Bournemouth - Manchester City (Premier League, England). 02-04-2016. Corners preview

It's match between 13^th and 4^th teams of the League and bookies can’t define a favorite. It’s interesting, isn’t it? Let’s find out what team has stats advantage on corners in Premier League. First round match between these rivals ended quite unexpectedly – Bournemouth won away game on corners with score 7:1 and it’s the biggest defeat on corners for Citizens in this season. Teams have the same indicators in last games – 5 wins in 6 games. Bournemouth hasn’t lost on corners on home field 5 matches in a row. Corners stats of Manchester City at away aren’t impressive: there are 3 defeats on corners in last 4 games. However, I would not make hasty conclusions based on these data. Started from February, Citizens made defeated such strong teams as Manchester United, Tottenham and Leicester.

If to consider how many teams want to be on 4^th place of the League, it’s expected that Manchester City will play intensive attacking football and is likely to win on corners in this match. As outcome on corners of this game is quite difficult to predict, I suggest trying such type of bet as half with most corners. Average total corners of home matches of Bournemouth in first half is 4.93, Manchester City at away has 4.29 total corners on average in first half. As for second half, total corners of the teams are much higher – 6.21 corners per half.

In this way, you can try to bet on half with most corners– 1^st half < 2^nd with 1.8 odds or 2^nd half  total corners over 5.5 with 1.91 odds.