December 1 2016

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Harry the tipster offers his betting thoughts on Saturday's match between Crystal Palace and Southampton.

Palace have lost the last six matches in a row. Wow. Let that sink in for a second. It's hard to see where the next win is going to come from, especially after last weekend's ridiculous 5-4 loss at Swansea, and Southampton now in town.

Manager Alan Pardew's job is hanging by a thread – so can he turn things around at Selhurst Park?

Claude Puel's Saints have had a solid start to the campaign, having lost just four times – including Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United – and they are favourites to secure a successive victory after beating Everton last week.

They have also won eight of their last nine league games against Palace and knocked Pardew's side out of the EFL Cup this season, too.

Palace fans would probably take a draw right now to stop the rot and you can get that at 12/5 with betVictor.

Scoring goals have not been an issue for Palace – 10 in the last five outings – but it's been well documented how bad they've been in defence, especially at set-pieces. They've shipped 17 goals in the last six matches. Crazy. Over 4.5 goals is 11/32 with Paddy Power.

Lay on Christian Benteke to score the first goal at 11/3 with bet365.