looks of disgust, but new coach Wade Phillips will be anxious to make a good first impression for owner Jerry Jones.
Dallas plays the Indianapolis Colts and the Denver Broncos before things get serious. They then face the Houston Texans in their third contest (the game starters see most game time) and finish off with the Minnesota Vikings.
Expect a Dallas team able to walk away with another 3-1 preseason record.
This team scored a league-worst 12 offensive touchdowns last season, so the rookies and veterans each have something to prove. There’s a bounty of first-unit jobs up for grabs and plenty of bodies competing for those slots.
First-time head coach Lane Kiffin will be eager to impress an owner who employs the philosophy, “Just win, baby!”
The 32-year-old Kiffin has to command respect from a locker room full of players older than him. All of these factors should lead to purpose in preseason.
Don’t forget: before playing like a team that belonged in NFL Europe, Oakland went 4-1 (both SU and ATS) in exhibition games.
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