Bet Builder Tips: Vardy’s the man in our 21/1 Leicester v Everton shout

Our footie tipster Andrew Cunneen is backing Vardy and Leicester to shine.

By / Football Tips / 12 months ago

Leicester v Everton Bet Builder tips:

Leicester to Win
Over 2.5 Goals
Jamie Vardy to Score First
Amadou Onana to Commit Two or More Fouls

A Bet Builder with these bets pays at approximately 21/1with Paddy Power. CLICK HERE TO ADD IT TO YOUR BETSLIP.

Leicester and Everton is a fixture that, based on certain exploits over the last decade, could easily be a battle for a Champions League spot.

Both represented romantic elements of football even when it felt like the game was being lost to billionaires.

Everton, despite being dwarfed by their local rivals on a global stage, had never been relegated from the top tier and seemed to summon an inner pride based on history that formed an inexplicable resilience, even in the face of below-average squads.

Leicester’s triumph over the inevitable needs no reminders; having hoisted the league title in 2016, they went on a run of consistently contending with the bigger boys near the top end of the table, proving that a vision being in place can really propel you while super clubs faced existential crisis after existential crisis.

But just as we witnessed plucky Arsenal crumble under the weight of behemoth City, so too are we now faced with the possibility of Leicester and Everton facing the drop from the top tier.

Not only are they fighting for the billing I’ve just given, which sounds like B film in the Universal catalogue, but also for their own respective histories.

In a way, this is one of the biggest games of the season, and I’ll gladly profit from the collective misery.

Leicester to Win

Everton are a unique case in so much as their entire heritage has been entrusted to a manager like Sean Dyche – a tactic employed by teams who scramble for their lives to avoid the drop when they feel themselves they’re the underdogs.

This isn’t a cultural fit whatsoever. Dyche’s teams typically out-physical teams and impose their will on ball-playing units that have little to play for. Given the way the league table has gone this year, those teams don’t really exist.

As Toffees fans protest and instil an expectation on the players to become heroes, their manager will want to exact opposite – for them to be compact and to try and grind the opposition into submission.

One of these squads knows they’re much better than what they’re showing, while the other is reminded in the stands every weekend how much of an abject feeling they’re overseeing.

Over 2.5 Goals

Only Bournemouth have conceded a higher xG total than Everton this year. They’re absolutely heaving at the back and being split open at every opportunity.

There’s no balance, and now more than ever, they’re having to start chasing games. There’ll be no more tetchy draws in the hope of deliverance, and the most open team in the league are about to become even more ambitious.

Everton could have been in far worse trouble if their opponents hadn’t been converting at the sixth-lowest rate collectively this season.

    Jamie Vardy to Score First

    But every now and then, you come up against a player who scores from great breaks in play like Jamie Vardy and all the work you put into being solid in shape goes out the window because a thirty-six-year-old catches you unawares.

    That goal last week could well be the catalyst for him to swoop in and become the hero he’s long been for the club.

    Amadou Onana to Commit Two or More Fouls

    Playing against sides who break against them is Everton’s weak point for discipline. They severely lack the ability to transition back into shape when they lose the ball because they’re so focused on the urges issues by their own fans.

    This is not the Dyche formula that works.

    Instead, a player like Amadou Onana has to be cynical and take the cards when they come. He’s committed multiple fouls in no less than twelve games this season, and the wise money is on him to do so again with so much on the line.

    Leicester v Everton Bet Builder tips:

    Leicester to Win
    Over 2.5 Goals
    Jamie Vardy to Score First
    Amadou Onana to Commit Two or More Fouls

    A Bet Builder with these bets pays at approximately 21/1with Paddy Power. CLICK HERE TO ADD IT TO YOUR BETSLIP.

    *All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.

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