Premier League betting tip: Wolverhampton Wanderers- Huddersfield Town
Nov 25, 2018
Premier League: Wolverhampton Wanderers- Huddersfield Town
You know I am not a big fan of Town and their head coach, who everyone else seems very taken with, but David Wagner and his football is not for me. BTW a lot of Terriers supporters seem to be certain that they are planning a "big" bid for Brentford striker Neal Maupay in the January window and that makes sense, because not only does he score, but works like a dog and relentlessly, and would suit Wagner who will probably leave him isolated up front on his own most of the time, but if true, their idea of "big" will have to have a "very" in front of it !
Notes on Town's last road game, a trip to Vicarage Road are reproduced below, they started quite well to be fair, but lost 3-0 and that is a familiar tale. There is no plan B and they are fine at 0-0 or, on the odd occasion they take the lead, but once falling behind, one goal all too quickly becomes two or three. Town have lost 14 Premier League away games since the start of last season, they have failed to score in 12 and, 13 defeats came by 2+ goals. Wolves look on another level in terms of quality of player and ambition to compete in the top flight and have to be delighted with the draw at the Emirates last time out. They will be looking to get back to winning ways on home soil and make the most of starts against Town, Cardiff and Newcastle in their next four outings.
Huddersfield's left wing back Chris Lowe is out with a shoulder injury, while central defender Mathias Jorgensen (Zanka) is suspended, he has missed just one PL start since joining ahead of last season, a 6-1 defeat, but that was to Manchester City, having said that, these are major disruptions to an already suspect backline.
1.5 units Wolverhampton Wanderers -1.25 goals 2.57 asian line/Sportmarket.
Good Luck.
Premier League: Watford- Huddersfield Town (written October 27th)
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I am not a fan of Town's style of football and my notes ahead of a recent home game with Crystal Palace, hopefully explain why ..............
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I sided with Crystal Palace at home to Southampton ahead of the international break and they lost 2-0, both teams posted similar stats, very similar and there were a lot of chances for both, but the Eagles sans Wilfried Zaha just looked a little less potent if not exactly toothless. He should be back today and can enjoy himself against Huddersfield Town who like to sit deep and I must admit I am not a big fan of, or their head coach. They are far too negative a team for my liking, were fortunate to go up in 16-17 and lucky to stay in the top flight last season and will need to again have the footballing gods in their half of the pitch to survive this time round.
I wrote this earlier this year and it was typical of my notes on them over the last 24 months ..............
Town are on a four match unbeaten run, but have largely struggled on the road, scoring seven in two away games, but losing six and conceding 19 goals in the other 8 starts. 24 points from 21 games for a newly promoted team is a very good haul, but my feeling that they have overachieved remains and the number of attempts they are allowing inside the box is alarming. I spoke about this in early season and in the 0-0 draw with Burnley at the weekend they gave up 9, whilst creating none themselves ! They sit very, very deep, too deep for my money and I can see them paying for this in the coming weeks.
They lost that 3-0 and I think they might struggle again today, despite things being easier for them on home soil, but when I saw them last season in the Championship, they were much changed, very similar to Middlesbrough who were incredibly hard to beat in the second tier, but who's game was too limited for Premier league football. They are four points better off than Boro were 12 months ago, but I would not be surprised to see this story also end in tears. They allowed the Foxes four times as many attempts in the penalty area as they themselves managed, City also hit the woodwork and were without Jamie Vardy.
Town have not got off to the same start this year and have yet to win, conceding 10 goals in their four starts, their two points came at Goodison where the Toffees should have been out of sight at the break and at home to a very poor Cardiff City team where all they managed was 3 attempts inside the box in 90 minutes, the lack of ambition is alarming and I would jump off the roof of the John Smith's Stadium (JS "beer " is as terrible as the football !) if I had to watch that 19 times per season ! I have to hope that football and Palace are the winners, they won 2-0 here back in March and the South London side dominated every single stat category, Town had three attempts from inside the box and not one on target until the 81st minute, they have failed to score in 23 of 42 Premier League games since promotion and writing this is making me feel a little depressed and so I will leave it at that and back the Eagles to make in 4/4 wins here in the PL !
Town are without suspended defensive midfielder Jonathan Hogg , they have conceded 20 goals in the 7 starts he has missed in the last 12 months.
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Palace won that 1-0 and Town have taken one point and scored twice since writing that preview. They are 19th, winless and two points from safety and have won just 1 from 19 in the PL, but that was against Watford, incredibly, they did the double over the Hornets last year winning 4-1 here at Vicarage Road. I am hoping that inspires the hosts to a large portion of revenge served up cold, that day Watford had Troy Deeney sent off around the 30 minute mark and were forced into gambling a man short when trailing. That game also came in the middle of an awful run for the Hornets( one win in 12).
They have made a solid start this season , have 16 points and 7th place and ended a mini blip with a very nice win at Wolves last week where they restricted the home side, who have been collecting admirers week on week, to almost no real chances.
Hornets head coach Javi Gracia says he has complete faith in all of his players and that, although Sebastian Prödl is definitely out and that Troy Deeney and Nathaniel Chalobah have trained away from the main group this week, he will relish the task of deciding whether to stick with the same XI who performed so impressively against Wolverhampton Wanderers or whether to restore the previously suspended José Holebas and Christian Kabasele to the team.
“I am confident in all of them,” he said. “The problem is to choose only 11. They can know, they can feel that I trust them, that if they don't start, they can do what Andre Gray did. He came on and helped the team a lot. That is the mentality.”
Town are playing a little better, in recent starts, but it is all relative and results have not improved and a negative mindset is very difficult to get out of and they are very short of a plan B when conceding first and a league-low 21 goal attempts on target tells it's own story.
1.5 units Watford -1 ball 2.46 asian line/Sportmarket.
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