With each and every passing year the range of available
Premier League bets has stretched out and one of the best new markets is the
Premier League’s top assists table. Using Boylesports, who settle the market on
the Premier League website, we’re given a market which starts from 11/1 the
field and pays 4 places, allowing for some good value bets.
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Chief amongst those is Philippe Coutinihio, who starred for
Liverpool after moving from Inter in January and set the Premier League alight
when making use of the deserved chance that he had finally been given in a
first team and is one of the most promising youngsters in the Premier League
this season.
A player of noted potential at Inter, where he broke through
to Rafa Bentiez’s short lived first team and impressed on many fronts including
the Champions League before falling out of favour with a range of managers and
then being neglected before being offloaded in the January transfer window for
what now seems like a paltry £8 million in favour of Mateo Kovatic, where he
really took up, benefiting from Brendan Rodgers passing system and the
improving form of Daniel Sturridge last year.
While he’s a joy to watch in full flow, what really stands
out are his statics. In just 13 games for the Redmen, he’s notched up seven
assists, at a rate of 186 minutes per chance, while he averaged only 104 minute
for each clear cut chance created – the best of anyone last year. If getting a
clear 38 games this year he should be aiming for 20 goals which would have won
the title last year.
Able to play on the left – where he cuts in deep if
Liverpool have the ascendancy in midfield, a common occurrence especially at Anfield – or
from deep when starting attacks on either side – his tactical versatility offer
him an end of ways to get involved within attacking moves and as the chief creative
influence in midfield, he will play every game possible, making the 16/1 on him
leading this market by the end of the season easily the most attractive option.
There are many creative influences at Manchester City but
Jesus Navas’s width and crossing ability makes him interesting at the same
price. A constant sufferer of homesickness in his youth – to the point where he
couldn’t go on Spanish training camps – he has since improved with it and is
now the go to man for Del Bosque to break down stubborn defences, as proven by
his performances for the national side over the last three years. The arrival
of his teammate Alvaro Negredo, who scored 51 goals alongside him at Seville,
is a massive help, while he will be supplying the strongest strikeforce in
England – Augero, Negredo, Jovetic, and Dezko, with two of them being excellent
headers - which is an obvious pointer to his chances. He makes more appeal than
David Silva, who is likely to have to share spoils with central midfield
partners Yaya Toure and Fernandinhio.
Juan Mata was 22-1 when he took this market last year and is
half the price today, but for good reason as one of the planet’s standout
performers from the midfield. There’s a worry that his Chelsea team mates Eden
Hazard and Oscar may well infringe upon his total this year with the trio
likely to be playing more often than not under what’s likely to be a 4-2-3-1 system
this season, but he beat Hazard to the honour last year and with Chelsea not
likely to be held back by strikeforce issues this season he should put up a
bold bid to retain his title.
Santi Cazrola can have another fine season but has a fit
Jack Wilshere to contend with this season along with Theo Walcott and was a
long way behind in this market last year and a more interesting contender would
be Robin Van Persie who made a hatful of goals playing the advanced role alone
for Manchester United.
Advice
2 pts each/way Phillipe Coutiniho (16/1 Boylesports)
1 pt each/way Jesus Navas (16/1 Boylesports)
1 pt each/way Juan Mata (10/1 Boylesports)
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