After winning 30p in the Man City game last week from my £1.00 the time has come to plunge into staking the lot onto another likely 1st half goal and out of form Brentford v Sheffield Wed is the game tonight. Sheffield seems to be a football barren city this season with both teams looking at relegation this year. With this I am not looking at form neccessarily (although, away, Sheffield have only 11 points from 15 games and at home Brentford have 29 points from the same number of games) but the early scoring and conceding goals is more to the fore. Defensivly Sheffield have conceded less than Brentford (32-34) but Brentford have scored 56 goals from 31 games to Sheffields 21. This is a huge void but again not indicative of early goals. If we look at the total goals scored by Brentford in the first half of all games played they total 23 against 33 scored in the second half but if we look at just the home games the ratio is a bit closer (14-15). To take this a step further the teams where Brentford tended to score 1st half goals against were lower positioned teams in the league
QPR 14′
Preston 8′
Luton 14′
Wycombe 9′
two exceptions are prevalent however these being Huddersfield 58′ and Coventry 46′ These are all first goals scored and are in actual fact scored by Brentford even though they lost to Preston 2-4
Sheffield Weds 1st half stats against teams from the top half of the league are as follows,
Norwich 60′ 😦
Swansea 27′ 🙂
Bournemouth 44′ 🙂
Stoke 83′ 😦
Millwall 10 🙂
Bristol 59′ 😦
Blackburn 41′ 🙂
Defensively Sheffield are more than capable of holding a game but with Brentford’s recent form in mind and Sheffield being at the bottom of the league I would hope to see Brentford attacking from the off.
A couple of facts to support this bet are
There has been a first-half goal scored in each of Brentford’s last 7 games in a row.
At each meeting of these two sides since 2017/18 season, whether home or away, there has been at least one 1st half goal in every match.
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Wolves, Celtic and Brentford All to Win
Ladbrokes have Boosted this little trio to 8.5 (15/2) from 7.5 (13/2), as with all bookies boosted bets caution should be exercised as we should assume that they know something we don’t.
First up then is the Premiership clash Southampton v Wolves game, kicking off at 12:00
Southampton’s recent home form (Last 4 home games) in the league reads as follows LLWD with the win being against the mighty Liverpool but with only 2 goals in those 4 matches they seem to have lost some drive. Wolves don’t seem to be faring much better with 2 losses and 2 drawn matches from their last 4 away games, they too are short on goals, with only 3 being scored and all of those in the 3-3 draw with Brighton. Away wins for Wolves against Arsenal (one place above Southampton) and Leeds Utd (2 places above Southampton) and Sheffield Utd (Flat Bottom) are the only “green” on a sea of red having been defeated when away, number no less than 6. Southampton have managed to keep a clean sheet in 55% of home games in contrast to Wolves 27% and actually failing to score in 55% of their away games. Wolves have conceded the biggest majority of goals in the 1st 15 minutes of the second half. With Odds of 3.3 for wolves to win the bookies don’t think they will Win either.
On to the Scottish Premiership where 2nd place Celtic are away to 8th place St Johnstone. A typical 1st quarter all out attack by Celtic may well be thwarted by St Johnstone’ s ability to somehow keep their opponents from scoring in the first 30 minutes or so. (In the 1st 30 minutes of all home games St Johnstone have only conceded 2 goals) Celtics goalscoring prowess comes to the fore however, as they seem to score more goals in the last 15 minutes netting the ball 13 times in this time segment in all away matches. Celtic’s ability to win this game is undisputed and Away win odds of 1.61 reflect this
Brentford are going to want to reclaim their top spot in the Championship League after Norwich scored a rash of goals yesterday against Stoke City and recent form supports this outcome unequivocally having won all but one of their last 8 games which was a 1-1 draw away at Swansea (another in-form team) Brentford enjoy scoring early goals and will, undoubtedly put Barnsley on the back foot should this happen in this game. Their previous meeting back in November ended well for Brentford winng the away fixture 0-1.
These are all lunchtime fixtures and I apologise for my tardiness this morning. If you have already staked money on this boosted bet I sincerely hope that Wolves and Co. do the business for you. As for my Part I won’t and can’t (Max stake still £0.00 🙂 ) be risking my money
Good luck whatever you decide.
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