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25th Aug 2014 | Premier League

Goals Galore At The Etihad Highly Likely

The most recent meeting of the two sides who finished first and second last season ended 3-2. A similar outcome would win us this wager.

The first heavyweight bout of the embryonic Premier League season takes place on Monday night and our best bet must be to anticipate goals and plenty of them.

Liverpool and Manchester City fixtures produced more goals than any other sides in 2013-14 with 151 and 139 notched up respectively. That was an average of 3.97 (Liverpool) and 3.66 (Man City) goals per match.

At this stage, i don’t believe too much has changed over the summer and the Reds are particularly prone to counter-attacking with vigour on their travels. They have found the net at least twice in their last seven away league games. For their part, City mustered 63 goals in 19 home outings last term.

Brendan Rodgers’ boys saw over 4.5 goals in 13 of their 38 matches last season with Pellegrini’s champions witnessing this in 15 out of 38. This suggests the probability of seeing at least 5 goals is probably nothing longer than 2/1 whenever one of these sides is in action.

Against each other the likelihood of a goal glut seemingly only increases; the two clashes in 2013-14 produced 8 goals in total. At best odds of 18/5 (BetVictor) we’re getting a definite bargain for over 4.5 goals at the Etihad.

1pt Over 4.5 goals in the match 18/5 with BetVictor
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Odds correct at time of publishing: 09:04 25th Aug, 2014 but subject to change

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