BETMGM GOLDEN GOALS MD25: EXPECT GOALS IN FASCINATING SPURS VS MAN UTD CLASH
A Sunday afternoon clash between Spurs and Manchester United at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium headlines Golden Goals Matchday 25 and brings around a game that neither can afford to lose.
Elsewhere it’s an opportunity for leaders Liverpool to extend their lead at the top as Wolves travel to Anfield while high-flyers Nottingham Forest face a difficult test at Fulham, basement boys Southampton host Bournemouth and David Moyes’ Everton follow up Wednesday’s Merseyside Derby with a trip to London to take on Crystal Palace.
Moyes’ old club West Ham, meanwhile, welcome Brentford to the London Stadium in a game where both sides have top-half aspirations.
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West Ham 1-2 Brentford
The good news for Hammers fans? Influential captain Jarrod Bowen is back to full fitness and wasted no time in returning to goalscoring form in the defeat to Chelsea.
The bad news? The defeat to their London rivals was their fourth in six Premier League games and the game against Brentford has a whiff of the ‘must-win’ about it.
Though they are 10 points clear of the relegation zone, a run of disappointing results could see them tagged into a fight they don’t want or need. With Arsenal and Newcastle on the horizon, it’s easy to see why some fans are anxious for the three points here.
If they are to get a positive result, they will need to get their shooting boots on. No team has a poorer percentage of shots on target than the Hammers (27.4%). Indeed, it’s not even particularly close with Everton the next most inaccurate at 30.8%.
Brentford, meanwhile, have no issue finding the net against West Ham. The Bees have scored in all seven of their Premier League games against them, winning five and suffering just one defeat in that run.
A disappointing home defeat to Tottenham has dampened the expectations of sealing a spot in European football next season but supporters will wonder how they didn’t get something from the game, with 20 shots and an xG of 2.29.
They are seeking a third consecutive win on the road in the league and, were they to take the points against Graham Potter’s charges, it would be the first time they have accomplished the feat in the division.
Given the recent history of this fixture and the form of both teams, an away win is the shout here.
Southampton 0-3 Bournemouth
Southampton picked up their second win of the league season a fortnight ago against Ipswich Town – but any momentum harnessed from that impressive win at Portman Road evaporated with a 1-0 defeat at home to Burnley in the FA Cup.
One man who didn’t start in Sunday’s defeat on the south coast was Paul Onuachu, who has suddenly found his goalscoring touch under new manager Ivan Juric.
The 6ft 6in striker went scoreless in 22 Premier League appearances before netting in two of his last three against Nottingham Forest and Ipswich. His tall frame proved a problem for the latter as the Nigerian won 16 of his 27 aerial duels – the most by a player since the start of the 2020/21 season.
Bournemouth have the second-lowest aerial duel success rate in the league so backing the Nigerian frontman to score a header at 8/1 provides potential value while the slightly less bold bet of Onuachu to score anytime is still a healthy 3/1.
Scoring against the Cherries has proven difficult all season courtesy of the formidable partnership formed between Dean Huijsen and Illia Zabarnyi at the heart of the defence.
Liverpool have been the only side to defeat Bournemouth when the duo started together and they have notched an impressive six clean sheets in those 15 matches across all competitions.
While the aforementioned pair are keeping opposing offences at bay, Dango Ouattara, Justin Kluivert and Antoine Semenyo are flourishing at the opposite end of the pitch. The trio have combined for 35 goal contributions in the league so far this season.
Semenyo continued his goalscoring exploits in the cup against Everton and he’s managed a goal or assist in his last four Premier League away games – he’s 11/10 to make it five this weekend.
Andoni Iraola’s side are enjoying a six-game unbeaten run on the road and, barring a monumental effort from Southampton, that run should extend to seven with a comfortable away win.
Fulham 2-2 Nottingham Forest
A fourth-round FA Cup tie at Exeter finishing after 11pm is probably not how Nuno Espirito Santo was hoping to prepare for a trip to Craven Cottage.
The Tricky Trees made it into the next round – but only just as a mammoth tie went all the way to penalties after finishing 2-2.
Fulham had no such FA Cup dramas and banked a few extra days of rest having beaten Wigan on Saturday.
Both the Cottagers and Forest enjoyed fine, if different, wins last time out in the Premier League, with Fulham winning 2-1 at high-flying Newcastle and Forest dismantling Brighton 7-0 at the City Ground.
A 5-0 defeat at Bournemouth preceded that win over Brighton but that blip on the south coast was Forest’s first since early December.
They don’t have the best record against Fulham though – including the 1-0 defeat earlier in the season, they have lost nine of the last 12 meetings and won just three, albeit two of those wins were in away games.
Marco Silva’s men have drawn four of their last five games at the Cottage and you have to go back to 5th December to find their last win at home.
A draw in this one makes sense – but one with goals. Fulham have scored two goals or more in six of their last seven and Forest come off the back of that thumping home win.
In Raul Jimenez and Chris Wood, the game also brings together two of the Premier League’s leading marksmen: Jimenez has notched three times in his last two league games against Forest while New Zealander Wood has seven goals in his previous six games, including a hat-trick last time out.
It’s an appealing 30/1 for both men to score and the match to end all square. We can’t split them.
Crystal Palace 1-1 Everton
Only a handful of points separate Crystal Palace and Everton at the bottom half of the table, with both teams looking to distance themselves from the drop zone.
Recent results aside, this fixture has Saturday evening stalemate written all over it.
Despite the 2-1 win back in September, Everton have not done the double over their opponents since the 2004/05 season, when the Eagles were relegated and the Toffees earned their highest-ever Premier League finish of fourth.
Crystal Palace have also won just one of their last 20 Premier League games against Everton, beating them 3-1 at Selhurst Park in December 2021.
A draw isn’t the end of the world for either team given some of the lacklustre performances from those in the relegation spots – but that’s not to say this game won’t have its moments, especially with creative players like Daniel Muñoz on the field.
The Colombia international has provided an assist in both of Palace’s last two Premier League games. Getting another would bring him closer to Chris Armstrong (three in 1994), Wilfried Zaha (four in 2016), Christian Benteke (three in 2018), and Eberechi Eze (three in 2025) who all assisted more three or more times in successive appearances.
David Moyes has plenty of attacking threats himself. Beto has found the back of the net three times in his last two Premier League appearances and could well put on another show in south London.
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Liverpool 4-0 Wolves
The much-needed 2-0 victory over Aston Villa was the first of 2025 for a Wolves side still mired in relegation danger.
A trip to Anfield, where they have lost nine of the last 10 visits, to face a Liverpool side that has beaten them in 15 of their last 16 Premier League meetings won’t have been high on the list of games they would have liked to follow up that win.
The last time Wolves picked up a league win here was in 2010, though they did manage an FA Cup victory on this ground in 2017. It is a tall order for them to get anything here this time round though.
It did take a Mohamed Salah penalty to separate the sides at Molineux in September but Liverpool have lost just once in the Premier League all season and we don’t see this one being anywhere near as close.
Salah has scored in his last three league home games and has 100 goals in just 139 games at Anfield. Expect him to that tally here – only Leicester (32) have conceded more goals on the road than Wolves’ 28 and the Old Gold’s 52 conceded overall is the league’s third-highest.
The recent win over Villa injected some hope into the Midlands side’s bid for safety, but that hope will be dampened here. A comfortable win for the league leaders then, combining a Salah anytime goal and over 3.5 goals in the game at 31/20 is certainly worth a look.
Tottenham 2-2 Manchester United
It was another mixed week for Tottenham as a promising win over Brentford last weekend was followed by consecutive EFL and FA Cup exits with defeats to Liverpool and Aston Villa respectively.
It feels like Spurs will pour the entirety of their available resources into the Europa League this season – but the problem is those resources. A knee injury to Radu Dragusin means 11 senior players missed the defeat to Aston Villa in the FA Cup on Sunday, including four senior centre-backs.
Full-back Destiny Udogie could recover in time to feature in this match but Tottenham are still very reliant on talented young players on the books, like Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall, to get them through this period.
The biggest enigma this season is that they are still joint-third in the league’s scoring ranks with 48 goals, more than Chelsea and level with Manchester City.
Their opponents on Matchday 25, Manchester United, relied on an incredibly offside Harry Maguire header to scrape past Leicester in the FA Cup on Friday but it was another turgid performance from the Red Devils.
Only five teams have picked up fewer points (14) than United since Ruben Amorim seized the reins; he is only the fourth in the club’s history to lose seven or more of his first 13 top-flight games in charge.
The Portuguese has time on his side to right the ship but patience is wearing a little thin among the fanbase. Signing Patrick Dorgu – a left-wing back – and playing him at right wing-back is but one example of some concerns fans are having about his tactical choices.
This is an innately fascinating game – but not for the reasons both clubs would hope. Instead we have a bottom-half clash between two teams that require a full and comprehensive rebuild.
It could spawn any score but we’re going with a high-scoring draw.
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