Joe Champion's best bets for this weekend's Premier League action include BTTS in Crystal Palace v Bournemouth and Everton v Man City.
The Premier League returns on Saturday as five matches take place headlined by the televised 5:30pm fixture between Aston Villa and Newcastle.
We have picked out our four best football betting selections for Saturday’s Premier League action, which can be combined in a fourfold which pays over 17/1.
Saturday Premier League tips
Brentford to beat Brighton win 7/5
Crystal Palace v Bournemouth: Both teams to score 3/5
Everton vs Manchester City: Both teams to score 31/40
Newcastle to beat Aston Villa 13/8
Brentford to beat Brighton
Brentford and Brighton kick off the weekend at the Gtech Community Stadium, where both sides will be desperate to revive their flagging European hopes.
Thomas Frank’s Bees have claimed just one win in six Premier League games and now find themselves five points behind eighth-placed Bournemouth, but they’ve faced a tough run of fixtures of late and a home clash with Brighton looks a much less daunting proposition.
The Seagulls have been unconvincing in recent weeks, losing 3-0 at home to Aston Villa and 2-1 on the road at Crystal Palace before a 2-2 draw with lowly Leicester City. They look vulnerable on the road.
Both teams to score in Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth
Crystal Palace appear to already have one eye on next week’s FA Cup semi-final clash with Aston Villa having lost 5-2 at Manchester City last weekend and 5-0 at Newcastle United in midweek.
However, Oliver Glasner’s Eagles should offer a more potent attacking threat at Selhurst Park, where they have won four on the spin and have scored at least once in their last 12 matches.
Ten of Palace’s last 12 at home featured goals at both ends – the exceptions were a 1-0 FA Cup win over League One Stockport and a Premier League triumph over struggling Ipswich Town by the same scoreline – so the Cherries should also make their mark in south London.
Both teams to score in Everton vs Manchester City
Everton have three matches remaining at Goodison Park and David Moyes and his team will hope to bid farewell to the Grand Old Lady in entertaining fashion over the final few weeks of the campaign.
Perhaps, unsurprisingly, the Toffees are prioritising solid defence in Moyes’ second spell at the helm, but they’ve also scored 2.17 goals per game on average in their last six league home matches, a run which includes games against Liverpool and Arsenal.
Manchester City have demonstrated their ability to score goals in Erling Haaland’s absence, but Pep Guardiola’s men remain unconvincing at the back.
Newcastle to beat Aston Villa
The standout fixture of the Premier League weekend comes at Villa Park on Saturday evening and it’s the travelling Newcastle fans who could be the happier supporters come full-time.
Villa demonstrated their battling qualities on Tuesday, recovering from 2-0 down on the night to beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-2 in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie, but Unai Emery’s outfit were still unable to overturn a 3-1 first-leg deficit.
Ultimately, that was a disappointing outcome for the vocal Villa Park faithful and both players and fans could struggle to pick themselves up in time for a clash with the in-form Magpies, who are on a six-match winning run including an EFL Cup final success.
