A Football Betting Guide to Wigan (Back to Football Betting Guide Intro) Online Bookmaker Free Bet Promotion: Ladbrokes, who are one of the most famous and trusted UK high street bookmakers, offer a free £10 bet on new accounts. The online bookmaker will match your first bet on a new account up to that value, giving you a nice little bonus with which to do your football betting. Along with a fresh new look to their website, Ladbrokes are very good for betting odds and football promotions and could be great to follow for Wigan betting as look to struggle against relegation. Football Betting Prediction: Relegation Battle Premier League Start: Wigan 0, Blackpool 4 The Strengths: Wigan betting may lean towards them getting relegated, but there are strengths about them to ponder. You look at Wigan and their performance from last year, and it is hard to find many strengths. But let’s start up the top with boss Roberto Martinez. For a team who narrowly avoids relegation, you would think the manager would be a weakness somehow. Certainly not in this case, and here is why. Trounced 9-1 by Spurs and 8-0 by Chelsea on the final day of the season, and yet Wigan managed to stay up. There had always been an exciting kind of buzz about Wigan, largely because young manager Roberto Martinez (who was excellent as a pundit on ESPN for the 2010 World Cup incidentally) brought a fresh new style to the Premier League. He had a team which wanted to play football on the deck, a team which wanted to pass and move and not get bogged down into too much of the physical English game. It went swimmingly at first, but the rails really came off last year, as they amassed only nine wins all season. But Martinez didn’t abandon his style of play, there players just never delivered with any kind of consistency. Although his job will probably be on the line if Wigan get off to a bad start, the best thing they could do is back up Martinez fully and trust their future to him. The Weaknesses: They just never competed from the off last season, and Martinez has had to somehow re-enforce the holes that were so glaring in defence last season. Paraguay World Cup star Antolin Alcaraz comes into the back line and that should help. There was a lack of quality around Wigan last year, and does Martinez really have the funds to get them out of the hole they dug so deep last year? He’s trying but it really doesn’t look as if there will be, and they could be fighting a relegation battle unless they spend. Based on their opening day performance, they may need a miracle. They need some extra fire power up front, and grit in defence. Is Martinez to blame for this, as it is his players who have been brought in? Is he not getting his message across? Or are the players to blame, not being able to deliver a passing game of football. Either way, there is a crack somewhere in the set up. Will they survive with weaker teams like West Brom and Blackpool coming up? Will their Premier League experience help them to survive? Wigan Betting Home: Naturally Wigan are going to pick up more points at home than away. It’s probably not going to be a great deal, but last season they only managed 32% win percentage, which is somewhere around the average for most team records away from home in the lower half of the table. Six wins and seven draws secured their survival really, and they need to find confidence right from the start of the season. Remember, they did beat Chelsea at home last season, and that was coming off the back of a 4-0 thrashing by Arsenal. Maybe it was all a matter of untapped potential last year. Wigan Betting Away: Terrible last season. Just three wins for a 16% win percentage away from home. Fourteen away defeats paints a pretty miserable picture, and they finished just six points above the drop zone. This is a team which conceded 55 away goals last year, at a rate of 2.89 average goals per game. Really, with those kind of stats, all that Wigan are good for is betting against them. The way they have started this year, they will have a lot of trouble trying to avoid relegation. Wigan Best Football Betting Stat: Second half team. A lot of the action in Wigan matches last season game in the second half. 62.2% of all Wigan’s goals were scored in the second half, while 69.6% of goals conceded by them came in the second half. Wigan Best Football Betting Odds Wigan Relegation: Evens at Stan James Season Points Under 33: 5/4 at Victor Chandler Top Goalscorer: Hugo Rodallega: 11/8 at Victor Chandler Mauro Boselli: 11/8 at Victor Chandler
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