Whether you like betting on the opening weekend of a season or not depends on whether you're a glass half full or half empty kind of person.
Most people will say it's too early to get heavily involved due to there being no form to go on, but some shrewdies who have done their pre-season homework will be looking to take advantage of some big prices that the bookies have got wrong. Let the games begin!
The EFL kicked-off with an entertaining 2-2 draw between Bournemouth and West Brom and with fans back in the stadium it felt like football was finally back.
If that curtain-raiser was anything to go by then backing goals could be the best approach on the first weekend of the EFL season. Skybet have a Total Goals special for each of the three EFL divisions. In nine Championship games 22+ goals pays 5/6 (avg. 2.44 goals per game), 28+ goals in League One pays 8/11 (2.54 goals per game) and in League Two 30 goals in 12 fixtures pays 5/6 (2.5 goals per game).
Peterborough are usually favourites of goals punters and although they've stepped up to the Championship they'll no doubt still give it a go. They face Luton, who have added a lot of new faces to their squad and there could be goals at Kenilworth Road.
There's a London Derby at Loftus Road where Mark Warburton's QPR side welcome Millwall. Rangers' were entertaining last season and with the likes of Charlie Austin and Lyndon Dykes up front there's always the promise of goals. Add in BTTS at Fleetwood against promotion hopefuls Portsmouth in League One to complete the treble.
Dunfermline and Partick Thistle shared six goals when they met in the Premier Sports Cup with the pars coming out on top 4-2. They both started their Championship campaigns with goal-laden games last week, the Pars drawin 2-2 at Morton, while Thistle were beating Queen of the South 3-2 at Firhill.
Goals should be on the cards at East End Park.
Hearts will be keen to pick up where they left off last weekend when they beat Celtic at Tynecastle but St Mirren will prove a stern test in Paisley. There was some beef between the clubs following Hearts demotion at the end the curtailed 18-19 season so it could be a fiesty affair if that spills on to the pitch.
Finally, the best two sides in League Two meet on Saturday where Kelty Hearts visit Stirling Albion. All the money has been for the division's new boys to go up but this will be their toughest test of the season. There's goals in either side so hopefully each can find the back of the net.
English BTTS Treble
- Luton v Peterborough
- QPR v Millwall
- Fleetwood v Portsmouth
- ➕Add to Betslip: £10 Pays £67.51 at Bet365
Scottish BTTS Treble
- St Mirren v Hearts
- Dunfermline v Partick Thistle
- Stirling v Kelty Hearts
- ➕Add to Betslip: £10 Pays £56.95 at Bet365
Super Single
- Dunfermline v Partick Thistle – Over 2.5 Goals 17/20 BetVictor
Gambla Podcast
Don't miss this week's Podcast from the Gambla team where McBookie's Paul Petrie is the guest as the guys look ahead to this week's best bets in Scotland.
Tipster's Tips
- Scottish Premiership Tips: Gers to Get Back to Business at Tannadice
- SPFL Lower League Tips: Take Goals for Grant-ed at Dunfermline
- English Football Tips: City Out to Lay a Marker in Community Shield Curtain-Raiser
- Saturday's Goals Accumulator Tips: Today's 8/1 BTTS & Total Team Goals Acca
- Scott Allot's Euro Tips: Young Boys back in old routine
- European BTTS Tips: Goals in France, Belgium & Austria
- Football Bet of the day: Let’s hope for a Super Saturday
- SlipsTips Tips: St Mirren vs Hearts
- Desmond’s Goals Tips: BTTS, Over 2.5 Goals and 82/1 Goals Acca Tips
- Mark's Scottish Football Tips: Dons Looking Class Under Glass
Upcoming Match Previews & Tips
- Sat 12.30pm – Dundee United v Rangers Match Preview & Tips
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- Sat 5.30pm – Charlton Athletic v Sheffield Wednesday Match Preview & Tips
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- Sun 3.00pm – St Johnstone v Motherwell Match Preview & Tips
Saturday's Racing Tips
Rizzel is avoiding the Shergar Cup today in favour of two selections from the day's racing at Haydock.
- Racing tips: Fantastic Fox looks well treated off a mark of 94
As always, let us know your tips and predictions for Saturday in the comment section below and good luck with all your bets!
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Cerro v Penrol 10.00 Uruguay
BTTS 1/1 Bet365 👎👎👎
Good Luck
Brazil Serie A
Recife vs Bragantino
Over 10.5 Match Corners
Evens @ 365 *NAP*
**WON**
Swiss Super League
Sion vs Young Boys
BTTS & Over 2.5 Goals
5/6 @ 365 *NB*
Nice work Kyle – 17 corners in the end!
Needed the Bragantino goal for the 6/5 and 11/2 but never came 🙈
It seen
BBT Leicester city vs Manchester city
Also Over2.5 is possible
to score double
Hull
Blackpool
evens
*NAP*
Derby County V Huddersfield 15:00
Huddersfield to win 17/10- SKYBET
Absolutely massive price in my opinion. Derby County miraculously stayed up last season and over the summer have lost several first team players and have had trialist sign in the last 24 hours to which some were saying they might not even have enough to field 11 players.
Good luck all
Huddersfield potentially have a number of players out for COVID hence the price, waiting on test results to confirm.
A Huddersield player has confirmed on Twitter that a number of players will have to self isolate but wasn’t sure how many.
So best to avoid them today.
” Lost in France ” No joy with my French bookings . LOSERS
Well done all winners yesterday .
Rangers -4 corners v Dundee.u ,11/10 B365.
max bet for me
Over 3.5 goals
Cowdenbeath v Elgin
Falkirk v Peterhead
Montrose v Clyde
Albion v Stenhousemuir
Loose change on this and I mean loose change, I can see a few goals in these going by H2H so it’s probably 50c I will never see again but “he who dares wins Rodney, he who dares wins” 🙂
Exeter City v Bradford City
Bradford Draw no bet – 11/10 – @bet365 – 2 points
Price has shortened since I got 11/8 a week ago. I’m an Exeter fan and despite believing we’ll eventually come good this season, I think this game is a little too soon. Academy star Joel Randall was sold to posh earlier in the week. 2 cert starter in Hartridge & Collins are out and we’ve conceded plenty of goals during pre season. It’s a new look team for us with plenty of youth throughout, pace & power up top with new signing Nombe and the ability of last years player of the season, Matt Jay. Not convinced it’ll be enough today though.
Bradford are managed by Derek Adams now, A chap who knows a thing or two about getting out of this league. Their loss to Chesterfield was a blip in a decent pre season beating a couple of higher league opposition. They’ve made some decent acquisitions in the market including Songo’o & Threlkeld and they’ll definitely be up there this year.
Good luck with all bets! UTC 🔴⚪️
Yes Whaler a number of pundits are backing Bradford to get promotion this year.
Bradford over 0.5tgs
Hamilton btts
Double 7/5
Bradford over 1.5tgs
Hamilton btts & overs
Double 11/2
Good luck
Dundee Unt v Rangers
I agree with bigwigg on Mulgrew to be carded at 9/2 .
Shankland to be carded is also 9/2
2 x singles and a double
Double pays 33/1 Bet365
Morning gents – landed the Nb last night with 8 goals in Iceland but, alas, the Nap/Longshot game was postponed in Costa Rica – after a long lay-off for Covid reasons, things are just getting back underway in the Czech Youth games…I fancy this one for goals with 9 of the last 15 meetings seeing 6 or more:
SPARTA PRAHA U19 VS. ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE U19 (10.00am)
Prices are looking a little to generous here so more than happy to have a go:
OVER 4.5 GOALS
(11/10, bet365) ⭐⭐⭐
Best of luck!
Crapola 👎
Ipswich
Sheff Utd double
Add
Cardiff for treble
That is Skybet treble 10/1 enhanced form 5/1
today…………………
the famous -2 9/4
-3 11/2
4 zip 12/1
which game tho crane??!!
rangers
Aribo Ags 23/10
both teams to score
tranmere v walsall
ladbrokes 21/20
NAP
both teams to score double
blackburn v swansea
cardiff v barnsley
ladbrokes 2.8/1
treble on all 3 games
william hill 7/1
Banker Bet:
Relay 4×400 m Men (Tokyo 2020) 13:50
POLAND TO WIN A MEDAL (PLACES 1-3) 59/50 UB
Risky Bet:
Relay 4×400 m Women (Tokyo 2020) 13:30
POLAND TO WIN GOLD 16/1 UB
Worth to bet a couple of quid.
I have found the Olympics for betting has been difficult to predict. For example, in the athletics very few favorites won their events. One of the standout bets was China at 8-1 to win the most golds.
Banker Bet:
Relay 4×400 m Men (Tokyo 2020) 13:50
POLAND TO WIN A MEDAL (PLACES 1-3) 59/50 UB ***LOST*** 5TH PLACE
Risky Bet:
Relay 4×400 m Women (Tokyo 2020) 13:30
POLAND TO WIN GOLD 16/1 UB ***LOST***🥈🥈🥈 SILVER MEDAL
I agree. However, in terms of relays I’m very confident that both POLAND’S men and women will win a medal. They’re in top form atm.
Not many bookies offering odds for Poland to win a medal. On paper they should get the Bronze.
skybet are going 7/2 on usa 1st jamaica 2nd poland 3rd on the mens 4×400 relay on paper that should be the order maybe worth a lady godiva for interest
Formartine Utd vs Fort William
Over 3.5mgs @ 5/6(bet365)
Double stake Nap
I very rarely put a double stake on especially under evens, but it’s very rare for you to get a fort William game to bet on! Surprised this has slipped through to make it onto today’s card. Fort William for a long time have been proper whipping boys in Scottish football, regularly ranked the worst team in Britain, regularly get hammered, rarely win, and most recently their pitch was vandalised and in such a bad condition they have been asked to play all their games away from home. It wouldn’t surprise me to see this hit 7,8 or 9, just a shame can’t get higher than over 3.5mgs, but will take it while it’s going.
Over 1.5mgs treble @ 7/5 (WHill boost)
Falkirk vs Peterhead
Dunfermline vs Partick
Hamilton vs Morton
Already advised last night,
Mulgrew to be carded @ 9/2 (bet365)
Still the same price and even better he’s up against Morelos.
Good luck all 🤞🤞
4.5 at hills 7/4 biggy
Cheers 👍 Must have not long appeared , will definitely be having a dabble at over 5.5 @ 7/2 as well
Done your Fort bet with quite a few bangers so good luck !
More Fortmartine bets on goals available live at WH.
Lets hope for a big second half i only need the 3.5 for a 4 fold £700 win😩
Fortmartine 2-0 ht.
Helloooo cooking on gas now😁
Dry 2nd half surprise surprise…come on big late finish💪
Crying into a beer now.. no cashout at willhill could of had about 400 had they offered it… Hard luck biggy good shout 👍
Dundee United v Rangers
Morelos anytime goalscorer & Butcher to be booked 5/1 bet365 GL!
Celtic v Dundee
Charlie Adam to be carded 21/10 – PP
Mansfield v Bristol Rovers
Brett Pitman ATG 23/10 Skybet
Btts 1st half 9/2 bet365
Btts Both Halves 18/1 bet365
Dundee Utd vs Rangers
Mulgrew to be carded @ 9/2 (bet365)✅
The only positive thing to come out of that game!
First class . I had him as a single WON and a double with Shankland . Shankland never played but they voided the double . Must be their betbuilder rules
Wow id be complaining if that happened to me thats a right cheat mate
Aye Sammy . I will wait until tomorrow and contact them .
Scottish Championship Ags trixie
Duku (Inverness)
Ohara (Dunfermline)
Cameron (killie)
Zamalek v Ghazl 6.00pm
Al Ahly v Ceramica 8.00pm
Both games in Egypt, Zamalek and Al Ahly these two teams our fighting it out for the league title. Going for both teams to win and over 1.5 goals was gona do over 2.5 gls il stick to the more safer option.
Al Ahly win and 2+ goals
Zamalek win and 2 + goals
1.4/1
Good Luck
5pm South Africa v The Lions
The decider in the test series and I can’t see anything but an aggressive and defensive approach from SA. Kicks are more than likely the way that the majority of points will be scored and I can’t see past South Africa dominating the Lions forward pack.
South Africa win 8/13
Under 40.5 match points 1/1
South Africa win/under 38.5 match points 11/4
Good luck 👍
Lost on solanke anytime scorer yesterday. Today having a shot at vardy anytime scorer (he’s scored 9 times in the last 11 apps vs City. He’s 3.05 on betfair exchange
Good luck and well done any winners today
All bets lost today
Afternoon gents,
Been a while since I’ve had the time to post in full but snatched a bit of time this afternoon away from work, kids and life in general.
Fingers crossed things go to plan and there’s certainly some calculated risk involved!
https://mrfixitstips.co.uk/hullshakers-tips-back-the-strongest-to-flex-some-muscle-in-bolivia/
Best of luck!
Always worth a little flutter on the Charity Shield and particularly this year with the sides involved – quite like the look of a penalty!
LEICESTER CITY VS. MAN CITY (5.00pm)
ANY PLAYER TO TAKE A PENALTY
(11/10, betfred) ⭐⭐
MAN CITY WIN
MAN CITY SCORE A PENALTY
(4/1, paddypower) ⭐
Good luck 👍
5/2 penna at willhill … Unless im assuming this is not a 90 minute bet and it includes a shootout if it happens?
Also man city just to score a penna 13/2 hull👍 im gono hop on the penalty taken angle myself
Good luck. They are very big prices for either side to take and miss or score a penalty!
Yeh hull they are been a good game so far tempo wise could easily see one dished out here👍
My price is for a penalty taken not scored
So was mine mate ive won… I kmew when i saw yours sky are always pisspoor usually 11/10 5/4 willhill always goes 7/4 min …. Cheers hull n1 mate made me a few quid😁👍
Scored was 16/5 but i never touch them.to be scored for a slight increase… From 5/2 taken
both teams to score
tranmere v walsall
ladbrokes 21/20
NAP lost
both teams to score double
blackburn v swansea
cardiff v barnsley
ladbrokes 2.8/1 WON
treble on all 3 games
william hill 7/1 lost
Leicester v Man City
Decent prices for cards imo
Over 0 cards each team 1/1 Bet365
30 + booking points in the match 5/4 Sky
Each team over 1 card 7/1 Bet365
Yeh cocker could quite easily see a card each the 1/1 bet does look quite decent with fernandinho on the pitch😂
Man City got a few youngsters in the team who might be a bit keen .
Yeh mate pace has been good to start aswel.. high tempo
Fernandinho 😂 reliable as ever for a card.. meant to go check after we spoke on price bet it was 3s being a charity shield
Bookies up and down the Country woyld of got nailed today on the btts market.
Unreal Macca – Peteborough, Fleetwood and Plymouth the only teams not to net in Champ/League One…17/20 games btts!
yeah bad for the bookies hull
Yeh macca my thoughts exactly earlier i still came.up 2 short on 9 fold not sure how😂
I don`t think Pepe`s yellow card counts lol
Never mind City players losing there heads in the Community Shield lol
Nice shout 👍
🇦🇷 QUILMES v EST. RIO CUARTO
◾ QUILMES OVER 1.5 TEAM GOALS
◾ 13/10, Hills
Swiss Super League
Sion vs Young Boys
BTTS & Over 2.5 Goals
5/6 @ 365 *NB*
**LOST** – Young Boys missed penalty didn’t help, would have changed the game. Cracking result for Sion nonetheless.
Ajax
Grasshopper
Kortijk
Wacker Innsbruck
Btts 4 fold 9/2
Good luck
Lost was a longshot
Better late than never!
ANY PLAYER TO TAKE A PENALTY
(11/10, betfred) ⭐⭐ ✅
MAN CITY WIN
MAN CITY SCORE A PENALTY
(4/1, paddypower) ⭐ 👎
👊5/2 winner mate great stuff
Nice one Hull mate 👏
2 out of 3 at Wembley . 1/1 and 5/4 WINNERS Well pleased with that
😁👍
Nice work Cocker 👍
DUTCH SUPER CUP
AJAX v PSV EINDHOVEN 19.00
Inplay 15 mins, currently 1-0 to PSV. AJAX just had a goal disallowed.
AJAX to score 3+ Goals 13/8 with Skybet..
Think that’s the end of that, Red Card for AJAX.. 😔 👎
BOLIVIAN PREMIER LEAGUE 8PM
REAL SANTA CRUZ V ORIENTE PETROLERO
I will post on the early match cant find too much value elswhere Oriente are on a bit of a resurgence and flying high since the restart, scoring well but keeping a fair few clean sheets… Real santa cruz average 1.8 goals at home so this combined with the last 7 h2h home and away resulting in btts …and 6/7 resulting in btts and overs… Leads to obvious choices. I dont usually NAP this short a price but a winner is a winner and its stronge bet.
BOTH TO SCORE 4/6 NAP (WH)🔥🔥🔥
BOTH TO SCORE AND OVER 2.5 1/1 NB (SKY)🔥🔥
BOTH TO SCORE AND ORIENTE WIN LONGSHOT 3/1 (SKY) 🔥
GL ALL 👍
3 hours ago
5pm South Africa v The Lions
The decider in the test series and I can’t see anything but an aggressive and defensive approach from SA. Kicks are more than likely the way that the majority of points will be scored and I can’t see past South Africa dominating the Lions forward pack.
South Africa win 8/13 ✅
Under 40.5 match points 1/1 ✅
South Africa win/under 38.5 match points 11/4 ✅
19-16 with a late penalty!
Nice to pull a full house 👍
Great stuff👊
Well done Wireflyer 👍
🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁
Zrinjski Mostar
V
FK Željeznicar
20:00
Bosnian Premier League
⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽
FK Metalac
Today
FK Proleter
20:00
Serbian Meridian Superliga
—————————————-
Zrinjski BTTS EVENS NAP (HILLS).
Metalac BTTS 5-6 NB (HILLS).
side bets
Team to score double
Zeljeznicar 4-6
Proleter 1-2
Pays 6-4 at SKYBET.
BTTS double
Pays 2.66-1
⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽
Damn just placed my evening acca would of popped this in if id seen… Gl. elvis
BOLIVIAN PREMIER LEAGUE 8PM
REAL SANTA CRUZ V ORIENTE PETROLERO
BOTH TO SCORE 4/6 NAP (WH)🔥🔥🔥❌
BOTH TO SCORE AND OVER 2.5 1/1 NB (SKY)🔥🔥❌
BOTH TO SCORE AND ORIENTE WIN LONGSHOT 3/1 (SKY) 🔥❌
GL ALL 👍
Calling it early same old same old , red cards 0-0 half times.. sorry folks stiffed …wdw
0-0FT call me the in play oracle😂 could smell it a mile at HT
San jose v The Strongest
Hoping The Strongest will be Strong tonight. Jumping on the band wagon here after seeing hulls post.
The Strongest ht-ft, The Strongest to score 4+tgls
20/21 bet builder bet 365
Good Luck
Looking OK at h/t pal – San Jose held it together well but hoping The Strongest can steamroll them 2nd half 💪
Zamalek v Ghazl 6.00pm
Al Ahly v Ceramica 8.00pm
Both games in Egypt, Zamalek and Al Ahly these two teams our fighting it out for the league title. Going for both teams to win and over 1.5 goals was gona do over 2.5 gls il stick to the more safer option.
Al Ahly win and 2+ goals 👍👍👍 3-0
Zamalek win and 2 + goals 👍👍👍4-0 at time of posting still ten min to go
1.4/1 👍👍👍
Am walking like an egyption
Huracan v Lanus 10.00pm
Btts 10/11 bet365
Good Luck
well done to the Rangers squad for reeling in the half time deficit of corners today
5-1 down at half time on the corners , they finished 8-5 ahead at close of play
couldnae resist BET 365 , odds of 5/1 on them for most corners on the half time market
Thanks lads..
Roma 5 yellows and 2 reds so far in a friendly lol cant wait til they start in a competative match!
Make that 3 reds! 10 mins or so left im on Betis next goal 10/11 skybet
All first teamers (Karadorp, Pellegrini + Mancini) The latter two love a cynical foul, hearing there may be 4 Reds and Mourinhos seen one as well 😂
That was quick 4-2 On again for another one 11/10
That was quick 4-2 On again for another one 11/10
That was nad for a friendly, good start for Jose Kyle i only seen last 15,, not complaining tho got a good cupla double ups
Always looking for the more obscure leagues to delve into and although they don’t always pay off, careful monitoring over time tells you more about which ones to follow and which to give a wide berth!
I had a brief flirtation with the Canadian leagues some years back but it never really appealed much and lost as much as I won – still, it’s worth keeping an eye on and this one stood out when looking for a bit of value for a late Night Owl:
PACIFIC VS. EDMONTON (12.00am)
I wouldn’t say it has the hallmarks of a goals fest but, given the recent form of both and historic H2Hs, it does look to have appeal:
OVER 2.5 GOALS
(11/10, bet365) ⭐⭐⭐
OVER 3.5 GOALS
(14/5, paddypower) ⭐
Best of luck!
Hey ho same game 🙃.
Ko is 11-30 according to flash score hully…
My BTTS double earlier both finished 3-0 ☹️.
Be glad when this week is over hull, roll on Monday, hence my win pick instead of the usual BTTS….
Good luck Parsley – form is best measured in months and seasons not days and weeks and yours has been exceptional for the last year so keep doing what you are doing!
I’m over in your neck of the woods fishing for big pike in October 🐊
Lovely👌
🦉🦉 night owl 🦉🦉
Pacific
V
FC Edmonton
23:30
Canadian Premier League
Pacific to win 11-10 at BETWAY.
Edmonton not won in 17 away games.
Pacific won last 2 h2h here.
🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉
Final scoreline 0-1 and no idea how they didn’t get a 2nd in the 2nd half 🤯
Love to see a game between San Jose Bolivia and trullijanos Venezuela.
Both utterly useless, probably the worst 2 teams in South America this season 😝
Haha Elvis cracked me up when i read this😂👍
BOLIVIAN PREMIER LEAGUE 1230AM
NACIONAL POTOSI V INDEPENDIENTE PETROLERO
B365 BETBUILDER 23/20 NAP🔥🔥🔥
*NACIONAL WIN
*OVER 1 MATCH GOAL
HT/FT DOUBLE RESULT NACIONAL POTOSI 9/4 NB (B365) 🔥🔥
B365 BETBUILDER 11/2 LONGSHOT🔥
*NACIONAL HT/FT
*OVER 2 MATCH GOALS
*OVER 8 MATCH CORNERS
Gl All was sour last night in bolivia on all fronts hopefully this will bare fruit … Wdw
Surely if nacional win there has to be over 1 match goal Sammy ?
Come again elvis? They could win 1-0 right… 😂👍
BOLIVIAN PREMIER LEAGUE 1230AM
NACIONAL POTOSI V INDEPENDIENTE PETROLERO
B365 BETBUILDER 23/20 NAP🔥🔥🔥❌
*NACIONAL WIN
*OVER 1 MATCH GOAL
HT/FT DOUBLE RESULT NACIONAL POTOSI 9/4 NB (B365) 🔥🔥❌
B365 BETBUILDER 11/2 LONGSHOT🔥❌
*NACIONAL HT/FT
*OVER 2 MATCH GOALS
*OVER 8 MATCH CORNERS
Absolute dross today another red card still in play but very doubtful anything will happen. Sorry peeps
Kyogo & Christie to score
Adam card
Celtic 5+ corners
16/1+ PP