Middlesbrough ended Bournemouth’s seven-match winning sequence in the Championship as Aitor Karanka’s side missed the chance of going top of the table, playing out a goalless draw at the weekend.
Boro remain 4/1 second favourites for the title but trimmed to 11/10 to be playing Premier League football next season; Derby are 4/7 favourites after moving back to the top with a 5-0 annihilation of Wolves.
Hartlepool remain unchanged at 4000/1 outsiders (is there a nought missing?) for the FA Cup after a comfortable 2-0 defeat of East Thurrock United at Victoria Park on Saturday. The result, more so than the performance, will have been a boost for new boss Paul Murray, winning his first game since taking over from Colin Cooper.
Murray’s primary objective will be guiding Pools to survival in League Two, however he looks to have an almighty difficult task on his hand and BetVictor make Hartlepool the even money favourites to be plying their trade in the Conference Premier next season and 8/11 to maintain their Football League status for another season.
Notwithstanding their current league position, the weekend’s success ended a poor run as Jonathan Franks, who netted either side of half-timer to secure Pools’ spot in the second round. The win should give the side confidence ahead of the weekend’s visit to Roots Hall. The Shrimpers are 8/13 favourites with BetVictor, Pools 5/1 and the draw 14/5. The visitors are 11/8 to leave with a share of the spoils at the very least with Pools taken to earn an excellent point with Southend via the 1-1 correct score, which looks overpriced at 8/1.
A terrible week for English clubs involved in the Champions League saw all four sides winless in their respective group games, with BetVictor reacting by easing the chances of an English club lifting the trophy aloft in Berlin next May out to 9/2 from 4/1.
BetVictor were 45/1 that Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City would all fail to win, which duly obliged. Chelsea remain the most likely winner of the quartet and are the 2/5 favourites to be the English team to go the furthest throughout the competition and 6/1 to win a second Champions League crown inside four years.
The Blues extended their excellent start to the new campaign, coming from behind to beat Liverpool 2-1 at Anfield and cut to 1/6 (from 1/3) favourites for the title. Jose Mourinho’s side are yet to lose in the Premier League this season, and have been backed to emulate Arsenal’s Invincibles and go through all 38-games unbeaten – 6/1 (from 8s) to do so with BetVictor
Diego Costa netted his tenth goal of the campaign and clipped into 7/4 (from 15/8) to be the league’s leading marksman. Manchester City, or perhaps Sergio Aguero, remain Chelsea’s biggest dangers but slipped-up to draw 2-2 with QPR and eased to 6/1 (from 10/3) to retain their Premier League crown. Aguero netted both to take his tally for the season to 13 and is the new 11/10 favourite for the PL Golden Boot; 14/1 bar the front two.
For all the latest odds, specials, enhancements, Instabets, BetBoosts and much more head to BetVictor.com.
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