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Following their goalless draw at White Hart Lane, Manchester United's aspirations of an unbeaten season remain alive, to the delight of those spread buyers of Sir Alex Ferguson's side's outright Premier League index at 47-50.
Spread punters that sold United's win index for the Spurs match will have been happy with the outcome, but the Red Devils return home this weekend where they have been far more impressive. United welcome Birmingham City to Old Trafford on Saturday and those spread bettors buying the home side's win index will be pleased to find that Blues have never beaten the hosts in the Premier League. In that period the clubs have met on 13 occasions and sellers of United's win index should note that the home side have won nine of those contests.
Sellers of the United/Birmingham match supremacy spread will take encouragement that Alex McLeish's men have drawn the past two meetings with the league leaders. However, buyers of the match supremacy will argue that United have won every Premier League game between these two clubs at Old Trafford.
The recent head-to-head record makes interesting reading for punters that enjoy a spread bet on the total goals market. Spread sellers of the total goals may have noted that there have been fewer than three goals in the past five league meetings. Further support for sellers of the spread is that Birmingham's past two matches at Old Trafford have finished 1-0.
Kenny Dalglish and spread buyers of Liverpool's win index will be hoping the side can pick up their first win of the new reign against Wolves in Saturday's early kick-off. Spread buyers of Wolves' win index may be aware the victory over the Reds after Christmas was their first victory over them in the Premier League. Total goal sellers might like to know that not one Premier League meeting between these sides has seen more than three goals, while matches have seen an average of 1.1 goals per game.
The bookings index has accumulated some low numbers in the past few meetings between Wolves and Liverpool, which will offer encouragement to those looking to sell the bookings index spread. During the past two clashes there has only been three yellow cards shown. Buyers of the bookings index might recall the Reds' 2-0 victory in 2009/10 campaign where Stephen Ward was given his marching orders, although the spread make-up was only 35 points for the match.
Aston Villa take on Manchester City and sellers of the City/Villa (h) match supremacy may be aware that the visitors have not beaten the Villans on their last three trips to Villa Park.
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