Cherries ace pick of bunch

BOURNEMOUTH striker Josh King (below) has scored five of his side’s eight away goals in 2017 and against a Sunderland team who have conceded 33 times at home this season, the Norwegian rates a bet at our 9-2 to net first.

It looks like a weekend to go with tried and tested goalscorers.

Crystal Palace’s Christian Benteke is scoring for fun and is 7-2 with Sky Bet to bag the opener when the Eagles host out-of-form Burnley, Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford is 3-1 to get the first goal against Swansea and Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero looked sharp in the midweek derby and is 5-2 favourite to score first at Middlesbrough tomorrow.

My double is Southampton to beat Hull and Spurs to beat Arsenal.

Southampton are 8-13 and are usually worth backing against lower-rated teams – the Saints have lost only one game in their last 12 at home to bottom-half sides.

Hull fit into that category and even under Marco Silva the Tigers have a rotten away record, taking just one point on the road, scoring only three and conceding 17.

If it wasn’t a derby game Tottenham would be much shorter than Sky Bet’s 5-6 to beat Arsenal. In front of the White Hart Lane faithful, Spurs have won 15 of their 17 games, scored 43 and conceded just eight.

On current form the Gunners don’t look in the same league as their north London rivals.

Elsewhere it could be a coupon to take an interest in backing the draw. West Ham have not had a clean sheet in their last 13 away matches but Stoke are hardly setting the world on fire. The stalemate is 5-2. It’s the same price at Goodison Park for Everton, just one loss in the league at home all season, to hold top-of-thetable Chelsea.

At the Hawthorns it’s 23-10 for a draw between West Brom – 375 minutes without a goal – and Leicester.