{"id":4088,"date":"2018-06-14T21:29:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T20:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2018-06-15T09:21:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T08:21:06","slug":"man-city-odds-on-for-title-defence-as-fixtures-are-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/home\/man-city-odds-on-for-title-defence-as-fixtures-are-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City odds-on for title defence as fixtures are released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League fixture computer looks to have been kind to reigning champions Manchester City after the fixtures for the new season were released.<\/p>\n<p>City, who were already odds-on for next season, have seen their odds cut after what looks like a friendly set of fixtures were confirmed for Pep Guardiola&#8217;s men.<\/p>\n<p>City will kick-off their title defence at Arsenal, before then taking on Huddersfiield, Wolves, Newcastle, Fulham, Cardiff, Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>No team has won back-to-back titles in a decade, but City are favoured to do so, and indeed they are the shortest price to defend their title in the Premier League era.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bookmakers are not taking on Manchester City, nobody has gone off odds-on favourites in the Premier League era, and we have had some good teams &#8211; but Pep&#8217;s boys are the ones to be on,&#8221; said OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At around 8\/13, if you are wanting to back City for the title, you need to get on them now as they are only going to get shorter &#8211; but in contrast if you are going to go against them, you should maybe wait as the odds for their rivals are likely to drift.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But already &#8211; it is at best a three-horse race for the title between City, United and Liverpool &#8211; the three London clubs are big prices and getting bigger all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Premier League odds:<\/strong><br \/>\n8\/13 Manchester City<br \/>\n11\/2 Liverpool<br \/>\n6\/1 Manchester United<br \/>\n12\/1 Chelsea<br \/>\n16\/1 Tottenham Hotspur<br \/>\n25\/1 Arsenal<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner.jpg 865w, https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pressreleasebanner-768x306.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League fixture computer looks to have been kind to reigning champions Manchester City after the fixtures for the new season were released. City, who were already odds-on for next season, have seen their odds cut after what looks like a friendly set of fixtures were confirmed for Pep Guardiola&#8217;s men. City will kick-off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[841,5046,74,1640],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[3127,1336,5933,5915,321,5932,1310,3034,2159,2475,2739,1717,737,611,5931,762,2107,2458,1730],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}