Premier League Title Odds: United go odds-on for first time this season

Premier League / Joe Dyer / 11 January 2009 / Leave a Comment

Champions destroy Chelsea to assume title favouritism, Blues slide behind Liverpool in current betting.

Manchester United have entered odds-on territory to win the Premier League for the first time this season after their 3-0 win over Chelsea today.

The champions dominated their London rivals with goals from Nemanja Vidic, Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov in an ominous performance for those with designs on winning the league.

United are now just five points behind leaders Liverpool with two games in hand. From a low of [1.84], Chelsea are the current third favourites behind Liverpool ([4.3]) in title betting at [5.1].

After opening the match around the [2.5] mark, United touched a high of [2.84] before Vidic's late first-half opener. That header denied backers of the halftime draw at [1.02], a HT win for the home side was backed at [21.0]

Berbatov's 84th minute third goal will have cheered backers of the 3-0 scoreline at [65.0] and hurt backers of under 2.5 goals at [1.19].

Tottenham's woes continued when Wigan scored in the 91st minute to crush the north Londoners.

Wigan were backed at a high of [12.5] to win the match, with the final score backed at [15.0].