January bets to make money from Cardiff, Sunderland and Crystal Palace

It is the end of January, which means a little over three months and a little over a third of the Premier League season remains, until it is known who is crowned champions, who qualifies for the Champions League and who is relegated.

Rewind back to the start of December and it would have been nigh on impossible to predict that both Sunderland and Crystal Palace would have improved to the degree they have, to both escape the bottom three.

With only six points separating all of the clubs currently in the bottom half, it is exceedingly tough to make any firm end-of-season predictions, but looking at the final Premier League tables of the last 10 years, we have found three bets that should provide some profit.

Cardiff to finish bottom @ 3/1

Sacking Malky Mackay is certainly looking a shrewd piece of business at present from Vincent Tan, with Cardiff taking only one Premier League point since from five fixtures.

Cardiff sit bottom of the Premier League form table and it is no surprise that they have also sunk to the bottom of the league standings, which is not where a team wants to be at the end of Janaury.

In seven of the last eight seasons, the team to prop up the standings at the end of January have finished in the same position.

Paramount to their survival hopes are their next four Premier League outings, with three of these at home to Norwich, Aston Villa and Hull.

Sunderland to be relegated @ 6/4

Sunderland’s 1-0 home victory against Stoke has seen them move out of the bottom three for the first time since the second week of the season and Gus Poyet’s team have certainly grasped the idea of keeping the points tally ticking over.

The Black Cats have only lost one of their last eight in the league.

However, being 17th at the end of January is worrying based on previous seasons, as seven of the last 10 teams to be in an identical position have been relegated. Only the team sitting 20th at the end of the month have gone down more frequently.