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Stoke v Dynamo Kiev Odds: Pulis Out to Make a Point in Europa League

Tony Pulis’s Stoke City host Dynamo Kiev tonight in the in their penultimate game in Group E of the Europa League knowing that a point with take them through to the knock out stages. Anything but a win of course for the visitors could see this match as the end of the road in Europe for them this season. Stoke will kick off the game with best priced odds 13/10 to win, while the draw or an away win both carry odds of 11/5. These odds are available from William Hill.

The two teams met in Kiev in the matchday one and shared the points by drawing 1-1, but Stoke will consider themselves unlucky not to have come away with all three points in that game as it was an injury time equaliser that cost them the win.

Nonetheless the ‘Potters’, who are making their Europa League debut this season have acquitted themselves extremely well so far in the competition and have yet to taste defeat in their first four matches. That is why they currently top Group E with 10 points and why a point tonight will be enough to see them into the last 32.

Stoke will certainly be heartened by Dynamo Kiev’s past performances in European competition when visiting English clubs. In the ten games they have played on English soil they have failed to win a single time with only a draw and nine defeats to show for their efforts. Moreover in those games they have only managed to score twice but have conceded 16 times. It is a record that makes it very tempting to take advantage of the odds available for a Stoke home win now, particularly as Stoke have yet to taste defeat in European competition at any time on home soil.

That said, whilst Dynamo Kiev have not been too hot in front of goal in this competition, scoring only three times with two of those coming very late on, they have been as miserly as Stoke when it comes to conceding them. Both teams have conceded just three times in Group E, which suggests that this game could be a very low scoring affair, with perhaps just a single goal separating them at the end of 90 minutes. In fact a bet on the Under 1.5 goals in the match market might produce a very healthy return, particularly as williamhill.com are offering odds of 9/4 for this to be the case.

Stoke have scored 8 goals so far in Group E with the goals being quite evenly distributed between the player’s; only Peter Crouch and Cameron Jerome have managed to score twice so far. Crouch in fact has been slow to make an impression since his move from Spurs to the Britannia Stadium, but the lanky striker was on the score sheet again in the weekend’s Premier League victory over Blackburn and as such might be the man to back to score the first goal tonight, particularly as he has odds to do so of 11/2 from William Hill.

Pulis is expecting a big crowd for tonight’s game, believing that their support will be needed against a team he rates very highly. He has pointed out that Dynamo Kiev currently sit on top of the Ukrainian Premier League where they have gone undefeated in 18 games and in Andriy Yarmolenko and Ideye Brown they have two extremely dangerous strikers, who have twenty league goals between them this season. They both have odds of 9/1 to be the first goalscorer in tonight’s match and are both 10/3 to score at anytime during the 90 minutes.

Based on Europa League form alone, Stoke should have the beating of Dynamo Kiev, but the Ukrainians are certainly no pushovers and will want a long tournament, if for no other reason than to promote Ukrainian football ahead of the Euro2012. Notwithstanding, Stoke are good enough not to lose this match, they managed to draw in Kiev and will be happy to claim the one point they seek to move forward from this game. A draw therefore of perhaps 1-1, a repeat of the score in the reverse fixture will be a likely outcome which can be backed with odds of 6/1, available once again from William hill.

Stoke v Dynamo Kiev Tips

Tip #1: Match to finish as a 1-1 draw @ 6/1 with WilliamHill.com
Tip #2: Peter Crouch to score their first goal @ 11/2 with WilliamHill.com
Tip #3: Game to Have Less than 1.5 goals @ 9/4 with WilliamHill.com
Tip #4: Andriy Yarmolenko to score at anytime @ 10/3 with WilliamHill.com

Stoke v Dynamo Kiev Betting

Match Odds

13/10 Stoke
11/5 Dynamo Kiev
11/5 Draw

Correct Score Odds

6/1 Draw 1-1
13/2 Stoke 1-0
17/2 Draw 0-0
8/1 Dynamo Kiev 1-0
8/1 Stoke 2-1
10/1 Stoke 2-0
10/1 Dynamo Kiev 2-1
16/1 Draw 2-2
16/1 Dynamo Kiev 2-0

First Goalscorer Odds

11/2 Peter Crouch
11/2 Kenwyne Jones
6/1 Jon Walters
7/1 Ryan Shotton
8/1 Andriy Shevchenko
9/1 Ideye Brown Andrew Johnson
9/1 Andriy Yarmolenko
10/1 Matthew Etherington
10/1 Artem Milevskiy
11/1 Oleksandr Aliev

Odds supplied by WilliamHill.com, who offer a wide variety of betting markets, including in-play betting for this Europa League match.

Posted: Thursday, 1st December 2011
Author: Rodney Wise
Tags: europa league, stoke city, dynamo kiev, britannia stadium, william hill,

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