English Premier League Saturday Betting Preview Pt 1

We’ve got some fantastic fixtures to look forward to this weekend as the English Premier League is set for another fascinating week of action. Manchester United are up against it, somehow, against West Ham as they dropped points against newly-promoted Leicester to solidify this season as their worst start in Premier League history despite dropping the GDP of a small nation on new signings. 

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Even Louis Van Gaal is starting to admit that he may have been asking too much of his players with the tactical and formation switches - something that must confound him even more considering their stellar pre-season tour of the United States. 

Things have gotten even worse for United this week as they have confirmed the presence of only one central defender with Chris Smalling, Phil Jones and Jonny Evans all picking up knocks in the past few days and young Tyler Blackett receiving a red card last week against Leicester and being ruled out for a clumsy challenge during United’s match against the upstart Foxes.

United go into their match-up with West Ham as the genuine betting favourites with a slim 2/5 price tag that could actually look like a bargain if they treat West Ham the same way that they did QPR when it looked like United finally got their act together. It really has been a season of “one step forward - two steps back” it seems for the Red Devils and you have to wonder how long this is going to go on. 

Winning these easy fixtures early on was going to be integral to United actually challenging for the title but that looks some way off now as the side, despite boasting a pile of high-end superstars, looks an organizational shambles - particularly at the back. 

Punters will find West Ham trading at a full 7/1 price to get the result today against United while the draw trades at 9/2 - nothing would make the ABU crowd smile wider than United dropping more points against a side that they should definitely consider to be beatable. A 0-0 draw would set off alarm bells from here to Singapore.