Right now, PSG is looking like a juggernaut across domestic French football. The defending Ligue 1 champions have made a 100 percent start to their title defence and welcome lowly Amiens to the French capital on Saturday afternoon in their bid to make it 10 league wins on the bounce to kick off their latest title defence.
- PSG is scoring goals at a rate of 3.55 goals per game.
- Amiens has lost its last two matches away from home.
- These two sides have only met twice previously, with a PSG win and a draw the outcomes.
PSG goes marching on
Certainly for the foreseeable future, it looks like PSG dominance is here to stay in Ligue 1. No one has yet been able to take a point off the champions, while they have scored a whopping 32 goals and conceded just six. They already sit an enormous eight points ahead of Lille in second place.
Amiens, by way of comparison, is down in 14th place with just 10 points to its name, less than half the amount that PSG has managed to accumulate over the first nine games of the season. In addition, they have lost their last two matches on the road – 3-1 at Strasbourg and 1-0 at Caen – and they are unlikely to see a turnaround in their fortunes here.
It can be of no surprise to anyone that PSG comes into this contest as the overwhelming favorite to wrap up victory. You can back the league champions to make it 10 wins in a row at just -1200, while Amiens is all the way out at +2500 to record a shock win. A draw is priced in the middle at +1000, although backing anything other than a PSG win would be seen as either bravery or folly.
A PSG rout could well be in the cards
Given those odds, you will need to look for some more specific bets in order to boost any potential winnings from the game. Last time out, PSG thrashed supposed title contenders Lyon 5-0 and they are at the competitive price of +1000 to beat Amiens by the same scoreline.
Again, combo bets are another way of seeing increased earnings. For example, a PSG win combined with a “No” to both teams scoring comes in at -150 – the same price for a PSG win and OVER 3.5 goals in the game.
Given the fact we are expecting to see plenty of goalmouth action in this game – albeit the vast majority of it at one end – betting on the number of goals in the match could be an interesting idea. UNDER two goals in the match is priced very high at +900, while two or three goals sees that price drop to +160, and OVER three goals is at the shortest price of all, -150. People will be expecting a show in this one.
PSG to make fast start again
In that 5-0 thrashing of Lyon last time out, PSG was ahead inside nine minutes, forcing their beleaguered opponents to then try to chase the game. We are expecting a similar ploy to be used against Amiens, and you can back an early goal – OVER 0.5 goals in the first 10 minutes, to be precise – at just +225, with PSG only slightly higher, at +250, to be ahead within that time frame.
This should, quite simply, be a night of PSG dominance. The champions are at just -150 to win to nil (without Amiens scoring a goal), and they are at the same price to win both halves – just as they managed to do in that win over Lyon.
In terms of goalscorers, it is hard to look beyond teenage sensation Kylian Mbappe, who scored no fewer than four goals in a 13-minute blitz last time out. The forward is at short odds of -200 to score at any time during the game, while you can back him at +300 to score either the first or the last goal of the game, and the shorter price of +210 to score two goals or more.
