Premier League acca: Liverpool back to winning ways
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Ladbrokes presents its Premier League acca for the fixtures in England’s top-flight taking place on April 13, 14 and 15.
We’re eyeing a payout of just shy of 24/1, which features picks from Liverpool’s game against Crystal Palace, Luton’s trip to Man City and Arsenal’s match at the Emirates Stadium against top-four chasing Aston Villa.
The third-leg of our acca takes us to Anfield, where despite only winning three of their last seven games in all competitions, we’re predicting that Liverpool will emerge with all three points and beat Crystal Palace on Sunday afternoon.
Premier League acca
The first leg of our acca takes us to the Etihad Stadium for Man City’s game against Luton, where we’re predicting a win for Pep Guardiola’s side. The belief amongst many is that Pep is going to bring in some of his fringe players for the game, giving some of his first-term regulars some much-needed rest ahead of their Champions League quarter-final tie in Spain against Real Madrid next week.
Despite that, City are the favourites to win this year’s Premier League for a reason, with their incredible depth, as well as the goal scoring brilliance of Erling Haaland, being one of the main reasons they’ve been priced shorter than both Liverpool and Arsenal. City have enough strength in reserve to see off Luton, even if they make some changes, so we’re going with a win for Guardiola’s side as the first leg of our Premier League acca.
Man United should be on somewhat of a high right now, as despite having a significantly worse season than their North-West England rivals, they managed to remain undefeated in all three of their games against Liverpool this season, drawing 2-2 with Jurgen Klopp’s side in their last Premier League encounter.
We’re going with a draw for Erik ten Hag’s side once again this weekend, but this one will be one that they won’t be as pleased with, coming against Bournemouth. Andoni Ireola’s side managed to beat United 4-0 earlier on in the season, and while we aren’t pegging them to do the double over the 2008 Champions League winners, we still think they’ll take points off them.
It hasn’t been a great week for Liverpool, and that’s putting it lightly. The Reds drew 2-2 with Man United in a game they were very much expected to win last week, and followed that up with a rather surprising and incredibly disappointing 3-0 loss to Atalanta in the Europa League, putting their chances of winning the competition in serious doubt.
Some may question whether Jurgen Klopp’s side have enough in the tank to continue to win games, having exceeded expectations thus far, but the good news is we’re predicting Liverpool to get back to winning ways and beat Crystal Palace at Anfield this weekend.
The game was 2-1 when the two sides met earlier in the season, with Liverpool relying on a stoppage-time winner from Harvey Elliot to beat their opponents. However, we think things might be slightly easier this time out, with the game taking place at Anfield, explaining why we’ve picked a win for the Merseyside outfit as the third leg of our Premier League acca,
Man City and Liverpool fans will be hoping that Aston Villa manage to take points off Arsenal, and will be looking to the fact that Unai Emery’s side beat the Gunners 1-0 in December at Villa Park as proof that it could well happen.
Unfortunately for fans of both of the aforementioned clubs, we’re going with a win for Arsenal as the fourth leg of our Premier League acca here, despite Villa proving this season that they’re not a team that should be overlooked.
The absence of star midfielder Douglas Luiz, who is suspended for the trip to London, will be a big miss for Aston Villa. Arsenal, on the other hand, are expected to have a fully fit squad (with the exception of Jurrien Timber) for the same this weekend, and we think they’re simply too good and too strong to slip up against their former manager’s side.
For the fifth and final leg of our Premier League acca, we look at Everton’s game with Chelsea, where we’re predicting a draw between the two sides. Everton and Chelsea met back in December 2023, with the Toffees surprising beating Mauricio Pochettino’s side 2-0, with a late goal in stoppage time from Lewis Dobbin.
We’re not predicting that Everton will do the double over Chelsea this season, but we are going for a draw when the two sides meet on Monday night, with odds of 29/10. Everton have just been handed another two point deduction for breaching financial rules, and while they are 16th right now, will need to continue picking up wins to ensure they aren’t properly sucked into the relegation battle.
Chelsea haven’t been in the best form themselves, drawing 2-2 with Burnley recently, and we think that Everton could become the latest side to take points off them.
Once again, you can back Ladbrokes’ Premier League acca at the time of writing with odds of 23.73/1.
All odds and markets are correct as of the date of publication.
