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Man City v Wigan Odds: Mario Balotelli good bet to score first at Eastlands

Man City look to have an ideal opportunity to return to form in the Premier League when they host basement side Wigan at the City of Manchester Stadium in Saturday's late kick off. City have only one win from five in the League but are 4/11 odds on with Victor Chandler to win this weekend, while the same bookmaker offers industry best prices of 4/1 for a draw or 10/1 for a rare Wigan away win.

City's title ambitions may be all but gone for this season but they still continue to fight for silverware on two other fronts as they are in the last sixteen of the Europa League and the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. After a summer of big spending a final in one of those competitions is a must for Roberto Mancini you would fancy and they went a step closer by beating Aston Villa in the FA Cup on Wednesday night.

They beat a strangely under-strength Villa side 3-0 at Eastlands and the mercurial talent of Mario Balotelli exhibited the good side to his game with a sumptuous finish for the second goal. It was his second goal in as many games at home and took his tally to six for the season and we fancy the look of him at odds of 7/2 to be first goalscorer with VCBet.

David Silva was also impressive and weighed in with a goal against Villa to score his second in three games. The Spaniard, alongside Carlos Tevez, has been their player of the season this term and it could be worth backing Silva to score anytime at tempting odds of 8/5 this weekend. Tevez meanwhile started on the bench on Wednesday and he could be rested again, despite scoring six in his last seven against Wigan and being 5/2 favourite in the first goalscorer market, with bigger games to come.

Wigan meanwhile look prime candidates for relegation at the moment as they have recorded just one win in their last twelve matches away from home and face a tricky period of away matches ahead, including a trip to fellow strugglers Blackpool. They didn't manage a shot on target when they played City at home earlier this season and have failed to score in their last three visits to the City of Manchester Stadium. Unsurprisingly the City clean sheet on Saturday is 8/13 on with VictorChandler.com.

The last five matches between the two has yielded just six goals and under 2.5 goals on Saturday is priced evens by VCBet, and it doesn't bode well for Wigan that they have failed to keep a Premier League clean sheet in their last eleven matches.

City should win this one comfortably with more important games to come in the weeks ahead and the 2-0 correct scoreline at odds of 19/4 could be the way to go this weekend.

Man City v Wigan Form

Check the season's statistics for both Man City and Wigan plus the odds ahead of Saturday's match.

Man City Stats | Wigan Stats

Man City v Wigan Tips

Tip #1: Mario Balotelli to score first @ 7/2 with VictorChandler.com
Tip #2: David Silva to score anytime @ 8/5 with VictorChandler.com
Tip #3: Man City to win 2-0 @ 19/4 with VictorChandler.com

Man City v Wigan Odds

Match Betting

4/11 Man City
4/1 Draw
10/1 Wigan

Correct Score Odds

5/1 Man City 1-0
19/4 Man City 2-0
15/2 Man City 2-1
11/1 Draw 0-0
8/1 Draw 1-1
22/1 Draw 2-2
18/1 Wigan 1-0
50/1 Wigan 2-0
25/1 Wigan 2-1

First Goalscorer Odds

5/2 Carlos Tevez
7/2 Mario Balotelli
18/5 Edin Dzeko
9/2 Jo
9/2 John Guidetti
5/1 David Silva
7/1 Yaya Toure
9/1 Hugo Rodallega
9/1 James Milner
10/1 Alexander Kolarov
10/1 Shaun Wright-Phillips

Odds supplied by VictorChandler.com, plus several other betting markets on this match and all the weekend's Premier League matches, including live betting in-running.

Posted: Thursday, 3rd March 2011
Author: Chris James
Tags: english premiership, man city, wigan athletic, mario balotelli, victor chandler,

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