Both of the Old Firm sides have had a fairly disappointing start to the season, Rangers lost on the opening day to Kilmarnock before a 5-1 defeat in the second leg to PSV knocked them down a peg into the Europa League. Celtic, on the other hand, have failed to impress post Postecoglou, knocked out of the league cup vs. Kilmarnock and a goalless draw at home to St. Johnstone. So, the two Glasgow giants are probably as close as they’ve been in terms of quality for a couple of seasons.

In the last 33 meetings between the pair, there have been 903 fouls in total. An average of 27.36 match fouls per Old Firm. There have been 26+ fouls in 19/33 of those games and SkyBet has this priced at 2.63 (13/8) in their “Match Fouls Committed” market. Add 24 & 26 Match Total Fouls to BuildABet to get the extra bang for your buck. The bet is 2.50 (6/4) in the standard market.

There have been 30+ fouls in 12 of the last 33 Old Firm clashes @ 6.50 (11/2)
There have been 32+ fouls in 7 of the last 33 Old Firm clashes @ 12.00 (11/1)

All-action midfielder Gustavo Hamer will be making his 3rd Premier League start, in the previous two he’s only had 2 shots and 2 tackles combined. However, I can see the lunchtime kick-off with Everton being a lot more of a physical battle than the Blades’ previous two games.

Hamer averages 2.0 tackles pg (2.3p90) over 179 career appearances as well as 2.0 shots pg (2.2p90). Data taken from WhoScored.

Bet365 has him priced at 1.91 (10/11) to make 2 tackles and 1.83 (5/6) to have 2 shots. Doubling them through the Bet Builder feature makes for a nicely priced 3.20 (11/5) double. The 2 tackles price did open up at 2.38 (11/8) which is complete and utter useless information to you reading this now but it’s still a lot bigger with bet365 than elsewhere.

I couldn’t put anyone off backing higher shots/tackles if you wanted for an early long shot before inputting that CVC number once again before the 3 p.m. kick-off. Gamble responsibly!

Jude Bellingham makes his Bernabéu bow on Saturday afternoon. After a scintillating start to the season bagging 4 goals in 3 consecutive away games, he finally makes his home debut. I can imagine Jose Bordalas’ game plan for his Getafe side will be something along the lines of “kick fuck out of the Englishman”. Although, they may do that in training for the foreseeable after signing Mason Greenwood on Deadline Day…

Bellingham is no stranger to a battle and will probably relish winding the likes of Damian Suarez up just as much as they’ll enjoy doing the same to him. The former Dortmund man picked up 17 yellow cards in 62 Bundesliga games over the last two years and although he’s yet to find his way into a Spanish referee’s notebook thus far, I fancy him to do so here at 5.50 (9/2) with Bet365.

2 of Bellingham’s 4 goals as a Madridsta so far have been with his head, Bet365 has him priced at 19.00 (18/1) to score a header and this doubled with him to be booked makes a 104.50 (103.5/1) #CheekyPunt.