Arsenal favourites to lift the Carling Cup this season
February 22, 2011
Arsenal make their first trip to Wembley this season as they face Birmingham City in the final of the Carling Cup. Both teams are also in with a chance of a return to Wembley later in the year as they are both still featuring in the FA Cup. Arsenal are the clear favourite out of the two teams to win the fixture at odds of 2/9 to lift the Carling Cup Trophy. Should you fancy Arsenal to go on and do the double and win the Premier League they are currently at odds of 11/4 but if you think that is too much buy that they can lift both trophies this season (FA Cup and Carling Cup) they are odds of 5/1.
Last season Birmingham only managed to get to the third round of the tournament before they were defeated 2-0 by Sunderland and Arsenal reached the fifth round before they were knocked out by a 3-0 defeat at the hands of Manchester City.
Arsenal v Birmingham match odds
All odds for this market come courtesy of internet bookmakers Paddypower.
The bookmakers Paddy Power are offering punters a money back special on this game if Arsenal are leading the game at any time (during normal 90 minutes) but fails to win the game then they will refund all of the losing first and last goal scorer bets as well as the correct score and scorecast singles made on the match.
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Odds point to Arsenal claiming the Carling Cup according to Boylesports
January 11, 2011
The first leg of the Carling Cup semi finals start tonight with struggling West Ham taking on fellow Premier League side Birmingham City at Upton Park. The bookies are not backing West Ham to get past the semi final stage even though they defeated Manchester United 4-0 in the quarter final stage of the tournament; however for the home leg tonight they are 6/5 to win and 23/10 for the draw, an away win for Alex McLeish’s side is at odds of 9/4.
Tomorrow night (Wednesday) will see Ipswich Town welcome Arsenal to Portman Road in the teams second match in a week against Premier League opposition for their semi final clash. New Ipswich manager Paul Jewell will be wanting his side to perform a lot better than they did against Chelsea when they were comprehensively beaten 7-0 by Chelsea in their 3rd round FA Cup clash. However at odds of 7/1 for a home win there is little faith from the bookies that this will happen, the draw is at 7/2 and the away win for Arsenal is at 2/5.
Carling Cup Outright Odds
Odds for this market come from bookmakers Boylesports.
- 4/9 – Arsenal
- 4/1 – Birmingham
- 5/1 – West Ham
- 18/1 – Ipswich
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Cashback offer on tonights Man United v Wolves Carling Cup clash
October 26, 2010
Mick McCarthy’s Wolves side are tonight playing at Old Trafford in this Carling Cup Fourth round against the current Carling Cup holders Manchester United. The two sides have met on 93 occasions with United winning 44 of these fixtures compared to Wolves 33 wins but their last win at Old Trafford was a 1-0 league win in 1980!
Untied will be fielding their second XI in this game but constant injury boy Michael Owen looks like he could be leading the attack for Sir Alex’s side, Wolves are expected to field a strong side with midfielder Stephen Hunt having a run out following his long term foot injury.
Tonight’s fixture for Wolves will be a welcome break from Premiership action for Wolves as they are currently languishing in 19th place in the Premier league table only ahead on goal difference from bottom team West Ham United both of whom are on 6 points.
Manchester United v Wolves match odds
Even though manager Sir Alex Ferguson will be fielding a largely second string side they are still the favourites to win this fixture.
Bookies Betfred are running a cash back offer on this game if you place a bet on the first or last goal scorer and manage to not back a winner and Manchester United manage to score 4 or more goals in this fixture then Betfred will refund your losing stake money back into you account for you to use as a free bet.
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Cash back offer on tonight’s Carling Cup if Owen scores the last goal of the game for United
September 22, 2010
In what could be a giant killing exercise (or a massive drubbing) when Championship side Scunthorpe take on the mighty Premiership side and current Carling Cup holders Manchester United in the 3rd round of the Carling Cup in a game that comes from Scunthorpes Glanford Park ground which has a capacity of just over 9,000.
United are expected to field Michael Owen up front but is expected to rest the bulk of his side for this fixture while Scunthorpe’s caretaker manager Ian Baraclough may be without defender Rob Jones who is nursing a knee injury on top of Jim McNulty and Garry Thompson who is out until November.
Scunthorpe v Manchester United match odds
It is no real surprise that Sir Alex Ferguson’s side are the favourites to win this fixture, but they have come unstuck in the past back in 2007 they lost this same fixture 2-0 when they were beaten by Championship side Coventry City.
Cash back offer
Bookmakers Bet Fred are running a cash back offer on this third round clash by offering punters the chance to get their stake money back on first and last goal scorer bets if Manchester United’s Michael Owen scores the last goal of the game.
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Spurs favourites to progress in the Carling Cup as they face Arsenal
September 20, 2010
Tomorrow night sees the third round of the Carling Cup in what some fans call the poor mans cup but it has thrown up a real treat for football fans as we see a match between north London rivals Spurs and Arsenal when they meet at White Hart Lane, normally we have to wait until the semis before these two teams meet. The two teams have met each other seven times in the League Cup, and four of these fixtures were in the semi finals.
Spurs manager Harry Redknapp will be expected to field Niko Kranjcar, Wilson Palacios and even new signing Sandro in his squad even though Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said he will continue his policy of playing his youngsters in the competition although due to injuries he is thought to be playing Marouane Chamakh.
Spurs v Arsenal match odds
The match can be watched live on Sky Sports 2 and live betting can be done with bookmakers Stan James.
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Will Portsmouths problems continue in tonights Carling Cup fixture?
August 9, 2010
Cash strapped Portsmouth hit the Championship with a bump when they recorded their first (presumably of many) loss of the season when they travelled up to the Midlands to face Coventry City at the Ricoh Arena and came away with a 2-0 defeat, neither side looked fantastic but Portsmouth’s lack of squad was obvious when new boss Steve Cotterill was only able to name 4 subs on the bench out of a possible 7, currently the Portsmouth side is down to just 18 eligible players.
Now Portsmouth must try to bounce back as they take on Stevenage tonight in the first round of Carling Cup, a loss tonight for last years FA Cup finalists could put Pompey fans in a disparate place for the rest of their season.
Stevenage v Portsmouth match odds
This will be the first time that these two clubs have ever faced each other, the last time Portsmouth were eliminated at this stage of the competition since they were beaten by Colchester in 2001.
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What goes up must come down, will this be true for Newcastle?
April 6, 2010
Backs are sure being patted all around the Newcastle United boardroom following the club achieved promotion back to the Premiership on its first attempt. The Magpies promotion was secured following their 2-1 win against Sheffield United over the Easter bank holiday weekend, United are now guaranteed to finish either as Champions or at very least runners up.
The current owner of Newcastle United Mike Ashley (the man behind Sports Direct) will now be glad that he could find a buyer for his club after he put them on the market following relegation to the Coca Cola Championship last year. He had at first touted the club for around the £300 million mark but later reduced this to a bargain £80 million, which is now sure to increase now they have access to Premiership money.
Magpies manager Chris Hughton along with his assistant Colin Calderwood have succeed in getting his Newcastle side to gel and has had the full support of the Toon Army during their tenure in the Championship. However will this be enough to keep United in the Premiership, during the close season will they spend their windfall on building up the squad or will they just be happy to take a year of Premiership money followed by the four years worth of parachute payments now on offer which is thought to be worth around £100 million.
Newcastle Betting Specials
- 8/11 – Chris Hughton to stay with the Magpies till end of next season
- 4/9- Newcastle to stay up
- 13/8 – Newcaslte to be relegated
- 5/1 – Newcastle to finish in top half of Premiership
- 1/9 – Newcastle to finish in bottom half of Premiership
- 33/1 – Newcastle to win League Cup
- 50/1 – Newcastle to win FA Cup
- 5000/1 – Newcastle to win Premiership next season
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Will Villa suprise Sir Alex in the Carling Cup Final
February 25, 2010
Earlier this month Aston Villa met Manchester United in the Barclays Premier League in a game that pretty much decided in the first half, with the game ending 1-1, but we did get to see a sending off for United and Villa scoring an own goal. Nani’s sending off unfortunately it means he will be serving a three match and be ineligible for this fixture.
Now the two teams must meet again for the second time this month for the Carling Cup final (well the Football League Cup Final is its real name!) on Sunday 28th February from Wembley Stadium. Odds look like a win for Sir Alex’s side as the current holders of the trophy, but cup finals can bring out the best and worst in teams!
The bookmakers Victor Chandler are running a cash back betting offer on this game. If the match goes to the dreaded penalties then they will refund all losing first goal scorer bets and correct score bets as a free bet.
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Aston Villa v Man United Match Odds
Paddy Power are running a cash back offer on the Carling Cup final. If the Aston Villa forward Gabriel Agbonlahor goes on to score the last goal of the game in normal time at Wembley then Paddypower will refund all losing first and last goal scorer, correct score and scorecast singles that have been made on the match.
Aston Villa v Man United goal scorer odds
Wayne Rooney looks good value to be the first to get his name on the score sheet.
| Player | First/last goal scorer | Anytime goal scorer |
| Wayne Rooney | 9/2 | 7/5 |
| Dimitar Berbatov | 11/2 | 9/5 |
| Michael Owen | 6/1 | 2/1 |
| Mame Biram Diouf | 13/2 | 11/5 |
| Gabriel Agbonlahor | 8/1 | 4/1 |
| John Carew | 9/1 | 16/5 |
| Emile Heskey | 10/1 | 7/2 |
| Nathan Delfouneso | 10/1 | 7/2 |
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Can Tevez put in a repeat performance against his former team?
January 25, 2010
This Wednesday night sees the second leg of the Carling Cup tie between Manchester’s footballing giants. City are on a roll at the moment having progressed to next round of the FA Cup following an exciting fixture against Scunthorpe at the weekend and also beating United last week in the first leg of this fixture.
Manchester United’s league form has been excellent of late they have had several high scoring games (admittedly against teams much lower in the league) and it was only the blip last week against City that has marred their form and with the fixture being at Old Trafford they will be hoping that the twelfth man factor will give them the edge over Roberto Mancini’s side.
Man Utd v Man City match odds
If former United striker and current City golden boy Carlos Tevez scores the final goal of the game Paddy Power will refund all losing first and last goal scorers as well as correct score and scorecast singles made on the match. According to Paddypower Tevez is currently at odds of 8/1 to score the last goal of the game.
Player to score 2 goals or more.
In the previous encounter Tevez managed to knock 2 goals past his former teammates.
- 6/1 – Wayne Rooney
- 8/1- Michael Owen
- 8/1 – Dimitar Berbatov
- 20/1 – Carlos Tevez
- 25/1 - Emmanuel Adebayor
- 33/1 – Robinho
City are still the favourites for rescheduled Carling Cup fixture
January 18, 2010
It has now been a fortnight since the two Manchester sides were due to meet in the Carling Cup but the fixture was cancelled due to the adverse weather conditions. In the time passed since the original fixture City have seen their odds of winning slashed slightly from 13/10 to 6/4.
This is despite Roberto Mancini’s side suffering their first defeat under his leadership when Manchester City were beaten 2-0 by an inform Everton side. United on the other hand have not lost a game since their shock exit from the FA Cup when Leeds managed to beat them 1-0.
Manchester City v Manchester United Odds
Paddy Power are running one of their famous cash back offers on the game. If the result of the game is a boring 0-0 draw then they will refund all losing first and last goal scorer bets as well as scorecast singles and correct scores.
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