Our new Monday column looking for ante-post value suggests Eden Hazard and Cue Card could be worth a second glance following the weekend's action.
Football
It's been a fine week for Chelsea with a thumping victory over Manchester United followed by another convincing success over a well-respected Southampton side on Sunday.
They are now just a point off the pace in the Premier League and into a best price of 6/1.
However, it is in the Golden Boot market where there could be some decent value to be had at this stage with Eden Hazard looking like he's very much on the way back to the form which saw him crowned PFA Player of the Year in 2014/15.
Hazard got 14 in that title-winning campaign and already has five in 10 games this term, all of which makes his 50/1 current quote (Sky Bet) of some interest.
His five goals have him three off the Golden Boot leader, team-mate Diego Costa, with Romelu Lukaku, Sergio Aguero and Alexis Sanchez the other players ahead of him.
While Hazard may not be seen as an out-and-out striker, it's been interesting to see that in some games under Antonio Conte his average position on the pitch has been even higher than Costa's.
The layers are still betting to four places (a quarter of the odds) at present which make the Belgian a real each-way prospect.
His current strike-rate of one in two puts him on course of a 19-goal haul. Premier League history shows that 13 can be enough to get you a place in the market, while the average goal tally of someone finishing fourth in the standings is 17.7.
With Chelsea not in Europe and now also out of the EFL Cup, he's likely to play in every game unless he picks up an injury (unlike some of his market rivals) so, for me, 50/1 may well be worth a play.
Andy Schooler
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Racing
Cue Card was on the drift for next month's Betfair Chase following his defeat at Wetherby on Saturday but that may well have been an over-reaction to the performance. Colin Tizzard's star was carrying a 10lb penalty and only two horses have managed to defy that extra burden in the Charlie Hall Chase, while he can be expected to improve for the outing.
Connections were at pains to say that he was straight enough for his reappearance but there is no substitute for match practice and I believe that he will be better for the run and it wasn't as if he ran at all badly.
He still had every chance at the final fence and shaped very much like a horse who was short of a run. A defence of his Haydock crown has always been the plan so he will be lining up on Merseyside - accidents aside - whereas the same cannot be said of some of those closest to him in the market so it is perfectly feasible that his odds - current best price of 11/4 - will contract significantly after declarations and leave his backers sitting in an attractive position having secured the price.
Ian Ogg
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Cricket
England's Hallowe'en horror show of a batting collapse in Dhaka handed Bangladesh their biggest ever Test-match victory and sent the bookies scurrying for cover in the upcoming India v England series.
Alastair Cook's side slumped from 100-0 to 164 all out in an astonishing final session as Bangladesh won the second Test by 108 runs inside three days to earn a 1-1 draw in the two-match series.
England's inability to handle Bangladesh's spinners makes the prospect of the five-Test series in India kicking off a fortnight from now a daunting one. And that is more than reflected in the prices, with India now 1/7 to win the series and no bigger than Sky Bet's 4/1 to win the series 5-0. For comparison, Bangladesh were 6/1 best price to win in Dhaka.
The craziest thing about that 4/1? It's probably the right price, and, even though I've never seen an ante-post five-Test whitewash anything like that short, I'm still giving it a second look. Bangladesh's 19-year-old off-spinner Mehedi Hasan took 19 wickets in the series - his first two Test matches - and England now have to face the best off-spinner in the world, Ravi Ashwin, who must be positively salivating at the prospect. Since England's 2-1 victory in India four years ago, India have played 13 home Tests and won 12 of them. The other was a draw in Bangalore when it rained for four days. In those 13 matches, Ashwin has taken 99 wickets at 16.5 each.
It might seem crazy, but the 4/1 might actually be value.
Dave Tickner
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