Premier League Tips: Crystal Palace and Spurs to stand by formulae

Michael Lintorn
03 October 2015

Saido Berahino has come back remarkably strongly from his deadline-day mishaps

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The Opta insights highlight Palace and Tottenham patterns that can be backed at odds-against to continue...

"13 of the 16 goals in games featuring the Eagles this season have come after half-time."

Recommended Bet: Back the second half to have the most goals in Crystal Palace v West Brom @ 2.26/5

Crystal Palace v West Brom (Saturday, 12:45, BT Sport 1)

13 of the 16 goals in games featuring the Eagles this season have come after half-time

Crystal Palace's fixtures have got progressively more second-half entertainment-centric, to the point where their last five matches have produced no first-half strikes compared to 11 following the break, with punters who backed the latter 45 to deliver more goals being paid out on every single occasion.

West Brom find themselves in a similar situation. Their last two encounters yielded an accumulative eight goals, but only one arrived before the interval, and that was as late as the 41st minute. All three in their 3-0 loss to Norwich came in the final half hour, while four from five against Everton were after swapping ends.

Recommended Bet: Back the second half to have the most goals @ 2.26/5

Norwich v Leicester (Saturday, 15:00)

The Canaries are without a clean sheet in their last ten league games

There isn't a single statistic that could have captured this column's imagination more than this one. Norwich are yet to restrict an opponent to zero since returning to the Premier League, but won't be lacking confidence having failed to fire just once, when reduced to ten men early at Southampton.

Why is it so significant? Because it meshes so perfectly with the already widely-established fact that Leicester are clean-sheet-free under Claudio Ranieri, with his first nine outings in all competitions including 16 concessions, despite there being only one defeat in that entire leak-littered sequence.

Recommended Bet: Back both teams to score @ 1.674/6

Swansea v Tottenham (Sunday, 16:00)

Tottenham have won their last seven Premier League games against Swansea

It appears as though Spurs have been very harshly treated in being assessed as 2.915/8 outsiders for this showdown given that they have never been beaten by them in the Premier League, with their head-to-head domination extending to three successive victories at the Liberty Stadium.

The Lilywhites are also in far better form. Last weekend's 4-1 dismissal of then-leaders Manchester City made it three top-flight wins in a row and one goal against in four. They haven't lost since a slender 1-0 reverse away to pacesetting Manchester United on the opening day. Swansea by contrast had these September figures in all competitions: P4 W0 D1 L3 F1 A5.

Recommended Bet: Back Tottenham to win @ 2.915/8

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