Odds Watch: Bookmakers Price Every Fixture in the Gameweek Dead Level

A gameweek with no favourites

The latest match-odds prices have produced something genuinely unusual: all ten Premier League fixtures this gameweek are priced identically. Every home side is at 2, every draw at 3 and every away side at 2, meaning the market rates the two teams in each match as equally likely winners, with the draw the outsider in every single game.

Anfield headliner priced as a coin flip

Liverpool v Manchester City is the gameweek's showpiece, and it carries the same level pricing as the rest of the card. According to the Premier League table, the two sides arrive in contrasting form: City lead the way with six points from two wins, while Liverpool sit 11th with a pair of draws, four goals scored and four conceded. The market, though, declines to make the leaders favourites — both sides are priced at 2, with the draw at 3.

Where the prices collide with the table

The most curious numbers sit where the early standings suggest clear separation. According to the Premier League table:

• Hull City v Everton — Hull are second with six points from two wins and no goals conceded, Everton fourth with four. Still dead level at 2/3/2.
• Coventry City v Newcastle United — Newcastle are third and unbeaten; Coventry are 17th with no points and no goals scored. Yet the prices are identical.
• Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur — both pointless, with Spurs bottom of the table on no goals scored and five conceded. The market cannot split them.

The full card (home/draw/away)

• Arsenal v Leeds United — 2/3/2
• Aston Villa v Brentford — 2/3/2
• Sunderland AFC v Brighton & Hove Albion — 2/3/2
• Chelsea v AFC Bournemouth — 2/3/2
• Ipswich Town v Fulham — 2/3/2
• Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur — 2/3/2
• Crystal Palace v Nottingham Forest — 2/3/2
• Hull City v Everton — 2/3/2
• Liverpool v Manchester City — 2/3/2
• Coventry City v Newcastle United — 2/3/2

What to watch next

The uniformity stretches from Saturday's opening fixture — Arsenal v Leeds United, a meeting of two sides who began the season with wins — to Monday's closer at Coventry, where the home side sit 17th and Newcastle third. With no favourite installed anywhere, this shapes as the tightest-priced gameweek of the season so far, and the story between now and kick-off is whether any of these level prices move, especially at Anfield, where City's perfect start and Liverpool's stutter could yet force the market's hand.

FanTribe readers can log their predictions for every fixture this weekend and see how their own picks measure up against a market that, for now, is refusing to choose.