Spread betting prices show Aston Villa are closing the gap

IG Sport preview the battle for third between Villa and Chelsea

Every week our friends at spread betting firm IG Sport kindly preview a major sporting event. This week they explain the markets for Aston Villa and Chelsea and how the prices emphasise the progress Martin O’Neill’s side have made this season:

“Sir Alex Ferguson has been stirring things again this week, playing the kind of mind games which have kept him at the top of the tree for so long, dismissing Chelsea’s Premier League challenge, while saying he’ll keep a ‘wary eye’ on Aston Villa. It may be rhetoric coming from big SAF but look no further that IG Sport’s supremacy quote to see how much the gap between the two has close. The firm make Chelsea just 0.1-0.3 goal favourites for the match, the lowest supremacy quote they have put up on Premier League matches between these two in six years.  At this rate the next time Martin O’Neill’s side face Chelsea at Villa Park they will start as favourites!”

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Posted: February 19th, 2009 by Michael Lintorn |