Bookies tip Reds-City encounter as title decider
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BRITAIN’S biggest bookmaker believes that the winner of today’s crucial clash between Liverpool and Manchester City at Anfield is a certainty to win the English Premier League.
William Hill is quoting odds of 1/10 on the winning team — whoever it may be — to go on and be crowned champion.
The odds on winning the double, of the match and the title, slightly favor City which is 2/1 with Liverpool at 3/1.
“This has been billed as a title decider and the odds suggest that that is the case,” William Hill spokesman Rupert Adams said. “Whoever wins this match will be the red hot favorite for the title.”
With so much at stake, there are odds of 5/2 on a red card and 7/1 that Liverpool is awarded a penalty and that Steven Gerrard scores.
Last Sunday’s 2-1 win over West Ham United, in which Gerrard scored two penalties, was Liverpool’s ninth in a row and moved it to 74 points from 33 games. Five wins from its last five games will see it land a first top-flight crown since 1990.
It is two points ahead of Chelsea which also has still to visit Anfield in the run-in. City is third in the league two points behind Chelsea and four adrift of Liverpool but has two games in hand on both its rivals.
Liverpool’s extraordinary run has been built on the Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge goal machine. Suarez has 29 league goals while Sturridge has 20.
The match will be poignant for Liverpool fans as it comes two days before the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster when 96 of its fans died in a crush at an FA Cup semifinal in Sheffield against Nottingham Forest on April 15, 1989.
Matches in the top five divisions of English football will kick off seven minutes later than originally planned to commemorate the six minutes after which the original match was halted and an extra minute’s silence as a mark of respect.
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