Andy Francis
Joao Pedro is part of Chelsea’s forward line, and pre-season is exactly when a first-choice attacker is handed the minutes to find rhythm before the league starts. With the Premier League opener close, he should get a meaningful run. Tottenham’s defensive numbers offer encouragement too, having conceded 57 goals last season, one of the leakiest records in the division, while keeping few clean sheets. Chelsea carried a balanced attack that scored 58 league goals, and their forwards should find space against a Spurs side still rebuilding at the back. At 6/4, a regular starter against a vulnerable defence looks a fair price.
6/4 PLACE BETCorrect score is always a longshot, but a tight Chelsea win fits the profile of this fixture. These two were closely matched last season, Chelsea scoring 58 and conceding 52, Tottenham scoring 48 but shipping 57, so goals at both ends are common when they meet. A narrow Chelsea victory, with Spurs grabbing one in an open derby, is a realistic shape for a pre-season game where both sides attack. At 17/2 it offers a strong return, and it aligns with backing Chelsea as the sharper, more settled team. Treat it as a small-stakes interest.
17/2 PLACE BETFoden is central to Manchester City’s attack, and pre-season is when the manager hands his key players the minutes to build sharpness. He will want goals before the Premier League opener. City were the most prolific side in England last season, scoring 77 league goals from a league-high Expected Goals (xG) total of just over 74, so the chances will come. Inter Milan’s defence is a stern test, having conceded only 35 in Serie A with 18 clean sheets, but Foden’s quality from midfield makes him a live threat if he plays a meaningful spell. At 3/1, that is a generous price on a player of his class.
3/1 PLACE BETCorrect score is always a longshot, but a tight City win suits this matchup. City’s attacking volume met one of Europe’s meanest defences last season, so a low-scoring but open game is plausible. Inter scored freely in Serie A but this is City’s kind of fixture at home, and a narrow win with Inter grabbing one fits two strong attacking sides meeting in pre-season. At 17/2 it offers a healthy return, and it aligns with backing City as the more attacking team on the day. Treat it as a small-stakes interest rather than a confident call.
17/2 PLACE BETCorrect score is always a longshot, but the profile of this friendly makes a tight, even scoreline plausible. Both managers are likely to field strong sides for around an hour before wholesale changes level the contest out. Atletico’s defensive record last season, 44 conceded with 14 clean sheets, points to a side that does not concede in bunches, while United carried enough threat to expect at least one goal. A single strike apiece before the substitutions arrive is a realistic outcome, and 13/2 offers a generous return on it. Treat it as a small-stakes play in a game where the result is secondary to the minutes.
13/2 PLACE BETPre-season is made for a first-choice forward chasing sharpness, and Mbeumo is central to Manchester United’s attack. With the Premier League opener close, he should get a meaningful run before the changes arrive. United carried a real goal threat last season, scoring 69 league goals from an Expected Goals (xG) total of just over 70. Atletico Madrid were miserly in La Liga, conceding only 44 and keeping 14 clean sheets, so this is a genuine test of that defensive organisation in pre-season conditions. If United’s front line clicks for an hour, Mbeumo is as likely as anyone to find the net, and 7/4 rewards a forward who will be trusted with the minutes that matter.
7/4 PLACE BETFalkirk carry real attacking threat into their opener. They scored 50 league goals last season, well clear of St Mirren’s modest 30, and now have home advantage at Falkirk Stadium. The both-teams-to-score angle looks sound too. Both sides have found the net in each of the last two meetings here, and Falkirk’s defence stays generous, with only nine clean sheets in 38 games. Expect goals, with Falkirk edging it at home.
13/4 PLACE BETRamos is a new signing for St Mirren but has had an immediate impact in Paisley. He’s scored three goals in four Scottish League Cup games since arriving at the club. Ramos has been deployed in midfield, linking the middle of the pitch with the attack and the results have already paid dividends. Ramos will be looking to make an impact on the league as St Mirren target a top half finish.
9/2 PLACE BETAberdeen/Over 2.5 has a decent shape because this fixture points towards a home response rather than a cagey grind. Aberdeen’s recent games have had chaos in them – their last league outing was a 3-2 – and Hearts arrive after conceding six across two European defeats. That gives Aberdeen a clear route at home, but Hearts still carry enough attacking threat to help the total. Aberdeen win, with goals attached, feels live.
15/4 PLACE BETCorrect score is always a longshot, but the profile of this fixture makes an Arsenal win with goals at both ends plausible. Girona scored 39 and conceded 55 in La Liga last season, so they carry a threat but leak chances, while Arsenal blend the division’s meanest defence in England with a potent attack. A comfortable Arsenal victory that still sees Girona grab a consolation, exactly the kind of open pre-season game this can become, fits the 1-3 scoreline well. At 14/1 it is worth a small stake in a match where the visitors should have far too much quality.
14/1 PLACE BETTzolis is part of Arsenal’s attacking group, and pre-season is exactly when a forward is handed the minutes to stake a claim before the season starts. He will be eager to make an impression against La Liga opposition. Girona are the ideal opponent for it, having conceded 55 goals in the Spanish top flight last season and keeping only six clean sheets, one of the weaker defensive records in the division. Arsenal, by contrast, carried a real cutting edge, scoring 71 Premier League goals from a league-leading Expected Goals (xG) total of just over 71. If Tzolis features across either half, a soft Girona back line offers him a genuine chance to find the net, and 12/5 looks a fair price.
12/5 PLACE BETPaton and Kiltie both scoring is punchy, but there’s logic to it. Paton brings St Johnstone’s direct goal threat from advanced areas, with enough shot volume to make him live if Saints create pressure at home. Kiltie, meanwhile, is a proven Kilmarnock scorer from attacking midfield, arriving late and taking chances around the box. In a fixture that can open up, both sides have a clear route to their main finishers landing one.
14/1 PLACE BETSt Johnstone’s shot volume should concentrate through them. Paton is naturally shot-happy between the lines, Gullan gives you central striker penalty-box touches, and Chalmers offers the left-footed wide threat cutting inside. Kilmarnock can concede territory away from home, so one on target each isn’t asking for goals – just three attackers to test the keeper once.
15/4 PLACE BETAnthony Eadson
7/1 looks way too big a price for Lukas Fadinger to score for Motherwell. The key angle here is that Fadinger is on penalty duty. He has scored in both of his last two Conference League matches over the last few weeks and 7/1 looks a price to attack here.
7/1 PLACE BETFour of the last five meetings between these two finished with fewer than three goals, and there is a reason for that: Motherwell had the tightest defence in the division last term, shipping just 36, and these games tend to be cagey. At evens, Under 2.5 looks a shade too big.
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We will also be looking to bring you our accumulator tips on a daily basis, posting these tips at least a day before the matches to give you time to add the selections to your bet slip and place your bet (if you like the look of the tip that is!).
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Tips for Successful Football Betting
It couldn’t be easier to bet on football. You simply take your pick of the football game at the site of your betting provider, be that Borussia Dortmund vs Bayern Munich or Charlton Athletic vs Stoke City. You can then scan through the various betting markets with their many odds, ranging from the number of goals scored in the game to the time of the first goal. Once you’ve selected your chosen market and football betting tips, from there on, you simply process the punt and sit back and wait as the action unfolds.
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Our tips for the biggest matches of the day are available in the headline section at the top of this page, and on the homepage to find much more, you just need to navigate to one of the separate league pages or the accumulator page to find the specific bet that you’re looking for.
In-Play football tips
In-Play betting has become a phenomenon in recent years and given the popularity that it had with punters when it was first rolled out among apps and online football betting sites (having long been an option via telephone), it’s unsurprising to see that almost every firm now has In-Play functionality within their sportsbook offerings.
This type of wagering allows you to decide upon your bets dependent on the unfolding action, whether that’s a cup final between two European giants or a tussle at the bottom of the table in one of the lower leagues. For our tips, it’s difficult to post them on site due to the timing of matches, but you can follow us on Twitter for the best live tweets, stats, reactions and most importantly In-Play tips as the fixtures unfold.
Full-time results
The most popular bet in any league and with any sportsbook is betting on the full-time result. This is as simple as betting on which team you expect to win the game – or indeed on the draw if that’s the final outcome of the game that you’re expecting.
These are the bets we mostly tend to use in our accumulators too, combining four or more of our full-time result betting tips for bigger returns.
Correct score
Of course, you don’t just have to bet on the outcome of a particular game (results wise that is), you can also have a punt on the exact scoreline. From a 6-0 drubbing to a goalless stalemate, the option’s yours if you fancy your chances at predicting the correct score.
Both Teams to Score
Both teams to score bets are almost as popular as full-time result bets nowadays, given that it is a very simple market to bet on with shorter odds and thus they also prove particularly popular with accumulators and multiple backers.
You’re simply betting on both teams to find the net over the course of the 90 minutes with this bet and that can prove to be more of a popular bet than a match result bet as the hopes of it being successful can remain alive until the final kick of the match.
Over/Under Goals Bets
The over/under goals betting market allows punters to bet on whether both teams will score more or less of a specified number of goals in a game. The market is in intervals of 0.5 to ensure all bets are settled.
Example: The 2.5 goals margin is the most popular specified number of goals in this market. If both teams score a total of 2 goals or less the bet is lost. If both teams score a total of 3 goals or more, the bet is settled as a win.
Bookings
That Over/Under style of betting (as mentioned above) is worth remembering, as it is also the way that many other markets are offered including a number of total bookings in a match – be that in total or on a specific team. Everton have the most bookings in the Premier League this season for example (64), so you could bet on them to receive over a certain number of cards in a specific match, if you are so inclined.
There are other markets when it comes to betting on bookings in a game too and you can bet on which side will receive the most bookings, if there will be a red card in the match and with some bookmakers you can even bet on specific players to be shown a card during the match. Step forward Ashley Young, who is the current Premier League player with the highest amount of cards in their career so far with 79 to his name. You can find these kinds of odds on bookmakers such as Ladbrokes and Sky Bet.
Corners Taken
You can also bet on Under/Over markets in corners in 2022/2023 and also on the ‘Corners Match Result’ market, where you bet on one team to win more corners than the other during the match. Newcastle United topped the charts in the Premier League in 2022/23, whilst Bayern Munich were the team to watch in these markets over in the Bundesliga.
Goalscorer
There are plenty of ‘goalscorer‘ markets also available if you fancy a particular team or player to net that day. For player-specific odds, most bookmakers offer a ‘first goalscorer’, ‘anytime goalscorer’ or ‘last goalscorer’ market, which could be particularly useful if a player is facing a certain club. Harry Kane has scored 20 goals in 20 games against Leicester City during his career, so you may fancy his chances against The Foxes. Didier Drogba was also famously clinical against Arsenal, while Wayne Rooney loved playing against West Ham.
Evaluating Key Factors in Football Matches – Tips From Squawka Experts
Home advantage
There are so many factors to consider when placing a football bet, but one of the most important ones is ‘home advantage’. Clubs tend to perform better on familiar soil, just look at Liverpool‘s incredible run of 68 games unbeaten in the Premier League between 2017 and 2021. So before placing a bet, just be mindful of which club is at home, and whether the visiting team has a particularly good record on the road.
Head-to-head record
Another point to remember is head-to-head records between clubs. Some teams just have ill-luck and misfortune against other teams, for whatever reason, be it tactical, psychological or Lady Luck just doesn’t fancy them. West Ham, for example, are winless against Brighton since The Seagulls returned to the Premier League in 2017. That’s a staggering 12 games! Now that’s a bogey team and a half.
Team form
Football has always been a confidence sport, and when the chips are really down, clubs have a tendency to tailspin. So, it’s always worth checking the form of clubs heading into important match-ups. The league table can be deceptive at times. If a club had a particularly poor start to the season, but have won five on the trot under a new manager, the table may not reflect that upturn in fortune just yet. So always consider the last five games as a standard measuring yard.
Team news & injuries
Some players really do just make all the difference. It is always within your interest to check the team news before placing a bet. Some managers are coy in press conferences and bookies may not always be so quick to read between the lines, so make sure your injury information is up to date and from a reliable source. Clubs like Crystal Palace and Tottenham tend to perform way below their usual standards without Jean-Philippe Mateta and James Maddison respectively, so make sure the key men are fit, and if not, you may fancy the other team.
Unfamiliar leagues
Before placing a bet, you need to consider whether you’re actually familiar with what you’re betting on. It’s all well and good predicting PSG to ‘win to nil’ against Lens back in January, but you may have reconsidered that particular bet if you knew how good The Blood and Gold have been this season. Lens went on to win 3-1 in that Ligue 1 match, and it wasn’t as great a shock as many would have thought before the season. So, understand the league you’re betting on for the greatest chance of success.
Overvaluing favourites
The above pitfall falls into this category as well. Odds for ‘favourites’ will naturally be shorter, but we don’t exactly have ‘Invincible’ clubs (those who go unbeaten across the entire season) popping up every year. Defeats are a natural part of the sport, so never overvalue a favourite, even PSG or Man City.
What Is a Bet Builder?
Bet Builders are a fairly recent but very popular phenomenon where some bookmakers allow you the chance to customise your own bet slips on specific matches. In essence, they give punters the chance to create their own accumulators within a single match while using a variety of markets. Punters can personalise their bet slips by picking a number of selections on a specific event, with the odds then getting boosted by every addition. Betfair have a particularly good ‘Bet Builder’ option, where you can select any number of the markets we mentioned in the ‘How to bet on football’ section of this page, and create your own customisable accumulator. You could select the ‘correct score’, ‘first goalscorer’, ‘over x bookings’, ‘under x goals’ and ‘BTTS’ if you so fancy on a single game.
Weekend football tips & predictions – Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Although this season in particular there are more midweek matches than ever with domestic leagues looking to squeeze the fixtures in and the usual Champions League and Europa League tournaments to complete, the weekend is when the football schedule really comes alive and as always, we have you covered here at Squawka Bet.
Whether you’re looking for a tip on every match from each of the top leagues in Europe and the UK, an accumulator bet across a few different matches or our hand-picked tips from the biggest games in the Premier League and beyond, we’ve got your back with a range of different betting selections across every weekend.
Football betting odds
For the betting novices amongst you, the odds represent the price available on a bet, giving you the chance to work out how much your bet will return depending on your stake.
There are different types of odds available, but the ones that you will find on this site due to us being based in the UK are fractional odds. The chances of your bet coming in are calculated by these odds, with the number on the first side of the fraction being the returns you receive per bet. As such, odds of 10/1 would see £110 returned for every £10 staked – plus your £10 stake, meaning a total of £110 comes back to you.
The other two most popular forms of odds are American and Decimal and with most bookmakers you are able to select the odds to the style you find easiest to understand and operate with.
Football price boosts and enhanced odds
Most bookmakers will offer weekly or even daily price boosts, giving punters the chance to get even larger returns than the original odds on their bets. We’ll try to keep you up to date with those too when some come along that take our fancy. These go hand-in-hand with the options that plenty of bookmakers now have for customers to build and request their own bets combining different selections from the same games.
You will also find plenty of new customer offers and enhanced odds on this site. These can offer massively enhanced odds with smaller limits on stakes, but they can often be a great way to get your account up and running and some bookmakers will offer the chance to get free bets on eight different fixtures for example over the course of the weekend as a bonus upon opening your account, so keep checking back!
Finding Value in Football Betting
With data and statistics becoming such a big part of the modern game, it can be a tad overwhelming knowing which markets to bet on — and where the best value is. That’s why it’s always important to compare odds among different bookmakers, particularly for the more niche markets, such as corners, cards and so on. Our experts find some of the best football tips here, regularly comparing odds across bookies, but there is no harm in exploring the market yourself. To maximise your football betting predictions, we recommend for you to see what other offers are on the market. If you’re unsure about certain bookmakers, we have an up-to-date list here of the best ones in the UK, including their welcome offers for new customers.
Which competitions do you offer tips for?
You will never struggle for tips with our extensive range of betting knowledge here at Squawka Bet. We aim to offer tips on all of the top leagues in the world and some more obscure ones too.
See our pages for tips on the biggest footballing leagues across the globe: