Draw layers at 400 get Gunned down as Redknapp performs his magic

Betfacts / Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 29 October 2008 / Leave a comment Free £25 Bet

Arsenal backers will once again be cursing the Gunners' inability to defend leads after they were matched at Betfair's minimum price of 1.01 for over £800k when they led Harry Redknapp's Spurs by 4-2....

The draw traded at [700.0] for just 50p but it also traded at odds of [400.0] for the far more significant amount of £24. For backers to be paid out on "any unquoted" on the correct score market they need one team to score four goals or more and those who took [11.0] certainly did get paid out, though they probably didn't expect both teams to score four. Earlier in the match David Bentley was a [29.0] chance to open the scoring which he duly did with an absolute screamer that is surely a contender for goal of the season.

Blackburn's visit to Aston Villa may not have been the glamour tie of the midweek Premiership fixtures but other than the Emirates it was certainly the place to be for big prices coming good and short prices being turned over. Stephen Warnock was the unlikely first goalscorer as his odds of [60.0] suggest and the scorer of the second - Luke Young - was no less obscure a scorer. His goal was significant because it denied punters who backed Blackburn at [1.01] to be leading at half-time through his first-half injury-time finish. Villa, who won 3-2, were matched at [4.4] to win the match but Brett Emerton's late goal caught layers of the 3-2 scoreline at [100.0] somewhat unaware.

Relegation strugglers Fulham and Stoke were matched at [5.1] and [2.76] respectively en route to beating Wigan and Sunderland. These wins have eased Stoke to [1.31] and Fulham to [3.75] on the relegation market which still makes Tony Pulis' troops the favourites for the drop and Fulham the fourth favourites, sandwiched in between Bolton ([1.95]) and West Brom ([2.3]).

Bolton's price for the drop has come in very much on the back of a last-gasp defeat to Everton, who touched [14.0] on the match odds market before Fallaini's header that gave the Merseysiders all three points.

There was nothing particularly extraordinary about Man Utd's 2-0 win over West Ham but the fact that both goals came from Cristiano Ronaldo are significant for fans of the Premiership top goalscorer market and in particular those who have backed the Portuguese wizard at odds of [17.0] - he's now the second-favourite at odds of 6 behind Fernando Torres. The Spaniard wasn't playing tonight but Liverpool squeezed three points out of Portsmouth with a late Steven Gerrard penalty after being matched at [2.36].