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#BestBets with Patrick Kinghorn: EPL Week 26

Other than being the management of Coldplay who had to explain to Chris Martin this week why they thought it was a good idea to share the Superbowl stage with Bruno Mars and Beyonce, predicting this season’s football results is the world’s hardest job. Nevertheless I soldier on and strive to point you in the right direction with this week’s Three For The Weekend!
Norwich 1 West Ham 3
Norwich are dropping like a stone and if four straight league defeats prior to last weekend wasn’t enough, number five came courtesy of Aston Villa, a club that if they were a pet poodle, would have been put down in December. West Ham are not bomb proof by any means but have the flair players to exploit a Norwich defence that has shipped NINETEEN goals in their last six games.
Photo Credit: Zimbio
Photo Credit: Zimbio

Including five against a Liverpool team with no strikers and two against a Villa side who last scored two in a league game around about the time myself and Abbas Saad last needed to visit a hair stylist. Norwich to their credit will come at West Ham in the usual lively Carrow Road atmosphere but as long as some tired legs hold out off the back of the Hammer’s extra time FA Cup tie win against Liverpool they will have too much for the relegation candidate Canaries. Incidentally, Dimitri Payet can’t get in the French squad for EURO 2016, let alone the starting XI. How good must the French be?

Swansea 0 Southampton 2
It is another away win for me here. The Saints under Ronald Koeman have bounced back from a shaky spell at the turn of the year when you get the feeling there was some discontent in the camp caused by a few want-away players. The bump appears to have been smoothed over for now and they boast a defence coming off the back of five clean sheets.
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Photo Credit: 365dm.com

Swansea are unbeaten in four but I am still trying to work out how they escaped from Goodison Park with three points at the end of last month and they’ll have to be unbeaten until next Christmas for me to think that Francesco Guidolin was a savvy appointment. It’s Spurs and Arsenal next for The Swans after this and they could be in the drop zone by the time they take on Norwich and Bournemouth in relegation six pointers after that.

 
Arsenal 4 Leicester 2
If you believe in fairy tales I can heartily recommend Frozen, an enchanting movie about a girl who can summon snow and ice at the drop of a hat. She is also a member of a royal family so quite why she didn’t just pay for the medical treatment that would have cured her condition I do not know but she chooses to run away. If only she had taken her god given gift to America’s Got Talent she would have been a sure-fire winner. A snow man then comes to life and a man appears to be involved in a serious relationship with his reindeer. Ask your girlfriend, she’ll fill you in with the rest.
Photo Credit: Express.co.uk
Photo Credit: Express.co.uk

If however, you are a football fan convinced Leicester can win the league please do ‘Let it Go’. I still believe ‘For the First Time in Forever’ Arsenal will win the EPL and having recovered from their recent mini slump with a professional job against Bournemouth, this is the Gunners chance to re-take the title race by the scruff of the neck. It is impossible to knock what Claudio Ranieri has done this season but don’t get carried away with the win last week. Great three points but Manchester City are a ‘Fixer Upper’ awaiting their Prince Pep. The Foxes haven’t beaten Arsenal since 1994 going back some twenty meetings and their heaviest defeat of this season came at the King Power when Arsenal battered them 5-2. As long as Arsenal get on the scoreboard early they will win by at least two and be back on track to end their 12 year title drought ‘In Summer’.

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