IT\’S a massive David v Goliath FA Cup Monday night clash when nonleague killers Sutton United take on Premier League big boys Arsenal at Gander Green Lane. I don\’t care what level of football you are playing at but this is a perfect time to face Arsenal and manager Arsene Wenger is a man under HUGE pressure and he will not relish this trip to Surrey one little bit.
The Gunners\’ are in awful form and were dreadful in the second half in the 5-1 defeat against Bayern Munich and now the FA Cup has yet again become a huge competition for the French man and he can\’t afford to take on risks on team selection ahead of this “must win” game. The visitors are as short at 1.11 to win this with BetVictor and despite the huge gulf between the two that is certainly not a price that I would go anywhere near in their current form.
To show how much pressure Wenger is under he\’s odds of been slashed from 101.0 to just 8.00 to be the next Premier League manager to lose his job following the battering in Bavaria and he is rated at 3.00 to be in charge of the first day of next season by Betway.
Sutton have already beaten three football league sides to reach the last 16 and they will be confident of a success and they are going to make the night as intimidating as possible for the Premier League giants.
19.00 is the price you will get for the non-leaguers to produce of the biggest shocks in the FA Cup\’s long history but even though I don\’t think they\’ve got enough for the win, they won\’t be embarrassed.
Sutton play on a very heavy artificial pitch, which is something that the Gunners\’ aren\’t used to and the Gander Green Lane playing surface as a huge hill which is something that will take a bit of getting used to by the Gunners.
I like Sutton on the Asian handicap +2.5 at 1.72 with BetVictor as I believe that this will be very tight for the opening 30 minutes and in the second half Wenger calling on some his big names to get his side out of trouble win the non-leaguers start to tire.
I believe that it will take Arsenal a bit of time to break the Sutton defence down and a couple of bets I like are the 2.10 with Betfred for the second half to produce more goals and the game to be drawing at half-time and Arsenal to win at full-time which is 18/5 among most green listed bookmakers.
Wenger will get out of trouble in this just, and for correct-score players a Gunners\’ 2-0 win at the general 7.00 looks the most likely.
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