THE STRIKER: previews Friday’s Premier League game between WOLVES v LEEDS with extended stats and recommended BETDAQ bets.
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.
WOLVES V LEEDS
8pm It’s already been a busy week with Champions League and midweek Premier League action, but Friday Night Football comes from Molineux as Wolves host Leeds. Both sides sit beside each other in 11th and 12th in the Premier League table, with Leeds two points ahead with a game in hand – this should be a good game! Leeds have been very entertaining to watch this season. They have played an open game, and while it hasn’t worked for them at times (Arsenal last weekend!) they have been an excellent watch for the neutral fan.
Wolves haven’t been themselves this season, and they won’t be enjoying life in the bottom half of the table. They were fighting for European football last season and it been a dramatic drop off for them this season. Leeds will be looking forward to playing them as their bound to create more chances than Wolves. The problem for Leeds backers is they also give away a host of chances – it was disappointing to see them concede four goals against Arsenal last weekend because Arsenal have been so poor this season, but that’s what happens when you give Arsenal time and space.
How this game pans out will be fascinating as Leeds like to play an open game while Wolves always keep their games tight. I’m not surprised to see the over/under 2.5 goals at around 2.0 the pair on BETDAQ Betting Exchange. It’s also not a surprise to see an open market as there will be a lot of different opinions on this clash! Wolves have been disappointing this season and I’m happy to have a small bet on Leeds at 2.96.
We landed a nice bet on Wolves at the weekend but I felt that was a good time to play Southampton given their recent run. I feel Leeds will definitely create more chances than Wolves and perhaps they can get away with being loose at the back given Wolves have struggled to score goals this season. I’d have Wolves a little bigger and Leeds a little shorter, but there shouldn’t be much in this one – Leeds looks the value.
The Striker Says:
One point win Leeds to beat Wolves at 2.96 on BETDAQ Betting Exchange
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MATCH STATS
- Wolves have won each of their last four league games against Leeds, last having a longer league winning run against the Whites between February 1958 and April 1960 (5).
- Leeds have won two of their last three away league games against Wolves (L1), more than they had in their previous 16 visits to Molineux (W1 D5 L10). However, they lost their last such game 1-4 in November 2017.
- Wolves haven’t lost any of their last eight top-flight home games against Leeds (W5 D3) since a 0-2 loss in September 1973.
- Since losing their first three Premier League games on Fridays, Wolves are unbeaten in their last three such fixtures (W2 D1), keeping a clean sheet in the last two. They won their only Friday game in the 2020-21 season so far, beating Crystal Palace in October (2-0).
- This will be the first top-flight campaign in which Leeds United have played as many as three times on a Friday, with the Whites winning at Aston Villa in October (3-0) and losing at home to West Ham in December (1-2).
- Wolves are looking to win back-to-back league matches for the first time since October, with the second game in that run coming at Elland Road against Leeds.
- Leeds United have won six of their last seven away Premier League matches not played in London (L1), with the other game a 6-2 defeat against Manchester United. Only Man Utd and Man City have won more away points in games not played in London this season than Leeds (18).
- Marcelo Bielsa lost his first league encounter with Wolves in this season’s reverse fixture (0-1) – the Leeds United boss has only lost his first two league meetings with an English opponent on one previous occasion (vs Birmingham City).
- Wolves forward Pedro Neto has scored five goals and assisted four goals in the Premier League this season – should he get an assist in this match, he’ll be the first player younger than 21 to both score and assist five goals in a Premier League season since Marcus Rashford in 2017-18 for Manchester United.
- Patrick Bamford has scored six goals in five appearances for Leeds in Friday matches (1.20 per game on average); of players to play at least five games on a specific day of the week for Leeds, only Jermaine Beckford on Mondays (9 in 8 games, 1.13) has also averaged more than a goal per game on a day of the week for the club.
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