Middlesbrough v Arsenal Betting Preview – Premier League 17th April 7.45pm
Boro’s 0-0 home draw with Burnley last weekend sums up where they are at right now. They can’t win games because they can’t score goals. Arsenal are on a four match losing streak away from home in the top flight and will be feeling the pressure. But surely they can’t lose out at a relegation-threatened opponent who are sat second from bottom can they?
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Middlesbrough v Arsenal Betting Tips
Boro, with their form and position, are looking a long way from safety. They start the weekend six points adrift of safety and they are winless in their last fourteen league games now (D6 L8). At home they gone D4 L2 in their last six games and played out a dull 0-0 draw with Burnley in their last game. Boro have failed to score in six of their last eight league games now and under 2.5 goals at Bet365 has to look valuable at a price of 11/10. Boro are actually unbeaten in their last four Premier League home games against Arsenal (W2 D2) but they have conceded more goals against Arsenal than against any other Premier League opponent. The 0-0 between these at the Emirates earlier in the season, saw Boro snap a 16 match streak of having conceded against the Gunners. Boro are averaging less than three shot on target per game this season and it’s hard seeing them raise their output of this one. In the Bet365 correct score market an Arsenal 1-0 is shortest priced option at 15/2 while a 11 draw is a 7/1 punt.
Arsenal are slumping with a four match losing streak away from the Emirates in the Premier League and they have conceded three goals exactly in each of those defeat. So their defence has taken a real hammering, but it’s not likely to suffer too much against the limp Boro attack. Arsenal have one win in their last eight away games (D1 L6) and they haven’t lost five successive top-flight away games since December 26th 1984. Olivier Giroud is trading at 11/10 in the anytime goalscorer market and the Frenchman is the only current member of the Arsenal squad to have netted against Middlesbrough in any competition (two in the FA Cup). Only West Ham, Sunderland and Boro have earned fewer league points than Arsenal have done over the last eight games. Arsenal are als 14 points behind Tottenham heading into the weekend, the first time they’ve been 14+ points behind them in the league table since May 5th 1963 (also 14).
Middlesbrough v Arsenal Betting Odds
Arsenal 1/2, Draw 3/1, Middlesbrough 6/1
Middlesbrough v Arsenal Predictions
Draw: There is a big temptation to stick on the draw because Arsenal aren’t value. The Gunners have failed to win their last four at the Riverside, so it could be worth a value punt on this ending equal again between these two.
