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Canaries on song and ready to clip Blues’ wings

Life after Hazard is proving tough for Lampard and new boys Norwich can cash in

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It is week three of the Premier League season and Chelsea look far too short at 4/5 to beat Norwich at Carrow Road this lunchtime. Frank Lampard’s side were lucky to hold on to a point against Leicester at Stamford Bridge last week and newly-promoted Norwich have decided to implement an attacking philosophy upon their return to the Premier League.

The 4-1 defeat in their first match of the season against Liverpool fiattered the European champions and, in Teemu Pukki, the Canaries have a striker who has taken to the top flight in some style, scoring four goals in his first two games.

It is worth giving the new boys another chance to shine at 3/1 to beat the Blues, whose players must be starting to realise what an Eden Hazard-less future is shaping up to look like.

Two teams who have picked up just one point between them, West Ham and Watford, face off at Vicarage Road and West Ham look a big price to triumph at 12/5.

Manuel Pellegrini’s side picked up a decent point at Brighton and they were without their two £40million men in Felipe Anderson and new signing Sebastien Haller, who looked a player of some promise in West Ham’s

West Ham to beat Watford Norwich to beat Chelsea Nick Kyrgios to win US Open Desert Skyline (3.40 York)

Odds may fluctuate Begambleaw­are. org opening match of the season against Manchester City.

Both players are expected to return today and West Ham can take advantage of a Watford side struggling for form. Beaten by Everton and Brighton in their first two matches, Watford’s poor end-of-season form has continued into the start of the new campaign. before committing to paper the following eight words, I am going to back Nick Kyrgios at 40/1.

The Australian bad boy of tennis was fined $113,000 for poor behaviour at the Cincinnati Masters and, although he has the ability to beat anybody in the competitio­n, he also has the temperamen­t to beat himself.

Kyrgios has yet to get to a grand slam semi-final, but he won the Citi Open in Washington last month, beating the latest breakthrou­gh star in Daniil Medvedev, and has the game to go deep.

 ??  ?? Striker Teemu Pukki has hit the ground running for Norwich City, while (below) Nick Kyrgios can make an impact at the US Open if he keeps his temper in check
Striker Teemu Pukki has hit the ground running for Norwich City, while (below) Nick Kyrgios can make an impact at the US Open if he keeps his temper in check
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