It was a good international break for England and the two Irelands, between them winning five of five.

It was also a good one for looking a little deeper than the headlines.Most commentators thought England against Switzerland would be a dour affair but England had been involved in games of three goals or more in 17 of their previous 20 away games in qualifying.Odds of 2.25 against them making that 18 out of 21 were too big and they duly obliged with plenty of help from Ashley Cole.

It also paid to look at the Asian handicaps to make a hard game to bet on turn to profit. The Republic of Ireland last won a competitive game by more than one goal in 2006 while Andorra's average defeat over 89 games was a surprisingly low 2.5 goals. Cue the Asian Handicap of 3.5 goals and a 3-1 win for Ireland was a winning bet as well at odds against.

Back now to the Barclays Premier League and Chelsea's bid to make it 12 points from 12 at the start of the season.

Chelsea against West Ham looks an easy win but a tricky one for a bet.The Blues are 1.33 to win the game and only 1.80 to lead at HT and FT as they have in each of their last six games.A better bet at longer odds may be to combine a 2-0 and a 2-1 score line at odds of 3.75.That would have covered six of Chelsea's 10 away wins last season.

Florent Malouda continued his great scoring form for France in Sarajevo on Tuesday and he can be backed at odds of 5.50 to open the scoring one more time.

Join us again next Tuesday when we will be previewing Chelsea's first Euro outing of the season against MSK Zilina and again next Friday when we look at the home game against new boys Blackpool.188BET is also offering odds that Chelsea will hit at least nine goals across their three games in September, that's West Ham and Man City away and Blackpool at home.

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