The gunners have a serious chance to extend the lead at the top of the table on Monday evening.
The weekend results could not have worked out any better for Arsenal with Manchester United losing 2 - 1 in the Manchester derby and Chelsea and Liverpool playing out a stale 0 - 0 draw.
With Eboue, Toure and Song set to return the future is looking good for the home side and they will hope to use their home form to maximum effect.
Arsenal have been immense at home with 11 wins from 13 matches. The have averaged over 2 goals a game and Adebayor will look to find the net and with 8 goals in the last 6 matches he is on top of his game. Flamini and Van Persie are out and so is Almunia but Wenger has enough players to chose from so all is not lost.
Blackburn sit in 9th place and are having a good season. They are a side that Arsenal often find it hard to play against because of their robust physical style of play. Goalkeeper Brad Freidal often saves his best performances for games against the Gunners and a good performance from him is essential if Blackburn are to take anything from the game.
They are coming into this game on the back of three draws though it must be added that their away form has improved with 4 games since defeat. 12 goals in their last 6 away games is also impressive though apart from Villa and Man City they have not faced any of the "top" sides in that period.
Hughes is without thel trio Christopher Samba, David Dunn and Morten Gamst Pedersen, who are all suspended. Ryan Nelsen and Andre Ooijer are both suffering from hamstring problems and are rated very doubtful.
Verdict
As i already mentioned before things are all falling into place for Arsenal. A win will put them 5 points clear at the top and they have beaten better sides than Blackburn at the Emirates this year.
Adebayor is on fire and if he gets half a chance he will take it. Arsenal to win 2 - 0 for me
PICK
Arsenal - 1, -1.5 ( 1.83 @ canbet) 6 points
Adebayor first goalscorer (4.5 @ paddy power) 2 points
Verdict
As i already mentioned before things are all falling into place for Arsenal. A win will put them 5 points clear at the top and they have beaten better sides than Blackburn at the Emirates this year.
Adebayor is on fire and if he gets half a chance he will take it. Arsenal to win 2 - 0 for me
PICK
Arsenal - 1, -1.5 ( 1.83 @ canbet) 6 points
Adebayor first goalscorer (4.5 @ paddy power) 2 points
4 comments:
epe nice to see you back! Got burned by the Manchester Derby - should have known better than to back Utd without Rooney in a local derby but there you go. Lucky that Egypt covered my losses in the ANC final.
Can't see past an Arsenal win here either; handicap and Addy to score both should come in!
Good luck and hope tommorrow gets us all back on track!
hhhmmmm Arsenal leave it late as usual. Probably should have taken Adabayor as an anytime scorer instead of a first goalscorer bet but thats hindsight for you!
Quick question: why the handicap both -1 AND -1.5? I don't understand, shoudn't it be -1 OR -1.5?
I've seen this kind of bet before, and I found no explanation to that.
Thanks.
Sorry mate just saw the question now.
This bet is in two parts,
I chose Arsenal -1, -1.5 ( this is one bet) and arsenal won 2 - 0 which meant they covered both of the handicaps,
If Arsenal had won 1 - 0 then i would have lost 1/2 my stake ( as it was beaten by the - 1.5 handicap, and the other half would have been returned as it would have been level with the -1 handicaps
Hope this helps
Feel free to ask any questions
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