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With Man City facing Blackburn on Saturday evening Man Utd are likely to face a five point gap at the head of the table going into this match meaning no dropped points is imperative at Norwich on Sunday. Norwich have enjoyed a strong season in the Premiership following back to back promotions and they won’t make life easy for United but United are still expected to emerge with all the points from Carrow Road.

Norwich gave United a good game at Old Trafford earlier in the season but aren’t expected to win even with home advantage, at the time of writing you can get odds of 11/2. Man Utd are of course favourites and are a fairly reasonable price to win the match at 8/15 whilst the draw is priced up at 17/5. If you want to boost the odds a bit on United you could look to the handicap market where United are 11/8 to win by more than one goal and 7/2 to win this match by more than two goals.

Norwich won the last time these sides met at Carrow Road, that was a 2-0 win in 2005 when Norwich were last in the Premiership. The sides met ten years before than and United won that game 2-0 and the season before it was another 2-0 win for United. That was a very long time ago but it is interesting that the last three games between the teams at Carrow Road have all ended 2-0 and that could be a good bet in the correct score market, United are 15/2 to take this match by that scoreline.

Norwich have only lost three home games all season in the league so Man Utd could do well to win this match but United do have the best away record in the entire Premiership despite playing a game less than most sides, from twelve away matches United have won eight, drawn three and lost just one. United have been involved in some high scoring games in recent away games in the Premiership, the results from the last four have been 3-3, 2-1, 3-0 and 5-0 which makes over 2.5 goals look a good bet at 8/13.

In games where United should score a few goals the goalscorer odds should be interesting, Wayne Rooney heads the betting at 18/5 to score first and 10/11 to score anytime and he looks a fair bet. Next best is Javier Hernandez who is marginally more likely than Danny Welbeck, the pair are 9/2 and 5/1 respectively to score first and 11/10 and 13/10 respectively to score at anytime. At bigger prices the back to fitness Ashley Young also appeals at 8/1 to score first and 5/2 to score anytime.

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No match this week with other sides involved in the FA Cup so it could pay to examine the current Premiership odds on all things Man Utd related including where Man Utd will finish this season, who will score the most goals and how many points United will end up with.

With Man City back on top following their narrow win over Aston Villa last weekend it is the ‘noisy neighbours’ who are currently the favourites to win their first Premiership title, the best odds with the bookies are 4/6 and if a 66% profit on your bet is enough compensation for City winning the title then that looks a good bet. United have been there and done that and certainly aren’t going to bottle anything in the run in so there could still be money to be made by backing the Champions for back to back victories, United are 6/4 with most bookies to win the Premiership and that looks to be just about value. Spurs are still a long way off being genuine title contenders despite some impressive performances this season and that is why you can get 20/1 on Harry Redknapp’s team winning their first Premiership title.

With United second favourites to win the Premiership it is no surprise that the bookies make United’s most likely league position to be runners up, you can get 11/10 that United finish second this season whilst exactly third is 7/2, that will only look a possibility if Spurs beat United at White Hart Lane at the start of next month. It is almost impossible to see United dropping down to fourth or worse and that is why the bookies go 25/1 on that, even those odds look a bit on the short side.

Man Utd are more likely to get less than 86.5 points than more than that marker according to the odds compilers who are betting on United’s total points haul for the season. Man Utd have 58 points with 13 games remaining and to go over 86.5 points Sir Alex Ferguson’s side need 29 points and you can get 10/11 on that eventuality whilst under 86.5 points is available at slightly shorter odds of 4/5. United gained just 80 points last season and last got over 86.5 in 2009 so the unders is probably the best bet.

The shortest odds relating to Man Utd seem to be on the club’s top scorer in the Premiership this season. There is no surprise that Wayne Rooney heads the betting, he has 17 league goals this season which puts the England striker nine goals clear of his nearest rival who is Javier Hernandez on eight goals. Meanwhile Berbabtov has seven league goals and Danny Welbeck has six. With Welbeck currently starting in front of Hernandez it is almost impossible to see anyone scoring more than Rooney which is why you can only get 1/20 on Rooney outscoring the rest of the team and 5% return on your investment for three months isn’t a bad return.

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Last week’s fightback against Chelsea should have given the players a huge lift despite still dropping two points in that fixture and the tough fixtures show no sign of ending, Liverpool are United’s opponents on Saturday for the third time this season, hopefully it will be a better result than the previous two games.

Those two games, in which Man Utd drew and lost, both came at Anfield but at Old Trafford things have been very good for United in recent years, United have won the last three games between the sides at Old Trafford and in total have won seven out of the last eight (Liverpool won 4-1 here in 2009 in a rare blip). The odds therefore seem very favourable on a Man Utd win in this match, at the time of writing you can get 5/6 on a home win with the bookies and that looks as though it can be backed with confidence judging by these previous matches. The draw is deemed to be the next best option according to the bookies, they offer 13/5 on that outcome whilst a rare Old Trafford win for Liverpool is available at 7/2.

If you fancied boosting those odds of 5/6 on a Man Utd win then you could back Man Utd to win this match by exactly one goal. Man Utd’s last three wins against Liverpool at Old Trafford have all been won by a one goal winning margin and five of United’s last seven wins have been by that margin so the odds of 11/4 look particularly generous there. If you think the winning margin will be higher you can certainly be forgiven as United have scored sixteen goals in five matches at Old Trafford recently, albeit against some weaker opposition. A win by a margin of two goals is 9/2 and three or more goals is 11/2.

If United are to win by a one goal margin then 1-0 and 2-1 would certainly appeal as the most likely correct score options, they can currently be backed at 7/1 and 8/1 respectively. A two goal winning margin for Man Utd means the correct score would probably be 2-0 or 3-1 and those outcomes are 17/2 and 14/1 respectively whilst a three goal winning margin would probably mean a 3-0 win or 4-1 win and those selections are both big odds at 16/1 and 33/1.

As for goalscorers, the bookies have four United players more likely to score than Luis Suarez who is the favourite to get on the scoresheet for the visitors. That would be a pretty unpopular outcome for obvious reasons and he is 5/2 to get his first goal since his ban. Wayne Rooney is favourite to open the scoring following his penalty brace against Chelsea, he is 22/5 to score first and 6/5 to score anytime. Next best is last week’s other scorer, Javier Hernandez, he is 11/2 to score first and 6/4 to score anytime in this match whilst Danny Welbeck and Dimitar Berbatov are 15/8 and 12/5 respectively to get on the scoresheet.

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Man Utd have had to face Man City, Arsenal and Liverpool in the last month and now it is Chelsea’s turn on Sunday in what has to be the game of the weekend. Man Utd go into this weekend joint top of the Premiership twelve points above Chelsea yet it is Chelsea who are the favourites to beat Man Utd on Sunday.

Perhaps it is home advantage that has made the bookies side with Chelsea, it certainly isn’t current form as no team has earned more points than Man Utd in the Premiership from their last eight matches (eighteen points from six wins and two losses) whilst Chelsea have won just two games in that period whilst drawing a whopping five matches. That suggests the odds on Chelsea of 8/5 are far too short and betting bets lie with either Man Utd to win (a winning bet in six out of Man Utd’s last eight league games) at odds of 19/10 or the draw at 23/10 (a winning bet in five of Chelsea’s last eight league games).

United won the last fixture between the teams at Stamford Bridge, that was the 1-0 win in the Champions League in April, but that was United’s first win at the ground since 2002 (a 3-0 win in the League). Between those two wins were four draws and six wins for Chelsea. That poor record at Stamford Bridge points towards a draw here at 23/10 more than the away win. In the last ten games between the teams at Stamford Bridge under 2.5 goals has been a winning bet seven times and under 3.5 goals has been a winning bet in all of those matches, those outcomes can be backed at evens and 4/11 respectively. It is worth noting that six of Chelsea’s last eight matches have had under 2.5 goals in them.

So if it’s a low scoring draw then the only two options available to us are 0-0 and 1-1, the former bet is priced up at 11/1 whilst the latter is the most likely correct score according to the bookies at 6/1. If you fancy Man Utd to beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge for the second game running then stick to the low scoring outcomes, a 1-0 win for United in this match is 8/1 whilst a 2-0 win does look very tempting at 12/1, the biggest price of all the correct scores we will highlight here.

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