Tuesday 3rd December 2024

In Across the Leagues EXTRA today:

• Premier League Predictions…
• Stat Attack: Arsenal v Man Utd - Bet Builder…
• Midweek Acca @ 71/1…

Enter your predictions today…

Congratulations to brianpaul52 who won the weekend Predictor prize with a score of 54 points…

On the overall leaderboard, Peter Blyth holds on in 1st place. Check out the latest standings here.

Our Premier League Predictor game continues with Round 14 this week...

• All the info you need to get playing for free is here

Don’t miss the 7.30pm deadline for entries. There’s a full midweek fixture list, with all 10 games live on Amazon Prime Video, and the first two taking place TONIGHT…

Enter your predictions now at:

www.PremierLeaguePredictor.co.uk

STAT ATTACK: Arsenal v Man Utd - Bet Builder…

A classic Premier League match-up on Wednesday night - Arsenal v Man Utd. These clubs have also just been drawn against each other in the FA Cup 3rd Round, coming up in January.

It’s time to ask one of our favourite stat-questions: What Usually Happens?

• Arsenal have beaten Man Utd in 4 of their last 5 meetings. The Gunners are unbeaten in 6 home contests v the Red Devils

• 5 of the last 6 Arsenal-Man Utd encounters have gone Over 2.5 Goals

• 5 of their last 7 meetings have gone Over 10.5 Corners

• Man Utd have received the Most Cards/ Most Booking Points on each of their last 4 visits to Arsenal

• A goalkeeper was booked in both of last season’s meetings. David Raya for Arsenal at Old Trafford, and Andre Onana for United at the Emirates

• Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka has Scored or been Carded in each of his last 5 starts against Man Utd. Landing Anytime Scorer bets on 3 occasions, and Player to be Carded payouts in the last 2. Saka is currently on a goal-scoring run of 3 games in a row in all competitions - and has also received a yellow card in 2 of those 3 matches

Using those stats as a springboard, this five-leg Bet Builder pays 14/1 with Betfair Sportsbook:

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Premier League Predictions…

Here are our Premier League predictions for this week, along with Chris Sutton at the BBC:

The Midweek Acca…

For every round of Premier League games, we build an accumulator from the matching selections in our Predictor grid, across the Match Result and Goals markets. Rolling up for some big odds…

Here’s today’s acca. These picks all match-up across the predictions from myself, my Across the Leagues colleague Shaun, and Chris Sutton on the BBC:

Ipswich v Crystal Palace - Both Teams to Score
Leicester v West Ham - Over 2.5 Goals
Man City v Nottingham Forest - Both Teams to Score
Newcastle v Liverpool - Liverpool to win
Southampton v Chelsea - Chelsea to win
Arsenal v Man Utd - Over 2.5 Goals
Aston Villa v Brentford - Both Teams to Score
Fulham v Brighton - Both Teams to Score
Bournemouth v Tottenham - Over 2.5 Goals

• The 9-fold acca pays 71/1 with 888 Sport

P.S

Don’t miss tonight’s 7.30pm deadline for the midweek Predictor game:

Enter your predictions here

We’ll be back on Friday with your weekend Predictor email.

Enjoy the football…

Best wishes,

Oliver Upstone

Across the Leagues Extra