Pre-Season Friendly: Kansas City Wizards v Manchester United Odds and Betting Preview

KANSAS CITY, MO - The Arrowhead Stadium, better known for hosting NFL team Kansas City Chiefs, today plays host to Manchester United`s pre-season friendly game against the local `soccer` team, the Kansas City Wizards. The Wizards failed to make the playoffs of the MLS last season, but they will still be hoping to attract a crowd of over 50,000 to the game having shelled out a seven-figure sum for the honour of playing against Sir Alex Ferguson`s side.

Manchester United finished runners-up to Chelsea in last season`s English Premier League, but will be without many of their stars for the Arrowhead Stadium clash. The Red Devils could only beat Philadelphia 1-0 without the services of Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Michael Owen, Patrice Evra, Nemanja Vidic, Michael Carrick and Park Ji-Sung, but the match against the Wizards is another opportunity for the fringe players to shine.

The British bookmakers have seen solid support for a United win, which has been trimmed into 2/7 (bet $7 to win $2 profit) by Sky Bet and Stan James. The draw is currently at 9/2 with bookie William Hill and a shock win for Kansas is trading at 19/2 on leading betting exchange Betfair.

With major question marks over Fergie`s starting XI, it is no surprise to learn that the first goalscorer market is unavailable for this pre-season friendly. If it was, Live Odds and Scores would make Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov a heavy favourite, ahead of other attacking players such as France`s Gabriel Obertan. The leading goalscorer for the Wizards last season was Sierra Leone`s Kei Kamara with six. If bettors do fancy goals in this match they can back over 2.5 goals at 13/20 with Bet 365.

United are 1/9 with Coral `draw no bet` and 8/11 with the same bookmaker to be leading at both half-time and full-time in the match. With temperatures expected to be around 90°F (30+°C), Draw/United could be appealing at 7/2 with Stan James. Draw/Draw is generally at 7/1, and Wizards/Wizards is at a giant 18/1 with Victor Chandler.

In the correct score betting, 1-0 and 2-0 wins to United can both be backed at 7/1. Other scorelines in United`s favour are 3-0 and 2-1 which are 13/2 and 8/1 respectively with Paddy Power. 0-0 is a big price at 23/1 with Bet Internet, and the 1-1 stalemate is 9/1 with Ladbrokes. Finally a memorable 1-0 victory for Kansas is 27/1 on Betfair.

The match begins at 5.00pm CDT, which is 11.00pm tonight English time (BST).

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