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You Bet | Best Premier League bets: value to be found as campaign nears its end and relegation picture comes into focus

With teams scrapping for their Premier League lives, there is still plenty of opportunity to beat the bookie

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Hull City manager Marco Silva has led a massive turnaround at the club, but will his side run out of steam? Photo: AFP
This could be the weekend when almost everything is settled in the English Premier League and there are two key games at the bottom involving the three teams still fighting to avoid the last remaining relegation spot.

The first sees Sunderland, bottom of the table and already certain to go down, at home to Swansea tonight. The visitors clambered out of the bottom three last week and have their destiny in their own hands with two games to play, but they are still under intense pressure to win again.

A Swansea victory would turn up the heat in tomorrow’s Crystal Palace v Hull clash, fifth-bottom versus third-bottom. A win for Palace would guarantee safety for Sam Allardyce’s team and, if Swansea have already taken three points, Hull would go down in that scenario.
Swansea City manager Paul Clement has turned around the fortunes of Swansea City who looked certain to be relegated at Christmas. Photo: Reuters
Swansea City manager Paul Clement has turned around the fortunes of Swansea City who looked certain to be relegated at Christmas. Photo: Reuters
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On the other hand, a Hull win would put them only a point behind Palace going into next Sunday’s final set of matches and the Tigers would move out of the relegation zone if they beat Palace and Swansea failed to win at Sunderland.

The odds are stacked against Hull following last week’s surprise 2-0 home defeat by Sunderland, which allowed Swansea to overtake them with a home victory over Everton. Yet it is incredible that the Tigers are still fighting for survival at this stage of the season considering they were bottom of the table when Marco Silva took charge with 20 games played and Hull on just 13 points.

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