Andy Brassell's Weekend Football Tips Including Newcastle Vs West Ham
European football expert Andy Brassell is back to share his three best selections for this weekend's action across Europe's top leagues.
As always, Andy will provide a fourth selection exclusively for Gambling.com account holders, using the latest odds from Grosvenor.
Andy has been a writer and broadcaster on European football for 20 years, featuring on TalkSPORT, On The Continent, The Guardian, Sky Sports and TNT Sports.
St Pauli Vs Wolfsburg, Saturday 2.30pm
This is the decider to top them all in the relegation battle - with apologies to La Liga.
We go into the final game of the Bundesliga season with all three bottom teams on equal points and very similar goal differences.
The bottom two will be relegated while third-bottom get the reprieve of a relegation play-off with the third-placed finisher in the second tier - which is currently Hannover, but it could be any one of three.
League Comparison
Position | Team | Played | Points | GD |
16th | Wolfsburg | 33 | 26 | -26 |
18th | St Pauli | 33 | 26 | -29 |
Basement side St Pauli meet Wolfsburg in Hamburg in a winner-takes-all scenario, with the caveat that if they draw, second-bottom Heidenheim could condemn them both and save themselves by beating Mainz.
The task is toughest for St Pauli, who are 9/5 on betting apps to beat Wolfsburg, and must win by two clear goals to leapfrog their visitors.
However, their goals are seldom, having scored nine fewer than anyone else in the division, while for Wolfsburg, with the division’s fifth-highest budget, going down would be ruinous.
Andy's Panel Selection 1: St Pauli Vs Wolfsburg: Under 2.5 Total Goals - 57/50 With Grosvenor
Andy Brassell's Weekend Tips:
- Andy's Panel Selection 1: St Pauli Vs Wolfsburg: Under 2.5 Total Goals - 57/50 With Grosvenor
- Andy's Panel Selection 2: Newcastle Vs West Ham: Newcastle To Win - 26/25 With Grosvenor
- Andy's Panel Selection 3: Sevilla Vs Real Madrid: Sevilla To Win - 11/5 With Grosvenor
Newcastle Vs West Ham, Sunday 5.30pm
It’s almost the win-or-go-home moment for West Ham.
While the football world has seemingly spent every waking hour discussing the decision to disallow Callum Wilson’s late strike against Arsenal last Sunday - which could have changed everything at the bottom and the top - Nuno Espirito Santo and company really need to get past it and focus on the job at hand.
League Comparison
Position | Team | Played | Points | GD |
13th | Newcastle | 36 | 46 | -2 |
18th | West Ham | 36 | 36 | -20 |
Their recent away form is not promising, with one point and no goals in the past three games, so they’re really going to need to pull something out of the bag against a Newcastle side on the upturn since the talismanic Bruno Guimaraes returned.
Performances have been better in recent weeks (against, it must be said, sides with more to play for than them) and despite almost certainly missing out on Europe, Newcastle will want to sign off in front of their home fans in a positive fashion after a deflating back end to their season.
Andy's Panel Selection 2: Newcastle Vs West Ham: Newcastle To Win - 26/25 With Grosvenor
Sevilla Vs Real Madrid, Sunday 6pm
It’s been an incredible week-and-a-half for Sevilla, who were stuck in the bottom three before the recent home game with Real Sociedad.
After three successive wins, safety is so close they can almost touch it, with winners from Akor Adams - who has been key since returning from AFCON - against Espanyol and Villarreal putting Luis Garcia Plaza’s team four points clear of the bottom three with two to go in an unbelievably tight fight at the bottom.
League Comparison
Position | Team | Played | Points | GD |
2nd | Real Madrid | 36 | 80 | +39 |
12th | Sevilla | 36 | 43 | -12 |
It’s so tight, in fact, that Sevilla could still mathematically qualify for Europe.
Real Madrid’s rough week, worsened by president Florentino Perez’s media sorties, have not led to a total bottoming out of results in a season that has long been dead for them.
However, the absence of Fede Valverde will hurt in a match in which the home side (with a huge atmosphere behind them) will want to seal the deal in terms of their salvation.
Andy's Panel Selection 3: Sevilla Vs Real Madrid: Sevilla To Win - 11/5 With Grosvenor
Andy's weekend treble pays out at around 12/1 with Grosvenor.
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