FA CUP FINAL: The Striker previews CRYSTAL PALACE v MANCHESTER CITY with a recommended BETDAQ bet.
CRYSTAL PALACE V MANCHESTER CITY
🏆 4.30pm It’s FA Cup Final time on BETDAQ BETTING EXCHANGE as Crystal Palace and Manchester City clash on Saturday at Wembley. We all know that Pep Guardiola and Manchester City haven’t had the season they would have wanted, but they still have an excellent chance to finish the season with a trophy. For Crystal Palace, it’s a chance to create club history and win their first major trophy – they’ve experienced losing in the Final in 2015/16 – now they face a massive task trying to beat Manchester City!
It’s no surprise to see Manchester City come into the game as the odds on favourites here. Everyone knows Crystal Palace are the underdogs here, but they have been playing some very nice football under Oliver Glasner. Whether or not Palace have the talent to beat City is very debatable, but they will be exceptionally well prepared here by Glasner – we’ll just have to wait and see if he can get the tactics right against Pep Guardiola. Manchester City are trading 1.83 with Crystal Palace 4.7 and the draw is 4.0 at the time of writing.
City are still under a little pressure in the Premier League Top Four race after only drawing 0-0 with Southampton last weekend. You could say they would have had one eye on this fixture, but given the Top Four/Five race is quite close dropping points against Southampton is criminal. It’s been a while since City were beaten – they have gone eight Premier League games unbeaten but it’s clear to see that they haven’t been at their best. What’s far more concerning is the fact that Southampton finished the game with a higher xG figure! It’s not like City battered them and just couldn’t find the net.
The sides met at the start of April in the Premier League, and we had a very entertaining game with seven goals! City went 2-0 down early before roaring back to win 5-2. We also had an entertaining game earlier in the season which finished 2-2 – and in the two meetings prior to that we saw score lines of 4-2 and 2-2 so we generally see goals when these sides meet! As I said above, it’ll be interesting to see if Oilver Glasner opts to fight fire-with-fire. I don’t see City sitting back. Obviously there have been a lot of signs of improvement from City – they spent a lot of money in January too considering they looked out of the title race at the time and had a lot of injuries. Turns out in football, money does fix your problems.
While it might be tempting to take the 1.83 on City here – we landed a Five Star NAP on them at similar odds in the Semi-Final – I don’t feel they offer the same kind of value now as they did then. It’s hard to make the argument that they should be massively shorter, especially after some lacklustre performances despite a run without losing. I feel the value play here is Over 2.5 goals at the very nice price of 1.79. As I said above, we generally see fireworks when these sides meet. They are two attacking and open sides – City have been quite sloppy at the back at times this season too, and I’m very happy to take the 1.79 on Overs.
The Striker Says:
Three points win Over 2.5 goals at 1.79 with BETDAQ BETTING EXCHANGE
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