MAN CITY go into tonight’s clash at Aston Villa 15 points adrift of Man United but the gap should be cut to three by the end of the game.
It’s one of those games where you can’t see anything other than away win.
So for better value you have to look elsewhere and City should cover the minus one handicap. Villa have improved slightly and since crashing out of the Capital One Cup to Bradford haven’t lost by more than a goal – and beaten West Ham and drawn at Everton.
City/City HT/FT is also worth but how about City to win both halves.
City thrashed Paul Lambert’s men 5-0 at the Etihad and have quality players who can really hurt signs of weakness in defence. The Villa kids could be spooked by the likes of Sergio Aguero and Carlos Tevez respectively to score first almost across the board.
But I backed Yaya Toure to strike against Chelsea in his last outing and he had an impressive scoring performance. Toure is a huge player for Roberto Mancini’s men.
City, with three clean sheets out of four in the Premier League, would need to have a real off day not to win.
There is a chance Villa will score as there last six have seen both on target and have decent forward players such as Christian Benteke who has netted six in six games and Andreas Weimann.
There is one game in La Liga and Sevilla should beat Celta Vigo. Sevilla will be concentrating on the league after losing to Atletico Madrid in the Copa del rey semi-finals and have been strong at home with eight wins in nine.
Celta are struggling to avoid the drop and have won just once away from home this season but the fixture has a history of low scorers. It’s been no to both teams to score in the last meetings, with five of them finishing 1-0 – four to the visitors.
So best bet could be under 2.5 goals. It looks a 1-0 or 2-0 and Celta have conceded exactly one goal in five of their last six outings.
I’m on a Man City/Sevilla double and on a quiet night if you wanted to a third team it could be Braga at struggling Olhanense in Portugal.
Recommendations
Man City/Sevilla double
Man City -1
Man City to win both halves
Toure to score
Under 2.5 goals at Sevilla
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