🆕 THE STRIKER: The Premier League is back and we welcome our new pundit THE STRIKER who previews VILLA v SHEFFIELD UNITED at 6pm and MAN CITY v ARSENAL at 8.15pm with recommended BETDAQ bets. Welcome back !
The Striker is a professional football punter who focused solely on football in the UK. He has over ten years of experience using exchanges and he’s been a full-time professional punter for more than five years. UK football is his edge and he sticks to it!
Thankfully The Striker has agreed to share his best bets with BETDAQ Tips! He will use a staking system between one and five points to give readers a clue as to how confident he is with each individual bet. He uses his own analysis to price up matches and loves advanced stats like xG, goal stats and current form.
ASTON VILLA V SHEFFIELD UNITED
6pm WE. ARE. BACK. Finally, the Premier League returns and it’s great to be previewing the games for BETDAQ! I’ll be focusing on UK football and hope to return a profit for the rest of the season. All the chat will we focused on Man City v Arsenal later on but this is arguably a more important fixture looking at the league table. Villa are battling to stay up and this is their game in hand, while Sheffield United are pushing for a Europa League spot and a win would push them into 5th above Man United. A win for Villa would see them leave the bottom three.
Sheffield United have been fantastic this season. They have made a name for themselves going forward, but they have actually conceded less than a goal per game on average away from home. No mean feat for a team coming up from the Championship. Villa have been expected to concede more than 2 goals per home game this season and if they are going to stay up they need to improve that. Sheffield United have only scored 18 times away this season, with Villa only netting 18 at home. I see a quiet opening game here and I like under 2.5 goals at 1.85 with BETDAQ Exchange.
The Striker Says:
Two points win Under 2.5 goals at 1.85 with BETDAQ Exchange.
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MATCH STATS
- Aston Villa have lost two of their last three league meetings against Sheffield United (D1), as many as in their previous 14 against the Blades (W7 D5 L2).
- Following their 2-0 win at Bramall Lane in the reverse fixture in December, Sheffield United are looking to secure their first league double over Aston Villa since the 1965-66 campaign.
- In this exact fixture in the Championship last season, Billy Sharp’s hat-trick had given Sheffield United a 3-0 lead, before Aston Villa scored three times in the final 10 minutes to salvage a point.
- This will be Aston Villa’s first ever competitive match played in the month of June. Sheffield United have played twice before in June, winning both matches 2-1 in the 1946-47 top-flight campaign (vs Arsenal and Stoke City).
- Aston Villa have lost their last four Premier League matches and have failed to keep a clean sheet in any of their last nine in the competition.
- Sheffield United have lost just two of their 13 away games in the Premier League this season (W4 D7), with those defeats coming against the current top two sides Liverpool and Manchester City.
- Only Liverpool (9) have conceded fewer away goals than Sheffield United in the Premier League this season (12), with the Blades the only side yet to concede more than twice in a game on the road this term.
- The away side has won just two of the last 30 Premier League meetings between two promoted clubs (D8 L20), with Aston Villa and Sheffield United both winning at Norwich this season.
- Aston Villa midfielder Jack Grealish has created seven chances directly following a take- on in the Premier League this season – only Adama Traore (13) has more. In fact, of players to have attempted at least 50 take-ons this season, Grealish has the highest % ending with a chance created (7% – 7/104).
- After a run of 16 games without a goal, Sheffield United’s Billy Sharp has scored three goals in his last four games in all competitions. He last scored in three consecutive games for the Blades in February 2019.
MANCHESTER CITY V ARSENAL
8.15pm As fixtures go to return to action, this is a cracker. Arsenal need to improve if they’re going to trouble City though, and they have conceded three goals in the last two meetings with City. Most pundits have been saying that they’re having a bad season as they sit down in 9th – that is a lie looking at their performance stats. They should actually be in 13th! Even worse. Scoring goals has been a major issue away from home, although they haven’t fallen apart at the back. They’ve actually performed worse at the back at home which is unusual for Arsenal.
Liverpool have won the league, but on xG City should be first. They are miles off Liverpool, but their underlining numbers haven’t changed. They haven’t got worse, and the points gap doesn’t tell the full story – don’t rule out City claiming their title back next season. I expect them to cover the 1.5 goal handicap here and that’s priced at 1.9 with BETDAQ Exchange. They are conceding less than a goal a game at home, and are scoring more than 2.5. They usually batter Arsenal and I’d expect to see similar tonight!
The Striker Says:
Two points win Manchester City -1.5 goals to beat Arsenal at 1.9 with BETDAQ Exchange.
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MATCH STATS
- Manchester City have won their last six matches against Arsenal in all competitions, their best ever winning run against the Gunners.
- Arsenal have lost their last five league matches against Man City; they last had a longer losing run against an opponent between 1974 and 1977 against Ipswich Town (seven in a row).
- This will be both Manchester City’s and Arsenal’s second competitive match played in the month of June in their histories – Man City beat Newport County 5-1 at home in a second tier match in 1947, while in the same year Arsenal lost 1-2 at Sheffield United in the top- flight.
- 12 of the last 16 Premier League goals Man City have scored against Arsenal have been in the first half, scoring at least twice in the opening 45 minutes in four of their last six meetings.
- Manchester City have lost seven Premier League games this season, one more than they had in their previous two campaigns combined. The average league position of their opponents in these seven defeats this season is 9th – Arsenal’s place in the table coming into this match.
- Arsenal are unbeaten in their last seven away league games (W1 D6), with each of their last five in a row ending level. The Gunners have never drawn six consecutive away league games.
- Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is unbeaten in all seven of his away games in all competitions for the Gunners (W3 D4) – the longest ever unbeaten away start to a managerial reign in Arsenal’s history.
- Man City’s Sergio Agüero has scored 10 goals in his last 12 appearances against Arsenal in all competitions, netting a hat-trick in the Citizens’ 3-1 win in this exact fixture last season.
- Man City boss Pep Guardiola has never lost a home match against Arsenal in all competitions in his managerial career (P7 W6 D1), with the Gunners netting exactly once in each of these seven encounters.
- Man City’s Kevin De Bruyne has been directly involved in six goals in his last seven Premier League starts against Arsenal (four goals, two assists), netting a brace in a 3-0 win at the Emirates earlier this season.
- Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has scored 49 goals in 75 Premier League appearances – if he scores in this game he’ll be the sixth fastest player to reach 50 in the competition, with only Andy Cole (65), Alan Shearer (66), Ruud van Nistelrooy (68), Fernando Torres and Mohamed Salah (both 72) doing so in fewer games.
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