Liverpool vs Everton Betting Tips

Premiership fans were left to go hungry over the weekend as Euro 2008 qualifiers and friendlies took centre stage, with the highlights being England's 5-0 trouncing of Andorra on Saturday, an outcome predicted by BettingChoice and Brazil's stunning win over Argentina in their not to so friendly 'friendly' on Sunday. However, normal service is resumed this weekend and the most potentially enthralling game kicks off on Saturday lunchtime when Everton and Liverpool do battle in what is likely to be a full-blooded Merseyside derby. Drama is definitely on the menu. In recent seasons the Reds have held sway, winning eight of the last dozen fixtures against their bitter rivals, losing just once within this period while three of the matches in question ended all square. But the Toffees have started the current campaign in fine form and have home advantage on Saturday. The Goodison Park faithful have seen an instant return on the £8.6million paid to lure Andy Johnson from Crystal Palace with the England striker scoring in two of their three games so far this term, including during their impressive display to beat Spurs 2-0 at White Hart Lane in their most recent fixture. While Everton's start has been fluent, Liverpool's has been a tad stuttering. Their two-legged Champions League qualifier against Maccabi Haifa was workmanlike at best and, despite a taking performance to beat Chelsea in the Community Shield, their two Premiership games haven't been electrifying. However, as Pool demonstrated when beating West Ham at the Boleyn Ground, they possess the requisite class to grind out victories even when they are not playing at their best. News signings Craig Bellamy and Jermaine Pennant in particular will still be acclimatising. Better is to come, that's for sure. Liverpool are a shade of odds on with expekt in the match result market, but VCBet offer a best-priced 5/4. An Everton victory is offered at 16/5 by expekt, while that firm and Paddy Power are most generous with regard to the draw, both going 9/4. The late kick off on Saturday is at Old Trafford where Man Utd entertain Spurs, a fixture which has a habit of throwing up veritable goal feasts. Of the 160 encounters between these two sides, the Red Devils have prevailed 72 times, 42 games ending level, and Spurs winning on 46 occasions. Ominously for Martin Jol's charges, Spurs haven't beaten Man Utd in their backyard since 1989 when the Premiership was known as England Division 1 and while United have won all three games so far this season, the north Londoners have lost two of their three matches played. Man Utd are the form side. It is, therefore, not surprising to see that the home side are odds-on in the match result market. VCBet go 11/20, while they and Bluesq offer 11/4 about the draw, and the latter firm are most magnanimous about an away win, offering odds of 11/2 that Spurs will come away from the 'Theatre of Dreams' with three points. The other two sides that make up the 'big four' in England are also in action on Saturday. Arsenal and Chelsea are of course the clubs in question and both would appear to have relatively straightforward tasks against Middlesbrough and Charlton at home respectively.