Burnley vs Arsenal Preview

April 10, 2015
By: Deke Hardman

Arsene Wenger

Saturday’s Premier League action rounds off at Turf Moor where Burnley, who go in to the weekend just two points from safety, host second place Arsenal.

The Clarets have won just one of their last ten league games and lost three of their last five, but could climb out of the bottom three with victory here.

With three of their final six games coming against other sides in the bottom five of the division, manager Sean Dyche will be confident of his sides survival chances, despite them being tipped for an immediate return to the second tier all season.

Matt Taylor is in line to make his first appearances since August after recovering from an Achilles problem, while Ross Wallace and Steven Reid are also available for selection.

Top scorer Danny Ings is 9.0 (8/1) to get the first goal of the game with Betfair, while George Boyd can be backed at 19.0 (18/1) with the same firm.

The home in is as highly priced as the 6.5 (11/2) on offer from a variety of firms, with the visitors favourites at 1.57 (4/7). The draw is widely available 4.33 (10/3).

Arsene Wenger’s men, who swept aside Liverpool last time out, go in to the game just seven points behind leaders Chelsea, who they host in two weeks’ time though the Blues do have a game in hand.

They also have next weekend’s FA Cup semi-final against Reading to look forward to, and the Gunners boss will have designs on landing a third league and cup double with the North London club.

Laurent Koscielny and Wojciech Szczecsny are both injury concerns for the away side, though Jack Wilshere, Mikel Arteta, Abou Diaby and Mathieu Debuchy are all back in contention.

Olivier Giroud, who has ten goals in his last ten club games, is favourite to open the scoring at 5.5 (9/2) with Paddy Power, with Alexis Sanchez a 6.0 (5/1) chance with Coral.

The reverse fixture finished in a 3-0 win for Arsenal, the third time in four meetings between the sides where the Gunners scored over 2.5 goals so you may be tempted to back them to do so this time around at 3.0 (2/1) with Coral.

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