Manchester United can go top of the Premier League on Saturday evening as the title race gets tight again.
Chelsea’s unexpected defeat to Manchester City threw the competition wide open again and there’s little to split the Reds and the Blues, and indeed Arsenal, in the betting on this season’s Premier League winner. Chelsea head the market at 2.7 (7-4) with United close behind at 2.74 (7-4) and the Gunners 3.85 (14-5) shots.
Wolves stand between the Reds and the summit this weekend and the odds suggest the champions will get their own way – the home team are an enormous 12 (11-1) to win with Betfair. Faithful United backers can get 1.37 (4-11) while the draw trades at 5.3 (9-2).
Those short odds on a Reds win are unsurprising as Mick McCarthy’s men are stuck in rut with just one league win this year. By contrast, United are top of the form table with four victories and a draw from their last six games in England’s top division.
The Molineux outfit are the league’s lowest scorers with just 21 goals and will come up against the second most parsimonious backline on Saturday evening. The odds on a United clean sheet are tight at 1.92 (10-11) but they should be taken.
By and large Wanderers have kept things fairly tidy at the back, rarely getting hammered but never quite doing enough to snatch a share of the points or even taking all three. It’s likely they’ll lineup in a defensive formation, despite their chronic need for points. The Reds are likely to keep one eye on AC Milan’s Champions League visit and Fergie may pull one of two key performers off should United hold a two goal advantage. In short, don’t expect a heavy win.
With that in mind, a correct score bet of 2-0 appeals at 7 (6-1) as does the ‘draw/United’ half-time/full-time result at 4.7 (a little over 7-2).
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doesn’t seem very good value to me i believe we had 12 players away in the internationals,champions league this coming weds,rooney might not play.smart bet leave this one alone
That task could be difficult as I have just heard that Rooney could be a doubt for the Wolves game with a possible knee injury. Capello is a fucking cunt, he had the audacity to tell Fergie to use Rooney sparingly to keep him fresh for the World cup, then plays him for the full 90 minutes on Wednesday. It’s bad enough playing one game on such a shit pitch, but to play two games in 4 days is asking too much. Fuck Capello and fuck England.
i fucking hate the new odds system. The old one were fine. Weren’t that difficult to work it out! But nice one ahmed for putting both systems in
For crying out loud, useless friendlies are the games when you are supposed to field players that might make the final squad or give players a chance that you are having doubts about. Rooney does not fall into either category. For example defoe, Bent, Cole,and Gabby fall into this category.
Off topic but JT is so fucking hoooooooooooot in this clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OtzURRG108
speaking of jt anyone see the star today?? someone asked him for his qutograph and asked if he could put sorry wanye, i thought it was funny : lol
Well said Kings and John Ferry, here here, I would like to see Mick MCarthy throw in the towel again, lol before a serious punch is thrown I suspect this is not gonna happen.
We are going to find this tough going, all though glad to see Rio back(Excuse innuendo)
This is a game for Dimatar to shine and for all of us to praise him.
Wolves remaining fixtures.
US home, prediction 2.0 for us
Claret’s Away critical
Villa Away Loss
Toffes Home Hmmmm
Le arse Away Loss
Potter’s Home win or bust
Cottager’s Away Loss
Rover’s Home Draw
Pompey Away The sailor’s should have thrown in the towel bye then.Win
Black cat’s Home Win.
here’s the JT link. winded up terry hahah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK_YmoBF3uA&feature=player_embedded
lol @ the “that’s bang out of order…” guy in the vid… pencil-dick twat! JT’s a cunt & I hope he stays in Kuntbridge this summer!
No betting would be smart. but I fancy 1-0 Park!lol
i really hope the team do not bottle this like we did vs everton! pls oh pls dont make me go through that shitty experience again! lol…but then again its just the usual ManUtd way, isn’t it? we really never do things the easy way…sigh…:)
anyhow, i think we should have just about enough to get the 3 pts, provided we play sensibly. yes, the midweek friendlies are going to take its toll, and yes, i agree with John Ferry, that friendlies are to confirm the doubtful and use the confirmed sparingly. im not an ingerland fan, so i didnt really care for capello using rooney that long – i am a ManUtd fan first!! so what was the point of using rooney? sigh..
2-0 to us pls….simple goals, 1 in each half to calm me nerves and not to keep it too late as well…sigh…make it convincing so that we boost our own morale too
btw, im overseas so how do i get my hands on the green & gold scarves? any ideas if anyone ships them over?…anyone remember when we had the green and yellow jersey way back…lol with the strings too….i remember giggsy in one the games, i think ive still got a pic of that somewhere…
I hope Diouf Starts too!! The MO tragedy may be a blessing in disguise for the manchild!
i doubt rooney will have any part of the game against wolves…I think we cannot afford him missing the milan game. so we will have berbatov and diouf? it is not like berbatov is very healthy either.
he should have sat out the england game.
but valencia and nani will have to pick up the scoring pace as well!
Georgie, I see no problem with starting the Berbatov-Diouf combo against Wolves, with Rooney on the bench if we get desperate. Berbatoff will presumably not play against Milan anyway so his fitness shouldn’t really be a problem. His national coach was kind enough to take him off at halftime on Wednesday.
Let’s win it for Aaron. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/05/article-0-08957BE8000005DC-49_468x306.jpg
evra makes front page of the sun today for kissing some blonde girl: http://img163.imageshack.us/i/15568170.jpg/
must be a slow news day for that to make front page plus evras wife is also blonde and plus it don’t even look like there kissing in that photo, the sun being dipshits as always.
acutally it ain’t his wife http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2881175/What-Evra-was-he-up-to.html but looking at that front picture it dont look like there kissing at all
the good news now is that our defence is back with rio and vidic fit! we seem to alternate injuries these days. Cant wait to see Hargo back for the reserves!
We were all quick to condemn John Terry for his infidelity so I hope we won’t be hypocrites about this. Patrice has let himself and his family down badly.
As far as football goes, this could have a terrible effect on his form, thus harming our title chances but that is the least of Pat’s concerns now, with his wife and child to think of.
Bad news all round imo. Shame on you, Patrice.
Maybe I’m being too quick to judge. Sneaking into a hotel with a blonde at 1.45am doesn’t look good though, does it?
That said, you have to wonder why the article fails to mention if Patrice went to the girl’s room, what time he left, what time the girl checked out, etc.
I suppose we’ll know for sure if Mrs. Evra kicks Mad Pat out of their Cheshire mansion this weekend.
I’m partly disappointed by Evra but mostly I’m disturbed that the gutter press can find you anywhere there’s CCTV, given that there’s CCTV pretty much everywhere. I mean I’m not saying it’s right to cheat on the missus, but is it right to spy on people and blurt their secrets all over the place for money? I mean what happened to a personal life being personal?
The John Terry thing by contrast wasn’t a personal issue. It was professional. He betrayed a team mate and a friend. That makes it of interest I would think, just as his various shady money grubbing exploits have been.
Mostly though as I said, the story is more disturbing for the fact that these guys are under constant surveillance by the media.
Fred – Terry has cheated on his wife countless times. There have been loads of stories in the press from when he’s shagged teenagers, prostitutes and glamour girls. Every time he spoke to the press talking of his shame, how sorry he was, and how he would never do it again.
Nobody in this country seemed to criticise him for it though and his infidelity certainly didn’t hold him back from claiming the England captaincy.
Cheating on your wife is wrong and I think it’s sad when any bloke does it, particularly when there are kids involved, but don’t compare what Evra seems to have done with what Terry did with this latest bird. He was the captain of his country and this was the mother of his team mate and best friend’s child.
Nobody slagged off Terry for repeatedly doing the dirty on his wife, it was only when he did the dirty on his friend and team mate that people acknowledged what a cunt he was.
If the bird in the hotel is the mother of Park’s kid, then you can compare Evra to Terry.
fred you mean an international manager that only uses an important player for half a game in a meaningless friendly? Has the world gone mad ha. Sure capello learnt alot about rooney on wed night like, erm he’s a good player and might possibly be worth taking to the world cup!