Football Tips Today Acca for Saturday 28/10/2017
Tottenham v Gent: Pre-Match Analysis
Tottenham trail the tie after losing 1-0 last week in Belgium. Spurs fielded a strong side yet Mauricio Pochettino’s side were frustrated. Spurs beat Fulham at the weekend and it is likely Pochettino will go strong again this Thursday at Wembley with any hope of the League looking lost. Jan Vertonghen returned against Fulham and will likely partner Toby Alderweireld versus Gent. Spurs lost 2 of their 3 Champions League group games at Wembley although they did beat CSKA Moscow in the most recent of those. They failed to keep a clean sheet in any of those games.
Gent come into this game aiming to hold on to their 1 goal lead and progress to the Europa League round of 16. Gent are 6 away games without a win while their last 8 matches in all competitions have had Under 2.5 goals. They sit in 8th spot in the Belgian league and followed up their victory over Spurs with a draw away to Standard Liege.
Spurs begin chasing the game and being a side who get their full-backs high up the pitch, they tend to win a lot of corners. Spurs had 11 or more corners in 2 of their 3 group stage games and average 6.9 corners team corners per Premier League game. Spurs had 5 corners out in Belgium last Thursday while Gent had 0. Spurs are 4/5 to have Over 6.5 corners but are 13/10 with a -4 handicap in terms of corners. This effectively means Spurs need to have 5 or more corners more than Gent, this landed in Belgium and also landed in 2 of Spurs’ 3 Champions League group games. With Spurs likely to go relatively strong here combined with the fact they are chasing the game, I think this looks a very shrewd bet.
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