Arsenal join Leicester at head of the market

ARSENAL and Leicester clash at the Emirates on Sunday and the teams are 9-4 joint-favourites to win the Premier League title after the Gunners’ 2-0 victory at Bournemouth.

Goals from Mesut Ozil and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain secured a comfortable win for Arsenal, who moved level on points with Tottenham in second – five points behind Leicester but one clear of Manchester City.

Spurs are 5-1 to win the league with the Citizens 7-2 and there is a six-point gap between City in fourth and Manchester United, who were held to a 1-1 at Chelsea.

United were 3-1 outsiders at Stamford Bridge but a brilliant strike from Jesse Lingard – a 12-1 chance to open the scoring – put them 1-0 up. They were trading at 1-14 for victory in-play before Diego Costa’s injury-time equaliser for the Blues.

Louis van Gaal’s men are 40-1 to win the Premier League and 7-4 to finish in the top four while Hills make Jose Mourinho 2-5 to be their next permanent manager.

Bournemouth’s defeat leaves them 12-1 for relegation but that market is still dominated by Aston Villa (1-25) and Sunderland (1-4) with Norwich (8-11) and Newcastle (7-4) also in peril.

Arsenal beat Leicester 5-2 earlier in the season and they are 17-20 to complete the double over the Foxes on Sunday although Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri is 1-3 favourite with Hills to be named LMA Manager of the Year.

City host Tottenham in another crucial clash this weekend and Spurs are 3-1 for victory in Manchester.

Celtic avoided an upset in the William Hill Scottish Cup, knocking out 100-1 outsiders East Kilbride.

The underdogs kept the score to a respectable 2-0, however – a 20-1 shot in the correct-score betting, where the most popular selections with Hills were 8-0, 9-0 and 10-1 Celtic wins.

Coral make Leicester’s Jamie Vardy 10-11 to be named PFA Player of the Year. Team-mate Riyad Mahrez is 3-1 with Ozil 7-2.