However Chelsea playing against Marseilles on the same night played good game and almost bad game to over-come the French champions 2 goals to nil.

Chelsea meet Arsenal at Stamford Bridge on Sunday 3 October at 4pm. The match is screened live on Sky Sports 2 and the early betting suggests that Chelsea are the on-form team. On-form may not be
a totally accurate description at the moment.

However there is not a lot separating the two teams in the Premiership. Chelsea are top on 15 points with Arsenal 3rd on 11 points after playing their first 6 games of the season.

This will be the fixture of the weekend and is certainly worth a flutter at your local bookie.

Chelsea have been the victors in the last three meetings between the two teams and the odds seem to be in their favour.

The odds are in favour of Chelsea at 4/5 and Arsenal at 4/1 to win and 3/1 for a draw. However this is not a forgone conclusion by any means. A bet on a draw is very tantalising and probably realistic.
Arsenal on their game could upset the applecart.

However if you are not persuaded by this, there are many other ways that you can lay a bet on the game.

Who do you fancy to score the first goal? Will it be Walcott, Nasri or Arshavin for Arsenal? Will it be Malouda, Drogba or Kalou for Chelsea?

When all is said and done Abramovich has told his team he expects them to win every competition they play in this year. Indeed the betting is again in favour of them taking the 2010/11 title.

Premiership Betting tip-Drogba is looking sharp and most of all interested, so we’ll be tipping him to score in a second game running, Betfair have him at odds of 2.64 to score at anytime, take it!!

Liverpool v Man Utd- This Saturday lunchtime it’s the big match, Liverpool come up against the team they haven’t beaten in 6 consecutive matches at Anfield.  The last time Liverpool picked up a point against United was in 2005, the score was 0-0.  The odds point in favour of Man Utd, bookmakers Paddy Power have them to win at 2.4 and for the home team to win the game at odds of 3.0. 

Betting tip- This fixture has produced under 2.5 goals in the last 5 seasons and the odds of it occurring again from Betfair is 1.58.  Knowing my luck it will be 3 goals in the first 15 minutes, but I’ll be following the stats and backing unders as these games seem to always pretty tight.  This match usually has some tasty challenges, so there should be some yellow cards shown,  If you can find a bookings market on an of the betting sites then I would back small, Mascherano, Scholes and Carragher all to be booked.

UPDATE: -  An early goal from United set this game up to have a potential of alot of goals.  Unfortunately for me then I backed under 2.5 goals.  Liverpool played the better football overall and deserved the three points, but without the mistakes made from United it didn’t look like they were going to score without Torres playing.  Hopefully there will be a change of betting luck soon!!

Blackburn 0-4 Arsenal
Fulham 2-1 Bolton
Liverpool 2-1 Man Utd
Man City 1-3 Chelsea
Newcastle 1-2 Hull
Portsmouth 2-1 Middlesbrough
West Brom 3-2 West Ham
Wigan 1-1 Sunderland
Stoke 2-3 Everton
Tottenham v Aston Villa