BETMGM GOLDEN GOALS MD33: CITY GUNNING FOR TOP SPOT
It could all come down to this.
Manchester City host Arsenal in a Sunday blockbuster at the Etihad as they look to continue reeling in the Gunners at the top of the Premier League table.
At the bottom, Roberto De Zerbi’s Tottenham take on his old side Brighton in a mammoth clash for the Lilywhites. Another defeat could leave them adrift of safety.
Elsewhere, Leeds, fresh from their historic win at Old Trafford, welcome Wolves to Elland Road while there is a Saturday night showdown between Chelsea and Manchester United.
The small matter of the first Merseyside Derby at the Hill Dickinson takes place on Sunday while, on Tyneside, Eddie Howe faces his former club Bournemouth as Newcastle look to halt a wretched recent run.
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Here’s how we see things playing out on Matchday 33…
Leeds 2-1 Wolves
Any talk of Leeds being dragged into the relegation battle seems to have been greatly exaggerated after what went down in Greater Manchester this past Monday.
Noah Okafor’s first-half brace secured the Whites a generational win over Manchester United – their first at Old Trafford since 1981 and, more importantly, their first Premier League win since February.
Leeds are now six points above the drop and six points behind Newcastle on 42 points, a gap we’re predicting they could narrow further on Saturday afternoon.
Daniel Farke’s side have struggled at home as of late though, losing three out of the last six games in all competitions.
That would be cause for concern if it weren’t for Wolves’ pitiful away record this season.
The Old Gold have lost 11 of their 16 away matches in the league and were beaten by Leeds in the reverse fixture back in September despite taking the lead within the first 10 minutes.
One more loss and Wolves will be relegated this weekend, which should be enough to muster another initial flurry from Rob Edwards and co. even if all it does is postpone the inevitable.
We expect Leeds to find a way back on top to end a run of poor games at home and give Elland Road something to cheer about ahead of an upcoming FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea at Wembley.
Wolves to open the scoring in a Leeds win is currently priced at a standout 17/2 if you fancy it.
Newcastle 2-3 Bournemouth
St James’ Park has long been a fortress against most of the Premier League during Eddie Howe’s time as Magpies boss… unless you’re Bournemouth, of course.
Since arriving on Tyneside Howe has led his side to some memorable moments – including last year’s EFL Cup triumph and two bites at the Champions League.
But, for all that success, he’s still never beaten the Cherries in the top flight.
That’s right, the team he brought to the promised land in 2014/15 have drawn five and won two against his Newcastle side – the biggest being the 4-1 drubbing in this exact fixture last season.
It’s not looking good going into this next meeting either, with Newcastle failing to win six of their previous nine games and Bournemouth coming off a marquee win over league leaders Arsenal in their own backyard.
They’ll be up for this given the head-to-head history and perhaps even more so with news that Andoni Iraola will leave his position at the end of the season.
Expect the scoreline to match just how back-and-forth this game typically is, as previewed by the 3-3 draw that took this game all the way to penalties in the FA Cup earlier this season.
The fact the Magpies have conceded 18 goals in the final 15 minutes of games will definitely appeal to one Alex Scott, whose three away goals have all come in the 74th minute or later including his winner against the Gunners last week.
The England World Cup hopeful makes up the spine of our longshot 23/2 Bet Builder too: Bournemouth to win, both teams to score and at least one Scott shot on target.
Tottenham 1-1 Brighton
Tottenham are in all kinds of trouble.
Roberto De Zerbi needed an immediate impact last week at Sunderland. He didn’t get it.
With five still to play after this one it isn’t last-chance saloon for Spurs yet – but it sure does feel like it.
Defeat at the Stadium of Light coupled with a thumping West Ham win over Wolves saw Spurs drop into the bottom three and then Leeds went and won at Old Trafford; when your luck is out, it’s out.
Brighton arrive in north London for De Zerbi’s first home game. Of course it would be Brighton, the Italian’s former team.
Spurs have won just one of their last four against the Seagulls and lost 4-1 to them on this ground on the last day of last season. A similar result here would be catastrophic.
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The Seagulls have won five of their last six and their last three away games – more than the two home games Spurs have won all season.
The home side haven’t won a league game since December and that simply has to change soon.
It will not be here, although Tottenham surely will be fired up to take at least something from the game. A draw probably doesn’t help but it is something for De Zerbi to build on.
Brighton top scorer Danny Welbeck has 12 in the league and got two against Liverpool recently – how the former Arsenal striker would revel in heaping the misery on the Lilywhites.
It’s a nice 9/1 for Welbeck to score in a draw, which Spurs will just about manage.
Chelsea 2-2 Manchester United
All is not well at the Bridge.
Chelsea have won just once in seven league games and their Champions League hopes hang by a thread.
Anything other than a win here will likely put paid to their hopes of appearing in Europe’s elite competition next year.
There is some solace for Blues fans in that at least they are an entertaining watch.
In the previous 10 games Chelsea have played, 40 goals have been scored for an average of four per game.
This fixture has also generated plenty of net-busting viewing pleasure in the past. It’s just over two years since the Blues won an incredible game 4-3 thanks to two late goals from Cole Palmer, the second of which completed a hat-trick.
There were 47 shots in that game, 15 of which were on target.
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United, meanwhile, were completely ransacked by Leeds in the first half on Monday night. They went in at half-time two goals down but it could have been much worse.
Fans must have been pulling their hair out, especially when their own central defender saw red for appearing to lightly rearrange the follicles of Dominic Calvert-Lewin. Whether he deserved it or not – the red, that is – is another question.
With Harry Maguire receiving an additional one-game ban for his reaction to his red card in the 2-2 draw with Bournemouth and Matthijs de Ligt out for an unspecified period of time with a back issue, the central defensive pairing looks set to have a combined age of 39 in Leny Yoro and Ayden Heaven.
This could be very entertaining, with plenty of goals. A simple Bet Builder of both teams to score and over 3.5 goals at odds of 13/10 merits investment, but back a high-scoring draw alongside it for even bigger odds.
Everton 2-1 Liverpool
If at the start of the season you said this game could potentially decide which club ends in the Champions League places next season, you would have got some strange looks.
But if the Toffees were to win here they would be within two points of their fierce rivals and primed to occupy a potential fifth Champions League spot.
The hosts come into the game off the back of just one defeat in five and can count Newcastle and Chelsea among the clubs it has dispatched in that run of form.
A last-minute goal from the in-form Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall helped them salvage a last-gasp point away to Brentford last weekend. He has 10 goal involvements for the club this season; two more than across his three previous seasons combined.
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Meanwhile, Liverpool are out of the Champions League following a 4-0 aggregate defeat to PSG. Arne Slot could not rouse Anfield to another one of those famous European nights, which begs the question whether he will ever be able to rouse them again.
The Dutchman is under serious pressure and defeat to Everton could spell the end of his time in charge.
David Moyes’s men to win the first-ever Merseyside Derby at the Hill Dickinson and Dewsbury-Hall to have over 1.5 shots on target at odds of 20/1 carries considerable appeal as a result.
Manchester City 3-1 Arsenal
The title race is on.
Arsenal’s slip-up against Bournemouth, coupled with City’s convincing win at Chelsea, has narrowed the gap at the top to six points and the consensus is that it may all come down to this match.
With a game in hand, win this and it’s in City’s hands. We can’t see anything other than that happening.
Pep Guardiola has done this before. His City side can handle the pressure and do what it takes to get over the line. Mikel Arteta and Arsenal, it seems, cannot.
A lot was made of the potential psychological impact the EFL Cup final meeting between the pair would have – since City’s 2-0 win at Wembley, the Gunners have been dumped out of the FA Cup by Southampton and suffered the loss to Bournemouth.
Th Citizens have the bit between their teeth… and Nico O’Reilly in particular.
The 21-year-old has scored nine important goals in all competitions in his breakthrough season, including his brace at Wembley and one last week at Chelsea.
Arsenal may well be sick of the sight of him after this one and 17/2 for O’Reilly to score in a City win screams value.
Four of his five Premier League strikes have come at the Etihad and he has three goals in his last five Premier League games.
Arguably the biggest Premier League match in years is upon us. Arsenal haven’t won at the Etihad since 2015 and that not changing here may well be a huge indication that a fifth title in six seasons is about to head to the blue half of Manchester – and that a treble may be on.
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