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What a week of football we have just been through. Kompany’s 30-yard screamer on Monday night was followed on Tuesday by Mission Impossible:

Klopp’s Redmen reversing a 3-0 deficit against the mighty Barcelona. Mission Impossible II was released on Wednesday as Tottenham turned around a 3-0 aggregate loss in 45 minutes of scintillating football, but the drama didn’t finish there! Chelsea and Arsenal confirmed a full English of teams in the European finals this season, with Hazard potentially sending Chelsea to Baku with his last kick of a ball at Stamford Bridge.

Have you caught your breath yet?

Well strap in, because Sunday’s final day of Premier League action looks set to be another memorable afternoon of football, and BetVictor are offering memorable prices on Man City and Liverpool to get wins in their crunch fixtures.

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Pep’s side hasn’t dropped a single Premier League point since January 29th. Let’s put that in perspective: 13 straight wins for City, which has seen them accumulate 95 points with one game remaining. Their task on Sunday is to gain all three points at the Amex Stadium, against a Brighton & Hove Albion side who have struggled all season. The Seagulls have narrowly avoided relegation, but with serious problems up front, it’s creeping into the realms of fantasy to believe they can ruin City’s title bid on the South Coast on Sunday.

It’s in City’s hands. They have the chance to become the first side to retain the Premier League trophy since their noisy neighbours United did in 2009.

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Clermont v La Rochelle
European Challenge Cup Final – 7.45 pm
BT Sport

The European Challenge Cup is on the line for these two on Friday night. Clermont go as the 4/9 odds-on favourites with leading bookmakers to collect the victory. They are sitting in second place there behind Toulouse with two to play. So they could be on for a huge double this season. While they have won their last two, it hasn’t quite gone all their way, winning just two of their last four domestic games (D1 L1).

Clermont were the topped ranked team in this European Challenge Cup after the Pool stage. They then moved past two English opponents, Northampton and Harlequins in the quarter and semi-final respectively. As for La Rochelle, they are heading for a top-six league finish and their route to the final of the Challenge Cup took them past two English teams as well. They knocked out the Bristol Bears and then got the better of Sale in the quarter finals by a narrow margin.

Back in October La Rochelle hosted Clermont and took a 16-12 success over them in the Top 14. Clermont however, got some pretty heavy revenge when they hosted them in the reverse fixture in early January, putting a massive 44-19 victory on the board. These two teams were the top-two try scorers in the Pool stage of the European Challenge Cup this season. Clermont have the try-scoring threat of Peter Betham, while La Rochelle have Ihaia West and Maxime Lafage as their big threats. La Rochelle are 15/8 underdogs to pull off the success. Clermont have won the title twice before, La Rochelle are looking for their first.

Tranmere v Forest Green
League Two Play-Off – 7.30 pm
Sky Sports

The League Two playoffs start on Friday night with this clash from Prenton Park. Tranmere sort of stumbled towards the finish line in the regular season, winning just one of their last seven games of the term. They did not get one in any of their last four. But they were a powerful home side throughout the course of the season. They were on a five-match winning streak of form (conceding a goal in the process) at home before taking just one point from their final two. It’s that kind of momentum which they need to get back for the first leg of this tie.

Forest Green are doing better in terms of momentum with four wins in their last six games (D1 L1). They have been in a bit of a beast mode out on the road as well with a W4 L1 record in their last five road fixtures. This is the thing about Rovers, they produced more wins away from home this season than they did on home turf. So they could be a threat, even though they are kicking off as 13/5 underdogs. Forest Green Rovers have won their last three away games at Prenton Park to boot and will have their backing as potentially one of the best bets of the day.

Aberdeen v Hearts
Scottish Premiership – 7.45 pm
BT Sport

It is the final weekend of the Scottish top flight action and this will be the last opportunity then for Aberdeen to get themselves a top three finish. The Dons have hit the skids in the last two rounds, suffering back to back defeats in tough games against Rangers and Celtic. Aberdeen failed to get themselves on the scoreboard in either of those. That was their third defeat in six which has allowed Kilmarnock to edge past them into third place on goal difference. Aberdeen are 8/11 favourites with leading bookmakers to get the win in this one.

Hearts have been having a terrible time of things lately with just the one point collected in their last five games. Their away form has been pretty poor since the middle of February really, suffering three defeats in their last five out on the road (W1 D1). It’s been just the seven away wins from 17 road fixtures for them this season. Of their eight away defeats suffered, six of them were by a two-goal margin. Will they be suffering some more away day blues in this one? They are at 17/4 odds to produce three points which would ensure that they don’t drop down in the standings.

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This summer the eyes of the cricket world will be on England when ten cricket nations compete for the twelfth World Cup; the fourth to be held at the home of cricket since its inauguration in 1975.

England’s dismal record at this tournament is well-known. Despite having reached the final three times, they have never won it, and even that record doesn’t tell the whole story. Their last final appearance came in 1992, and in the modern era of fielding restrictions and power plays, they have made very little impact, including when they last hosted it in 1999.

Yet this time round, they are topping the betting ahead of the tournament. Betcris make them the 3.39 favourites to lift the famous trophy at Lord’s on July 14, despite the fact that their preparation has been less than idea. Key top order batsman Alex Hales has been dropped from the squad after disciplinary issues, while opener Jason Roy is struggling with an injury and the possible inclusion of talented all-rounder Joffra Archer has been the subject of a lot of controversy.

The reason why they remain the favourites is only partly down to the fact that they will have home advantage, which in any case will be largely nullified given that the tournament will be played in what is likely to be the hottest, driest part of the year. Their favouritism is down to the thrilling brand of cricket that they have produced since the last World Cup in 2015, when their style of play was roundly condemned for being out of date in an era of rapid scoring.

Under Eoin Morgan, England have become one of the most dynamic limited overs teams in the world, regularly setting new records, and thanks to the big hitting contributions of Hales, Roy, Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali and Jonny Bairstow, they have the ability to chase almost any total, making them formidable opponents where once they were regarded as pushovers.

Of course, they will face stiff opposition this summer. Australia, having reintegrated Steve Smith and David Warner, are resurgent, while New Zealand and West Indies have handy limited overs contributors. But the main challenge to the home side, who will go into the tournament as the ICC’s top-ranked fifty-over team, is likely to come from 1983 and 2011 winners India.

Captain Virat Kohli remains arguably the world’s best batsman, and he leads a batting line-up packed with talent, including Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Hardik Pandya, KL Rahul, along with the experience of former captain MS Dhoni, a wily seam bowling attack and an array of spinners adept at tying opponents down during the tricky middle overs. Betcris rate the Indian team as a major challenger to England, pricing them up at 3.8 and given their depth of both talent and one day international experience, they are sure to push the home team hard. In fact, it would be no surprise to see the world’s two best limited overs teams going head to head in the final on July 14.

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This season, the most compelling Premier League action has occurred at the top of the table as Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool and Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City fight it out for the title.

By contrast, the relegation battle has been relatively tame. Huddersfield and Fulham were confirmed for the drop several weeks before the end of the season and last weekend, with one round of fixtures to go, Cardiff City joined them, following their defeat against Crystal Palace.

That is relatively unusual. The financial rewards that go with staying in the Premier League, combined with the concentration of talent among the top clubs usually produces a ferocious scrap at the bottom of the table as the previous season’s promoted sides battle desperately to cling on against perennial relegation contenders, with a point here or a goal there often making the difference.

That is the fate awaiting the latest team to be promoted as champions from the second-tier next season. In August, Norwich fans will be able to tune in to BT Sport and watch their heroes take on the best in England, but they face a tough task in their first season back.

The Canaries have been here before. They played in the first three seasons of the Premier League, between 1992 and 1995, and had another three-year stint in the top flight between 2011 and 2014. They also spent one-off seasons in the Premier League in 2004-05 and 2015-16. But they have never been able to secure a firm foothold in the league. Even when they earned Premier League promotion through winning the First Division in 2004, they were relegated twelve months later.

And when bookmakers price up the relegation markets for next season, it is likely that Norwich will be among the favourites for the drop, alongside fellow promoted side Sheffield Wednesday and whichever team emerges from the Championship play-offs.

But recent seasons do provide some hope for Norwich. Leicester City famously won the Premier League in 2015/16, two years after earning promotion, and this season, Wolverhampton Wanderers have secured seventh spot and Europa League football at the first attempt, following Burnley’s similar feats in finishing seventh in their second season after promotion in 2018.

In fact, the record of promoted teams isn’t as bad as some pundits would have you believe. In the past ten seasons, of the 30 teams promoted from the Championship, only 11 have been relegated in the following year, which means promoted teams have a 65 percent survival rate. The record for Championship winners is even better. Eight of the last Championship winners avoided relegation from the Premier League in the following season, while each of the last five teams to win the Championship have gone on to established themselves in the top flight.

All of which suggests that Daniel Farke’s resilient Norwich side have a good chance of surviving in the Premier League next term, and Norwich fans who check out the Bigbetbookmakers site for the best odds on their team avoiding relegation might well be on to a winner.

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So, it all comes down to one game. On Sunday May 12, ninety minutes of football will determine whether Manchester City clinch their second consecutive title, or whether Liverpool steal the crown from them at the last moment and become English champions for the first time since 1990.

The race between the two has been closer, and classier, than anyone thought possible. Usually at this stage of the season, nerves have taken over and good football goes out the window as teams in contention for the title scramble desperately for every goal they can get. But although they have shown signs of tension, both Liverpool and City have continued to produce sublime football, and while there have been close title races before, few have been as high quality.

Liverpool have already amassed 94 points and could end the season on 97 points, having lost just once all campaign, yet not win the Premier League. In almost any other year, against any other opponent, they would be champions already, which just underlines the sheer quality of Pep Guardiola’s side. They broke the Premier League points tally record with 100 last season and, if they win their final game on Sunday, they will finish on 98, the second highest tally of all time.

Can Brighton spoil the party? Not according to the odds on Betcris. The Seagulls are a massive 14.7 to win their final game of the season, while Betcris also make City the 1.15 favourites and rate the draw as a big-priced 8.02. That suggests this game is a foregone conclusion.

There certainly appears little for Brighton to play for here. With relegation avoided, they have an outside possibility of finishing 16th rather than 17th, but that hardly compares with the motivation their opponents will have going into this game, and having fought so hard for so long to earn another season in the top flight, it could be hard for the Brighton players to maintain their intensity with the prize having been achieved, no matter how much their home crowd will want them to end on a high.

Their head-to-head record against these opponents doesn’t inspire much confidence either. City have won all three of their league games so far since Brighton returned to the top flight in 2017, and by an aggregate score of 7-1. They also lost 1-0 to City in the FA Cup semi-final last month.

That narrow defeat probably represents a prediction for what we can expect on Sunday. Brighton’s strength is their formidable work-rate backed up by iron-clad organisation. They don’t concede many goals either. Their goals against tally is better than six other teams in the bottom half. And there have been signs that City are finding it harder to find the net under the pressure of the title race. They’ve scored only ten in their last six, compared to a season’s average of 2.46 per game.

And yet, they keep finding ways to score when it matters, as exemplified by Vincent Kompany’s astonishing strike that beat Leicester on Monday. A narrow one goal win may be on the cards again, but given their depth of attacking resource, you have to believe that City will find a way through and end an extraordinary Premier League season as the champions once again.

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Two weeks remain, and four points are left for each player to slug it out for as the Premier League hits Sheffield this Thursday. Rob Cross is the only player home-and-hosed in terms of the playoffs at London’s O2 Arena, however, ‘Voltage’ will be setting his sights on winning the league phase, and stopping the run of Michael van Gerwen.

In terms of the race for the top four, Smith and Wright have been eliminated, leaving Wade, Suljovic, Gurney and Price scrapping for two more spots (assuming MVG will gain one point from his last two matches). (He will…).

Wade looks the strongest out of the bunch, and with a +18 leg difference, ‘The Machine’ effectively has a point to play with – presuming he doesn’t get swept 8-0 this week against Smith!

Gurney vs. Price is the standout fixture, a loss to either proving costly in their chances of a playoff spot. Gurney has shown he can beat anyone on his day, and with Price tailing off in recent weeks, the Northern Irishman will be confident ahead of Thursday evening.

We are still awaiting a 9-darter in this year’s Premier League. With the pressure off for some of the league and the pressure well and truly on for the others, these last two weeks are the most likely to lure the perfect leg out of one of the players. Gerwyn Price has come the closest, and has found himself three darts away on a number of occasions!

Let’s take a closer look at the action from the FlyDSA Arena on Thursday:

Michael Smith vs James Wade

A win for Wade against the already eliminated Smith will guarantee ‘The Machine’ a spot in the playoffs. Smith’s doubling hasn’t been up to scratch this season, with Wade likely to capitalise in stealing legs late. Wade should win at a canter if his eye is in. Wade to pop the most 180s shows value too.

James Wade to win @ 1/1 (BetVictor)

Mensur Suljovic vs Rob Cross

A point may be enough for Suljovic against top-of-the-league Cross, as the Austrian looks to defend his playoff spot. Cross has lost just three times all season and looks a good bet to join the limited list of league winners. All fourteen legs could be thrown here, with the slow pace suiting both.

7-7 draw @ 7/2 (BetVictor)

Daryl Gurney vs Gerwyn Price

This fixture could prove to mean a lot in the race for the playoffs. A win for Gurney all but eliminates Price, but a win for the Welshman will leapfrog him above ‘Superchin’. Gurney is the form player having won his last two (including doing the double over MVG). Back Gurney in the outrights, coupled with the most 180s.

Gurney to win @ 5/4 (BetVictor)
Over 13.5 legs @ 8/13 (BetVictor)

Michael van Gerwen vs Peter Wright

Wright struggles against van Gerwen at the best of times, let alone when there is the gulf between form that there currently is. The Dutchman will be eyeing up a return to the top of the league and won’t let ‘Snakebite’ stand in his way. 8-2 or 8-1 to MVG here.

MVG 8-2 Wright @ 6/1 (BetVictor)

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