This week sees the majority of games on Saturday with the early kick-off at Old Trafford as United welcome defending titles champions Leicester City. The Foxes aren’t quite having the start to the season they had initially hoped for especially the 4-1 defeat against Liverpool earlier this month, however, The Blues did have a good week last week winning 3-0 against Club Brugge in their first Champions League group game followed by another 3-0 win over the weekend against Burnley. Wednesday night didn’t quite go to plan however proving that the team are having troubles with some of the bigger teams after Chelsea secured a 4-2 away win in the third round of the EFL Cup. United on the other hand got off to a great start to the season but had a bit of a disaster week last week losing 1-0 in the Europa League to Dutch team, Feyenoord followed by a 3-1 defeat against Watford over the weekend. This game could go either way though Man Utd are currently strong favourites to take the win at 4/6, I wouldn’t be against a Leicester for this price so a 3/4 (1.75) on the Both Teams To Score bet is what I pick at bet365.
Also up north, Liverpool welcome Hull City who have both had some surprising results this season both for the better and worse. Last week saw Hull face an unfortunate 4-1 defeat at home against Arsenal, prior to this they’d only lost 1 game conceiving a total of 2 goals since the start of the season. Liverpool appear to be having a good start to the season, if we forget about their 2-0 defeat to Burnley in week 2… It could be that The Reds have troubles this season with teams they should be finding easier so Hull may be in with a shout this weekend. Despite this, a home win is more likely and 1/5 with bet365, if you did fancy edging your bets Hull are currently 14/1 with bet365. The only bet with value in this case might be the Over 2.5 goals since Liverpool is capable of reaching 3 goals.
Struggling Stoke welcome West Brom to the newly named bet365 stadium, after an awful start to the season conceding a whopping 14 goals already Stoke currently host the bottom of the league position. Mark Hughes will be hoping his team can pull it together to get their first win of the season however, previous results don’t work in The Potters favours as The Baggies have won 3 of the past 4 games with Stoke taking just one of those dating back to December 2014. A home win could be on the cards with Stoke favourites to take the win at 13/10 (2.30) but a West Brom win wouldn’t be completely off the cards at 21/10.
The highlight of the weekend falls to Arsenal v Chelsea for Saturday’s late kick-off both of whom netted 4 goals in last night’s EFL Cup so BTTS at 8/13 is a good shout. Both teams host 10 points with the Gunners fourth and the Blues fifth in the current Premier League standings so a win for either team will be essential for their title race. The Blues have won 3 of the past 4 times the two teams have met with the Gunners sneaking a 1-0 win in last year’s Community Shield. Prices for either team to win are pretty close, but our choice goes to the draw at 5/2 (3.50) with bet365.
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*Prices correct as of 11.00 GMT 24/09/16
