Dagenham vs Salford Odds: 3 tips for Monday's live FA Cup clash

Monday Night sees League 2 strugglers Salford visit National League playoff contenders Dagenham & Redbridge in an extremely competitive First round FA Cup tie. The Bookies are struggling to split the two with City best priced at BetVictor (11/8), the draw at 49/20 at 888 and The Daggers can be taken at 2/1 with Betfair.

This should be a cracking contest between two evenly matched teams under lights at The Chigwell Construction Stadium which can be watched live on ITV4 at 7.45pm. 

Salford had a great result midweek beating Leeds U21s 5-3 in the EFL trophy and will be hoping to follow that up with an away win in East London to progress to the 2nd round draw. Dagenham, however, are in a poor recent run of form and have won only one of their last six in the league and are starting to fall out of the playoff race in the National League. They’ll be looking to halt that lack of form tonight.

I’ve done the research for you and picked out 3 bets that should hopefully give you a good run for your money. All odds are correct at the time of posting but please check before placing and remember to Gamble Responsibly.

The first selection is for Salford marksman Thomas-Asante to score in the 90 minutes . The former MK Dons youth team player joined Salford in 2019 and has been hit and miss since then scoring 11 goals for the club in his two full seasons. He's scored twice this campaign in 14 league games, but comes into this game full of confidence after his brace in the cup vs Leeds midweek. I'm backing Asante to carry on his hot streak at a big price of 5/2 at Paddy Power.

30-year-old Wiganer Jason Lowe leads Salford’s yellow cards chart this year. He's picked up five cautions in 15 appearances for the Ammies this season and the combative midfielder is a 3/1 shot tonight to increase that unwanted tally. Lowe started his career at Blackburn Rovers and joined Salford from Bolton and in his career to date he's totalled 56 Yellow cards in 220 starts so has picked up a habit of ending up in the referees book. In an important cup match played in a hostile atmosphere I’m expecting him to repeat that once again.

From reading the above it's clear this is likely to be a very close game which could go either way. With that in mind and with the huge prize of a FA Cup 2nd round place on the line I’m backing a low scoring, edgy affair. I’m expecting this one to go to a replay and to maximise the value I’m going for a draw at both Half Time and Full Time. This can be snaffled with bet365 at odds of 9/2.