This Sunday really is super and has four excellent games on show but the focus of today’s piece is on the 14:00 and 16:30 kick off’s that feature Leicester v Wolves and Man City v Liverpool. The four teams mentioned are all expected to be battling for European spots and will be really hoping for maximum points against their nearby rivals.
Leicester host Wolves at 14:00 and are in blistering form on the back of their 4-0 stonking of Braga in the week, the 2015/16 PL winners have won their last five in all competitions and scored 14 goals in the process. Jamie Vardy has extended his incredible form by scoring 8 in his last 7 appearances too, the 33 year old Englishman seems to be improving with age and is a never ending threat for any defence.
Timothy Castagne arrived in the summer transfer window and made an instant impact with 3 assists and a goal from full-back in his first six appearances but is currently side-lined through injury which has made space for young Luke Thomas, he’s received two yellow cards in his three recent appearances and may be in for more of the same against Wolves’ tricky wingers.
Wolves have won 3 of their last 4 games, all of which they’ve managed to keep a clean sheet too. The exception in those games was a 1-1 draw against Newcastle where they conceded a 95th minute equaliser to break the clean sheet streak. The defensive sturdiness has been a feature of Wolves’ season so far, they’ve conceded the least goals (1.14 a game) in the PL with exception of Arsenal, the negative attached to this is that they’ve scored the least goals in the league bar the bottom four. Raul Jimenez has scored 4 of Wolves’ 7 goals this year but the offensive threat has not seemed as prominent as the previous seasons.
It’s worth noting the previous two head to head’s have ended as a 0-0 draw too.
Man City host Liverpool as the current 10th position team in the PL after their first 7 games played, they’re now unbeaten in 8 and look to be coming into some form though. City’s last loss was a 5-2 thumping by Leicester at the Etihad where Vardy scored a hat-trick and made Guardiola’s side look very vulnerable. Man City have kept 2 clean sheets in the PL this season which surprisingly trumps Liverpool who’ve only kept 1 but the defensive strength of both sides seems to have crumbled.
Liverpool have been electric in Europe this week with a 5-0 away win against highly regarded Atalanta with Diogo Jota scoring a hat-trick to take his recent tally to 6 goals in his last 4 appearances. The Reds have also scored 19 goals in their last 6 away games in all competitions which bodes well against this vulnerable looking City side.
There’s major injury problems for both sides today though with City missing Fernandinho, Aguero and Benjamin Mendy but that doesn’t touch the surface in comparison to Liverpool’s. Liverpool are without captain Virgil Van Dijk after his injury in the Merseyside Derby, Thiago is also side-lined and Fabinho was injured the week after Van Dijk was.
In recent meetings between the sides City have been dominant, Liverpool haven’t won at the Etihad in the last four games, two of which were 4-0 and 5-0 losses. If there’s a time to break the trend it definitely seems to be now.
For the two games there’ll be two bets placed separately and also placed as a small double, follow on your own accord if you’d like.
Luke Thomas to be booked is 4/1 with bet365.
Diogo Jota to score, Liverpool to win and Ruben Dias to be carded is 18/1.
Enjoy.
samyets 