Two English teams, will go against each other today, in a friendly game. Usually friendlies are hard to predict and I usually avoid them, but the difference here seems noticeable.
Preston North End is a football club currently playing in Championship. They seem to do poor at home, or at least according to the stats for last year. Here are the last six games they have played in the past season:
Preston 0-1 Leicester
Preston 3-2 Scunthorpe
Preston 1-1 Watford
Preston 2-2 QPR
Preston 2-2 Sheff Wed
Preston 3-2 Nottm Forest
One loss, two victories and 3 draw games is something they will look forward to improve this year. Against them will come out the team of Everton. They started slowly last year, but at the end of the season, they were quite unstoppable beating team like Man City on their own stadium.
Last six away games for Everton:
Brisbane Roar 1-2 Everton
Melbourne Heart 0-2 Everton
Sydney FC 0-1 Everton
Stoke 0-0 Everton
Blackburn 2-3 Everton
Aston Villa 2-2 Everton
The last three games are all friendlies, and as you can see Everton has taken them all.
What’s expected to happen in this game?
With the season being very close to start, I am expecting Everton to try to summarize their starting team,strategies and goals for this year. Preston will try to boost their self-esteem with a victory over a Premier League team, and start the season pumped up.
However I think that the class difference will show up eventually in the game and Everton will take theirs.
The Betting Verdict?
Backing Everton to win @ 1.81 (Betfair.com): Although this is a friendly and everything can happen, seems from the past games that Everton is in a good condition and will not have any problems getting a minimal victory today.
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