Burnley vs. Sunderland Betting Tips: Best bets from Turf Moor for Friday Night Football

Friday Night Football comes in the form of a Championship clash this week as Burnley take on Sunderland at Turf Moor. The Clarets will be looking to take another step towards the Premier League here at BettingOdds.com, we’ve provided you with our two best bets for the game.

If the Clarets win on Friday they will be just six points away from promotion back to the top-flight, with a current total of 83 points after 37 matches. Vincent Kompany has done an excellent job with this squad, who were as big as 10/1 with some firms before a ball was kicked this season to go on and taste Championship glory.

Sunderland meanwhile currently find themselves down in 11th place, with a play-off run now looking rather unlikely, with a seven-point gap between The Black Cats and seventh-placed Millwall. 

Taking a look at the match result odds for this one and unsurprisingly all betting sites have made Burnley the odds-on favourites to grab their 15th home league win of the season, priced at 1/2 to do so. The draw can be backed at 16/5, while an away win for Sunderland is on offer at 13/2.

Burnley may be unbeaten in all of their 19 home Championship matches this campaign, but there is not much value in backing the hosts at 1/2, and we’ve therefore picked out something at a bit more of a price, at just bigger than even money with Betfair or Paddy Power.

Our first bet here is for both Josh Cullen and Connor Roberts to commit one or more fouls in the match. Let’s start with Cullen, the midfielder ranks second for total fouls for Burnley this season, with only Josh Brownhill totting up more, while the latter a doubt to start this game. 

Cullen has collected six yellows in the league this term, but when having a dive into his foul figures, we can see that he has committed 1+ in all of his last seven league matches, and going back a bit further, in 10 of his last 11.

Paired with Cullen is Connor Roberts, who is a slightly bigger price as a single in the 1+ fouls market. The Burnley defender has given away two fouls in each of his last two matches and beyond that he has cleared this line in seven of his last nine.

After his hat-trick against Hull two weeks ago, Nathan Tella has scored five goals in his last two matches. We are backing him to get on the scoresheet once again on Friday and have paired him up with Jack Cork to be carded, taking us up to 9/1 with BetVictor.

Only Chuba Akpom and Viktor Gyokeres have scored more goals in the second tier than Tella who has 17 to his name in total. Combining him to score with Jack Cork to be carded looks like a sensible play considering he has collected a whopping ten cautions in 2022/2023, unsurprisingly the most for Vincent Kompany’s side.