Premier League – Football betting news

Barely a week after rumours of a Rafa exit Liverpool’s title hopes have been reignited. A deserved victory over incumbent champions Manchester United not only brought joy to the ardent support in the Kop, but sending-offs for Nemanja Vidic and Javier Mascherano did extremely well for buyers of Sporting Index’s football bet bookings spread (final make-up 100pts) and the popular Fat Lady spread which awards points for events in the closing ten minutes.

The confidence the players must have taken from that game at Anfield is sure to make the Reds a tricky proposition for Fulham in their Halloween meeting in West London. Although buyers of Liverpool’s win index spread will be confident in light of the team’s four wins from six away to Fulham, spread sellers will know that the Cottagers are unbeaten in their five games in October. Buyers of the Reds’ supremacy spread will, however, point out that Roy Hodgson’s side have lost two of this campaign’s four Premier League games at Craven Cottage, to Chelsea and Arsenal, two of Liverpool’s ‘Big Four’ colleagues. Goal machine Fernando Torres has scored nine league goals already this season, and looked superb last weekend, reportedly at only 80% fitness. Should he be any closer to peak condition, he is sure to scare the wits out of Fulham’s centre-back pairing - buyers of his player performance spread will certainly hope he is.

Top-of-the-league Chelsea have made a largely formidable start to the season and in beating Blackburn 5-0 last weekend looked nothing short of majestic. Even though spread buyers of the Blues’ supremacy were chuffed with a sizeable income, they might also have been disappointed the winning margin wasn’t greater. Buyers of Chelsea’s win index spread will be hoping that Carlo Ancelotti’s side can continue their hot streak against Bolton Wanderers this weekend. Spread bettors looking to buy the Blues’ supremacy spread would be encouraged by Chelsea’s impressive head-to-head record against the Trotters, where they have proven to be unbeatable in their past 11 meetings (W8-D3-L0). On-form striker Didier Drogba has found the back of the net in five out of six in the league, bringing his total up to eight for the season – sure to excite buyers of his player performance spread.

Two challengers to the Big Four’s monopoly of the top league places in recent years also go toe-to-toe on Saturday. Spread punters will be aware that Everton, who host Aston Villa, have had a poor start to the season and have not been helped by injuries to key players. Villa on the other hand reacted positively to an opening day defeat to Wigan and have since beaten Liverpool and Chelsea. While spread buyers and sellers will be fairly evenly split on these teams’ win index spreads, the total goals and goal minutes spreads should be more popular with buyers. Not one of the three meetings between the sides last year produced less than four goals, while spread buyers of goal minutes in this fixture last year will fondly remember Joleon Lescott’s injury-time equalizer for Toffees, before Ashley Young broke Goodison hearts to take the spread market make-up to 265, and the score to 3-2, seconds later.