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Saturday Football Tips: Build your way to fouls profit

  • Andy Schooler
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Wilfried Zaha
Wilfried Zaha is the Premier League's most-regularly fouled player

Our football props column, fresh from another winner, has a 3/1 fouls-based Bet Builder for Saturday's Premier League game between Crystal Palace and Leicester.

  • Huge game & decent ref promise fouls

  • Lots of players with good data

  • 3/1 fouls-based Bet Builder


Fouls accumulators, using the Bet Builder tool, are becoming increasingly popular with punters and this game looks one well suited to such a bet.

First of all, this is a massive game for both sides, entrenched, as they are, in a serious relegation battle.

In addition, in this season's Premier League, Palace are both the most-fouled team and the team who have committed the most fouls.

We've also got a decent referee in Tim Robinson, who gave 29 fouls in his only Premier League match so far. He's spent most of his time in the Championship where he averages 22.87 fouls per game this season; the Premier League average is 21.39.

Let's start with the obvious and back Ricardo Pereira for 1+ foul - he's set to go up against Wilfried Zaha who, as regular readers will already know, is once again the most-fouled player in the top flight.

He's being fouled three times per game on average and should draw at least one from his opposing full-back here.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Harvey Barnes are also offered in the same market at decent prices.

KDH tops the Leicester fouls averages and has landed the 1+ fouls bet in 11 of his last 13 starts, while Barnes has done so in 15 of his previous 18.

Moving to the other side of the ball, I'm happy to add Zaha for a foul - he's someone who very much likes to take his own retribution, something which is reflected in the fact he's committed a foul in 10 of his last 12 games.

To complete a 3/1 Bet Builder, throw in Cheick Doucoure.

No Premier League player has received more cards this season than the combative Palace midfielder, who also ranks fourth for tackles.

It's therefore no surprise to see he has a high foul count too.

He's delivered 1+ foul in 11 of his last 14 appearances.

Let's hope no-one in our five-legged bet let's us down!

Back Pereira, Dewsbury-Hall, Barnes, Zaha and Doucoure 1+ foul each @

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