Manchester United v QPR Betting Odds, Preview and Money Back Special

Lost stake refunds if five goals are scored at OT

David de Gea (Manchester United)
David de Gea (Manchester United) © GEPA pictures

There does seem to be a certain degree of inevitability that Manchester United are now just going to stroll to the Premier League title, as next on the list we look at Manchester United v QPR betting. It doesn’t appear to be the kind of fixture that is going to derail their chances of defending their title. Online bookmaker Paddy Power will be hoping thing do go particularly easily for the Red Devils at Old Trafford on Sunday, as they are running the risk of paying out lost stake refunds on the First Goalscorer, Last Goalscorer, Correct Score and Scorecast markets on the match. The highly popular bookie will pay out lost stake refunds on those markets, if there are five or more goals scored in the match. Will United run rampant? Will the red hot Rooney have a field day? Or will QPR have a big say in the relegation battle by offering some threat up front themselves?

With the Paddy Power Money Back Special, you can look at the First Goalscorer market for example where Wayne Rooney is 5/2 favourite, with his team mates Javier Hernandez, Danny Welbeck and Dimitar Berbatov hovering around 4/1. A Correct Score punt on 2-0 win for United fetches good value at 6/1. So bets like these and more will be covered with the Paddy Power Man Utd v QPR Money Back Special if five or more goals are scored in the matches. Online bookmaker Paddy Power offer a free £50 bet for new customers registering an account with them. The bookie will match the value of your first stake on a new account with a free bet, up to that maximum value.

Manchester United v QPR Odds

Man Utd to win: 1/5 at Paddy Power
Draw: 7/1 at Boylesports
QPR to win: 16/1 at Totesport

With a five point lead at the top of the table, and heading into the busy weekend period with a home match against a relegation threatened side, is the title race already over? Manchester United have been in unstoppable form, at least in terms of results, even if they haven’t played that well at times. You can’t argue with seven straight wins now, and ten wins and one draw in their last eleven. They are using Sir Alex Ferguson’s experience to the max, and the Red Devils haven’t conceded a goal in their last four outings. While they needed late goals to see off Blackburn at the start of the month, and were extremely lucky to not have given a penalty away which would have cost them points at home against Fulham, they have been getting the job done.

Because of the busy Easter fixture list, Ferguson may well shuffle his pack around, but his options have been boosted with the return of Nani. So the Premier League title could well be sealed by utilizing a squad that many thought were decidedly average. They just have goals galore in them, even when they aren’t playing well, and they should just be far too powerful for QPR. There is the incentive and the real possibility of opening up an eight point lead over Manchester City on Sunday, as the Citizens have a tough match away at Arsenal. The title could well and truly be decided this weekend, and you wouldn’t really bet against anything other than a home win here. Goals by Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick secured a 2-0 away win at Loftus Road earlier in the season.

However, QPR have been rousing themselves for the relegation battle under former United star Mark Hughes recently. They have landed two wins in their last three matches, and perhaps more impressively, they came against Liverpool and Arsenal. Big wins there for Hughes, giving QPR a fighting chance of staying up. But those precious wins came at home, and QPR’s away form is really nothing to write home about. They haven’t won on the road in their last nine outings and seven of those games have resulted in defeats for them. They have lost their last three straight, so turning up at Old Trafford and winning doesn’t really seem very likely. You have to go all the way back to last September to find the last clean sheet away from home for QPR and with Rangers conceding on average two goals per game away from home, well, this match should only produce one outcome. It could be a case of get through the ninety minutes then move on to their next fixture, which is a more winnable one at home against Swansea.