Adrian Mills’ selections for Saturday’s matches in the top flight include a positive for Brighton against Man City.
There are five Premier League games on Saturday, with four kicking off at 3pm before Bournemouth and Brentford bring down the curtain in the late game.
We have four Premier League betting selections to consider to see you through an exciting afternoon’s action.
Saturday Premier League tips
Brighton to win or draw v Manchester City 5/4
Matz Sels 4+ Saves v Ipswich 15/8
Taylor Harwood-Bellis 1+ Shot v Wolves 21/20
Everton v West Ham draw 9/4
Brighton to win or draw v Manchester City
Manchester City just aren’t frightening sides any more and on current form they are going to struggle to make the top four.
Indeed, by the end of the season they could well be locked in a battle with Brighton among others simply to make the top six.
City’s 1-0 loss at Nottingham Forest last week saw them exposed again by pace and quick attacks and that’s what Albion are all about.
The Seagulls have beaten City once this season, coming from behind to win 2-1 in November, and they are unbeaten in six, with eight wins in their last 11.
City will patiently knock the ball around in non-threatening areas, Albion will rattle an increasingly suspect defence and by the end of the game can celebrate a win at best, a draw at worst.
Matz Sels 4+ Saves – Ipswich v Nottingham Forest
Ipswich might be going down this season but they are going down swinging.
Last week’s 1-0 defeat at Crystal Palace was an absolute crippler for Kieran McKenna’s men at the end of a game in which they had forced Eagles’ keeper Dean Henderson to make seven saves.
A week earlier they had forced Matz Sels to make three saves at the City Ground in a 1-1 draw against Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup, a tie the hosts won on penalties.
Town and Forest meet again, this time at Portman Road, and there will be no backing off from the Tractor Boys, while we know that Forest are happy to absorb pressure.
Take Sels to be a busy keeper once more by making at least four saves.
Taylor Harwood-Bellis 1+ Shot on Target v Wolves
No side has conceded more goals from set-plays than Wolves have this season, which should offer Southampton hope of success from corners or free-kicks.
Sorry Saints have enough physical presence in their team with centre-back Taylor Harwood-Bellis averaging almost a shot a game and scorer of one of his side’s 20 goals.
Wolves are a worse side minus the suspended Matheus Cunha – they haven’t won any league game this season when he has not scored – so expect Southampton to apply plenty of pressure.
Harwood-Bellis is a decent price to have at least one effort.
Everton v West Ham draw
Everton and West Ham are two teams heading in different directions, though there may not be much between them at Goodison Park.
The Toffees are the division’s draw experts with 12 this season, including four of their last five.
Also, boss David Moyes’ former club have been involved in five 1-1 draws already this season, so stalemate potential is high.
It was 0-0 at the London Stadium in November and a repeat of that scoreline on Merseyside would be no great surprise.