Brighton v Chelsea: Use Betfair Build Ups to back Palmer to outshoot Pedro

• Betfair Builds Up to the FA Cup fourth round tie at the Amex

• Palmer fancied at 1/12.00 to have more shots on target than Pedro

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Brighton v Chelsea
Saturday, 20:00
Live on ITV4

Match Ups - Cole Palmer to have more shots on target than Joao Pedro

The perils of betting on a FA Cup match before the starting XIs are announced was in full force yesterday when our Match Up bet on Jamie Vardy to have more shots on target than Bruno Fernandes was scuppered by the Leicester striker not even being in the squad!

It was made even worse when United put in another horror show (though they somehow won!) and Fernandes didn't register a single shot on target. One that got away then.

On Saturday night Brighton host Chelsea, and although we can't be certain of who will start for each team, the fact that both clubs have had a full week to prepare, and that neither have another game until next weekend, then hopefully that means two line-ups that we'd normally get for a Premier League clash.

And if that's the case then we're all over Cole Palmer at 1/12.00 to have more shots on target than Joao Pedro (17/102.70)!

Player vs Player

English Premier League

João Pedro

Brighton

English Premier League

Cole Palmer

Chelsea

Pedro Palmer

Appearances 23 28

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Goals 8 14

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Shots 42 102

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Shots on target 17 42

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Assists 6 6

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Chances created 23 71

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Passes 541 1007

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Fouls 21 12

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Fouls won 42 53

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Yellow cards 4 4

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Red cards 0 0

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As you can see from the above, the stats are heavily in Palmer's favour. True, he has played six more Premier League games than Pedro, but he averages over 3.5 shots per game compared to just 1.72 shots per game for the Brighton man.

Crucially, not far off one in two of those Palmer shots have been on target and he is averaging around 1.5 shots on target per game this season. Pedro averages less than half of what Palmer does when it comes to shots on target at around 0.72 per game.

Although Chelsea have been very inconsistent of late they are still relatively strong favourites to win this FA Cup tie against a side that conceded seven in a thumping loss to Nottingham Forest last week. And of course, Palmer is on penalty duty for the Blues.

But here's the best news. Palmer registered two shots on target against West Ham last week and he's now on a run of seven consecutive league games where has has registered at least one shot on target (Pedro has managed just one shot on target in his last three games). One shot on target tonight may well be good enough to win this Match Up.

Oh, and when Chelsea and Brighton faced each other in the Premier League a few months back, Palmer had seven shots at the Seagulls goal with an incredible five of those being on target!

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