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STG0Burnley - Wolverhampton Wanderers
Burnley v Wolverhampton Wanderers preview
Burnley host Wolverhampton Wanderers at Turf Moor on Friday night in a Championship fixture that finds the two clubs at opposite ends of the early-season form spectrum. The home side sit twenty-first with eight points from ten matches, while Wolves occupy tenth place on fourteen points from nine outings.
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The gap in the table
Burnley have taken eight points from ten matches and sit twenty-first, eleven points off the automatic promotion places. Their recent run shows one win, three draws and one defeat, including a 4-0 victory over Watford sandwiched between stalemates. Wolves arrive on fourteen points from nine games, placing them tenth and three points off the play-off zone. Their recent form reads two wins and three defeats, the latest a 1-3 reverse against Bolton.
The teams have played a different number of games, Burnley ten, Wolves nine, so the six-point gap understates the difference. A win here would lift Burnley to eleven points from eleven matches; Wolves would reach seventeen from ten with three points, moving them within two of the top six. A defeat leaves Burnley on eight points and Wolves on fourteen, preserving the status quo.
What the market expects
The market-implied result probability gives Wolves the edge at 40.6 per cent, with Burnley at 32.9 per cent and the draw at 26.5 per cent. That assessment favours the visitors despite Burnley playing at Turf Moor, and the numbers align with the form: Wolves have the better record and a game in hand. The five most recent meetings between the clubs have produced twelve goals in total, with Burnley winning one, Wolves winning two and two drawn. The last encounter finished 1-1.
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