United are currently riding high at the top of the Premiership and with twelve wins in their last fourteen home games, in all competitions, then all bets should point towards the side from Manchester progressing.
Chelsea and Arsenal are the only teams this year to take points away from Old Trafford and although this cup competition can often throw up some shocks it’s generally not when two top-flight teams meet.
Villa held champions Chelsea in the league on Tuesday, and that was a fair effort, but you have to go back eleven games to find their last win and to me they seem to lack a potent striker how can bag them 20+ goals. Defensively they look ok, which is not uncommon in past Martin O’Neill sides, and with the likes of Olof Mellberg, Gavin McCann and Wilfred Bouma they should build around them. However with only one victory on their travels this season and one goal scored from open play in their last five the odds of around 10/1 for a Villa win look about right against a team scoring for fun. For more odds visit WWW.EASYODDS.COM.
The draw is available at around 4/1, and this looks more appealing, but although short the 3/10 for a United victory looks the only way to go.
The Red Devils have scored a massive eleven goals in their last four games, with three of those coming against Villa four games ago when the Reds won 3-0 at Villa Park.
The team news suggests they will be without striker Louis Saha, who picked up a groin strain in their last match, but with Scholes, Rooney, Giggs, Solskjaer and Ronaldo all firing then I’m sure the goals will just keep coming.
Swedish striker Henrik Larsson is now also available after the league leaders secured his services last month and could figure coming up against his old boss Martin O’Neill.
So to me the odds of 3/10 are skinny, and United will figure prominently in most people’s doubles and trebles over the weekend, but there are still other markets to take into account on the match that should yield nice profit at slightly better odds.
Ronaldo with six goals in the last four games at around 13/8 to score and 6/1 first is of massive interest, while the 8/11 on offer for there to be over 2.5 goals is also worth snapping up with eight of United’s last nine games producing more than that 2.5 margin.
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* All prices correct at time of writing.
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