2015 Community Shield Betting Tips PT 1
- By A.J. Ryder on July 31, 2015 22:05 GMT
The de facto kickoff of the English Premier League season is now upon us this weekend and there is a lot to look forward to as Chelsea take on Arsenal in a London Derby to get things underway in the world’s best professional sports league. While the Community Shield really doesn’t mean anything to anybody it still counts as silverware and it can help a team steady things heading into the new season having already lifted a trophy.
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Both sides have had interesting off-seasons with Chelsea bringing in a few new players and taking an interesting gamble on former Manchester United loanee Radamel Falcao. That’s going to be a fascinating story to watch unfold and you reckon that Mourinho will be grinning like the Cheshire cat if the Colombian manages to find the back of the net in this fixture.
Heading into this match-up we still have the interesting occurrence of some sides actually playing friendly matches AFTER the Community Shield takes place and it will be really worth watching to see how this affects some of their performances.
Compounding that is some of the ridiculously long travel times that the larger teams have experienced in the past couple of weeks with Liverpool, for instance, having trekked all over Asia and America.
Perhaps we might see some of the smaller Premier League sides be able to get results against the jet-lagged and leg-weary players on the top sides who are still shifting out of their fully-flat airplane seats they’ve been living in for the past couple of weeks.
As it currently stands, punters will find Chelsea trading as the favourites to win the match and that’s probably not an entirely huge surprise. However, it really should be noted that Arsenal have had a solid pre-season and that Jose Mourinho is much less likely to field a full-strength side here than Arsenal will. The addition of Theo Walcott having signed a new contract to make him a joint-top-earner at the club is also a helpful thing that should boost morale in the dressing room.
