Robin Van Persie Good Value For Golden Boot

Arsenal striker Robin Van Persie looks good value to finish this season as the Premier League leading goalscorer. Van Persie converted a penalty at Villa Park on Wednesday to take his tally to 16 Premier League goals and maintain a three goal cushion over nearest challenger Sergio Aguero of Manchester City.
Unibet a leading Scandanavian bookmaker currently quote the Dutch international at odds of 13/8 which will prove good value if Van Persie can stay clear of injury.

Alongside Segio Aguero on 13 Premier League goals is Manchester United's Wayne Rooney who can be backed at odds of 4/1 with Victor Chandler. Rooney is clearly a threat to Van Persie but is often deployed in a deeper role nowadays and he may struggle to register +25 goals which will be required to win this season's Golden Boot.

Aguero should prove to be the main threat and free scoring Manchester City will provide plenty of ammunition for him in the second half of the season. At odds of 11/4 with Bet365, Van Persie backers may choose to have a small saver on Aguero as this is likely to develop into a two horse race as the season progresses.


Van Persie is also eyeing up another record , this time the record for the most Premier League goals in a calendar year which has been held by Alan Shearer since 1995 when he bagged 36 goals for Newcastle United, an amazing achievement.  Van Persie can break the record if he can score three goals in his two remaining Arsenal games of 2011 which are at home to Wolves on December 27th and QPR on New Years Eve. This is entirely possible but bookie Bet365 are about right with their odds of 5/2 for Van Persie to break the record and 2/7 that he will not.

Good luck to him for next week and the Golden Boot award.