Manchester United v Tottenham: Best bets for Sunday’s Premier League games and AFCON Golden Boot

Our betting expert with a 22/1 punt at Old Trafford, Everton against Aston Villa, and the Africa Cup of Nations PLUS Serie A angle

Goals may be in shorter supply than advertised at Old Trafford.

Manchester United never really start scoring. Tottenham can’t seem to stop. But their script is due a rewrite today (4.30pm).

They have proved there is life after Harry Kane, but the departure of Heung-Min Son to the Asian Cup demands another major reset.

To lose one top scorer may be regarded as misfortune, to lose both is a proper kick in the cockles.

Loaned-in Timo Werner is one possible answer up front, particularly if the question is ‘name a £40million-plus Chelsea underachiever’.

The question of the ‘most disappointing mega-money buy at Manchester United’ is up in the air again after Jadon Sancho flew back to Germany.

United’s list of passengers can seem long, but keeper Andre Onana isn’t on it – he puts club before country by turning out here before heading to AFCON.

A very murky match for punters, but Spurs offer up a lot of chances and their relative frailty at set-pieces is more light in the gloom. Split a fun stake on Scott McTominay ‘scores header’ at 22/1 and Marcus Rashford ‘scores a header’ at 18/1 (both Paddy).

Aston Villa head to Everton (2pm) with Ollie Watkins having scored or assisted 17 of their 43 Prem goals. But that stat does scant justice to his huge impact for Unai Emery’s high-flyers – and his impressive work for punters.

Watkins has been a ‘score or assist’ winner in 14 of his 23 starts, and he isn’t even on pens. The 11/10 (Paddy) ‘score or assist’ is spot-on.

The last Africa Cup of Nations had some very long, very dull games and poor Mo Salah seemed to play every minute of all of them. The Liverpool star put in an epic 13-hour shift for Egypt... and got just two goals.

He’s a bad 5/1 favourite for the AFCON Golden Boot race which kicked off last night.

Nigeria’s Napoli machine Victor Osimhen looks the standout bet at 8/1 (Bet365, BetVic), but be quick, he’s got a soft group game today (2pm). Also, Chelsea want to sign him. So presumably his scoring days are numbered.

Over in Italy, the stats shout for a low-scoring one when goal-lite Udinese head to Fiorentina (5pm, Serie A) – take NO ‘both score’ at 5/6 (BetVic)

Last week: Winners at 21/20 and 8/1