We're treading carefully in tonight's EFL Trophy, honing in one match that looks intriguing.
Remember that all Premier League Academy teams play away in the group stages of this competition and that's usually to their disadvantage.
Seven of the youth teams finished bottom of their group last season. Another four failed to qualify, finishing third. Two finished in second place and three; Man Utd, Everton and Chelsea, topped their four-team group.
Two are in action tonight with the Under 21 squads from Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest travelling to Wrexham and Harrogate respectively and the Magpies were of those to finish stone last in 2022/23 edition, picking up just one point from their three games in the Northern Section's Group E, failing to score a single goal in the process against Doncaster, Barnsley or Lincoln.
That would suggest they might find things tough at ambitious Wrexham tonight. The young Magpies haven't made a great start to the Premier League 2 campaign with just one point from four games in which they've conceded 12.
Wrexham squeezed in seven games in August and provided plenty of entertainment with games finishing 4-2, 3-5 and 5-5 so we could see a few goals tonight against an inexperienced defence.
The Wrexham win is just 4/9 so add in Over 2.5 Goals to make it a 10/11 BetBuilder.
Gabriel served up a full house in last night's League One match between Cambridge and Reading so don't miss his thought's on a couple of tonight's matches below.
Super Single
- Wrexham to win & Over 2.5 Goals 10/11 Bet365
Upcoming Match Previews & Tips
- Tue 19:30 Wrexham vs Newcastle United U21
- Tue 19:45 Bolton Wanderers vs Salford City
- Thu 19:45 Slovenia vs Northern Ireland
Horse Racing Tips
We're grateful to Cairnzy stepping in cover Rizzel today (get well soon Rizz) and he's picked out two fancies at Goodwood for us.
As ever, please share your tips in for today in the comments section below.
In December 2020 we sadly 
A Sabalenka -1.5 Sets vs D Kasatkina @ 1.84 Unibet (NAP) ✅
Zverev vs Sinner Over 39.5 Games @ 1.95 Unibet (NB) ✅
D Medvedev -4.5 Games vs A De Minaur @ 1.91 Pinnacle ✅
Cambridge vs Reading Bet Builder @ 2.0 Skybet ✅
Well done all winners
First Class MJ. added your 3 tennis picks with 2 of my own football bets and had a tidy return…Cheers
Thanks kf. Was a little worried after the 1st set in the Medvedev match but thankfully he turned it around.
Appreciate your new approach of focusing on a smaller number of NAP & NB selections MJT – seems to be producing far better results than scatter-gunning over a lot of different matches 👍😄
Do you know what time you’ll be posting todays MJ (if you are that is)?
I was going to follow last night as there’s little football on but couldn’t find the handicap market on b365 or skybet unfortunately. A big well done anyway.
Did my bet with Paddy Power Macca…
Cheers Macca. Kf Just writing up my plays for today now so will be up shortly mate.
Yesterday’s bet won at evens
Today’s bet
Chile primera B
La serena v san felipe
Both teams to score + over 2.5 goals
William hill. 11/10
NAP
How do you get this bet at WH mate?
Hi Audioban…
Click on football icon, click on competitions icon, scroll down and click on ‘A-D’, find and click on Chilean Primera B, click on La Serena game, click team goals, scroll down to BTTS and Overs…place bet
Cheers for the reply got it thanks matey
3 bets for me, 2 wi WH specials & 1 from Quinnbet risk free…
Over 1.5 gls in 6 EFL trophy 19.45 KOs – 7/2
Over 1.5 gls in 6 EFL trophy 19.00 KOs – 4/1
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Over 2.5 gls at..
Wrexham, Harrogate, Barnsley & Bolton – 13/2+ QB
Longshot for interest tonight:
Serena v Union San Filipe BTTS & O2.5 – Chile Prim B
Giesdorf v Bad Gleichenberg – BTTS & O2.5 – Austria Regionnella Central
Admira Prague v Jablonec – Czech Cup – O2.5
Wrexham – EFL Trophy – O2.5
Buxton – DC – ENFL North
Aveley – BTTS – ENFL North
20/1 Acca WH
BOL
Just focusing on 2 of the matches today at the US Open.
Gauff vs Ostapenko
Before the scheduling was up I thought that Ostapenko would have a great chance in this one but with them playing at 12 noon with the high heat today it certainly now favours Gauff. Ostapenko has struggled in heat in the past & I suspect the same will be the case today. With the sunny & humid conditions along with the crowd support I do feel all of this will get to Ostapenko & cause her to unload on errors including her serve. This is an area she often struggles with & so far she has hit 11, 11, 7 & 3 doubles at the US Open. 2 of those matches were at night & only one of them (Pera hit 7) was close to the time of today’s match (not as hot as today). The weather will play a big impact in this for me & I can’t imagine Ostapenko will will want to be in long rallies meaning she may well go for more on her 2nd serve. I can see another match where Ostapenko hit’s close to or more than 10 double faults.
Ostapenko 7 or more Double Faults @ 1.91 Boylesports
Ostapenko 8+ Double Faults @ 3.0 Bet365
Tiafoe vs Shelton
Expecting this one to be a very serve orientated match. Both players are holding serve over 85% of the time on hard courts over the past 12 months so break opportunities may be at a premium in this one. Shelton has a huge serve which has clocked 149mph this week. So I like the chances of 1 or more tie breaks in this along with the likelihood of 4/5 sets. Shelton is not the best returner & as I do think this will involve close sets I like the aces line for Tiafoe. He has hit 15 in both of his last 2 matches & I like that to continue again. I would lean towards a Tiafoe victory given his experience at this level but Shelton has been playing & serving so well this tournament he may just be on a rol
Over 39.5 Games @ 1.97 Pinnacle (NAP)
Tiafoe Over 12.5 Aces @ 1.83 Bet365 (NB)
Best of luck all
do you have any thoughts on number of games or sets for Gauff match MJ?
I was originally tempted by the over 21.5 games or 3 sets but I just worry about the heat and what effect this will have, in particular with Ostapenko. If this had been a night match I was looking to back Ostapenko in some way. But I would now rather back Gauff -3.5 games if I had a choice.
Cheers MJ
No worries kf. Looks like I should have opted for the Gauff -3.5 games after all, completely destroying Ostapenko so far.
I also did a Bet builder in the Tiafoe vs Shelton match which I forgot about.
Bet365 @ 1.95
1st Set Over 8.5 Games
Tiafoe 10+ Aces
Shelton 15+ Aces
Shelton 3+ Double Faults
Evening gents,
Quick post and abit more joy with last night’s NAP!
Going for a Cup goals acca at low stakes:
WREXHAM
CRAWLEY
HARROGATE
PORT VALE
AYR UTD
BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE 5-FOLD
(10/1, bet365) LONGSHOT ⭐️
BRovers v Cheltenham 745m EFL Cup
BRovers were 4/5 this morning, backed into 1/2.. it comes with risk as BRovers might rotate heavily but Cheltenham are gunk.. I think 27/20 HT FT for BRovers is worth a bet considering money has come for them, I’ll assume they’ll have a string side out
BoL.. Ladbrokes
✔️
Chippenham v Taunton Town
Truro v bath city
19:45
English National League South
Chippenham BTTS 17-20 NAP 🏴
BTTS double
Chippenham 17-20
Truro 7-10
Pays 11-5
Pays
At HILLS ⬆️
Finished
Chippenham 3 Taunton 3
Truro 1 bath city 1
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Cheered me up after that Colombian team let me down yesterday……
Nice work Elvis mate…
4/1 winner in the 7pm KO’s tonight at WH…
Late night gls double 11/10+ WH…
La Serena v Union San Felipe – 23.00
Chapecoense v Guarani – 01.30
Nice winner Alves…
How many goals for the double mate?…
2+ match gls each game
Chapecoense game is 4/6 on it’s own, finished 3-3 last H2H but Chapecoense have had 2 0-0 in last 3 games, guessing that’s why odds so good. Over 2/1 for 3+ gls tae
Ta mate…
WH specials Japan cup 4 games –
2+ gls each game – 11/4
Can get 12/1 for GIBH also but not being greedy here.