QPR v Fulham Betting Preview

No Portuguese holiday/training camp for our pundits, but a two week break all the same, and now they’re back to preview our crunch game with Fulham and a weekend of sporting action.

Don’t you wish your work sent you to Portugal for a week after you’d comprehensively cocked up an important assignment? Anyway, a £32.50 loss for Brian last week with a void bet on the France v Ireland game, but I must say I’m liking the look of his Sunderland Spurs tips in the FA Cup more and more with each passing week. He’s on £67.33 for the season so far.

Andy’s debut season profit last year, based on a remarkable near four figure win on a Super Sunday of four draws if I remember correctly, sent him down a path of so many LFW Betting Column pundits before – fast cars, loose women, hard drugs. This led to him returning this season in abysmal form and posting big losses which he had been clawing back slowly with consecutive profits over a number of weeks. But Robin Van Persie didn’t score last time out, so he made a rare loss of £35 offset by a £32.50 win on a goal in the first 15 minutes of the Blackburn game means a £2.50 loss for the week and a £45.92 deficit for the season. He’s starting to talk like Neil Warnock too, spot this week’s reference…

Andy Hillman

The first loss in a while two weeks ago, as only a goal in the first fifteen minutes came in, thanks to Yakubu and some inept defending. Backing the overs in my accumulators has been an absolute disaster, as the Loft for Words jinx is creating a series of dull low scoring games.

It's been a lovely week off from football truth be told, and the first problem that I have coming back is Clive's insistence that bet on something vaguely QPR related which is where it normally all goes wrong truth be told. Fulham have the worst away record in the league, bar none. QPR have lost five of their last seven home games. What exactly am I supposed to bet on? Well the draw, naturally. Now William Hill are offering odds of 15/2 on any side coming from behind to draw, but they're only offering 11/5 on the actual draw. I'm simply going to Dutch both sides to come from behind to draw, which means that any draw other than goalless one (and we're not keeping a clean sheet are we...) and it's almost twice the odds.

Elsewhere, it's the Carling Cup final, and Liverpool play Cardiff in a match that they should win with ease. Liverpool with a -2 goal handicap are 5/2 with BetVictor - I fancy them to win by 3 or 4 goals if I'm honest...

Finally my accumulator for the week, and it's back to BetVictor and their don't hit the bar promotion - West Ham, Celtic, Chelsea, Newcastle or the draw and Man City odds of just shy of 9/2

For the Weekend:

QPR to Draw from behind - £10 @ 15/2

Fulham to Draw from behind - £10 @ 15/2

Liverpool to win with a -2 handicap - £10 @ 5/2

Fivefold accumulator - West Ham, Celtic, Chelsea, Newcastle or the draw and Man City - £10 @ 9/2

Brian Power

Three of my selections this week tick the players scoring against their old club rules. At HQ on Saturday those lovely chaps from Fulham will rattle their jewellery in anger when Bobby Zamora opens the scoring. On the other hand those scamps from Wales will rattle any Liverpudllian throats if Craig Bellamy scores first. Now that would rub their noses in it.

The North London derby gives Spurs a chance to kick a club while they are down and Adebayor can do the job. 

I will continue to go with the Tommy Bowe first try selection and will have a crack at the both teams to score bet as recommended by a colleague who in his words describes it as "a chance to pick up cash by half time". 

For the weekend:

£10 Bobby Zamora first goal 11/2

£7.50 Craig Bellamy first goal 6/1

£7.50 Adebayor first goal 11/2

£7.50 Tommy Bowe first tryscorer Ireland v Italy 15/2

£10 acca both teams to score

QPR 17/20

Brighton 8/13

Gillingham 7/10

Morecambe 8/13

1.50 trebles and a £1.50 acca

Brentford 7/4

Leeds 7/5

MK Dons 17/10

Sunderland 85/40

Previously Advised:

£10 Spurs to win FA cup 8/1

£2.50 e/w Sunderland to win FA cup 50/1

£12.50 Ireland to win Six Nations 5/1

£7.50 Bowe to be top tryscorer 11/1

The Pro

QPR have now entered the 'must get something from this game' portion of the season and they resume after the FA Cup break against local rivals Fulham looking for revenge for the 6-0 drubbing back in October. So much has changed since then and I expect so much to change now. I think it will be close, the market reflects this with most bookies unable to separate them. QPR have won only two home games all season, Fulham have only won one game away all season. Fulham are the Premierships example to the classic question 'why can’t they perform like they do at home whilst on their travels'? They have scored less goals away from home than any other team - in fact QPR have actually scored double the amount of away goals as Fulham this season. I can’t help thinking that the constant barrage of Fulham fans claiming they were right to get rid of Zamora in January could come back to haunt them. I think it will be nervy, nail-biting and not pretty. I am also getting tired of referee decisions scuppering any chances of recommended bets winning, so I am a bit loath to make such a prediction, but I recommend a bet on Zamora to score at anytime during the match at a definitely overpriced 21/10 with Spreadex.

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