Cray Valley vs Charlton Prediction and Betting Tips: Best bets for FA Cup first round replay
Eighth-tier Cray Valley Paper Mills have the opportunity to make it to the second round of the FA Cup on Wednesday evening as they take on Charlton Athletic in a first round replay.
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Cray Valley’s Artic Stadium may only have the capacity for 1000 fans, but the venue will be the hottest ticket in town on Wednesday after the Isthmian South East Division side pulled off their biggest result in FA Cup history when they held the Addicks to a 1-1 draw ten days ago.
Steve McKimm’s side have already featured in eight FA Cup fixtures so far this term in order to make it to this point, however this is not the only occasion they have made it to the first round of the tournament, having done so three years ago when they were beaten 1-0 by Havant & Waterlooville.
Charlton currently find themselves just inside the top-half of England’s third tier occupying 11th place in the League One table. Since their stalemate with The Millers in the FA Cup they traveled to Charlton where they collected an excellent point in a 2-2 draw against the league leaders.
Cray Valley may be a potential banana skin in this tie for Charlton but bookmakers have priced them at 9/1 to secure a historic win. The draw is available at 11/2, while a victory for Michael Appleton’s men is on show at 1/4.
Cray Valley vs Charlton Tips
The five-tier gap between these two could be very telling on Wednesday and with Michael Appleton traditionally having no time for FA Cup sentiment, we expect him to name a relatively strong side albeit with a few changes to the side that made the trip to the South Coast to take on Portsmouth on Saturday.
One player we expect to start the game is Corey Taylor-Blackett. The 26-year-old has scored five goals in his last ten appearances for Charlton and is averaging 2.1 shots per game across the course of the season so far.
There are quite a lot of discrepancies between the prices on show from different betting sites for Taylor-Blackett to find the net on Wednesday, with the likes of Sky Bet and William Hill going 11/10. When considering his recent goal-scoring exploits and the level of opposition in this cup tie, we make the 9/4 offering for Taylor-Blackett to score, a price that is well worth taking.
The pressure will be off the shoulders of Cray Valley here after their achievement of holding their own against a League One side away from home. Charlton missed a handful of big chances in that game and we don’t think they will be so wasteful this time round.
We have therefore opted to get behind a selection from the Correct Score market where we are siding with 3-0 Charlton. In the initial tie Appleton’s side dominated the xG battle with 3.16 to that of 0.45 for the non league side. At the time of writing, William Hill are a stand-out best price of 15/2 on the 3-0 correct scoreline.
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