West Brom v Middlesbrough Betting Preview – Premier League 28th August
Boro have made a bright start to the new season with four points from their opening two games and summer signing Alvaro Negredo has had a tremendous impact with one goal and two assists. So Boro are carrying an attacking threat into the game and they may fancy their chances at The Hawthorns. West Brom lost last week at home, going down against Everton, not being able to follow up their positive win on the opening weekend at Crystal Palace. With Boro looking pretty solid so far, can they heap some more home misery on the Baggies?
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West Brom v Middlesbrough Betting Tips
West Brom have made an indifferent start to the new season. They pulled of an away win at Crystal Palace on the opening weekend of the season against the odds a little bit but then they went back to the Hawthorns last weekend and couldn’t follow it up, getting beaten on home soil by Everton. So West Brom look again as if they are going to be hit and miss. However, they do have a stretch of form running against Middlesbrough though, winning their last four league encounters against them on the bounce and scoring eleven unanswered goals in that sequence of games. But then again, they two clubs haven’t met since the 2009/10 Championship season. So West Brom have scored exactly one goal in both of their games this season and it’s hard to see them getting more than that in a game. They will face a pretty organized Boro defence as well and there is a quote of 1/2 on the game going under 2.5 goals.
Up front the Baggies have Salomon Rondon at 11/5 in the anytime goalscorer market, with Saido Berahino (who has just one goal in his last 26 Premier League appearances) at 7/4. You stack those somewhat limited options up against what Boro can bring to the table then the visitors look some value. Alvaro Negredo could turn out to be a really smart investment by Boro over the summer and the Spaniard has already returned one goal and two assists in two games for the club. He is just the top of the kind of scoring power that West Brom are lacking and Negredo is a 9/4 anytime goalscorer option which has to be decent value given the start he has made. He netted on the opening weekend in a 1-1 draw with stoke then set up both of Cristhian Stuani’s goals in last weekend’s 2-1 win on the road at Sunderland. It is a little surprisingly that they haven’t taken a clean sheet yet, but they don’t look like they will ship boat loads.
So as well as Negredo then you have Christian Stuani who must be high on confidence and he is running at a price of 11/4 to strike again this week. They also have David Nugent who has form against West Brom as he has scored in both of his league games against the Baggies at the Hawthorns and he is a price of 5/2. They just have more options and variety up front than what West Brom can call on and that could make all the difference in this one. Both teams to score in the match will return you a price of 21/20 with online betting site Bet365 and Boro have only managed the one clean sheet in their last nine trips to the Hawthorns in all competitions. Boro have conceded just 33 goals in 48 league games since the start of last season and they have completed double the number of passes that West Brom have this season.
West Brom v Middlesbrough Betting Odds
West Brom 8/5, Draw 21/10, Middlesbrough 21/10
West Brom v Middlesbrough Predictions
There is a sense of a drawing playing itself out here because the Baggies aren’t likely going to have enough goals to topple Boro and Boro are still a newly promoted side finding their way in the top flight. However because of the confidence start which they have made to the new season in the top flight, Boro may just be enough value there to go and back to win the game outright or at least cover in a draw no bet. Under 2.5 goals as well.
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