newcastle1718Monday night's English Premier League football sees Aston Villa bid to halt a three match losing streak when they host Newcastle

 

 

 

 

Villa

 

Villa are hovering just 1 place and 1 point above third bottom Norwich with a record of 3 wins, 2 draws and 7 defeats. At Villa Park they have won 2, drawn 2 and lost 2 and 4 of those matches saw backers of over 2.5 goals and both teams to score? (yes) collect. Villa's recent league outings have been tough with defeats at Manchester City (3-0) and Wolves (2-1) either side of a 2-1 loss to Liverpool at this venue. They threatened to surprise the league leaders in that most recent home game before conceding twice from 87 minutes onwards.

Wesley has 4 league goals for Villa and McGinn has scored 3.

 

Newcastle

 

Newcastle are 4 points better off than Villa and they are looking for a third straight win after getting the better of West Ham away from home (3-2) and Bournemouth (2-1) in a home fixture. Of their 6 road trips 2 have been won and 4 ended in defeat. Their only clean sheet on their travels came in a surprise 1-0 win at Spurs and 4 of their away matches have seen backers of over 2.5 goals collect whilst 3 delivered for punters who sided with both teams to find the net.

Clark and Shelvey have both scored 2 league goals for Newcastle this season.

 

 

The Betting

 

Villa are favouites at around 11/10 with the draw trading at 5/2 and Newcastle are also a 5/2 chance.

 

Under 2.5 total match goals is priced at 17/20 with over 2.5 goals the same price and both teams to score? (yes) is 7/10.

 

Verdict:

 

This looks a fairly tricky game to call although Villa's recent display at home to Liverpool was very encouraging and if Jack Grealish is fit to return from injury they should be a handful.

On the other side of the coin Villa have been prone to concede in the second half of matches so I'm looking to the home team goals markets rather than the match result and I'll go with Villa to score at least twice.

 

Bet: Home team goals, over 1.5 at even money.

 

Note, all odds quoted are subject to change.