In order to make a fully informed wager, it is vital that you use statistics, form and trends to determine whom you believe will win the 2011 Grand National and as a very popular betting event across the United Kingdom, it is expected that 70 million pounds will be wagered on the Grand National in 2011. Aside from the betting aspect of the event, there are around 500 million individuals who will be at home or work watching this prestigious event on television.  Despite all this, this event is considered to be similar to that of a lottery especially to those outside of the UK.

With that all being said, it is definitely a very popular event so let’s get down to it – let’s look at the favorites to win the event.

There are two horses that are favored to win this year’s Grand National according to bwin online sportsbook. With odds of 10.00, both The Midnight Club and Don’t Push It have the best odds. The Midnight Club is a horse 10 years of age and has been trained by Willie Mullins. Don’t Push It, the heaviest horse among all the contenders, is the winner from last year’s Grand National and will look to once again reign supremacy.

What a Friend is next in line with 12.00 odds from bwin. Known as Sir Alex’s horse by many, What a Friend has been impressive. This horse and Daryl Jacob won the Lexus and the previous season’s Aintree Bowl and went on to have an impressive run in the Gold Cup to finish fourth.

Oscar Time and Backstage are next up with their names being perfect for two horses sharing the same 13.00 odds to win according to bwin. Last year, Oscar Time had form that was simply inspiring during Irish Handicaps; however, there are some doubts present with this horse this year on how its form will alter for the Grand National. Backstage was a huge contender in last year’s race and many believed he would indeed take the win but in the end was unable to pull through.

With 15.00 odds to win the 2011 Grand National is Silver by Nature and Ballabriggs. Silver by Nature is one to keep an eye on as this horse has won the Grand National trials twice and was able to secure a runner up position last year in the Welsh National. Ballabriggs won the Kim Muir last year off top weight at the Cheltenham Festival and has improved since then and shouldn’t be overlooked.

Short odds include:

Quinz and Big Fella Thanks at 19.00 odds
Arbor Supreme and Niche Market at 21.00 odds
Becauseicouldntsee, Character Building, Bluesea Cracker and State of Play with 26.00 odds
Calgary Bay, Skippers Brig, Hello Bud, Majestic Concorde and West End Rock with 34.00 odds
Chief Dan George, Vic Venturi, Tidal Bay and Or Noir de Somoza with 41.00 odds

When placing your bets, be sure to wager on the horse that has impressively solid form that has superior endurance, experience in this race or similar events and an established track record of jumping with a trained jockey on its back. Head on over to bwin to place your bets before the race takes place tomorrow at 4:15 BST.

This year’s Premier League has been the most interesting season in several years, since all the teams still have anything to play for. No team has run away from the rest of the teams in the top of the table and all of the teams in the bottom of the table still have the chance to avoid relegation.

In these two texts I will give you my best bettingtips for the coming round.  As I do sometimes I have chosen to split the text into two different posts since there are lots of matches to go through. First I will give you all the matches with the odds and then I will give you my best bettingtips for each match in this round. I will also give you my analyzes on why I bet like I do. All the odds are picked from bwin football sportsbetting.

Here are the first three matches in this round with the odds on each of them:

Manchester United vs. Manchester City odds – home win: 1.72, draw: 3.50, away win: 4.40

Arsenal FC vs. Wolverhampton Wanderers odds – home win: 1.22, draw: 5.50, away win: 12.00

Birmingham FC vs. Stoke City odds – home win: 2.45, draw: 3.10, away win: 2.85

And now I will give you my best tips and the odds + analyze:

Manchester United vs. Manchester City, my bettingtips: away win @ 4.40 in odds

It was long time ago that I thought that Manchester City actually could beat Manchester United in their own theater of dreams. But this time at least think that they have a reasonable chance to do it. Do you remember the last game between these two teams here at Old Trafford? Craig Bellamy scored 3 – 3 for City in the 90^th minute and everyone thought that the game was going to end with a draw. Even more when the announced four minutes where passed. But, somehow, Michael Owen managed to score 4 -3 to Manchester United when the clock stood on 95.30. You can call it furgie-time or whatever you want, but somehow this red machine manages to score these important goals.

That time the former united player and City-manager said that he understood why all the teams complained of all the advantages that Manchester United got while he was playing there but could not see from the same perspective.

What does this story actually have to do with my bet and bettingtips in this match? It’s as easy that City was almost close to win (or at least take one point) last year against Manchester United away. Now they have a stronger squad, are doing better in the league, and finally – they have a smarter manager. So I don’t think that this is a long shot. In addition to that, Manchester United lost their first league game in the last round against Wolverhampton away. I defiantly believe that Manchester city have the skills to disturb Sir Alex Ferguson’s team in this game and find the odds at 4.40 interesting on the away win in this derby.

Arsenal vs. Wolverhampton, my bettingtips: home win @ 1.22 in odds

Arsenal had the 0 – 4 lead away against Newcastle and everyone had counted in those three points for Arsenal. But in a strange way their game totally collapsed and Newcastle came closer and closer. Okay – it has to be said that Arsenal got an early red card in the beginning of the second half. And okay, Newcastle got two scores on Penalty. But it is still insane that Arsenal could “loose” two points that easy in the second half.

Because of that miss, I am pretty sure that Wolverhampton will pay the price in this game. Arsenal will win and they will do it comfortably. Even though Wolves took a strong win against Manchester United in the last round home at Mollineux, this is more or less mission impossible for them.  I actually think that 1.22 in odds on Gunners is a pretty valuable odds, even though it’s not that high. I really think that Arsenal will win this game and place a bet on them. I would also recommend you to keep an eye on the special bets (halftime/fulltime or handicap) on Arsenal.

Birmingham FC vs. Stoke City, my bettingtips draw @ 3.10 in odds

This is a pretty hard match to predict. My feeling says that Birmingham should be favorites, which they are, but the statistics says that Stoke is in a good form at the moment.  So this match can end in both directions. Or why not with a draw that both teams might be satisfied with?

I don’t find any other odds valuable to bet on, so my bettingtips on this game is a draw at 3.10 in odds.

In the next text I will give you my best bettingtips from the rest of the seven games in this round.

Next round is on the weekend, which is normal on this time of the year when the games come a bit more often then in the beginning of the league. I will give you my best bettingtips on every game that is played in this round, which is spread over several days. First of all I am going to give you all the matches and all the odds so that you can have an overview, and then I will give you my best bettingtips per each match. I will choose to split the text into two texts. All the odds are picked from bwin football betting:

Aston Villa vs. Sunderland, odds: home win: 2.05   draw: 3.35  away win: 3.40

FC Arsenal vs. Manchester City, odds: home win 1.70 draw 3.75  away win: 4.40

Newcastle United vs. West Ham United, odds: home win: 1.80 draw: 3.60  away win: 4.00

Wolverhampton Wanderers vs. FC Chelsea, odds: home win: 6.50 draw: 3.80   away win: 1.50

And here is my best bettingtips for these four matches:

Aston Villa vs. Sunderland, bettingtips:  draw @ 3.35 in odds

Aston Villa is my favourites in this game thanks to their home advantage, but they have not played as well as I thought that they would do, before this season started. They have already sacked their first manager (Martin O’neal) and brought in Gerard Houllier instead of him. But that haven’t either given that positive effect that I think the club was hoping to get.

Sunderland on the other hand has been playing better then I thought and they are hard to defeat. In this game I think that Aston Villa has become to big favourites with “only” 2.05 in odds, which is not value to bet on according to me. I have been thinking which best is the best in this game, draw or away win and came to the conclusion that draw probably is most value bet.

Arsenal vs. Manchester City, bettingtips: draw @ 3.75 in odds

What a great game between two teams that are challenging Manchester United in the top of the table. Both these teams have been going strongly in the last couple of matches and are fighting in the absolute top of the league. My feeling is that Arsenal is a really strong side home at Emirates stadium but that Manchester City can beat any team in the league when they are playing as best. Arsenal is defiantly a favourite to win this game thanks to their home advantage, but the odds (1.70) is way to low to bet on.

Arsenal outplayed Chelsea here at Emirates just after Christmas, but Chelsea’s form is very bad at the moment, so don’t be fooled by that win. And Manchester City has also been playing very well lately so Roberto Manchini is safe on his place as manager.

If Arsenal would pay about 1.90 – 2.00 in odds I would bet on Arsenal, but since we only get 1.70 in odds on the home win, I find 3.75 in odds on draw way more interesting, so that is my bettingtips on this match.

Newcastle United vs. West Ham United, bettingtips home win @ 1.80 in odds

West Ham is in the bottom of the league, while Newcastle is about in the middle. But since West ham sacked Gianfranco Zola and replaced him with Avram Grant they have started to take more points and at least have connection with the teams above the relegation mark.  Newcastle has also sacked their former manager, but it was quite a controversial decision from the owner, because they went well above expectations and that the old manager was also loved by both players and fans.

But that is history now, and now the players and supporters have to stand behind their team and the new manager. Newcastle has Andy Carroll on top and that is one of the best players in the league. I would guess that he is playing for the nation team very soon. He, together with the other players has a good chance to win home against West Ham and I try 1.80 in odds on the home win.

Wolverhampton Wanderers vs. FC Chelsea, bettingtips home win @ 6.50 in odds

This might be a really long shot, but I just cannot bet on Chelsea to the odds that they are standing at. Chelsea has only won one game in their last 8 – 9 games and are falling apart. Something is really wrong with the club, and since Abrahmovic sacked their assistant manager I can’t recognize Chelsea any more.

Wolves are struggling in the bottom of the table and even though the results haven’t gone their way, they still fight in every game. And that is a fact that I think can be the difference in this game. As I wrote, this bet is a big risk bet. But I still think that it is way more valuable to bet on Wolves in this game then on Chelsea.

The rest of the games of this round will be presented in next text.

Since some of the teams has lot to play for and other teams nothing you might see that some of the odds might feel a bit “strange” compared how it would be if both of the teams almost had the same motivation to fight for the win. This is an interesting fact for you people who bet on football betting to have in mind before this round.

The last group match in Champions League is always interesting from a betting perspective just because of the fact that I wrote about. So what I am going to do in these two texts is that I am going to give you bettingtips and odds from two of the groups (E + F) that is played on Wednesday. In addition, I will give you some extra, special bets, besides the 1-x-2 bettingtips. But I will start all the group analyzes with the pre conditions for each group, so that you know which teams have what to play for:

Group ET

his is interesting from the view that it is precisely three points between each team. It also means that all teams have something to play for. However, there is no question about that it is the fight for second place in the group that is most alive and interesting.

Bayern Munich leads the group with 12 points and also has a pretty strong goal difference. This means that they are already ready for the next round and are pretty sure to win the group as well. Roma is second in the group with 9 points and minus one in goal difference. Basel is third with 6 points and even goal difference and Romanian Cluj has the last position with 3 points, moreover, they have poor goal difference.

This means that Roma need to take at least one point to secure to advance from the group. Basel has a small chance to go to the knockout stage, but they must first win away against Bayern Munich away and at the same time hope that Roma do not take any point against Cluj away.

The odds, and my best bettingtips for this group (all the odds are picked from bwin football sportsbetting):

CFR Cluj vs. AS Roma, odds: home win 5.50 in odds, draw 3.40 in odds and away win 1.65 in odds

My bettingtips: Draw @ 3.40 in odds

As I wrote earlier, this is a rather tricky group. But still one must be realistic in Cluj by not having too much hope to take third place, which would mean that they go trough to play in the European League in the spring. Roma should be satisfied with one point, since that would mean that they secures second place in the group and get to the playoff in the Champions League.

Roma have played quite poorly both in the league (Serie A) and in the Champions League, at least according to their ambitions before this season. They should be pleased that they have got into such an easy group as Roma still have been compared with several other teams in the Champions League. I think the odds on Roma are a little too low in this game since they only give 1.65 in the odds. It is a too low for me to give you that tips as the best bettingtips in this game. Instead, I think that 3.40 in the odds that the match ends in a draw feel much better. A draw is always tricky to bet on, but in this team, I think it feels right. So I choose draw as my bettingtips in this game at 3.40 in odds.

FC Bayern Munich vs. FC Basel, odds: home win 1.60 in odds, draw 4.00 in odds and away win 4.80 in odds

My bettingtips: FC Bayern Munich (Home team) to win @ 1.60 in odds

If this would not be that Bayern Munich had nothing to play for and Basel had much to play, the odds would “normally” be standing at approximately 1.35 on the win for Bayern Munich. Now they pay 1.60 instead and that is to high difference in odds then I had expected. Because according to me Bayern Munich is still the stronger team even if they rest some regular players in today’s match. I think 1.60 in the odds is worth playing at and it is therefore my betting tips in this match.

Basel, on the other hand, might had paid around 8 – 10 in the odds if this were a normal game. In this match to give the less then 5.00 in the odds and, as you probably understand, it also feels too low for me to think it is worth betting on even if they have much more to play for.

My odds and bettingtips for Group F will follow in the next text a bit down

Group F

In group F, Chelsea has been unbelievably great. They have won all five matches in the Champions League so far and is the only team that has maximum points in the group stage. It is also one of the reasons that make Chelsea one of the favourites to win the Champions League even though they are having an extremely bad form in the league at the moment.

Behind the sovereigns Chelsea, there are two teams fighting, Marseille and Spartak Moscow to take the second place in the group. But I do not know if it is so much fighting really, because the difference between these two teams are three points to Marseille’s advantage and twelve goals up for Marseilles. At the last place in this group, we find Zlina from Slovakia, which still have not taken a single point in the group stage in the five games that they have played.

The odds and my best bettingtips from this group (all odds is from bwin football tips:

MKS Zlina vs. Spartak Moscow, odds: home win 2.95 in odds, draw 3.35 in odds and away win 2.25 in odds

My bettingtips: MKS Zlina (Home team) to win @ 2.95 in odds

I find it difficult to decide on the outcome of this match. Zlina has been clearly the worst in this group, but now their opponents do not have much to play for the first time.

Certainly, Moscow has small chance and “something” to play for but they cannot possibly believe in themselves that they can pass Marseille when they have to bring in three points and impossible 12 goals difference to take the second place?

Zlina has 2 – 17 in goal difference so actually I should not believe that they would have a chance to win this game. But, somehow I have a feeling that they will take a win in this last game. I cannot actually explain what else then the fact that I think that they will be hungrier to win the last game and that they will have the higher motivation speaks for a home win in this game.

Zlina pays almost 3 times in odds and the Russian pays 2.25 in odds. I do not feel that 2.25 interest me in this game so I choose to put my bet on the Slovakian team. However, I would not recommend you to bet high stakes on this bettingtips since Zlina still are standing without points.

Marseille vs. Chelsea, odds: home win 2.25 in odds, draw 3.25 in odds and away win 3.20 in odds

My bettingtips: Chelsea (away team) to win @ 3.20 in odds

Chelsea is a strange side so far into this season. They have won all their five games in Champions League and done it by showing great strength. Chelsea has 14 – 3 in goal difference and that is impressing as well. At the same time, they are going really really bad in the league with only 3 points in the last 6 games. What makes those stats even stranger is that they started strong in the league as well and looked hard to beat at all. This is probably the toughest game in Champions League for the London side. Marseille is a very competent opponent and they are hard to beat at Stade Velodrome (their home ground).

But after Chelsea’s bad results in the league I am pretty sure that Carlo Angelotti (Chelsea’s manager) would like to take a win before the next league game. Even though Chelsea has won all their matches in Champions League so far they pay as high as 3.20 in odds in this game. Marseille at the same time pays very low in odds compared to their opponent. Think that Manchester United, AC Milan and several other teams pays higher odds as Champions League winners than Chelsea does.

I just have to try 3.20 in odds on Chelsea and pick the away win as my best tips here.

In addition, here is a special bet from one of these matches:

Marseille vs. Chelsea, over 2.5 goals in the match @ 2.02 in odds

Chelsea has scored 14 goals in 5 games which almost becomes an average of three made goals. Besides that, they have even let some goals in. Marseille also plays quite scoring games since they have done as much as 11 goals in five matches and let in three backwards.

Chelsea is often playing an offence football in Champions League and score a lot. I am a bit surprised that the odds on the bet that it will be under 2.5 goals (which means two goals or less totally in this game) is paying less than the over 2.5 goals bet.

According to me this is a game that I think will end over 2.5 goals more times then under. Chelsea doesn’t have any pressure on them, but still they need to start scoring for their coming league matches and for their self confidence. So I find this bettingtips very valuable to bet on.

Good luck with your Champions League betting

/Amrish

It is clear then that the top three in the market will be most heavily backed horses in the field. Remember that we are not talking about the best horse here or even the horse with the biggest chance of winning. What we are essentially talking about is the horse that the mass betting public perceives as the best value at any given point in time. There will be movement somewhere but the answer is where? You really need to know this as it will allow you to get on at the best prices.

You look at the first movement and the favourite is pushed out to 9/4 with the 25-1 shot coming in to 20/1 and the 40/1 chance into 33/1. This is not necessarily support for these horses but the bookmaker wanting to take some money on the favourite which didn’t look that way at 2/1. Then suddenly the 4/1 chance comes into 7/2 and the second favourite also comes in from 3/1 into 11/4.

Then the favourite goes out again to 5/2 while the second favourite comes in again to 5/2 and now we have joint favourites. The money is clearly going onto the second favourite when the betting opened and the market on the whole appears not to be supporting the opening favourite. But if you keep two very important rules at hand when you back horses then you will be fine. The first rule is that the market and betting public as a whole is wrong. If they were right all the time then they would all make money betting on horses now wouldn’t they?

The second rule is that everything in a horse race has a chance to win, even the 100/1 shots. Think about why a horse is 100/1 for a minute. It is that price because of the existence of a couple of well fancied horses in that race. But what if something happens to those horses during the course of the race? You see what I am getting at here and so the lesson here is clear and it is that every horse has a chance otherwise it wouldn’t be allowed to compete. But feeling the flow of the market and which horses are the best value can help you pick better bets. The mugs back the horse that is falling in price in the belief that the betting public “know something”. The smarter punters back a horse at 3/1 that only a few minutes earlier was 2/1.

According to me, the serious stage started right now, with the third game, because the teams that have started worse then expected have to start win now, to still have a realistic chance to win their grope. The presumptions are that all the grope-winners are directly qualified to the European Championship 2012 and the best second placed team as well. The rest of all the second placed teams will play a play-off (home and away) to complement the 16 teams that will participate in the championship.

In these, coming two texts I will give you my best bettingtips and odds for the matches that I think is most valuable bets. I have chosen to split it into two different texts because of that there is many matches to bet on and many odds. If you want to see all the matches that you can bet on in this round of European Championship’s qualification round, I suggest that you visit bwin football odds and see which tips and odds you find tempting to bet on.

Here are my best tips:

Kazakhstan vs. Belgium, odds -  home win: 6.75, draw: 4.10, away win: 1.45

My bettingtips: Kazakhstan vs. Belgium – away win @ 1.45 in odds

This is a game in grope A, where both of the teams have lost both their matches so far in the qualification. However, I have a strong feeling for Belgium in this game. Sometimes the facts and statistics do not give you the complete picture of the truth and this table is a brilliant prove of that. Because Belgium has played against two of the worse competitors already while Kazakhstan have had an easier start.

Belgium lost at home against Germany in a game that they was playing even against the bronze medallists from the World cup and after that they was close to beat Turkey away but just lost after have got one red card and Turkey turned the game to their favour.

Belgium has an interesting squad this year, more interesting then in a long time. They have many talented players both in the Premier League and young players coming up from their own league. They have made a generation switch which makes it even more interesting. My feeling is that My feeling is that Belgium is way better then Kazakhstan and should win this game even though they are playing away. The odds on Belgium is 1.45 and that are enough for me to bet on them, so that is my first bettingtips.

My second bettingtips from European Championship qualification:

Czech Republic vs. Scotland, odds – home win: 1.70, draw: 3.40, away win: 5.00

My bettingtips: Czech Republic vs. Scotland – home win @ 1.70 in odds

Scotland surprisingly leads this grope (Grope I), but even this time I think that the fact is lying a bit. First of all Scotland has played two matches compared to both Spain and Czech Republic, which are my two favourites in this grope. Second, Scotland has had two easy games so far in this grope against Lithuania and Lichtenstein. Even though they have had two pretty “easy” games they dropped two points against Lithuania and only won with 2 – 1 against Lichtenstein which is way weaker then I had expected.

I saw some of Scotland’s games before the qualification started as well and they have not impressed on me so far. It should be said that Czech Republic was a big disappointment in their first game as well where they lost against Lithuania, but I know that they have way more talent then what was shown in that game.

My feeling is that Czech has great chances to win this game and that the odds is very good here. I would recommend a high stake on this bet since this is one of the best tips in this round. Since Spain is in this grope as well besides these two teams (and for example Lithuania) I think that this is a really important game. I just cannot se how Spain won’t win this grope.

Compared to these teams positions and players I find Czech is better on most of the positions so I bet on 1.70 in odds and really hope that I have made the correct analyze here.

Albania vs. Bosnia, odds: home win: 3.25, draw: 3.15, away win: 2.15

My bettingtips: Albania vs. Bosnia – Away win @ 2.15

Another very interesting bet and odds according to me. Bosnia was very close to qualify to the world cup last year and they have really made great progresses in their game. It is easy to forget, but Bosnia has some of the best attacking players in whole Europe. I am sure that they will fight very well in this grope, and I think that they have good chances to reach European Championship this time.

Albania have shown good defence when they play against better teams on their own home ground, but since Bosnia have so many alternatives on their attacking line I think that the odds 2.15 on the away win feels good. They get my tips in this game.

More matches, bets and odds will come up in next text

However this is in the US where they have sectional timing over there and so speed and pace is often more difficult to analyse. If you look at why pace is so important then an analogy with athletics can reveal why that is. Certain athletes are built for certain types of races. A 100m sprinter for instance will mainly be shorter in height and stocky and weigh more because power is needed in that event and sprinting power is generated to a large extent from the muscular make up.

In the distance events though, this is where pace comes into the equation because good and bad pace can often dictate whether or not an athlete wins a race or not. Let us look at an athlete who is used to running 64 second laps in a 5000m race. As a rule this athlete will need pace at or around the 64 second mark and any lap that they run that is considerably below that is going to affect how much energy they expend and thus will have a huge effect on how they run the race.

Some athletes with poor finishing kicks usually go for a fast pace because they are essentially trying to create pressure on other runners during the early and middle stages so that they can optimise their chances of winning. If an athlete who was geared towards running 64 second laps was drawn into running a couple of 61 second laps then they could find themselves in an awful lot of trouble during the later stages.

In horse racing with a lot of homework and analysis then you can find out which horses perform best at which paces. I have heard and seen several professionals who record and then watch races to see how certain horses perform and what types of race they like and what they do well in. It is a very involved topic and one that is immensely fascinating as all topics are once you start to dig beneath the surface. Once you know what type and shape of race a horse likes then you are better placed to know in running if this horse is suited to the pace or not.

Even though there are huge differences in how races are run in the US compared to the UK, there are still fundamental similarities in how horses race against each other and even humans for that matter.

Come and see the latest betting tips at bwin.

Take football as a betting example, it has been calculated that there is only about seventy minutes of actual playing time in a football match. So in no way is this time period even remotely adequate for superiority to show itself. This is the same in other sports as well where short time frames dictate the outcome. Another factor behind why favourites lose is that they do not always perform to their optimal level for whatever reason.

Only yesterday did I witness a huge odds on favourite get beaten when Arsenal were beaten at home by newly promoted West Brom which confounded all of the tipsters and sport betting tips. After the match, the Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admitted that not one single player in his team had performed to their usual level. This is a huge factor in why favourites fail to win or get beaten. So short term luck and underperforming are the two single biggest factors in why favourites get beaten.

If you can look at sporting events in this way then you will have taken a serious step ahead of the rest of the competition with regards to sports betting. In fact many professional sports bettors ply their trade by looking to oppose very short priced favourites either in running or before kick off in the belief that sporting events are far more unpredictable than you think. So how do you know when a short priced favourite is likely to fail?

Well that is the $64,000 question but you can use some common sense to tell you when odds are too short for value to be obtained in backing them. My own individual philosophy is to oppose short priced favourites rather than to back them. Usually the prices have been artificially contracted anyway and this is especially the case with short priced favourites that have been hyped and this can often lead to a contraction in price beyond what the correct theoretical price should be.

But if you think about this for a minute then if sporting events were predictable then there would be no markets available and the betting firms would not be offering markets on them. So the mere fact that the betting firms are quoting odds then there must be some unpredictability by sheer definition. You will be taking a huge step ahead of the rest of the punters and people who back on sports by looking at sports and sports betting in this way.

Now I have presented my thoughts regarding Premier League’s top scorer for you. In this text, I have searched for some other interesting season bets to invest your money on. All the odds is picked from bwin online fotboll betting, and here is my mix of bettingtips and the odds that I choose between:

Premeier League 2010 / 2011 – to finish top 4

Odds:

FC Chelsea, odds: 1.02

Manchester United, odds: 1.12

Manchester City, odds: 1.50

FC Arsenal, odds: 1.55

FC Liverpool, odds: 2.25

Tottenham Hotspur, odds: 3.50

FC Everton, odds: 7.50

Aston Villa, odds: 9.00

This bet means four winners since there will be four teams that will end on top four. That is why the odds are so low compared to other bets. Manchester United and Chelsea will for sure end on top four, everything else would be a great surprise for me. However, at the same time they pay 1.02 and 1.12 in odds. If you want a “safe” bet this are defiantly two sure bets. However, I would not place my money on these since the teams are to big favourites. Maybe I could invest some money on Manchester United at 1.12 in odds but never on Chelsea.

My bettingtips on this bet is:

Manchester City to end on top four @ 1.50 in odds.

Manchester City is my outsider to win the Premier League this year after all their new players that they have bought. Mancini finished strongly last season after have preplaced Mark Hughes as manager and this year he have a even stronger squad to choose from. I feel that teams like Liverpool and Arsenal can find it hard to finish top four and if Manchester City does, at least one of Liverpool or Arsenal have to step aside. I find the odds 1.50 worth betting on here and pick Manchester City to end top four.

Which team will finish highest in the Premier League 2010 / 2011?

Manchester United, odds: 1.20

FC Liverpool, odds: 4.50

FC Everton, odds: 18.00

My bettingtips: Manchester United @ 1.20 in odds

As I mentioned above, Manchester united might was worth betting on to ending top four in the league. Then I find this bet way more worth betting on that top 4. Since I cannot see Everton ending top four, and since I find it hard for Liverpool to end top four this year either, I find 1.20 in odds on Manchester United to finish higher then Everton and Liverpool interesting.

Everton finished eighth in the league last year and Liverpool seventh. Manchester United finished second, only one point behind winning Chelsea. United where whole 22 points before Liverpool and 24 points ahead of Everton last year, and still it is Man United that has bought the most interesting player (Hernandez). Therefore, I almost see this bet as 20 % guaranteed return on investment later in spring even though you should not see betting as sure money.

Teams to be relegated from Premier League 2010 / 2011?

odds:

Blackpool, odds: 1.25

West Bromwich, odds: 1.80

Wolverhampton Wanderers, odds: 3.25

Wigan Athletic, odds: 3.25

Newcastle United, odds: 4.00

Bolton Wanderers, odds: 5.00

West Ham United, odds: 5.50

Blackburn Rovers, odds: 7.00

Stoke City, odds: 7.00

Birmingham City, odds: 7.00

Fulham, odds: 8.50

Sunderland, odds: 11.00

From this list I think that Sunderland, Fulham and Birmingham feels safe to not being relegated after this season. All of them have to strong teams. Stoke and Blackburn feels pretty strong, but I am not that sure over these teams as over the three I mentioned above. Stoke is living a lot on their strong home stats at Air Britannia, where they take lots of their points.

Looking down a bit on the list it is not strange that Blackpool is the biggest favourite to being relegated. According to me its too low odds to bet on @ 1.25. West Bromwich pays 1.80 in odds and that is too low according to me as well, especially since I think that they can avoid relegation this year. So my best bettingtips on which will be one of three teams to be relegated is:

Wigan Athletic @ 3.25 in odds.

Wigan had a tough season last year, and it will probably get even tougher this time since both West Bromwich and Newcastle has joined Premier League. I feel that over 3 times money back on Wigan to being relegated is valuable to bet on and that is what I bet on here.

Good Luck with your premier league betting

/Amrish