Football Tips 19/02/2014

It's been 10 games since Mersin last tasted defeat on the road. Today they face second bottom Tavsanli Linyitspor who have a couple of key players missing in the shape of defender Murat Ozavc (6 game ban) and midfielder Mehmet Besler (injured) who has played 18 times this season so he will be a big miss for them. Mersin should be good for the win here as they look to catch up with the automatic promotion contender spots.

It may be a friendly, but Sligo should be able to take this one and they will be looking for revenge against the Galaway after they were involved in an 8 goal thriller that Sligo lost 5-3 away from home earlier this month. Sligo are gearing up for their upcoming Setanta cup match and should be looking to fully test out their first team this time and we believe they will see off the challenge from Galaway with less fuss this time around, they certainly won't be taking them lightly after their last encounter.

We fancied Mario to hit on the other day and we were right about it. The Italian cried when he came off recently for a poor performance, it was truly stunning (and great) to see a player care so much about his performance so publicly and he came back firing a week later with a stunner right into the top corner. We think Mario will be at it again, but we just don't think that AC Milan defence is strong enough to hold their opponents back today who have been a surprisingly strong package on all fronts this year.