Crystal Palace vs Aston Villa

Crystal Palace host Aston Villa at Selhurst Park for this English Pre mier League Round 13 clash. It is a very interesting match both as entertainment and betting-wise. Aston Villa's situation in particular makes this interesting. Let's take a closer look..

Aston Villa started the season well whereas Crystal Palace's football looked quite messy and were pretty vulnerable defensively. However, as the season progressed team started going the opposite ways. It was a quite a surprise for me and many analysts as well as everything seemed to look so good for them and be set for at least a top-12 finish at the end of the season perhaps even better. I have of course watched all of both teams' matches in the Premier League this season and still cannot fully understand what went wrong with the team. There were no major changes or anything unusual in terms of injuries. Probably there was something wrong mentally - among the players and/or between the players ex-manager.. However, now they have the legendary Liverpool and England national team player Steven Gerrard as the new manager. I have often written about the boost the new manager brings. It seems to be the case here too as Villa took a win after a pretty good performance last week versus a goof team Brighton. Gerrard had created a pretty defensive strategy based mainly on counter attacks.

Crystal Palace or a worse team than Aston Villa and are only 43% favorites to win today. Nice odds available on the visitors today! I expect them to defend hard again and would say a draw is a pretty probable result here. Crystal Palace have Saha and Benteke - both great offensive players but overall the hosts are a mediocre team, especially their defense has not convinced me and have as a team over-performed during the last 6-7 matches which has resulted in over-valuation on the betting market. Let's take advantage of this and go for +0.5 goals handicap for the better team in terms of raw class - Aston Villa!

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在英超第13轮的比赛中，水晶宫主场迎战阿斯顿维拉。无论从娱乐还是博彩角度来看，这都是一场非常有趣的比赛。阿斯顿维拉的情况尤其令人感兴趣。让我们仔细看看…

阿斯顿维拉本赛季开局不错，而水晶宫的足球看起来相当混乱，防守也相当脆弱。然而，随着赛季的进展，球队开始走向相反的方向。这对我和许多分析家来说都是一个惊喜，一切看起来都很好，至少在赛季结束前会进入前12名，也许会更好。当然，我看了这两支球队本赛季在英超的所有比赛，仍然不能完全理解这支球队出了什么问题。在伤势方面没有重大变化或任何不寻常的情况。可能是精神上出了问题——球员之间，或者球员前主教练之间。然而，现在他们有了传奇的利物浦和英格兰国家队球员史蒂文·杰拉德作为新教练。我经常写新经理带来的激励。在这里似乎也是如此，维拉在上周对阵笨队布莱顿的比赛中表现不错，赢得了一场胜利。杰拉德创造了一种主要基于反击的相当好的防守策略。

水晶宫或者比阿斯顿维拉差的球队，只有43%的人认为他们会赢。今天客队的赔率很高!我希望他们能再次努力防守，平局是很可能的结果。水晶宫有萨哈和本特克，他们都是伟大的进攻球员，但总的来说东道主是一支平庸的球队，尤其是他们的防守并没有说服我，作为一支球队在过去的6-7场比赛中表现超常，这导致了博彩业的高估。让我们利用这一点，为更好的球队——阿斯顿维拉创造+0.5个进球的优势!