SHAREIn our weekly feature, we will pre-viewing all the Premier League games each week and picking out what we see to be good value odds. Including a brief narrative on why we’ve made these picks.
All prices by Bet365 our favourite Bookie.
Tottenham Hotspur v West Brom
This is Saturday’s early game and hosts Spurs go into this encounter in fine form having won 6 on the bounce and with their forward players starting to play like they did last season, they will fancy their chances of moving into second place come the end of play.
Tony Pulis’ freewheeling Samba superstars will rock up to WHL on a slight downer having been dumped out of the FA Cup by Championship side Derby and with the Baggies sitting comfortably in 8th on 28 points after 28 games their fans would have been hoping for a good Cup run. Between Spurs rattling off shots at a average of 18 per game and West Brom getting the ball into the box at every opportunity the Universe tapped PS Football on the shoulder and said ”an own goal there will be” and who are we to argue, if the players feel anything like I do at 12.30 on a Saturday morning there’s bound to be a couple of brain farts.
Own goal 7/1
Burnley v Southampton
Sean Dyche and his merry band of ex cons ( Sorry Joey and Andre ) go into this fixture having picked up a whopping 96% of their Premier League points at Turf Moor. We’re repeating ourselves as we already said it here but we’d love to see the Clarets be the first side since Coventry to survive in the top flight without winning a single game away.
The wheels seemed to have come off a little for the Saints since their Europa League exit to Israeli minnows Hapeol Beer Sheva although they will be buoyed by their midweek EFL Cup Semi win against Liverpool. We expect this to be tight but you’d be mad to bet against the Clarets extending their superb home form here, mad I tell ya. Sorry we just couldn’t resist putting this Sean Dyche pic in again.
Burnley 29/20
Sean Dyche the last time Burnley won away
Sunderland v Stoke City
David Moyes will know that Sunderland’s home form will be vital in their bid for Premier League survival, so this will be game he will have targeted taking points from. Sunderland’s board have announced that their will be no money to spend in January so keeping hold of the instrumental Jimmy Defoe will be the Black Cats main priority this month.
Stoke’s fans are becoming more and more discontented with Mark Hughes as they continue to struggle to find a consistent run of form. Since Hughes came in the club has spent a lot of money on big name players and with the exception of Marko Arnautović most of the big names have failed to deliver on a regular basis, with Bony and Imbula being particularly disappointing. Draw written all over it.
Draw 23/10
Hull City v Bournemouth
Hull’s new manager Marco Silva has come in for some ridiculous criticism from certain pundits already despite the fact that at 39 he took Estoril from the Portuguese 2nd Division up to the Portuguese Premier League and finished 4th in their first season there, won the Cup with Sporting Lisbon and the Greek League with Olympiacos. There is no getting away from the fact however that he has the biggest challenge of his career ahead of him to keep a Hull side seriously short of quality and with a mounting injury list in the Premier League.
Bournemouth are like most teams around mid table, inconsistent. Although Eddie Howe would bite your hand off if you offered him the chance to maintain their current League position of 9th until the end of the season which would represent the Cherries highest ever league position in their history. We’ll have a bit of Abel Hernandez to score anytime thanks.
Abel Hernandez to score anytime 7/4
Swansea v Arsenal
This will be Paul Clements first home game since taking over from PK King Bob Bradley. One thing that is 100% clear is that Mr.Clement has some seriously cool friends, having just appointed the only player I know who had a position named after him Claude Makele as his assistant boss. Hopefully hanging out with Footballs A – Listers over the last decade has taught Clement a thing or two as he’ll need every bit of of managerial nouse he can get to keep this Swansea side up given that they have only won 3 games all season and have the Leagues worst defence.
Arsenal should return to their full strength 11 after their somewhat fortuitous FA Cup victory over Preston. Hard to see anything but a Gunners victory here with the Swansea backline being about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Arsenal win and both teams score 7/4
Watford v Middlesborough
This is a big game for Watford boss Walter Mazzari. After a solid start to his Vicarage Road career the Hornets have collected just 7 points from their previous 9 Premier League games so they could do with a home win here to bring them back to the safety of mid table.
As for Aitor Karanka’s Boro side, we seem to write the same thing every week, well organised defensivly, lacking threat going forward. Home side to edge this for us.
Watford to nil 13/5
West Ham v Crystal Palace
This is a London/Big Sam Derby with the teams sitting in 13th and 17th respectively and with both teams having suffered poor starts to the season. Slaven Bilic is starting to come under pressure again and as hard as it is to see the same point of view as the extremely unlikeable West Ham board, the Croats summer signings have been disastrous. Today’s bombshell that Dimi Payet wants out will hardly have helped matters either.
Palace have still to feel any type of a bounce after Big Sam’s appointment with 2 losses and 2 draws since he took the reigns, although Palace, with the quality they have in their squad, should not be long climbing the table. Both sides will be happy enough with a draw here in our eyes.
Result 1-1 , 11/2
Leicester v Chelsea
As we wrote here, Leicester have been a shadow of the side that won the Premier League last season. There have been slight signs of improvement with 2 wins and a draw from the last 3, but as to if they are playing anywhere near the level needed to beat this Chelsea side remains doubtful.
It will be interesting to see how Chelsea respond after their first League defeat in 14 games last time out against Spurs. We expect Chelsea’s in form attack of Willian, Pedro, Hazard and Costa to have too much for the reigning champions here. Reformed playstation player David Luiz is due a goal having not yet found the net despite taking the Blues free kicks since returning to English Football.
Luiz to score anytime 7/1
Everton v Man City
Everton’s form has improved over the last month although their disappointing home FA Cup defeat to Leicester will have come as a major blow to their fans with the top six seemingly out of reach this season. City have come in for a lot of stick recently and some of it’s been merited but they have won 5 out of their last 6 Premier League games to show they can pick up points even when they are not firing on all cylinders. Everton will more than likely go long up to Lukaku to avoid Citehs high press and that approach may pay dividends against a shaky Citeh defence. Desmond for me please Geoff.
Result 2-2 , 14/1
Man United v Liverpool
The game of the weekend and hopefully it’s better than the hugely hyped yet utterly brutal Red Monday. United seem to have been 6th for the last 5 years although in terms of the form they’re in they really seem to be hitting their stride under José at last with 8 wins in a row in all competitions.
Liverpool have lost a bit of momentum with 2 draws and a loss in their last 3. Losing Mane and Henderson will also be a big blow to Jurgen Klopp as both have been in excellent from this term. A month ago we would have backed Liverpool for this but with their injuries and defensive frailties allied with United resurgence in recent weeks we reckon José’s men will have enough, especially at home, to take all 3 points.
United win and both score 3/1
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