S.P.Read Esq: Arsenal v Man City

Our daily columnist and pundit S.P. Read Esq. looks ahead to the Premier League game on Monday between ARSENAL v MAN CITY and finds the best opportunities available on Star Spreads, the home of sports spread betting.

I‘ve always said the fixture list generator has a great skill in producing ‘random’ fixtures.

We are truly blessed to have the computer select Arsenal v Man City as the final Premier League fixture before Christmas !!!

Conspiracy theories aside for one moment, because even the fixture list computer couldn’t have predicted the scenario that both sides need a win tonight in order to keep tabs on …….. Leicester.

That’s exactly where we are at. A point for either side would still leave Leicester with a four point cushion at the top – and as the stats book tells us ‘five of last the last six seasons has seen the team who have led on Christmas Day go on and be crowned champions’.

The hosts name an unchanged side from last weekend’s 2-0 away win at Aston Villa.

Manuel Pellegrini has given a start to Aguero who returns from injury with Raheem Sterling on the bench.

Pellegrini said: “We must consider Leicester – they are still top of the table. United are just a few points behind us. Tottenham can be involved, so can Liverpool and Crystal Palace. It’s impossible just to think there are two teams involved in the title.”

SO – it’s a six horse race then ??? The outright odds say not with it still looking a match between Man City and Arsenal and around 10/1 bar.

Arsenal v Man City
Premier League
20:00 Sky Sports 1 / Sky Sports 1 HD

HEAD TO HEAD RECORD
(Maximum 10 matches)
Jan 2015 PREMIER Man City 0-2 Arsenal
Sep 2014 PREMIER Arsenal 2-2 Man City
Aug 2014 COMMUNITY SHIELD Arsenal 3-0 Man City
Mar 2014 PREMIER Arsenal 1-1 Man City
Dec 2013 PREMIER Man City 6-3 Arsenal
Jan 2013 PREMIER Arsenal 0-2 Man City
Sep 2012 PREMIER Man City 1-1 Arsenal
Apr 2012 PREMIER Arsenal 1-0 Man City
Dec 2011 PREMIER Man City 1-0 Arsenal
Nov 2011 CARLING CUP Arsenal 0-1 Man City

STARTING XI

Arsenal
33 Cech
24 Bellerín
04 Mertesacker
06 Koscielny
18 Monreal
20 Flamini
16 Ramsey
14 Walcott
11 Özil
28 Campbell
12 Giroud

Manchester City
01 Hart
03 Sagna
30 Otamendi
20 Mangala
11 Kolarov
25 Fernandinho
42 Y Touré
18 Delph
21 Silva
10 Agüero
17 De Bruyne

The sell of Swansea supremacy worked out well yesterday.

Tonight I’m buying bookings on Star Spreads in what surely will be a feisty game. 59 is quite a high starting point so fasten your seat belts. The man in black Andre Marriner is averaging 44 points this season so with a bit of allowance for the importance of the game we’re not too far short. A red clearly would help the cause.

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