The first piece of major silverware gets handed out in England today as Manchester City take on Arsenal in the EFL Cup Final.
The top two in the Premier League face off at Wembley and they head into the showpiece in contrasting moods.
The Gunners kept their push for a quadruple on track by easing past Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League while City are hurting after losing in the same competition to Real Madrid.
Arsenal vs Manchester City top betting tips
The narrative a few weeks ago was that Arsenal's bottle was crashing and Pep Guardiola's side were set to start another relentless march to the title.
But that has been flipped on its head and it's Manchester City who are toiling, with that 2-1 midweek loss to Real Madrid making it just one win in five games.
So it's easy to see why Mikel Arteta's men are odds-on favourites at a best 3/4 with Paddy Power to lift the trophy today.
Backing the Gunners to win inside 90 minutes boosts the odds to 7/5 at Unibet but I'm playing it a bit safer and going for the half-time stalemate at 6/5 with William Hill.
The midfield battle will be key and Spanish duo Rodri and Martin Zubimendi both look decent value at 11/10 with Bet365 for over 1.5 fouls. Doubling those bets up pays 10/3.
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Tottenham Hotspur vs Nottingham Forest
There's a massive game at the foot of the Premier League today as Tottenham Hotspur and Nottingham Forest face off in London.
Only goal difference is keeping Forest out of the drop zone but they trail Spurs by just a point so this game could have a huge bearing on the relegation battle.
Igor Tudor finally seems to have got a response from his team after a nightmare start to his reign, with last weekend's battling draw at Anfield followed by a midweek win over Atletico Madrid.
Nottingham Forest also tasted success in Europe on Thursday, knocking Midtjylland out of the Europa League on penalties, and did so while resting key players.
That will ensure they're relatively fresh for today's match but Vitor Pereira's men are still 9/4 outsiders, with Tottenham 11/8 favourites.
We should see chances at both ends and combining over 2.5 saves for each keeper pays 6/4 at Bet365. That bet paid off for me in midweek during Tottenham's clash with Atletico.
Nottingham Forest will need a big display from Elliot Anderson and the midfielder looks a bit overpriced at 2/1 with Bet365 for an effort on target.
Newcastle United vs Sunderland
Newcastle are still reeling from their midweek collapse against Barcelona and it will be fascinating to see how they react in today's derby with Sunderland.
Shipping seven goals at the Nou Camp is hardly ideal preparation for facing your fiercest rivals and the Black Cats will be out to pile on the pain.
Sunderland edged a 1-0 win at the Stadium of Light earlier this season but head into the rematch in poor form, with just two wins in their last eight matches.
This could be a good time to face the Magpies though and BetMGM may regret pricing Sunderland at 4/1.
Very little football was played in the last meeting and it needed a comedy own goal from Nick Woltemade to break the deadlock. So it could pay to bet against BTTS in the rematch at evens with BetMGM.
Nine cards were flashed at the Stadium of Light in December and backing a busy day for the ref usually pays off in a derby.
Noah Sadiki rarely shirks a tackle in midfield and the Sunderland scrapper is 12/5 at Ladbrokes to go in the book.
Super singles
- HT draw in Arsenal vs Manchester City 6/5 William Hill
- Elliot Anderson over 0.5 shots on target 2/1 Bet365
- Noah Sadiki to be carded 12/5 Ladbrokes
Bet builder
- Rodri and Martin Zubimendi over 1.5 fouls 10/3 Bet365
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celtic win
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1.2/1 @paddypower
Arsenal to lift the trophy 3/4 @paddypower
Stirling Uni W vs St Johnstone W
Over 4.5mgs @ 6/4 (bet365)
Asian line over 3.5,4 @ 10/11 (bet365)
Like the look of this, St Johnstone should put a fair few goals in here.
Good luck 🤞
Over 3.5mgs now 5/4, excellent price and personally think have got it wrong here 🤞
Not worth taking them to win with goals? Ups the odds majorly
Definitely could, was just looking at it again as it’s now 27/20 for over 3.5 goals, and even over 2.5 and the win is about evens. Nothing to indicate the price change but bookies are playing with fire with what they are offering.
St Johnstone have played them 3 times this season scoring 5+ in each, aggregate score of 17-4, and one of which was only 4 weeks ago. The way the relegation group is set up this game is St Johnstones chance to avoid finishing bottom, luckily against a truly awful team. Can’t see there not being goals here, and would be a miracle if Stirling Uni have just learned the art of defending this morning 😂 !
Over 4.5 goals is 5/2 at Willie Hills bigwig
Got to say pal your ability to dig out obscure winners where the bookies have got it wrong is exceptional. Another superb shout and great priced winner here. I’m on over 3.5 and st Johnstone to win so a sweat on for me still 😂
Catch em with their pants down when it comes to non league football as very or non at all team information,🤣🤣to mr bookie👍
Just the nine goals. Spanked them pal and thankfully st Johnstone came back to win for me.
Knew they had got that one wrong, took advantage of every price rise they put on it until about an hour before kick off 😂
Hopefully some made some money off that, and glad St Johnstone found the winner master!
Cheers for the kind words, il only ever stick something up on here if I think there’s a good chance of making money from it, I back everything I post with my own cash so I make sure I do my research 😅
You have made me a few quid pal, the only tips on here that I tend to lump as they are clearly well researched. Thanks for today’s and keep em coming 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Newcastle v Sunderland
Diarra 2+fouls won
Dan burn 2+ fouls committed
Lewis hall 2+ fouls committed
7/1
Penalty in the match 11/4
Bet 365
Lost not even anywhere near
Always nice to see Newcastle lose,even better that it was Sunderland🤣🤣
Aston villa v West Ham 5+match corners taken in each half 6/4
Over 12.5 mach corners 2/1
Marseille v Lile 16:15 ko
Over 9 corners 6/5 NAP
Over 10 corners 7/4 NB
Over 11 corners 3/1 longshot
Bet 365
GL if you follow
Malen was a handful at Villa and was perplexed when they let him go on loan
Inplay Roma v Lecce
Over 2.5match cards 11/8
Vasco da gama v Gremio HT
0 corners so far & Vasco lead 2-1.
Vasco 4 home games so far seen 14, 12, 14 & 10 corners. Gremio 3 away games seen 9, 6 & 9 corners.
Over 5.0 Asian corners 1.850