ALEX CROOK PREVIEW: Premier League GW10

Star Sports football ambassador ALEX CROOK previews the latest Premier League action, with expert insight and betting tips ahead of a huge weekend of football.

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🔵 EVERTON v COVENTRY 🔵
Friday, 8pm

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Everton’s excellent start to the season has almost gone under the radar but the Toffees have the chance to climb up to fifth place in the table when they host Coventry tonight.

The Toffees were deserving 1-0 victors at Newcastle on Monday night, landing the column a lovely 2/1 winner, and David Moyes’s men have lost just two of their first nine Premier League games.

Coventry hauled themselves out of the bottom three by beating Sunderland 3-1 last weekend, claiming their third Premier League triumph since promotion, all of them coming in their last five games.

That recent improvement will give Sky Blues boss Frank Lampard hope he can put one over his old club after a difficult spell on Merseyside.

While I fancy Everton to come out on top, they are hardly a team stacked with goalscorers, particularly in the continued absence of bad boy Jack Grealish.

Striker Thierno Barry seems to need a stack of chances to put the ball in the net, as he proved at St James Park.

Goals have been in especially short supply ay Hill Dickinson Stadium, so I am not expecting a classic in front of the TV camera.

Under 2.5 goals is available at 21/20 with starsports.bet.

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🔴 ARSENAL v HULL🐯
Saturday, 3pm

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Arsenal survived a late scare in Prague in the Champions League in mid-week to continue their fine run of form since being thumped 3-0 at Brighton prior to the last international break.

That followed a hard-fought 1-0 win at Liverpool last weekend, ending a 14-year Anfield hoodoo.

After navigating a tricky set of fixtures away from home the Gunners now have to play just one game outside London for the rest of the year.

Saturday’s visit of Hull looks a golden opportunity for the champions to stretch their lead at the top before Manchester City play later in the day.

The Tigers are sat relatively comfortable in mid-table after last weekend’s 2-2 draw at home to Ipswich but are without a win in seven matches.

Their game-plan will be to sit deep and try and hit Arsenal on the counter, but ending Arsenal’s 100 per cent record at the Emirates looks a forlorn task.

Arsenal’s last three league wins have been with a clean sheet and four of their last five league victories have featured fewer than three goals in the game.

We correctly tipped Arsenal to beat Everton 2-0 in their last home game and the same scoreline returns 19/4 with starsports.bet.

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🦅 CRYSTAL PALACE v LIVERPOOL 🔴
Sunday, 2pm

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Palace boss Pierre Sage is under immense pressure as his side host Liverpool on Sunday.

Palace did at least snap a three-game losing run with a 1-1 draw at home to injury-hit Hoffenheim in the Europa League on Thursday.

But the Eagles’ performance was poor and if they defend as badly again then Liverpool’s expensively assembled forward line could run riot.

The Reds suffered a disappointing 3-2 Champions League defeat at Fenerbahce on Wednesday night as Andoni Iraola’s call to leave a number of regulars on the bench backfired.

Alexander Isak did come off the bench to keep up his impressive early-season scoring form and will relish the prospect of facing a Palace side who have conceded 21 goals in their first nine Premier League games.

The hosts, missing the suspended Jean-Phillipe Mateta, have also faced a whopping 79 more shots than they have managed themselves.

Liverpool look almost nailed on to claim a fourth straight Premier League away win and it could be another heavy defeat for Sage having already seen his side thrashed 5-0 at Brighton.

Liverpool to win the first half, over 3.5 goals, Isak to score and over 1.5 Palace cards pays 6.5/1 as a build-a-bet with starsports.bet.

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🔴 MANCHESTER UNITED v ASTON VILLA 🟣
Sunday, 4.30pm

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United fans went through the full range of emotions during Tuesday’s astonishing victory at home to Roma.

The mood among the Old Trafford faithful at half-time with United trailing 2-0 was one of doom and gloom and the writing looked on the wall for manager Michael Casrrick.

But a stirring second half fightback to come out 3-2 winners turned it into one of the club’s Europena nights of recent times.

Carrick will hope that will prove the catalyst for an upturn in fortunes to keep him in a job as opposed to a false dawn.

The United boss could still find himself out of a job if they lose at home to high-flying Villa on Sunday.

The visitors lost 3-0 to Barcelona in mid-week after dropping points at home to Fulham last weekend.

They have also won just five of their last 34 visits to United, losing 26, but the travelling fans will be buoyed by the news manager Unai Emery is set to sign a new contract amidst rumours linking him as Carrick’s potential successor.

United to win looks too short a price based on their dire run prior to conquering the Romans.

Matheus Cunha was the main driving force being that comeback and tends to score his goals in streaks. The Brazilian is 13/8 with starsports.bet to net at any time.

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