English Premier League Odds, Prediction: Wolverhampton vs. Arsenal

Payton Matthews
July 2, 2020

The home side is +120 on the soccer odds with Arsenal at +218 and a draw at +222. The over-under is 2.5 goals, with the under a -137 favourite.

Wolverhampton Wanderers +118
Draw +236
Arsenal FC +218

Wolverhampton Wanderers Odds and News

Every game is important for Wolves, who sit sixth in the Premier League table with 52 points. Normally, only the top four finishers qualify automatically for the next season’s Champions League. However, second-place Manchester City currently is facing a two-year ban from that competition, and if City’s appeal is denied or even simply shortened to one year, then the fifth-place EPL finisher would get the final Champions League spot. Wolves did compete in the 2019-20 Europa League, the first time the club qualified for a major European tournament in 39 years.

Wolves have won all three matches since the restart of the Premier League without allowing a goal as Rui Patricio has been stellar in net. He has 11 clean sheets in 32 EPL appearance in 2019-20.

They are off a 1-0 victory at Aston Villa last Saturday the West Midlands derby in manager Nuno Espirito Santo’s 150^th game in charge of the club. Leander Dendoncker had the lone goal in the 62^nd minute. It was his fifth goal of the season, and he was named Man of the Match. In those three straight clean sheets, Wolves have allowed just three combined shots on target. Overall, Wolves are on an eight-game unbeaten run.

Wolverhampton is a -125 favourite to score first vs. Arsenal and +245 to score in both halves. The game shows at at 12:30 p.m. ET.

Arsenal Odds and News

Arsenal is seventh in the table with 46 points. The Gunners had played three straight road games since the EPL restart (going 1-2) and finally hosted one Wednesday and destroyed Norwich City, which is the worst team in the league, 4-0. Gunners superstar Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had two goals — he became the fastest player in Arsenal history to reach 50 career in the EPL, doing so in 79 matches — with Granit Xhaka and Cedric Soares also scoring.

Aubameyang is tied with Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy for the EPL goal lead with 19. It was Soares’ debut for Arsenal five months after signing a deal with the team. He is just the third Arsenal player to score in his debut in the past 10 years and the first since Aubameyang in 2018.

The Gunners are +122 to score first on Saturday and +360 to score in both halves. Aubameyang is +150 to score at anytime.

These sides met Nov. 2 at Emirates Stadium in London and it was a 1-1 draw. Aubameyang had the Gunners’ goal in the 21^st minute and Raúl Jiménez drew Wolves even in the 76^th. Unai Emery was still the Arsenal manager then but has since been sacked and replaced by former Arsenal captain Mikel Arteta.