History will be made at Hampden Park on Saturday for either St Johnstone or Hibernian who go head-to-head for the final piece of silveware of the 20-21 Scottish season.
For the Saintees, the chance to complete a phenomenal cup-double-winning season and add only the third major trophy to their list of club honours. For the Hibees, the opportunity to win a second Scottish Cup in just five years after a 114-year wait for their previous one in 2016.
St Johnstone have had the upper hand in recent meetings, including a 3-0 Hampden win the Betfred Cup semi-final but Hibs are favourites to lift the trophy at 7/10.
Both sides have ended the season in good form and as proven back in January the Saints can be more than a match for the Hibees on their day. Hibs are far too short to be backing at Hampden where they've had more bad days than good recently so Callum Davidson's men look the value bet. They're 21/10 to win inside the 90 minutes or you'd like the insurance of them lifting the trophy by any method then take the 21/20 to be new holders of the Scottish Cup.
We've canvassed the opinion of our feature tipsters for the Experts' Tips for the Scottish Cup Final so don't miss it.
In England Bournemouth and Swansea have slender first leg leads to defend in their semi-finals against Brentford and Barnsley respectively.
The Cherries face a tough trip to Brentford, who, with Ivan Toney on board, will fancy their chances of turning things around at home in front of 4,000 fans and could be worth getting on side with at 11/8 to book a date at Wembley next weekend.
SlipsTips tackles both matches in his BetBuilder Tip of the Day with a corners double across both play-off matches.
There's a full card of matches in the National League and that's the focus of Desmond's goals bets for Saturday after nine out of 10 fixtures saw Over 2.5 Goals last Saturday
Don't miss the chance to back goals in La Liga either where the season reaches a thrilling climax. Atletico hold a two point lead over Real Madrid so must better their city rivals' result to be crowned champions of Spain. There was a glut of goals last weekend so it could be worth looking to the total goals markets again.
Greg MacLean's been in brilliant form and he's got another Bet of the Day Double for us on Saturday. It includes a match from the Japanese J1 League which kicks-off at 9am so make sure you get on it early.
Super Single
- St Johnstone to win the Scottish Cup 21/20 (Bet365)
Saturday's Match Previews & Tips
- MFT Experts' Tips for the Scottish Cup Final
- KevMac's Weekend Tips: Final Profits Could Be Just Around the Corners
- SlipsTips Tips: English Championship Corner Double
- Greg’s Bet of the day: From Japan all the way back to Belgium for Saturday’s Double
- Desmond’s Goals Tips: BTTS, Over 2.5 Goals and 60/1 Goals Acca Tips
- European BTTS Tips: Goals in Spain, Belgium & Austria
- Scott Allot's Euro Tips: AIK look A-OK
- VIP Tips: Banker Bet, Bonkers Bet & VIP Acca
- Sat 09:00 – Yokohama FM v Kashiwa Reysol Match Preview & Predictions
- Sat 12:30 – Brentford v Bournemouth Match Preview & Predictions
- Sat 14:00 – St Johnstone v Hibernian Match Preview & Predictions
- Sat 15:30 – Sunderland v Lincoln City Match Preview & Predictions
- Sat 18:00 – Montreal Impact v Cincinnati Match Preview & Predictions
- Sat 18:30 – Swansea City v Barnsley Match Preview & Predictions
- Sat 20:30 – Portland Timbers v LA Galaxy Match Preview & Predictions
- Sat 22:00 – Chicago Fire v Inter Miami Match Preview & Predictions
Saturday's Racing Tips
Rizzel was in brilliant form on Friday with three winners. Today he visits Lingfield for his two selections.
Good luck with all your bets on Saturday!
One for sunday in Italy.
Build your odds bet on WH
Spezia v Roma:
Spezia over 0 cards
Roma over 1 card
Roma over 0 1st half cards
7/4
Spezia have at at least one card in their 18 home matches this season (had at least 2 in 16 of those)
Roma have had at least 2 cards in 12 of last 14 away matches.
Hoping its a bit spicy from the start and Roma get one in 1st half.
Its 13/8 both teams to have over 1 card, looks decent 2 given the stats.
Good luck with your bets over the weekend🤞
Australia NPL Western 8am
Armadale btts
Inglewood over 1.5tgs
Double
All 6 games over 2.5mgs 7/1
Good luck
Double is 11/10
Both lost….no away goal for the btts….red card didn’t help & 4 out of 6 for overs
St Johnstone v Hibs
I can see both teams getting a few corners in this match , this could lead to a header or two on target
Header scored 21/10 Hills
Both teams to score a header is a massive 25/1 with Hills and is worth a punt imo
Also on 40 + booking points in the match 1/1 Skybet
My last correct score bet as expectations has not been met in the last couple of years. It has been a bet for fun after all but as all things in life it comes to an end. In case all games comes in the bag may it be a tribute to Mr Fixit /RIP
Saturday:
B Dortmund vs Leverkusen 3:1 / @10.00
R Madrid vs Villareal 3:1 / @10.00
Sunday:
Liverpool vs C Palace 3:1 / @9.00
Lyon vs Nice 3:1 / @9.00
Roll up 4 folds. Odds with betfair.
GL
England national league
All games
Over 1.5 mgs
All the best…..
Morning gents,
National League and Urvalsdeild for me today and looking to turn around a horrid 3 days of picks!
WREXHAM VS. KINGS LYNN (3.00pm)
OVER 10.5 CORNERS
(11/10, bet365) NAP ⭐⭐⭐
FH VS. KR (5.15pm)
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE 1ST HALF
(3/1, bet365) NB ⭐
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE BOTH HALVES
(10/1, bet365) LONGSHOT⭐
Best of luck!
Not posted in a while but thought I would get involved in the final day excitement.
Werder bremen v monchengladbach – 14:30
Moenchengladbach win – 13/10
A game that matters for both teams, in all likelihood it will take a win for Werder Bremen to have a chance at staying up and a win for Moenchengladbach to have a chance at securing a spot in the Europa league qualifiers. Werder Bremen are in shocking form though, they haven’t won in their last 9 and have lost 8 of those.
Moenchengladbach are in poor form as well to be honest and their away form has been woeful winning just 4 away games all season. It’s worth noting though that 3 of those wins have came against the 3 other teams currently sitting in the bottom four with werder Bremen.
I just think Moenchengladbach will edge this, they’ve managed to scrape their few away wins against the bottom teams this season and werder Bremen have so much pressure on this game and are in such poor form I see them falling short.
All 3 English play off games over 2.5 mg’s 10/1 willy hills 👍
Hibs to score
4+ Hibs corners
5/6 betfred
Bremen
Wolfsburg
Over 2.5mgs double evens
Torquay
Stockport
Koln
Melbourne city
Over 1.5tgs 4 fold 2/1
Good luck
Melbourne city name the same XI i put up last night. Good enough for me today.
City to win/o1.5 tgs/over 4.5 team corners
9/10 hills NAP
City to score bh
11/10 hills NB
Nothing doing. Robbed by late Jamie mcclaren goal ruled out by VAR for what I’m assuming was a foul way beforehand. Finished 1-0 with 6 corners
Very unfortunate mate
Melbourne v CCM
3+ corners & 10bps each team evens
Hibs v St Johnstone 14.00 KO
Over 1.5 gls & 8.5 corners plus 30+ BP’s – 9/4 – NAP
Skybet
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20+ BP’s each team treble – 9/1
Hibs v St Johnstone
Real Madrid v Villareal
Valladolid v Atletico
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Longshot punt – 53/1+
GIBH at Lincoln, Real Madrid, Barca, Arsenal & Liverpool games
2 gls, 9 corners & 30+ BP’s at Leicester & Hibs games
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Also on 30+ BP’s in the featured games today at 5/1
Bayern Munich v Augsburg (14:30)
Sunderland v Lincoln (15:30)
Eibar v Barcelona (17:00)
Real Madrid v Villarreal (17:00)
Valladolid v Atlético Madrid (17:00)
Swansea v Barnsley (18:30)
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Plus 2+ goals & 3+ corners each half in Bundesliga last day specials at 40/1
Acca/specials all free punts bar the German special. Free fiver on the jackpot line in the PL tomorrow aswell, 2+ gls and each team 1 corner each half for £1750
Btts & win -Real,Bayern & Dortmund 10/1 £5 WH. Gives me a £2 freeby which i am using as a bonkers bet. Augsburg,Mainz,Schalke and Villareal all to win btts returns £20,350.GL folks.
WON !
Get a free fiver shop bets for WH & PP with the sun & the record today aswell. Also PP doing risk free betbuilder on any NBA game this wknd up to £5
Melbourne v CCM
3+ corners & 10bps each team evens**WON**
Cheers DC, followed you on this. Took a while to get the third CCM corner, but got there in the end. Well done mate…
Not much today with plenty of games being dead rubbers and short prices so just a treb for some interest
Mechelen
Standard Liege
Eibar
Over 2.5mgs
17/10
Lost out due to disallowed goal at Melbourne. As Sean said, terrible decision and VAR looks to be even worse over there than here
⚽️ Sunderland v Lincoln – Both to Score @ 2.0 w Sport Nation – NAP ⚽️
Reasoning – Sunderland need to go for this and feel they will be exposed against an excellent away team in Lincoln
Good Luck
today………………
bayern -1, dortmund & grotta overs 6/4
Williamhill price for.bundesliga all 18 teams 1 corner each half 11/1… Skybet 125/1 😂😂
We complain the Sky Specials are bad William Hill getting in on the act lol
Shaun Rooney to score a header 9/1
**WON**
Superb mate
Cracker
Brilliant shout DC 👏🏻
Doing a longshot for a bit of interest in the cup final
Christian Doidge to score a header 12/1 Skybet
Goal Scored In Each Half at
Wolfsburg
Hoffemhein
R. Madrid
Montreal Impact
Port Land Timbers
Chicago Fire
Odds 12/1
both teams to score + over 2.5 goals
ostersunds v sirius
william hill 23/20
NAP
There was five red cards in last weekends Spanish La Liga matches 50%.
In play: Schalke to win at Colone – odds 10 with bet365
And Cologne promptly score to take the lead 1:0 ;-)
Bremen
Wolfsburg
Over 2.5mgs double evens**WON**
Torquay
Stockport
Koln
Melbourne city
Over 1.5tgs 4 fold 2/1**LOST**
Main double lands but disappointed with 4 fold tho
Well done all winners
Saint Johnstone v Hibs
Over 3 cards 1/1 WINNER
Header scored 21/10 WINNER
btt score a header 25/1 LOSER
Doidge score a header 12/1 LOSER
Doidge came close , but no joy
Happy with that
Hi cocker will hill have settled my header to be scored as a loser?? Have you had yours settled right? Thanks
Hi mate .. Just checked my Hills account , they have settled it as a LOSER as well . But it`s a stonewall WINNER . I will wait until later to see what happens . Cant see how they can wriggle out of that one .
Well done Saint Johnstone
Swansea v Barnsley under. 2.5 goals reckon Swansea will try to defend there lead today think barnsley will throw everything at them gone for a barnsley win full time
LA LIGA FINALE 5PM
Today La Liga may finally have somewhat of a refreshing change as champions and not the usual boring two, however something tells me this is not a foregone conclusion. With all thats on the line and how corrupt football is i can see some questionable decisions being made to decide this race. With this in mind im taking cards and penaties to be awarded..
REAL MADRID V VILLAREAL
REAL VALLADOLID V ATH MADRID
PENALTY AWARDED 13/2 DOUBLE (WH) NB
RED CARD AWARDED 19/1 DOUBLE (WH) LONGSHOT
ELCHE, CELTA VIGO, EIBAR ALL.TO SCORE 1+ 6/5 NAP (SKY)
Heineken Cup Final – La Rochelle v Toulouse
Toulouse strong favourites but I fancy La Rochelle who are best priced @ 11/8. I’m tipping 2 other angles for the game:
Red card @ 11/4 with Paddy Power
Raymond Rhule anytime try scorer @ 9/2
Punt – Raymond Rhule anytime try and La Rochelle to win @ 10/1
Both with SkyBet
Ht corner at Hoffenheim & gl at Koln short for special…that was about as close as I got today
Niort v. Villefranche btts & over 2.5goals, French league 2 🇫🇷 7.45. 11/10@ladbrokes. 2nd leg current score 1-3. GL🍀
sampdoria win
Mechelen btts
@2
Couple small bet builders wi PP for Swansea v Barnsley wi PP, 3/4 for free punt…
Ayew & Woodrow to have 1 shot on target
Styles & Mowatt cards
70/1+
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2+ gls
Hourihane anytime
Hourihane & Helik cards
110/1
both teams to score + over 2.5 goals
ostersunds v sirius
william hill 23/20
NAP lost
It’s the start of the NBA playoffs tonight and I’m looking at advising a best bet in every playoff game
Miami Heat at Milwaukee Bucks (19:00)
Game 1
BAM ADEBAYO over 5.5 assists
5/6 william hill
If the Heat want to win this then Bam will need a good game, he averaged 5.4 assists for the season and had 8, 10 and 4 in 3 games against the Bucks
Paddypower giving a £5 Risk Free £5 Bet Builder For The First Weekend Of The Nba Playoffs (minimum 2 legs, minimum 1.2 odds for each leg) – Money back as CASH if it loses.
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ChrisBax tomorrow night LA Lakers at Phoenix Suns
Lakers +2.5 handicap
Anthony Davis over 22.5 points
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope over 8.5 points
LeBron James over 22.5 points
Bet builder pays 4.78/1
More losers from me this afternoon 🙈
6 corners after half an hour looked to have the Nap home and hosed but only 3 more in the rest of the game.
Even FH let me down for the Nb…my luck must be out.
Well done all winners!
If I could actually pick my nose at the moment, I’d be tempted to be pretty damn confident with this Peruvian Night Owl:
CÉSAR VALLEJO VS. SPORTING CRISTAL
(9.30pm)
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE
(4/5, bet365) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
SPORTING CRISTAL OVER 1.5 TEAM GOALS
(2/1, bet365) ⭐
Best of luck!
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Atlético Mineiro
V
América-MG
20:30
Brazilian Campeonato Mineiro
Final.
1st leg 0-0
America mg to score EVENS (HILLS) ⚽ NAP ⚽.
Side bets
BTTS 13-10
BTTS and over 2.5 goals 21-10
Both at hills.
America scored in 9 on the trot prior to the 1st leg, and have also scored in 7 consecutive away games.
Also scored in 5 consecutive h2h prior to the 1st leg.
Mineiro are tremendous at home but have conceded in 3 of last 4 homes.
*** Last 3 head to head at this venue finished 3-1. 2-1 3-2, ***
The 3-1 was just last month.
*** They have met 9 times here in campeonato games, 8 have seen BTTS ***
Prediction 2-1
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NBA Playoffs Bet 2
Dallas Mavericks at LA Cluppers (21:30)
Game 1
LUKA DONCIC over 44.5 points, rebounds & assists
5/6 skybet
In 3 games v Clippers this season Doncic has had 57, 51, 41 PRA, I can see Doncic having a big game tonight because if the Mavericks want to win the series then they really need to win tonight
All 3 English play off games over 2.5 mg’s 10/1 willy hills 👍 ❌
**LOST**
Not far off if it was any game was always guna be the Swansea barnsley game to let it down 👎
Well done all winners today
Poor show today. Well done winners
NBA Playoffs Bet 3
Boston Celtics at Brooklyn Nets (01:10)
Game 1
KYRIE IRVING over 23.5 points
5/6 william hill
Kyrie could have a good matchup here, with the big 3 of Irving, Harden and Durant, Boston should struggle to defend all 3, Irving should benefit and this looks an easy total
MLS
Inter Miami over 0.5tgs
San Jose btts
Double 4/5
Good luck
Hi DC, you can get your double at a tad over evens ( 1.04/1) at W/Hills!
Cheers williegee
Last of tonight’s games
NBA Playoff Bet 4
Portland Trail Blazers at Denver Nuggets (03:40)
Game 1
JUSUF NURKIC over 3.5 assists
Nurkic averaged 3.4 assist this season but some games he wasn’t getting many minutes, I’m looking at Nurkic getting 30 mins tonight for 5/6 assists
0-0 in Brazil ❌.
Missed penalty downs the NAP.
Well done winners today
First red card ever in a Heineken Cup Final brings in the 11/4 winner ✅ That was all she wrote though as La Rochelle put up a great fight but ultimately lost with the extra man telling.
Well done all winners today!
Heineken Cup Final – La Rochelle v Toulouse
Toulouse strong favourites but I fancy La Rochelle who are best priced @ 11/8. I’m tipping 2 other angles for the game:
Red card @ 11/4 with Paddy Power ✅
Raymond Rhule anytime try scorer @ 9/2 ❌
Punt – Raymond Rhule anytime try and La Rochelle to win @ 10/1 ❌
Both with SkyBet