Tag Archives: F.A. Cup

Abraham 2+ shots on target & Hudson-Odoi 1+ shot on target

Todays dissection comes from the Barnsley v Chelsea F.A.Cup tie being played tonight. Sky bet has boosted this bet from 3.5 (5/2) to 6.0 (5/1) (Well it is called the “Double Up Boost”).
The helpful people at Skybet added this to the bet description

  • Abraham has performed well in the FA Cup this season, scoring a hat-trick in the last round against Luton
  • Hudson-Odoi’s form has improved under Tuchel and he’ll continue to look to impress here

As ever this is undoubtedly true but I will dig a little deeper and see what turns up 🙂
Firstly, lets have a peek into Mr Abraham.
William Hill did a similar Boost involving just Abraham in the Wolves Game on Jan 27 for which I did a blog on (click the link below and it will open in a new window)
Tammy Abraham to have OVER 2 shots on target
He played for 13 minutes in that game!! and I will revise my opinion on what the odds should have been boosted to – to 100/1 🙂
Chelsea have played 3 games since then winning all 3. In the first game v Burnley He played for 45 minutes having just one touch in the box – no blocked shots, no shots on target – not even a shot at all!!? In the Tottenham game however, it was completely different – He didn’t play at all!!
Another no show v Sheffield begs the question, Does he still play for Chelsea? 🙂

Callum Hudson-Odoi’s F.A. Cup career this season is 1 appearance and 1 substitution appearance totaling 100 minutes on the pitch and having an average 0.9 shots on target per 90 mins. With no shots on target in the last round of the F.A. Cup v Luton and only 20 minutes on the pitch ironically it was Tammy Abraham that had 3 shots on target finding the back of the net with all of them! Morecambe was Chelsea’s 4th round tie and with a total of 80 minutes played, Hudson-Odoi scored in the 49th minute with his only shot on target. In the 3 matches mentioned above, the Burnley game saw him playing for 73 minutes and 1 shot on target. His spell of 65 minutes against Tottenham yielded zero shots on target from 3 shots at goal and, with only 28 minutes left of the Sheffield game came on from the bench to have absolutely no bearing on the match at all!
It does seem that these two guys spend more time off the pitch than on it and apart from a brief flare of eye-popping awesome play, thats all they have.
This bet would make a good twilight zone story 🙂

Man Utd, Inter Milan and Real Madrid all to win

Today Ladbrokes has a “Favourites Treble” on offer. They have boosted the bet from 6.0 to 6.5. Man Utd and Real Madrid are odds on favs but Inter are 2.3 (13/10) Both the Man Utd and Inter games are cup matches while the Real Madrid game is La Liga.

Man Utd play West Ham in the F.A.Cup and are currently 1.67 with Ladbrokes.
Having knocked out Watford 1-0 and Liverpool 3-2 neither game was a convincing win especially the Watford result. West Ham are coming into this cup tie on the back of a goalless draw against Fulham.
Man Utd have a couple of injury absentees with notably Pogba out with a thigh injury and Phil Jones with a long standing knee problem.

Inter Milan take on Juventus Away in the Coppa Italia with an away goal deficit after Juventus beat them 1-2 in the first leg. Inter will have to pull something out of the hat for this one and I suspect Juventus being at home will be satisfied with a draw.
La Liga is the destination for the final leg of this treble and 3rd place Real Madrid take on 13th place Getafe at home. Real are pushing for the top while it seems Getafe while having some good results are marking time mid-table. This match feels more the banker of the 3 and the odds of 1.53 reflect that.
I think that this treble may be trouble
Betternot 🙂