PREMIER LEAGUE SUNDAY: We preview Sunday’s Premier League games between LEICESTER v MAN U and MAN CITY v ARSENAL with extended stats and BETDAQ recommended bets.
LEICESTER V MANCHESTER UNITED
2.05pm What a brilliant Super Sunday of action ahead and we start with Leicester hosting Manchester United. Leicester managed to come away from Anfield with a point on Wednesday night much to the disappointment of Liverpool who missed a golden opportunity to go seven points clear at the top of the Premier League. Manchester United got a point midweek too; however they would have been less happy being at home to Burnley. From an attitude point of view it was probably a positive – they were 2-0 down and kept battling right to the last kick of the game for a draw; just like United in the old days.
The match odds at the time of writing currently trade; Leicester 4.0, Manchester United 2.1 and the draw is 3.55. Leicester have only managed one win in their 12 home Premier League games against Manchester United and over all have a terrible record against United too – losing 16 of the last 20 meetings. Leicester did well to get a point against Liverpool however they have been in-and-out of form all season and with United playing some very impressive football under Solskjaer the 2.1 on the away win looks big here. Indeed they are aiming for their fifth away win in the Premier League in a row – something which hasn’t happened since 2012 under Ferguson. We like the 2.1 from a value point of view and were happy to back United.
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Manchester United to beat Leicester at 2.1.
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MATCH STATS
- Leicester have won only one of their 12 home Premier League matches against Man Utd, coming from two goals down to win 5-3 in September 2014 (D4 L7).
- Manchester United have won 16 of their last 20 matches against Leicester City in all competitions (D3 L1).
- Leicester have won more points from losing positions than any other Premier League side this season (13).
- Manchester United are the only team to have received a yellow card in all 24 of their Premier League matches this season.
- Leicester haven’t lost three consecutive home Premier League games since December 2014.
- Manchester United are looking to win five consecutive away matches in all competitions for the first time since October 2012 under Sir Alex Ferguson.
- Since a 4-0 win over Swansea City in April 2016, Leicester have won just one of their 14 matches on Sunday in all competitions (D4 L9), a 2-0 win over Everton in Claude Puel’s first game in charge in October 2017.
- Man Utd’s Juan Mata has scored four goals and assisted two more in his last five Premier League appearances against Leicester, scoring in each of his last two games at the King Power (three goals).
- Since the start of the 2014-15 season, no player has scored more Premier League goals against Manchester United than Leicester striker Jamie Vardy (4, level with Gylfi Sigurdsson and Sergio Aguero).
- Paul Pogba has been involved in 53% of the 19 goals scored by Manchester United in the Premier League under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (6 goals, 4 assists).
MANCHESTER CITY V ARSENAL
4.30pm This isn’t the big fixture that it has been in the past; however it is undoubtedly the highlight of the weekend nonetheless. It adds extra spice that Manchester City suffered a shock loss away to Newcastle during the week and have fallen further behind Liverpool in the title race – although Klopp’s men really missed an opportunity to extend their lead and only drew with Leicester. It’s a sign of the times that City are so short for this one and although Arsenal are having a very good season; the markets can’t see past a City win here.
The match odds at the time of writing currently trade; Manchester City 1.34, Arsenal 10.0 and the draw is 6.4. We saw very similar odds when Manchester United visited earlier in the season and there’s no doubt going to be plenty of backers of Arsenal at 10.0 – City look very short at 1.34 in a big game. It’s hard to get away from the City lay from a value point of view however Arsenal have a very poor record here; they’ve lost seven of their last 11 visits here in all competitions. This Arsenal side looks to have more backbone than in past seasons though and much like their away record; we can perhaps ignore it given the change in manager this season. City are in poor form too and are having a little bit of a wobble – they’ve lost four of their last nine Premier League games – as many as their previous 72 games! We’re happy to take a chance and lay City at 1.34 which looks very, very short against quality opposition.
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Lay Manchester City at 1.34.
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MATCH STATS
- Manchester City have won their last three Premier League games against Arsenal – they’ve haven’t won four consecutive top-flight games against the Gunners since April 1937.
- Arsenal have lost seven of their last 11 visits to the Etihad Stadium in all competitions against Man City (W2 D2), losing the last two.
- Manchester City have lost four of their last nine Premier League games (W5), as many as in their previous 72 combined (W56 D12).
- Arsenal have lost 11 of their last 19 away Premier League games (W5 D3), keeping just one clean sheet in that time, a 1-0 win at Huddersfield Town in May 2018.
- Since Roberto Firmino’s goal for Liverpool on January 3 rd , Manchester City have scored 25 goals in a row without conceding at the Etihad in all competitions, winning their last four home games by an aggregate score of 24-0.
- Manchester City have lost three of their last seven Premier League games when scoring first – they had lost just three of their previous 96 matches when scoring the first goal.
- Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored his 25 th Premier League goal in Arsenal’s last match against Cardiff, reaching that number faster than any other Gunners player in the competition’s history (37 games).
- Since August 20 th , Manchester City have only won three more points in the Premier League (50) than Arsenal (47) and have lost more games (4) than the Gunners (3) in that time.
- Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has never lost a match against Unai Emery in all competitions (W7 D4 L0) – the only manager he has faced more during his managerial career without losing is Joaquín Caparrós (13 games).
- Sergio Aguero has scored in seven of his last 11 matches against Arsenal in all competitions for Manchester City, though he hasn’t found the net in either of his last two.
- Since Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s Premier League debut (February 3rd 2018), Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette have combined for seven Arsenal goals in the competition – two more than any other duo for the club in that time.
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