Football Accumulator Tips

Birmingham are unbeaten in eight games and haven’t lost a home match since October, while Leeds have only won twice away from home this season, with those victories coming against Derby and Wolves.

Grimsby have claimed one Premier League scalp this term following their penalty-shootout success over Manchester United in the EFL Cup, and the in-form Mariners could take a bite out of Wolves in this FA Cup clash. Wanderers are tailed off in the Premier League and this cup tie could be a welcome distraction from their relegation troubles. However, the Blundell Park crowd will be baying for blood and this could be a lively encounter with both sides getting on the scoresheet.

Oxford United are fighting for their lives at the bottom of the Championship but they look to losing the battle amid a poor run of form and they could get short shrift from Sunderland on Sunday. The Black Cats are nestled nicely in 11th spot in the Premier League and they can attack the FA Cup with vigour and that could spell trouble for their hapless hosts this weekend. United have failed to score in five of their last seven outings. 

Stoke and Fulham have hit a poor run of form but the Premier League side have little left to play for this term so can give the FA Cup their full attention. Stoke, despite being 14th in the Championship, are just four points off the playoff spots, so may have an eye on improving their league form. The goals have dried up for the Potters recently and they may find their top-flight rivals too hard to break down.

Arsenal are huge favourites against a Wigan side that were battered 6-1 at Peterborough last weekend. The Latics have drawn one and lost five of their last six matches and have lost to nil four times since the turn of the year, while Arsenal have won to nil in three of their last four games.

Parma eased their relegation concerns with a win at Bologna last time out and they can follow it up by beating a Verona side who are in deep trouble. The visitors have just 15 points on the board, leaving them six adrift of safety, and have managed just one road win all season. Verona have scored just one goal across their last four games and that lack of cutting edge could prove costly again at Parma, back the hosts to claim the spoils.

Ceuta look backable underdogs ahead of their trip to Huesca. The visitors sit in mid-table and have won three of their last six, while they also won the reverse fixture 2-1. Huesca have picked up just four points from their last six games and have lost two of their last four at home in the league.

Lorient have been strong at home, winning five, drawing four and losing just once in Ligue 1, while going unbeaten in eight of their last ten on their own patch. Angers have struggled for goals on the road, scoring just six times in ten away matches, which tilts this clash in the hosts’ favour.

Goals at both ends could be on the cards in this huge game in the title battle. Both teams have scored in three of Rangers’ last five games and they have scored themselves in 17 of their last 18 across all comps, while Hearts have scored in 12 of their last 13.

Torino have struggled badly at home, losing five of their last seven Serie A matches at Stadio Filadelfia and winning just one of their last six overall. With no side conceding more than Torino’s 42 league goals this season and Bologna losing only one of the last eight meetings between the teams, the visitors look the stronger option.

Real Betis are flying high in La Liga and they can boost their Champions League qualification hopes with a comfortable win at Mallorca. The Green & Whites have a good recent record against the Islanders who are languishing down in 16th spot with just six wins this term. Betis won 1-0 at Atletico Madrid last time and they back up that impressive showing with a more routine win in the Balearics.

Ian: The battle for the Scottish Premiership title would be a four-way affair had Motherwell not been held to 11 league draws this term, but they should have few problems seeing off Aberdeen. The Dons have scored just one goal in their last six on the road.

Jamie: Four straight defeats will have done nothing for Rayo’s deteriorating confidence and this match arrives a whole two weeks after their last, so expect rustiness to show as Atleti cruise to victory in this Madrid derby.

Alex: NEC Nijmenegen’s phenomenal season hit a stumbling block as they lost to Utrecht in midweek, but they head into the weekend round of fixtures third in the Eredivisie and can get back to winning ways against a Sparta Rotterdam side that have lost two of their last four home matches.

Aaron: Estoril have scored at least twice in all six of their visits to sides below them, scoring 19 goals across those matches. AVS have conceded 23 times in their 11 home matches, so back the visitors to score a couple of goals.

Jack: Lyon have won their last 12 matches in all competitions and can overcome a Nice side that has emerged from their pre-Christmas crisis. Lyon have also kept clean sheets in their last three in all competitions.

Lyon are one of the form sides in Europe and their Ligue 1 charge can continue with a comfortable home win over Nice. Les Gones have won each of their last 12 matches in all competitions, while even more impressively they have won 14 of their last 15 matches in all. Nice have won just one of their last four matches.

Three draws at the start of the year have seen Italian champions Napoli fall of the pace in the Serie A title race but they can keep up the pressure on the top two with a narrow victory over Roma. Meetings between these two have been close recently but Napoli will be wary of the threat posed by the visitors who could join them on 49 points with a victory at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium. Antonio Conte will look to keep things tight and the home side could nick a victory on Sunday.

Castellon won 3-1 in the reverse fixture in December and should be good for at least two goals on Sunday. Castellon have scored two or more goals in six of their last seven home games, winning all of those, while Depor have found clean sheets hard to come by with just one in their last eight games.

Real Betis are flying high in La Liga and they can boost their Champions League qualification hopes with a comfortable win at Mallorca. The Green & Whites have a good recent record against the Islanders who are languishing down in 16th spot with just six wins this term. Betis won 1-0 at Atletico Madrid last time and they back up that impressive showing with a more routine win in the Balearics.

Stevenage claimed a key win over playoff rivals Huddersfield on Saturday, and they can follow that up with another three points against League One’s bottom side. The visitors have lost all but one of their visits to sides in the top half, and they’ve been beaten in eight of 14 away trips overall.

Mansfield are fresh from seeing off Premier League Burnley in the FA Cup and are unbeaten on their travels since November. Nigel Clough’s side will fancy their chances of winning at Blackpool, who have lost seven of their last nine.

Levante fell to their 13th defeat of the campaign on Sunday, and they meet third-placed Villarreal on Wednesday. The Yellow Submarine have won nine of their 10 meetings with sides in the bottom half.

Como have won only one of seven meetings with the top six, and they’ve already lost at home to Milan this term. The visitors have fallen short in visits to Inter and Roma, while the Rossoneri have put together a 10-game unbeaten run at home.

Inter Milan have won 11 of their last 13 games in all competitions, and Saturday’s 3-2 win over Juventus was their sixth victory on the spin. However, Bodo have scored in nine of their 10 Champions League games this term and they can find the back of the net again.

Dinamo Zagreb opened their Europa League campaign with two wins, but they barely made the knockouts after losing four of their final five matches. Genk have won their last four games, while they finished the League Phase with four wins from five.

Fiorentina won only two of seven away trips in last season’s Conference League campaign. This year, they lost half of their League Phase games. The hosts lost only one of their six games in the last round, and they could catch out a Fiorentina side who are also juggling a Serie A survival fight.

Raith have suffered five defeats in 12 home matches, which includes a 2-0 defeat to St Johnstone earlier this season. The visitors have won six of their seven visits to the league’s bottom five.

Borussia Dortmund have won six straight games in the Bundesliga, netting 18 times. RB Leipzig are winless against the top three, conceding 11 times across home and away defeats to Bayern. Leipzig have lost three of their last five home league games. 

Sunderland are winless at home to the league’s top six. However, outside of that, they’ve won seven of nine games at the Stadium of Light. With visitors Fulham losing four of their last five league games, along with all seven visits to sides above them in the table, side with the hosts.