The battle in the red zone, between the two teams that are in it, Wolverhampton and Wigan.
The Wolves are currently 19th with 15 points in 17 games, home record of W4 D2 L3, scoring 13 goals and conceding as much in those games. The team is on a row, winning the last two home games against, Birmingham and Sunderland.
Wigan are currently 18th with 16 points in 17 games, away record of W1 D3 L4, scoring 5 goals in those games and conceding 11. The team hasn’t won an away game since that victory in August against Tottenham, and has recorded in 7 games, 3 draws and 4 losses. Wigan has been able to score only 4 goals in those 7 games, and hasn’t been able to score in 5 of those games.
The team also hasn’t score in Boxing Day, since 1991, which is a great amount of time to be honest. On October 2nd when both team met this season, Wigan won with 2:0, where the Wolves weren’t able to get a single shot on target, while Wigan fired 10.
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Until their last home game against Birmingham, Wolverhampton where the only team who didn’t have a clean sheet this season. The Wolves have never won 3 home games in a row. In the previous game here on January 16th 2010, Wigan won with 2:0.
Wigan has won two of their last 22 away Premier League games, and since the team hasn’t been able to score in 5 of the last 7 games, you might be interested in looking at the Clean Sheet bet for Wolverhampton priced at 2.62
The last three games between both teams have ended with scores Under 2.5 Goals. The bet is priced at 1.66 for this game.
I’d back Wolverhampton in this game, just because of the statistics that I mentioned above, where Wigan hasn’t scored a goal on Boxing Day since 1991. On top of that only one team has prevented the Wolves scoring at home and that was Arsenal. If Wolverhampton achieves a third consecutive home victory they will put a new team record.
Recommended Bet:
Wolverhampton to win @ 2.10 (Bet365)
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