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Lecce have failed to find the net in four league games, the kind of blunt away threat a Torino clean sheet can exploit.
Lincoln City have scored only six goals in seven away games this season.
Troyes have failed to score in five of their nine games and have just two goals to show from four away trips.
No side in the Championship has conceded fewer than Birmingham’s 13 goals.
12/1 PLACE BETBayern are overwhelming favourites, but a straight win price offers next to nothing, so we have looked elsewhere. Mainz may be winless at home, yet they have scored in all but one game this season and boast a genuine marksman in Phillip Tietz. Bayern, for their part, have kept only two clean sheets and love to attack rather than shut up shop. Backing the leaders to win in a game with goals at both ends, at 11/10, is the smarter play.
11/10 PLACE BETKaishu Sano sits in front of the Mainz defence and will spend the afternoon chasing Bayern’s slick movers. Home sides pushed back by the leaders tend to rack up fouls, and the holding midfielder often has to halt a counter with a tactical trip. Referees have not been shy this season, and at 10/3 for Sano to be shown a card, there is value in a busy, physical afternoon for the Mainz anchor.
10/3 PLACE BETRoma have scored 28 goals already, the most in the division, and they come up against a Sassuolo side shipping goals at an alarming rate, with 26 conceded in 10 games. Donyell Malen leads the line and has eight for the season, but he is as short as 8/15 to score. Matias Soule, cutting in from the right and weighing in with three goals of his own, looks the better bet at 6/4 against a defence this generous.
6/4 PLACE BETGianluca Mancini is one of the most committed defenders in the division and rarely gets through a game without a tangle or two. He throws himself into challenges, is quick to protect a lead and is no stranger to a word with the referee. Even in a game Roma are expected to control, 10/3 about the Italian being shown a yellow card is well worth a second look.
10/3 PLACE BETNapoli’s league games have averaged 10.9 corners this season, 5.3 won and 5.6 conceded, and they will have home advantage and plenty of the ball at the Maradona. Lazio have won all five away games and tend to sit deep once in front, which invites pressure and set-pieces. With Napoli chasing a response after their 2-0 defeat at Juventus, we expect a steady stream of flags. Ten or more corners pays 11/10 with bet365.
11/10 PLACE BETTijjani Noslin has four league goals and three assists for the leaders, despite starting only seven of their 10 games. With Mattia Zaccagni out with a thigh injury, Noslin should keep his place in a Lazio attack that has scored 14 goals in five away games. Napoli have kept just two clean sheets all season and conceded five times in four home games, so the visitors should find a way through. Noslin is worth backing at 5/2 with Sky Bet.
5/2 PLACE BETAnthony Eadson
Genoa’s revival has been built on solid defending. They have conceded only once during their three-game winning run, with clean sheets against Venezia and Juventus. Moreover, six of their 10 Serie A matches have produced fewer than three goals. AC Milan are unbeaten on the road, yet three of their five away games have stayed under 2.5 goals, including 1-1 draws at Juventus and Sassuolo. Genoa have also failed to score in three of their league games. Both sides have plenty to lose here, so a cagey afternoon looks the likeliest script.
8/11 PLACE BETAdrien Rabiot has five Serie A goals from just 576 minutes this season. That makes him AC Milan’s top scorer, and he has netted in five of his eight league appearances. Furthermore, he has scored in each of his last three outings, against Sassuolo, Atalanta and Inter. He played the full 90 minutes in the 3-1 derby win and is named in Milan’s predicted XI. With Tomori, Saelemaekers and Loftus-Cheek all missing, Rabiot’s late runs into the box will be vital. The 19/5 from Ladbrokes is a big price.
19/5 PLACE BETAlexander Isak has scored six of Liverpool’s 11 Premier League goals this season. He has found the net in five of his eight league appearances, including a brace at Ipswich. Moreover, he has scored in three of his last five league outings. Crystal Palace have conceded 21 goals in nine games, the most in the division. They have kept just one clean sheet all season and shipped five at Brighton last month. Isak is Liverpool’s focal point, so 5/4 with Casumo is a generous price.
5/4 PLACE BETAlexis Mac Allister has been booked three times in nine Premier League appearances this season. Two of those cards came in his last three league games, at Brentford and at home to Arsenal. He has also committed 12 league fouls. With Ryan Gravenberch injured, Mac Allister should carry a heavy load in midfield again. Meanwhile, Crystal Palace need a reaction after three straight defeats, so expect a scrappy contest. At 9/2 with Casumo, there is real value in a booking for the Liverpool midfielder.
9/2 PLACE BETBrentford have scored in all nine Premier League games this season, while Brighton’s 24 league goals are the most in the division.
Monza have scored in all 10 league matches, while Atalanta have scored in eight of their 10 and conceded in nine.
Both teams have scored in eight of each side’s 11 La Liga games this season.
Celtic have conceded in each of their last four league games, and Kilmarnock have scored in three of their last four.
Brest have conceded in eight of their nine Ligue 1 games this season.
Monaco have conceded in seven straight league games, while Le Mans concede two a game.
15/1 PLACE BETSix of Genoa’s 10 Serie A matches have produced fewer than three goals, and three of Milan’s five away games have stayed under 2.5.
Four of Real Sociedad’s six La Liga wins have featured four goals or more, and Rayo have conceded 13 in five away games.
Le Mans concede two a game, while Monaco have conceded in seven straight league games.
Under 2.5 goals has landed in seven of Celta’s 11 La Liga games, with just ten scored in that run.
Getafe have failed to score in all five of their La Liga away games this season.
15/1 PLACE BETBrighton have taken ten points from four Premier League home games and conceded just once at the Amex.
In-form Bournemouth have won both halves in each of their last three Premier League games.
Schalke have failed to score in six of their eight Bundesliga games, including each of their last three.
Fiorentina have not won at home in Serie A this season, losing three and drawing two of five games.
11/1 PLACE BETNicolas Jackson is Aston Villa’s top scorer with five league goals, and he has scored in four of his last five games, including twice in the 2-1 win over Manchester City. He has started up front in each of Villa’s last three matches. Manchester United have not kept a clean sheet in any of their nine league games, so Jackson should get chances at Old Trafford. At 13/8 with easyBet, he is the most reliable route to a Villa goal.
13/8 PLACE BETVilla are unbeaten in five league games, while United are without a win in six and have lost their last two without scoring. United have still conceded in all nine of their games, and they have scored in five of them, including 5-2 against Ipswich and 2-2 at Everton. We are predicting a 2-1 away win, and Villa to win with both teams scoring at 9/2 with easyBet fits that call.
9/2 PLACE BETFranco Mastantuono has fired 38 shots in Serie A this season, the second-highest total in the division. Only Como’s Nico Paz has had more. The forward has started all 10 league games, averaging almost four efforts per match. Furthermore, he has reached four or more shots in five of those games, including each of the last two against Atalanta and Sassuolo. Fiorentina will need to chase this game at home, and almost everything they create goes through him. That makes 13/8 with bet365 a generous price for a player in his rhythm.
13/8 PLACE BETFiorentina have not won at home in Serie A this season, losing three and drawing two of five games. They have also conceded in all 10 league matches, letting in two or more in nine of them. Meanwhile, Juventus win by a margin when they win. Four of their five league victories have ended 2-0, and all five came with a clean sheet. Juve also beat Napoli 2-0 last time out. Sky Bet’s 3/1 on a two-goal Juventus win rewards that pattern.
3/1 PLACE BETBarcelona have been irresistible on the road, winning all five of their away league games and scoring 22 goals in the process. Lamine Yamal has been central to that, with 10 goals already this season from the right flank, and he has started every one of their league matches. Raphinha leads the way on 15, but at 6/5 it is Yamal, up against an Atletico defence that will have its hands full, who looks the pick of the goalscorer markets.
6/5 PLACE BETThese meetings rarely pass without a flashpoint, and Atletico’s high-energy approach tends to rack up the bookings. Giuliano Simeone epitomises that, flying into challenges up and down the right and giving opposing full-backs little peace. In a game of this magnitude, with plenty riding on it at the top of the table, 3/1 about the Argentine seeing a yellow card at some stage is a tempting way into the card markets.
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When do you release your football tips?
Every day of every week we have our expert team working towards the upcoming fixtures, bringing you specific tips for every match from our selected leagues and competitions including the Premier League, Championship, Champions League, La Liga and the Bundesliga amongst others. You will find these in the top menu and we look to post our match tips up to 48 hours before the games kick-off.
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!).
And the tips don’t end there, either. Our match previews, powered by the all-knowing Squawka team, combine the best Opta stats with our knowledge of the leagues to bring you the best in-depth betting coverage on the market and we also look to get these live at least 48 hours before kick-off, although that is subject to change dependent on fixture congestion and other factors.
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If you’re looking for some of the best online football betting tips, predictions, offers and more, look no further. We have everything you need to make your football betting experience as simple and as enjoyable as possible. Our team of experts analyse all of the form and data and together with their deep knowledge of the many leagues that we cover they can offer you the best insight around on the upcoming fixtures – be it match tips, boosted odds or enticing accumulator bets, with a few simple clicks, you’ll get to experience the best of online football betting all from the comfort of your own home.
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.
Today’s football betting tips
Alongside the usual tips and predictions, you’ll also get to take your pick of the best football betting offers every day. We have those new customer offers rolled out for you whenever they’re available alongside In-Play offers, all customer price boosts and plenty more from the likes of bet365 and LiveScore Bet
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: