BTTS Tips: 8/1 four-fold for Saturday's EFL fixtures
The eagerly anticipated EFL season returns this weekend, meaning it's also a homecoming for our BTTS acca!
Since there are 32 domestic games to enjoy at 3pm on Saturday, we've assembled a four-fold for your consideration. The bet pays just over 8/1 with Bet365 at the time of writing, and benefits from their 10% Accumulator Bonus applied to bets containing four legs.
Blackburn Rovers vs Queens Park Rangers
Starting out in the Championship is the battle between two fresh managerial faces in England's second tier. Jon Dahl Tomasson's Rovers host Michael Beale's Rangers in an opening weekend clash which appears to have all the credentials of an end-to-end affair.
With neither head coach being present in their current role last season, it's difficult to use the 21/22 campaign's numbers to support this selection. However, the signs all point to both clubs adopting a more front-footed approach under new management.
Having only drafted in their first recruit just last week, it seems that the bulk of Blackburn's transfer business still lies ahead of them - including much needed defensive acquisitions; a decision that could well leave them exposed for the beginning of this campaign.
As for the Hoops, although it's unknown how much of the vision set out at Rangers and Aston Villa was his doing, Beale has emphasised implementing an attacking philosophy during his first experience as a head coach at Loftus Road. Couple this with a number of technicians already at his disposal in Ilias Chair and Chris Willock and we're bound to see goals at Ewood.
Hull City vs Bristol City
Next is the inclusion of two teams who are expecting to propel themselves further up the table this time around as Hull take on Bristol City in East Yorkshire. Both sides endured frustrating campaigns last season, separated by just four points in the depths of the Championship standings.
The jury is still out on Shota Arveladze, whose record at the helm of the Tigers has been less than impressive, but it's worth noting of the 19 games he's taken charge of since arriving in January, Hull have scored in 10 of them, with BTTS landing in six.
For Bristol City, they finished last season's campaign positively, perhaps sparking an upwards trajectory for them from here. The Robins certainly shouldn't find scoring goals a problem - ending as the highest scorers in the division outside of the top six, with great thanks to Andreas Weimann's 22-goal haul and Antoine Semenyo's presence around the box.
Derby County vs Oxford United
After that we're dipping into League One as a game involving one of the division's new faces catches our eye.
Derby County have never lined up in this tier of English Football in its current state after the leagues were reformed back in 2004. But that means nothing to Oxford who will be looking to go one step further during another promotion chasing campaign following the disappointment of a narrow miss from achieving a play-off place last term.
County may have lost their manager and a number of players on the back of a tumultuous 21/22 campaign, but their squad looks incredibly healthy for the level given the additions of Conor Hourihane, David McGoldrick, James Chester and Korey Smith.
The question remains whether they can cut it with the rough and tumble that L1 football brings. And given the fact that United were the joint-highest scorers in the division alongside champions Wigan Athletic last season, interim boss Liam Rosenior and his men will have their work cut out for them on the opening day.
Ipswich Town vs Bolton Wanderers
Finally, we close out this Saturday's both teams to score accumulator with another pick from the third tier, this time heading East to Suffolk for Ipswich vs Bolton. Just three points separated these two last time out, with the pair both kicking themselves for not challenging closer to those coveted League One play-off places.
Like the previous inclusion, this should be another fiercely competitive game between two sides with similar ambitions for the upcoming campaign. The Wanderers' goal tally for last season put them right up there with the league's top six teams, but they also conceded more than four teams below them, including the Tractor Boys.
Ian Evatt will be desperate to rectify their underwhelming finish to the previous season and there's no better way to do that than blowing another of the division's big clubs out of the water on their own patch. Despite their joint-lowest finish since 1953, there's optimism in abundance for Kieran McKenna and his Ipswich side.
They'll be looking to make a similar statement on Saturday and if both teams take the game to one another like we know they're capable of, we'll be in for a cracking contest, packed full of attempts and promisingly, goals.
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