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Burnley vs Sheffield Utd Prediction & Betting tips
As a promoted team, Sheffield United ended up in ninth place in the final table at the end of the 2019/20 season. At the moment, however, it looks like the blades will have to go back to the championship. After 15 completed league games, Chris Wilder’s selection is still without a win. The gap to the first non-relegation place is already eleven points.
Incidentally, there is today’s host. Sheffield could thus reduce the gap by three points, which the bookmakers do not consider too realistic. According to the betting base odds comparison, Burnley versus Sheffield United beat the odds in the direction of the Clarets.
After all, Burnley brings a small series to this home game. In the last three games in their home town Turf Moor, the Clarets remained undefeated and collected seven out of nine possible points. It was only practically never with many goals. In six home games there were only eleven goals – and thus less than two hits on average.
Judging by the fact that the blades only rarely sting at the moment, the tip at Burnley against Sheffield United seems to be that a maximum of one team should promise the greatest value.
Burnley :
Burnley also played a very solid preseason and finished the 2019/20 season in tenth place in the Premier League. Judging by the fact that there was noticeably little activity on the transfer market and only substitute players were recruited, it is quite remarkable that the Clarets got off to such a bad start.
The club from east Lancashire remained without a win for seven match days before a 1-0 home win over Crystal Palace on November 23, 2020 marked the turnaround. Since then, only two away games have been lost. It remained the only two defeats in the last eight league games.
Most recently Burnley FC even scored points in three consecutive home games and scored seven out of nine possible points in their home country Turf Moor. Only the clear focus on their own defense prevented that more could be gained.
The Clarets have only scored four home goals in the previous six home games. It is only due to the stable defense, which only allowed seven goals, that these low-goal games jumped solid seven points. Curiously, Burnley has the best home defense and the worst home offensive in the league at the same time.
Only in two of the last eleven Premier League games with the participation of Sean Dyche’s team there were goals on both sides. At Burnley against Sheffield United, this also promotes the tip that a maximum of one team should score.
The Clarets are all the more hoping to secure another three-point with a golden goal on Turf Moor in the last league game of 2020. In September they received the blades in the EFL Cup and were able to knock the current bottom of the table out of the competition with a penalty shoot-out.
Sheffield United:
Sheffield United is making great strides towards setting a new negative record in the Premier League. The Queens Park Rangers, who missed the first 16 league games in a row in the 2012/13 season, are still the record holder. If the threesome in Turf Moor is now missing, the Blades would equalize this series.
However, Chris Wilder’s team, who despite only holding two out of 45 possible points from the first 15 league games, now has the chance to pull their heads out of the noose. In this English week, Burnley and Crystal Palace finally face two direct competitors in the lower half of the table.
The South Yorkshire club can certainly refer to a strong away record in the county of Lancashire. Of the past twelve point games that the Blades played here, they only lost one game. At the Premier League level, they have never lost a match against Burnley before.
Nevertheless, the starting position is currently different. After all, the Wilder-Elf goes into this away game with 13 defeats from 15 league games, which is also due to a weak offensive. The Blades only scored four away goals from eight games on foreign courts – and thus only 0.5 goals on average.
After they scored a total of three goals in two consecutive games, they remained in the 0-1 home defeat against Everton again without their own goal. Judging by the fact that only one game of the last eight duels with the Clarets could be won, there is a lot to suggest that the series of victories in Turf Moor will be extended.
Burnley vs Sheffield Utd head to head matches
17.09.20 EFL Burnley Sheffield Utd 2 : 1 (1 : 1)
05.07.20 PL Burnley Sheffield Utd 1 : 1
02.11.19 PL Sheffield Utd Burnley 3 : 0
01.01.11 CHA Burnley Sheffield Utd 4 : 2
16.10.10 CHA Sheffield Utd Burnley 3 : 3