Stoke City-Tottenham Hotspur betting preview
Manchester United’s defeat against Everton last week made Tottenham’s position stronger in the premier league table. Now, they can confidentially think about a Europa League berth, in spite of them facing the prospect of a tough away fixture against Stoke City on this Saturday. Stoke City, along with Crystal Palace, is the most improved EPL team in 2014. They can add to their fans’ excitement by beating Spurs.
A Stoke City win is not an unrealistic prediction. The recent form overwhelmingly favours them. While Tottenham has managed just four wins, in addition to their one draw and three defeats, in their last eight matches, Stoke has churned out five wins, apart from two draws and a defeat, in their last eight. What is impressive about their performance is that the wins were not against minnows: Manchester United, Arsenal, Newcastle and West Ham were among their recent scalps.
They have not lost a single match at home since their 5-3 defeat against Liverpool in January. In the six home matches since then, the team won five matches and was held once.
What motivate Spurs is their impressive H2H statistics against Stoke. In the last nine games against Stoke, they have lost only once.
Stoke defender Erik Pieters is injured and is likely to miss the match. Their attackers, Peter Crouch, Charlie Adam, Marko Arnautovic and Jonathan Walters, are in good shape and are gearing up to launch an assault on the Spurs defence, which could miss all their original first-choice defenders: Michael Dawson, Jan Vertonghen and Kyle Walker.
Emmanuel Adebayor and Christian Eriksen will carry the attacking duties.
Stoke City-Tottenham Hotspur Prediction
Spurs requires four more points to confirm their Europa berth. While three points from this match would be ideal, they would not mind even a single point, considering the form Stoke is in at the moment.
Tottenham or Draw 1.38 @ Bet365
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