West Brom v Aston Villa Betting Offer

The midlands derby between West Brom and Aston Villa kicks off a fantastic double header of live Sky Sports football on Sunday afternoon. The match at the Hawthorns kicks off at midday, ahead of the Chelsea v Man Utd clash which kicks off at 2pm. Aston Villa have had a good start to the season, pickin up seven points from their first four matches, including an impressive away at Spurs last Monday. Martin O’Neil has really started to make an impact at Villa Park and his team’s early season form suggests that an assualt on the top four is a realistic aim. They go in to the game against West Brom on the back of a uefa Cup first round, first leg win over Litex Lovech. Providing that the victory and trip to Bulgaria hasn’t taken it’s toll on the Villa players, the 5/4 on offer with Bet365 about the away win looks good value; the West Brom win is a 9/4 bet with the draw available at 23/10.

Villa’s previous two away matches so far this season have seen a total of eight goals scored, so a bet on over 2.5 goals makes sense at odds of 17/20. The likely suspects to open the scoring in this game come from Aston Villa’s array of attackin g talent, John Carew is the 5/1 favourite to score first at 5/1 with Agbonlahor and Marlon Harewood both 6/1 chances. Ashley Young is 15/2 and penalty taker, Gareth Barry, is available at 11/1.

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