Sheffield United v Tottenham predictions, betting preview and football tips

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Tottenham to win & under 3.5 goals
1pt 11-10 Paddy Power
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Sheff Utd +1 on corner handicap
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Team news

Sheffield United
Chris Wilder has said he will be missing seven players but did not name the players. Sander Berge and Jack O'Connnell are long-term absentees, while George Baldock, Enda Stevens, Jack Rodwell and Oli McBurnie missed the midweek game.

Tottenham
Giovani Lo Celso is Tottenham's only absentee.

Match preview

Tottenham have won three times as many points on the road as Sheffield United have won in total, and look all over the winners at Bramall Lane.

Faith may have increased in the Blades after they finally won a Premier League game at their 18th time of asking, but it's not easy to see Chris Wilder's side going back-to-back.

They beat Tottenham 3-1 at home last term, turning in one of their performances of the season and nabbed four points off Spurs overall, but that was last season.

This campaign looks completely different with United long odds-on to be relegated.

No one at Bramall Lane is getting carried away by their solitary success, a 1-0 triumph over a Newcastle side who were beyond feeble and down to ten men for the entire second half.

And it needed a Billy Sharp penalty to beat them. Indeed, take out penalties from their haul and the blunt Blades have managed to score just six goals from open play.

They are one of three top-flight teams averaging under three shots on target per game and their record against teams who started the weekend in the top ten this season is truly abject, reading played nine, lost nine.

It's hard to expect a lot better given the paucity of quality attacking options available to Wilder, but five points gleaned out of a possible 54 is a horrible record.

Interestingly, of their 15 losses, 13 of them have been in games featuring three goals or fewer which tells us a couple of things.

It highlights that they've been consistently poor but they also rarely get blown away and it suggests one possible bet might be Spurs to win and under 3.5 goals.

There will be plenty of punters who will do nothing more than pile into Harry Kane and Heung-Min Son to score.

Eleven-goal Kane has notched in nine different league matches this season, most recently in Wednesday's 1-1 draw at home to Fulham. Son has found the net in eight matches and each has scored more than the entire United side.

That last effort against Fulham was disappointing and showed the difficulty Tottenham occasionally have under Jose Mourinho to break down awkward opponents on their own soil. Away from home they tend to be a different proposition having lost only one of eight.

Because of the way Spurs play they aren't piling up flag kicks and it might be worth backing the Blades plus one on the corner handicap. Wilder's men average five corners per game, Spurs 4.2 and if the hosts are, as expected chasing, that's one match they could win.

Key stat

Sheffield United's last six home losses were all by one goal

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