FC Dallas needs to get in sync against Houston

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05/04/2010 - Houston, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - FC Dallas manager Schellas Hyndman believes the team's inability to finish scoring chances so far this season is its "Achilles heel."

Dallas has scored in every game, but is winless this season with four ties and a loss. After opening the year with a 1-1 draw against the Houston Dynamo, FCD plays its Texas rival again Wednesday night still in search of its first win.

"From preseason all the way until today," Hyndman said after a 1-1 tie against the nine-man New England Revolution on Saturday, "we've not done a real good job on the finishing part.

"We're just kind of out of sync, but I know that our players feel terrible because it's becoming a continuing saga for us."

Dallas visits Robertson Stadium with seven goals scored this season, but three of those are from the penalty spot. Jeff Cunningham, who led MLS with 17 goals last season, has all three of his goals from the spot.

Atiba Harris, who scored the lone goal against New England, is the team's next leading scorer with two goals. Eric Avila and Dax McCarty each have one.

Following the tie against New England, Hyndman admitted the team let even more points slip away - especially with a two-man advantage for much of the second half. New England had two players ejected in the match.

"This was one of those games," Hyndman said, "we've got to put behind us and keep moving forward because we're doing a lot of things well."

McCarty, who had one of the 12 cards issued in the match against New England, knows Dallas needs to start getting better results.

"We know what we have and how good of a team we are," McCarty said, according to MLSsoccer.com. "Now it's just a matter of going out there and getting the results that we need to get us points because you don't get any points for playing good soccer.

"You get points for victories, so that's what we need to do."

Houston, which beat the Kansas City Wizards 3-0 on Saturday, has won three of its five matches since the opening-night draw against Dallas. Although it has as many results as Dallas - three wins and a draw - it has six more points.

Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear continues to piece together a good side, although he had to replace Ricardo Clark and Stuart Holden prior to this season and has dealt with injuries to forward Brian Ching and midfielder Geoff Cameron so far this season.

Luis Angel Landin, Brian Mullan and Sammy Appiah scored in Saturday's victory, the third win in four home matches this season for Houston. The Dynamo are 0-2 on the road, where they have yet to score.

"It was very important for the team to win after coming from a loss," Landin, who left the match in the second half with an injury, said on MLSsoccer.com.

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Super Bowl XLIII Betting - Super Bowl 2009

Super Bowl 2009, the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Let’s take a look at the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds and the betting line and figure out where they’ve been and where they are going to go.

MySportsbook.com put up the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds late on Sunday night with the Pittsburgh Steelers favored by 6.5 points and a total betting line at 47.5 points.

Since then, however, the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds have seen a good deal of movement and you’ll want to be on top of where they are likely to move to make sure you get the best line value for the big game.

Since opening, the Super Bowl 2009 betting lines went to Steelers -7 in the span of roughly 3 hours but were quickly bought back down just minutes later to 6.5 again.

After that is took about 5-6 more hours before the betting line went back to -7 where it has sat for a while now and is likely to remain. The opening betting total of 47.5 was bet down right after the line became available and went to 47 within minutes.

Roughly a day later it has been bet even further down to the 46.5 tally it currently is set at.

Roughly 60% of gamblers seem to be on the Cardinals here so the point spread will be bet down and a 7.5 would not last very long at all with many taking the early 6.5 in hopes of finding a potential middle in the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds.

If you like Arizona and see a 7.5, I’d take it as soon as possible because it’s unlikely to last. For Pittsburgh backers, the -7 might be the best you’ll be able to find but a 6.5 is definitely possible close to game time.

Regarding the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds for the total, most tracked gamblers are already on the over and with those who took the under 47.5 already securing a middle on the over 46.5, the only way I see it moving is back up to 47 so if you like the over, I’d recommend betting now.

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