Premier League Outright Betting: Tottenham slashed to their shortest price since 2016

The north Londoners sit 2nd in the Premier League

Tottenham are now the shortest price they have been for almost five years in the Premier League winner betting. 

Spurs are now 6/1 in the market (third-favourites behind Man City and Liverpool) following their 2-1 win over Brighton on Sunday evening, where goals from Harry Kane and Gareth Bale sealed another vital three points for Jose Mourinho’s side on home soil.

Having started the season as 60/1 rank outsiders to lay claim to their first ever Premier League title, the north London side have been cut by the bookies to go the distance following a solid start which has seen them lose just one of their opening seven games. 

Sunday’s win over the Seagulls was Tottenham’s fourth of the campaign and now sees them rise up to second in the top-flight standings, behind leaders Liverpool by just two points. 

Indeed, it is the wavering form of Jurgen Klopp’s reigning champions and Manchester City which has seen the title-race blown wide open at this early stage. Neither side has shown the level of domination that they have in recent years so far, with both dropping valuable points since the 2020-21 campaign began back in September. 

Manchester City remain favourites at 11/8 and Pep Guardiola will be pleased with his side’s clean sheet away at strugglers Sheffield United in Saturday’s early kick-off, but they still look a little rusty and are missing key goalscoring threats with both Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Jesus currently sidelined through injury. 

Liverpool, meanwhile, continue to trundle on and win games by the skin of their teeth. Saturday’s 2-1 win over West Ham was their third victory by a one-goal margin this season, and they have so far failed to demonstrate the ruthlessness that won them the title so emphatically last term.

The Reds do keep grinding wins out, though, which is the sign of a good team and they are still being heavily fancied to win the title again at odds of 2/1 - second-favourites behind the Cityzens. 

Carlo Ancelotti’s Everton (90/1 in the betting) started extremely promisingly and led the way after six games, but the Toffees have now slipped below Spurs into third after their disappointing 2-1 defeat away at Newcastle on Sunday afternoon. 

Despite reaching the final of the Champions League in 2019, Tottenham have failed to mount a serious challenge for the Premier League title since 2015-16, where they ran Leicester City down to the wire before capitulating against Chelsea in the infamous ‘Battle of the Bridge’. 

Prior to that game in west London in May 2016, Spurs were as short as 7/2 to win the league but an ill-tempered match, which saw as many as 12 yellow cards distributed - nine of which were for Tottenham players - saw Mauricio Pochettino’s side throw a two-goal lead away to draw 2-2 which meant Leicester were awarded the title without even having to kick a ball.

Spurs ended up finishing third in the end, behind rivals Arsenal and the history-making Foxes, and since then they haven’t been anywhere near challenging for top-spot in England’s top table, until now.

While it is still early days, Spurs fans will no doubt be slightly optimistic that this time around things might just be different, with serial winner Jose Mourinho in his first full season in charge and the rest of the division’s big guns showing real signs of faltering - just like they did five years ago.

There is, of course, a long way still yet to go and as the history books have shown us, Spurs are top of the class where bottling things are concerned (sorry to be frank, but it’s true).

Son and Kane look unstoppable at the minute and if both can remain injury-free then Tottenham, with a resurgent Gareth Bale back in north London and now full of confidence following his (second) debut goal for the club, have arguably the strongest front-three in the division at their disposal. 

“To Dare Is To Do” reads the Tottenham's age-old motto; it’s about time they started putting it into practice.