5 Tips For Sunday’s Football Action - 28/11/21

On Sunday, Burnley host Tottenham Hotspur at Turf Moor in what is expected to be a closely fought contest.
Spurs will be expecting a reaction from their shock 2-1 defeat to Mura in Europa Conference League with Antonio Conte looking to continue his unbeaten Premier League start having seen his side draw 0-0 away at Everton and beat Leeds United 2-1 at home last weekend.

At present, Burnley are 18th in the Premier League with nine points having won just one league game, seeing them 10 points worse off than their opponents who are seventh in the table.

The last time these two sides faced each other was in the League Cup where Spurs beat Burnley 1-0 via a Lucas Moura goal, whilst the last time they went head to head in the Premier League was all the way back in February this year where Spurs ran out as comfortable 4-0 winners thanks to goals by Gareth Bale (2), Harry Kane and Lucas.

Kane himself has a good record against the Clarets as he has scored nine goals and assisted three in 13 matches and is priced at 7/4 to score in a Spurs win.

The next tip on this list comes from Scotland as Celtic take on Aberdeen at Celtic Park in the Scottish Premiership as Ange Postecoglou’s side look to close the gap to top of the table Rangers.

The hosts ran out as 2-1 winners on matchday eight of the SPL at Pittodrie, as goals by Kyogo Furuhashi and Jota either side of Lewis Ferguson’s 56th-minute striker saw the Hoops earn a vital three points.

So far this season, Celtic have won eight of their 13 league matches, scoring 30 and conceding nine, whilst Aberdeen are eighth having lost seven of their 14 fixtures, finding the back of the net 15 times and letting in 19.

Real Madrid face Sevilla at the Santiago Bernabeu on Sunday in a battle of first versus third in La Liga.

Carlo Ancelotti’s men come into this match as favourites due to their league positioning and the quality which the Italian’s squad possesses. Los Blancos have scored a staggering 32 goals in 13 matches and have lost just one league game, seeing them have a three-point lead over Real Sociedad in second place and a four-point gap over Sunday’s opponents.

A player to look out for in this match is France international Karim Benzema who is currently La Liga’s top scorer with 10 goals and seven assists in 12 matches, averaging a goal every 105 minutes. The 33-year-old forward is priced at 13/5 to score first in this match.

In Serie A, top of the table Napoli take on sixth-place Lazio at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium.

The home side have lost just once in Serie A this season, accumulating 32 points from 13 matches, whilst Lazio are lagging 11 points behind as Maurizio Sarri’s men have won just six of their opening 13 games.

Luciano Spalletti’s team have conceded just seven times across all their Serie A matches and have scored 26, whilst Lazio have found the back of the net 25 times and let in 21.

Napoli beat Lazio twice last season, as they won 1-0 in the Coppa Italia final thanks to an early Lorenzo Insigne goal and thumped them 5-2 at home last April, as Insigne scored a brace, whilst Matteo Politano, Dries Mertens and Victor Osimhen all added to the scoresheet. However, with both sides under different management and professional pride at stake, it is unforeseeable that Lazio would capitulate in such a drastic manner again.

The final tip on this list comes from Ligue 1 where 19th in the table St Etienne face the daunting task of hosting runaway leaders PSG at Geoffroy Stadium.

PSG have 37 points from 14 matches, having scored 32 and conceded 14, whilst their opponents have leaked 28 goals, which is the third-worst record in the division, whilst scoring 16.

A player to focus on in this match is Kylian Mbappe, who has arguably been PSG’s best player so far this season, as the 22-year-old has scored seven goals and created seven assists in 13 appearances in the league this campaign. The former AS Monaco man’s goal in his side’s 2-1 defeat against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium in midweek took his tally up to nine for the season across all competitions.