Saturday's bets

Football first but il be back with a look at the GAA action on offer tonight

Aston Villa V Wigan

Emile Heskey didn’t have to wait too long before having to face his old employers and teammates at Wigan. Heskey made an immediate impact scoring on his debut and his strength and ability may be just what Villa need to stay in the top 4. I like the look of the odds on him to score at anytime today. He’s upfront with Agbonlahor and there are bound to be plenty of chances for him. Agbonlahor has a very good strike rate against the Latics having scored 3 times in the last 4 games against them which throws me off taking Heskey to score first. It’s hard to predict the games itself as Villa could be accused of having a lot of luck in their recent good run. They were lucky to hold on to the 3 points against Pompey midweek and haven’t really given a complete performance yet.
Wigan could also have snatched 3 points from Liverpool midweek but in my mind this was down to the negative approach from Rafa Benitez. Trying to hold onto a 1 - 0 lead is risky business and Wigan fully deserved their point.

Verdict
This should be a decent games with plenty of chances and who knows better the strengths and weaknesses of the Wigan defence than Heskey. There is always an air of inevitability about a player scoring against his former club and as Bellamy proved against Newcastle on Wednesday it happens quite a lot.

PICK
Heskey anytime scorer ( 3 @ skybet) 4 points

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Manchester United V Everton

I have two picks for this game at long odds that I have thought to be “value” and worth a shot.
First of all, Man Utd have not conceded in 1,032 minutes in the premiership, which is a remarkable achievement. United tend to outplay their opposition from time to time and it there are times when Van Der Sar does not have to do much for large periods of the game. Keeping your concentration is a hard thing to do in games like this and this makes the record all the more amazing. United have looked like regaining the premiership for a long time now and it will take a special effort from the Toffees if they are to pull something from this game. However they are in good form themselves and outplayed Arsenal for long periods of the game on Wednesday night before a late goal from Van Persie shared the points. Two consecutive draws with Liverpool preceded the Arsenal game in which they also played ok.
Manchester have not looked like dropping points in a while but could find it tough today provided that Everton are up for the challenge. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least to See Uniteds clean sheet record beaten today and im hoping that Everton can score first and make a game of it as Spurs did last week in the FA cup.

Verdict
As I said I think Everton can be stiff opposition and can make it tough for United. Two picks I see in with a great shout are United to come from behind to win the game, as they did last week. The other is for it to be a draw at HT and United to win at FT which is also a huge possibility if Everton come to Old Trafford to defend as teams often do.
Big odds, small stakes

PICK

Man Utd to come from behind and win (11 @ paddy power) 1 point

Draw HT – Man Utd FT (4.5 @ ladbrokes) 4 points