Surprisingly, Wolves head into this game in better form than Man City with six Premier League wins in a row including impressive victories against Man Utd and Tottenham. Man City are in good form too with four wins in their last five league games and will need maximum points here to stay in the race for Champions League places.
For this tip, I’ve found a bet that could land in the first half! I’m backing a bet builder with these two selections ‘Over 0.5 First Half Goals & Over 2.5 Match Goals‘ at 1.66.
Race For the Champions League
With Liverpool lifting the Premier League trophy last Sunday and the bottom three relegated sides all but confirmed, the race for Champions League places is all that’s left to entertain Premier League fans now. After Arsenal’s victory against Real Madrid, England were guaranteed a fifth Champions League spot. Pep’s side occupy fourth place with 61 points with Newcastle one point ahead in 3rd place and Aston Villa in 7th place with 57 points so any slip up now could prove to be costly with only four league games left.
I’m backing goals in this game and more specifically first half goals as seen in City’s recent games. The Citizens have seen over 1.5 goals in the first half in their last nine league home games. In fact they’ve seen a first half goal in all their games at the Etihad and 88% in their total league matches. They have seen at least three goals in 77% of their games on home soil and the past six head to head meetings have seen at three or more goals!
Winning Wolves
Wolves have shot up the table with six wins in a row which has propelled them from a relegation battle to 13th place in the table. Cunha is back from suspension and showed what Wolves will miss should he leave in the Summer as the Brazilian racked up a goal and two assists against Leicester adding to his tally of 21 goal involvements this season.
Wolves also have decent first half goal stats with 85% of their Premier League games seeing a goal in the first 45 minutes. They also enjoy their fair share of goals with 71% of their games seeing at least three goals. In fact, they average the 2nd highest goals per game in the league with 3.29 goals. There should be goals in this one and we can’t wait to watch this thrilling encounter!
