Todays value bet seems to be at the riverside, while middlesbrough are anything but a home banker you have to think they're good value to beat a struggling west ham side today.
The hammers have lost four in a row now - although to be fair two of them were man utd and arsenal - and while they are attracting lots of friends with their pleasing on the eye brand of football it's not winning them any points. Losing may be starting to become a familiar habit to them, where as middlesbrough without pulling up any trees or looking like world beaters are accumulating points steadily and look like a team that know what they are supposed to be doing. In Alfonso Alves - i can't see man utd or chelsea raiding boro for him in the transfer window - they have a striker who will score enough goals to keep them in the premier league. For this reason i think middlesbrough look good value today.
With the 11/10 on offer from totepsort yesterday now gone the best price is evens with Betfred.
Home win for boro, evens @ Betfred.
The sky live game at 12.45 today is Sunderland V Newcastle and historically these games are hard to call. Sunderland seem to be consolidating themselves as a midtable team under Roy Keane accumilating enough points as they go along to retain premiership survival, where as you don't know what to expect from Newcastle.
Sunderland seem to be a win one lose one midtable team who are usually stronger at home but with Newcastle for the majority of the season they have been totally useless but over past couple of games have shown some fight and signs of improvement, therefore i wouldn't like to call a winner in this game as i believe it will be close and could go either way.
My view is that it will be one of those games that could be 2-1 either way or even 2-2, i definately expect goals in this fixture, therefore my bet for this game will be for over 2.5 goals.
Over 2.5 goals - Evens with Blue Square
Or over 3.5 goals at 4.1 on Betfair