Arsenal vs Norwich City Preview

April 30, 2016
By: Deke Hardman

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Saturday’s Premier League action concludes at the Emirates Stadium where Arsenal face Norwich City.

The Gunners go into the weekend in fourth place, level on points with third place Manchester City and five ahead of Manchester United, who host league leaders Leicester City on Sunday.

They were held at relegation threatened Sunderland last weekend though that result did extend their unbeaten run in the league to seven games and a return to winning ways here would see them move to within two points of rivals Tottenham Hotspur who sit in second and don’t play until Monday.

Santi Cazorla and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain have both returned to fitness and are pushing for recalls as has Tomas Rosicky though the latter is not expected to feature.

Alexis Sanchez is favourite to open the scoring at 4.75 (15/4) with Bet 365 ahead of Danny Welbeck and Olivier Giroud who can each be found at 5.0 (4/1) with various firms.

The home win is widely available at 1.29 (2/7) with the visitors as highly priced as the 13.0 (12/1) on offer from most bookmakers. The draw can be backed at 6.5 (11/2).

The Canaries find themselves in the relegation zone on goal difference with Sunderland a place above them, and both sides have a game in hand over the other sides around them.

They go in to this game on the back of back-to-back defeats which came after a run of three games without a loss.

Captain Russell Martin is set to return from a virus though Timm Klose remains out and Andre Wisdom has returned to Liverpool after injury ended his season.

Dieumerci Mbokani, Cameron Jerome and Patrick Bamford can each be backed at 15.0 (14/1) to open the scoring with several firms.

The two sides played out a 1-1 draw in this season’s reverse fixture with Arsenal winning each of the three previous clashes.

You can bet on both teams to score this time around at 2.05 (21/20) with Stan James while Betfair offer a price of 1.53 (8/15) for there to be three or more goals in the game.

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