FA-cup odds from bwin
Premier League has a shorter pause since the following week is a FA-cup weekend. As usually now years the FA-cup will be played both Saturday and Sunday. I find Sunday’s matches and odds more interesting and have chosen to focus on the games on Saturday, totally three games.
The FA-cup is always interesting from a betting-perspective since teams in lower divisions have their chance to show a bigger crowd what they can do. There are usually one or two teams from the lower divisions that surprise us all by pretty far in the tourney. It is usual that a team from Championship or maybe even league one reaches at least too the quarterfinals.
But it’s normally a bit tougher in FA-cup compared to the Carlings cup (former League cup) since most of the bigger teams often rests their key players in that tourney. FA-cup is, and have always bee, a prestigious Cup that every team sees as a big trophy to win.
Here are the odds and matches for Sunday’s FA-cup, and all the odds are from bwin-football-odds:
Bolton Wanderers vs. Tottenham Hotspurs, odds: home win 3.40 draw 3.25 away win 2.00
Fulham vs. Notts County, odds: home win 1.40 draw 4.00 away win 7.25
Crystal Palace vs. Aston Villa, odds: home win 4.50 draw 3.25 away win 1.75
Generally, I can say that I think all of the three pre-favorites have great chances to win and that I will recommend too bet on these teams for these games. Nevertheless, I am of course going to give you my analysis and thoughts over why I think that the games will end as I think and place my bet on:
Bolton Wanderers vs. Tottenham Hotspurs, bettingtips: away win @ odds 2.00
This is the only game where two Premier League clubs are standing on both sides of the ground. Tottenham is going strong in the Premier League and is normally a strong cup team as well. Tottenham has started this year’s league season very strongly, for the first time in several years, and are for real fighting to reach one of the top four places that give them a ticket to the Champions League qualification next season.
Bolton on the other side is going worse then last couple of years and have to look out if they want to avoid relegation after this season. Tottenham is, at the moment, standing on the sixth place in the table and with only one point up to Liverpool and Manchester City so they really have contact with the teams above them. Spurs has taken 43 points with 26 games played and that is a good result for them.
Bolton is on the 19th place in the table and under the relegation mark. With only Portsmouth behind them Bolton has to start winning soon. I think that Bolton has a better squad then their position in the league table is telling, but their managers have not been able to bring home the points. Since Bolton is in such an exposed position in the table, I have a strong feeling that their manager wants to focus on the league.
Tottenham has a strong squad and even if manager, Harry Redknapp, chooses to rest some players he have the opportunity to bring in almost equally players instead. Bolton’s manager does defiantly not have that opportunity and since they have a very important match coming on Wednesday against Wigan away so I think that he might rest some players as well.
I think that the bet on Tottenham feels good here and the odds pay double the investment. That is why I choose to recommend you to bet on Tottenham as my first bettingtips here.
Fulham vs. Notts county, bettingtips: Home win @ odds 1.40
Fulham is going strong in Premier League when they play home at Craven Cottage. Even though they have had a tougher period lately and they took an important home win against Burnley with 3 to 0 in their last game.
You might find the odds a bit now on the home win here, but remember that there are four divisions’ differences between these teams and that is a lot if you ask me. I would say that the difference between Premier League and Championship is that big that if Fulham were playing home against a team from the bottom half of Championship 1.40 would be an okay odds to bet on. Now we have both Championship and league one between these two teams divisions and this is an easy pick for me.
Fulham has managed to win 8 of their 13 games home at Craven cottage while Notts co has 6 wins 3 draws and 5 looses in their 14 away games. I do not hesitate at all here and bet on Fulham immediately.
Crystal Palace vs. Aston Villa, bettingtips: away win @ odds 1.75
This game is a bit harder to predict then the last one but I think that Aston Villa, from Premier League, will defeat Crystal Palace from Championship.
I like Aston Villa’s way of playing football and I like Martin O’Neill as manager very much. O’Neill has brought in his thoughts and football- philosophy in a positive way to Aston Villa and the results are big success. Aston Villa tries to play same kind of football home as away and that is a sign of big confidence.
Crystal Palace knocked out Wolves in the last round of FA-cup, but I think that their cup-story ends here. Aston Villa has many high-class in their squad players and shall win this game. I think that the odds at 1.75 is enough to be playable but would not bet on them if the odds sink.
/Best Regards
Amrish
