After delivering another winner in his featured column on Saturday, SlipsTips is heading back to the English Championship on Sunday where Fulham face Coventry City
Fulham vs Coventry City (Sunday, 15:00)
Fulham will be aiming to take another step towards the English Championship crown when they come up against Coventry City at Craven Cottage on Sunday afternoon.
Marco Silva’s men are on the brink of earning promotion back to the Premier League following a hard-fought 1-0 win at playoff chasing Middlesbrough in midweek.
That Riverside success sent the Cottagers 11 points clear at the summit of the standings and they can take another huge step towards the promised land by defeating a Coventry side that have wobbled in recent weeks.
The Sky Blues' top-six hopes are hanging by a thread after a 2-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest in midweek, a setback that means Mark Robins’ men have fallen to 12th place in the table, winning just one of their last eight league games.
As such, champions-elect Fulham are unsurprisingly short-priced 1/2 favourites here but can get some 83/100 (Betway) by backing the league leaders to overcome a -1 hurdle on the Asian Handicap.
This selection means if the hosts prevail by two or more goals we will be paid out, if they win by a solitary strike then stakes are returned, and that looks like a nice alternative angle of attack.
Fulham have the best home record in Championship this season, boasting 40 points from their 19 matches at Craven Cottage thus far, not to mention star striker Aleksandar Mitrovic has already broken the all-time Championship goalscoring record this season having weighed in with an eye-watering 37 goals in 36 appearances to date.
What’s more, Silva’s table-toppers have scored a minimum of two goals in 21 of their 39 second tier assignments this term , netting twice or more in 12 of their 19 outings at their capital headquarters.
That is an ominous sign for a Coventry side that have failed to post a clean sheet in each of their previous nine English Championship assignments, with the out-of-sorts visitors shipping 2+ strikes in four of their last seven league games.
It’s also worth pointing out that Fulham have won by a margin of two goals or more in 11 (57.8%) of their 19 home fixtures in the Championship this term, yet the odds imply a 54.6 % chance of the same selection delivering profit on Sunday.
Recommended Bet
- Fulham -1 (Asian Handicap) – 83/100 (Betway)
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