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Today's Sports Betting Preview - By Rick Elliott
England and Italy are traditional superpowers of world football. England won the World Cup of course in 1966 and Italy have been the world champions four times. However, when it comes to rugby union England are a different class. They have met 23 times in full internationals and England have won each meeting, scoring 918 points and conceding 290 in total. There have been nine fixtures in Italy and England’s average winning margin is 25 points. England beat Italy 40-9 in the last such meeting so you would expect the handicap line to be in that area. However, you can back ENGLAND -22 at Evens with Ladbrokes.
Only one team currently in the top five in the Premier League won on Saturday and it wasn’t Manchester City. United are now just 13 pound behind their local rivals but are 22 behind on goal difference which equates to another point. In fact the other three teams did not play and Liverpool and Tottenham meet at Anfield today. Liverpool are two points ahead so the difference after this match could be five points or Tottenham could be one point in front. The most likely scenario is the status quo as this fixture has DRAW written all over it and that outcome is 13/5 with William Hill.
It’s the second day of the Dublin Racing Festival and the meeting at Leopardstown features four Grade 1 races. These contests are valuable in their own right and more than a stepping stone to Cheltenham. Our Duke demolished the field when winning the Irish Grand National by 14 lengths in April. However, the next run at Down Royal was inexplicably poor at the time but the horse subsequently scoped badly which in layman’s terms means he had a cold. OUR DUKE can be forgiven one bad run and is the horse to back in the Irish Gold Cup today at 10/3 with Paddy Power.
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