{"id":12841,"date":"2021-12-17T05:11:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T05:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bb-auae-prd-ext-blog-01.azurewebsites.net\/more\/epl-21-22-best-bets-matchweek-18\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T08:59:00","slug":"english-premier-league-matchweek-18-bluebet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/soccer\/english-premier-league-matchweek-18-bluebet\/","title":{"rendered":"English Premier League | Matchweek 18 | BlueBet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h2><strong>Matchweek 18<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluebet.com.au\/sports\/Soccer\/100\/England\/English-Premier-League\/36715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Leeds United ($3.75) vs Arsenal ($1.83) \u2013 Sunday 19th December @4:30am AEDT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Embattled Leeds welcome fourth-placed Arsenal to Elland Road on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Marcelo Bielsa\u2019s side were hammered 7-0 away at Manchester City midweek, piling more pressure on the veteran manager.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Arsenal\u2019s impressive season turnaround continued on Matchday 17, as they impressively swept aside London rivals West Ham 2-0 at the Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Mikael Arteta\u2019s men will be looking to distance themselves from fifth-placed West Ham, as the latest outbreak of Covid plagues top-four challengers Manchester United and Spurs, who have both had matches postponed recently.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Arsenal captain Pierre-Emile Aubameyang looks set to miss the trip to Yorkshire, the striker has clearly fallen out of favour with manager Mikael Arteta.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds are ravaged with injuries, with Patrick Bamford, Kalvin Phillips, Liam Cooper and Daniel James all sidelined with injury.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Bets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match Result: \u00a0Arsenal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluebet.com.au\/sports\/Soccer\/100\/England\/English-Premier-League\/36715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">($1.83)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matchweek 18 \u00a0 Leeds United ($3.75) vs Arsenal ($1.83) \u2013 Sunday 19th December @4:30am AEDT Embattled Leeds welcome fourth-placed Arsenal to Elland Road on Sunday morning. Marcelo Bielsa\u2019s side were hammered 7-0 away at Manchester City midweek, piling more pressure on the veteran manager. Meanwhile, Arsenal\u2019s impressive season turnaround continued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16931,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12841\/revisions\/16931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}