Weekend Review: Premier League punters undone as title favourites falter
Layers delight in Manchester City draw as BetVictor slashes odds on Mourinho’s Manchester United exit
The bookies lapped up the spoils on the Premier League this weekend as title favourites Manchester City laboured to a 1-1 draw with newly-promoted Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Wolves went ahead in the second half as defender Wily Boly scored with his hand before City defender Aymeric Laporte levelled the result with a towering header.
A fantastic performance and a single decisive touch in the @ManCity box from Willy Boly. #WOLMCI
— Wolves (@Wolves) August 25, 2018
Kindred Group’s Ali Gill said: “It was no surprise whatsoever that our biggest winner this week was Wolves doing what very few teams managed last year by taking points off Man City, with the 1-1 draw sending heaps our way.”
It was a similar story at BetVictor, where Charlie McCann told EGR Intel: “Saturday football was excellent with City’s draw at Molineux in the early kick off proving pivotal.”
The action continued all the way into the Monday bank holiday as Tottenham thrashed Manchester United 3-0 at Old Trafford.
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— Lucas Moura (@LucasMoura7) August 27, 2018
McCann said: “Last night’s result was a small winner in a game where all three possible outcomes were well backed, but we have cut Jose Mourinho from 5/4 to Evens this morning to be the next PL manager to lose or leave his post after his latest post-match rant.”
Gill revealed the result was Kindred’s third biggest revenue generator of the weekend, behind City’s draw and Liverpool’s 1-0 win over Brighton.
He said: “Spurs’ demolition of Man Utd at Old Trafford was a big winner, but only made it to third in this week’s list.
“In second place was Liverpool’s narrow 1-0 victory over Brighton, with punters expecting a deluge of goals now every time Liverpool take to the pitch.”
Punters did however claw some money back on Chelsea’s win at Newcastle, where a late DeAndre Yedlin own goal stopped Newcastle gaining a point.
Gill said it was Kindred’s biggest loss of the weekend, while McCann added that Chelsea’s late winner was the key to a good Sunday for bettors.
Outside of football, Kindred managed to make some money on the boxing match between YouTube personalities KSI and Logan Paul.
I should have won that, lets be honest. He had the first 2 rounds on me because I started slow and that was about it. If it was 12 rounds he would have lost. Either way, it was a good fight.
— ksi (@KSI) August 26, 2018
“The celebrity boxing match between was surprisingly a big turnover generator, and, the slight ‘non-fight’ ending in a draw left us with a substantial margin,” said Gill.