Newcastle v West Ham: Betting Preview
Match Analysis
Last season the hosts collected only 49 points and finished 11th in the classification table. Now as of Feb 4th 2023, Newcastle United already collected 39 points, and they are 3rd in the table, right above Manchester United!
Newcastle certainly is living better days than they have in their recent past. West Ham, on the other hand, is living a very dark season, with just 17 points collected so far, and 1 point clear of Bournemouth which would be relegated if the English Premier League ended today as they are 18th in the table while West Ham is 16th.
Such as contrast in the table positions always produces strong handicaps in normal circumstances and huge imbalances in the odds of hosts and visitors in the 1×2 betting markets.
Let’s see how this translates in the betting markets as numbers and probabilities as well as opportunities to profit with valuable odds!
Betting Preview
Some may have expected bigger odds than the 1×2 current market prices of 1.63 for a victory of the hosts in the decimal system.
The market may be saying here that the absence of hosts players including Bruno Guimarães could be a problem for Newcastle.
The odds for a draw are 3.75 on average in the 1×2 market, and the odds for a victory for the London side are 5.40 on average.
The Asian Handicap has odds of -3/4 @1.83 for Newcastle, which means the market does expect the victory of the hosts, and a speculative bet on the visitors to hold a draw and collect a point would deliver a profit of 111% on average, with just a half loss in case the hosts beat them by a one-goal advantage.
The market however has low odds and lines of over/under 2.25 @1.88/2.02 on average in the goals market, which reflects the stats of the hosts and the visitors in terms of how many goals the games of both sides have produced so far this season.
If we check the last 5 home games (EPL) of Newcastle, the numbers indeed explain the odds as we had three 1-0 results in their 5 home valid for the Prem. Also, only 1 out of 5 games produced more than 1 goal since October when the game against Aston Villa produced 4 goals.
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