Another weekend is here already. When there are midweek games it is hard to catch your breath. Straight into the matches.
Bolton v ManchesterCity (English Premiership: Sunday 3pm Local Time)
It’s not too often in a corner match up that the home team does not get the advantage but we have it in this team with the handicap being set at Scratch (0). Looking at the overall stats this season you can sort of see why but the results are a bit skewed as Bolton lost 7-17 in corners when they hosted Arsenal and ManCity had 5 corners more than Newcastle but that was because they played most of the match against 10 men. In Bolton’s other 4 home games they have had more corners than the away team. City seem a bit inconsistent and so this bet carries a little risk but I’m hopeful we have the right choice.
++ Asian Handicap Corners – Bolton (0) @ 1.9 on Bet365 (1pt)
Grimsby v Darlington (English League Two: Saturday 3pm Local Time)
Darlington lie in 3rd place and have won 6 of the last 9 matches and won 4 of the last 5. Grimsby are very very poor and have not won this season losing 8 of 14 matches scoring just 8 goals. There’s very little I can say about this as it just looks like it has to be bet.
++ Win Market – Darlington @ 2.25 on Betfred (1pt)
OFI Crete v Xanthi (Greece : Sunday 2pm Local Time)
First time I have ventured in to Greece this season and I added Greece to the console as I think there are good opportunities to be had there. With Greece being so low scoring I debated about covering 0-1, 0-2 in this game. Xanthi have lost just once this season and that was against Olympiakos and lie in 3rd. They have wins in 3 of the last 5 games and are unbeaten away so far, not conceding a goal. They visit bottom of the table OFI Crete who are winless so far this season. The odds of 3 look very good on Xanthi but this is Greece and they do like a draw so the best bet looks to be Draw No bet and Xanthi can be backed at 2.1.
++ Draw No Bet – Xanthi @ 2.1 on Bet365 (1pt)
Double: Man Utd v Hull (English Premiership:Saturday 3pm Local Time)/Doncaster v Swansea (English Championship: Saturday 3pn Local Time)
Swansea need to be backed in this game as Doncaster are very poor and taking draw no bet we get small odds which needs to be paired with something else. When I looked at Man Utd I saw that the price on under 3.5 goals looked decent and its an odd market as you would think United would score more than 3 quite a bit. This season just 1/9 United matches has featured over 3 goals and last season 27/38 games were under 3.5 goals which is odds of 1.4. For Hull in the championship 37/46 games were under 3.5.
++ Under 3.5 @ 1.62/Swansea DNB @ 1.73 = 2.80 on Paddy Power (1pt)
4 points staked on the weekend.
Good luck in whatever bets you do.
