16:40 Naas

FRANCO DE PORT (best price 5/1) didn’t exactly head into the Co Kenny venue with a glowing reference, but he ended up coming out of the contest with close to a career high performance stamped on his passport. Taken wide throughout in search of the better ground, Willie Mullins’ gelding was produced to hold every chance approaching two out and although he saw the trip out strongly all the way to the line, he just found the gambled-on Longhouse Poet too good. Since that top-class race was run 45 days ago, the likes of Death Duty, Coko Beach and Escaria Ten have all advertise the excellent speed figure, and son of Coastal path has enough class to follow along the same lines.

16:30 Sunday

High flying Arsenal have benefitted from ample preparation time this calendar year to record some strong results which put them in pole position for a long sought after top 4 finish. 

Mikel Arteta has yet to rue letting Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang leave in January and they’ve looked better for it with strong link up play between the likes of Alex Lacazette, Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka getting the fans enthused by what’s to come in the future.

It was the plan for Arteta to bring the average age of the squad down and he’s getting a fine-tune out of youngsters who are only going to improve with more minutes which bodes well for the future of the club.

Arsenal have been particularly good on home soil against teams outside the big six. It could spell trouble for a Leicester side who had a tough game on Thursday night against Rennes in the Conference League. 

The Foxes did win that game and look to be improving after a disappointing campaign defensively. The underlying data shows that Leicester have been quite lucky to be in midtable but with players returning from injury they could end the season in strong fashion. 

One thing they’re good at is putting the ball in the back of the net. On the road they’ve only failed to score at Anfield, however, they’ve only kept a clean sheet once, at a misfiring Burnley.

Both teams to score is a regular occurrence in their away games and it’s chalked up at a reasonable 3/4 to occur again at the Emirates and that does appeal.