Football Accumulator Tips: 33/1 Acca for Thursday's Europa League games

There are some fantastic Europa League last-16 tussles on the cards for punters to sink their teeth into on Thursday night.

The competition has a somewhat Champions League feel to it given the calibre of some of the remaining clubs: Man Utd, Arsenal, Juventus, Sevilla, and Roma to name a handful.

Nestled within these talented squads is a cluster of attacking talent that form the basis of our Thursday Accumulator, priced at 33/1 with UniBet, which is double the price of some other firms.

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This sizzling 33/1 accumulator represents some excellent value with UniBet, given that the same bet is priced at just half that at 15/1 with bet365 and 16/1 with Paddy Power.

The acca consists of four components: The first of which requires a goal from a prolific source, the next couple of bets are plucked from the shots on target market, then we round things off with a booking from a frequent offender. So, without further ado, let's crack on!

We kick things off with a goal machine. Yes, we're talking about you Marcus Rashford.

Rashford's goal tally since stepping off the return flight from Qatar has been nothing short of exceptional. He's transformed into Man Utd's main man, scorching opposition defences with a whopping 17 goals and five assists in 21 matches.

On top of that, no player has more Europa League goals this season than the Man Utd star who has four on the board to date and breached the Barcelona backline in the play-off round.

Since returning to club duty 12 of his 17 strikes have occurred in front of the Red Devils faithful at Old Trafford. On Thursday I fancy a wounded Rashford to roar back from that shock 7-0 drubbing at Anfield by finding the back of the net against Real Betis.

We now enter into player shots on target (SOT) territory where we are tasking Arsenal's Bukayo Saka and Juventus' Angel Di Maria to both deliver over 0.5 SOT during their respective games against Sporting CP and SC Freiburg.

Saka's form this season has been sensational, operating as the key cog in Arsenal's Premier League title charge with 19 goal involvements (10 goals & 9 assists).

Saka's minutes have been managed effectively so far in Europe, but he can expect to be brought back into the starting lineup for the knockout stages. In his two Europa League starts this season he's amassed four SOT and netted in the 1-0 win at Bodo/Glimt.

As for Di Maria, the former Man Utd winger remarkably has the fourth-highest SOT total in the Europa League this season despite only playing two games.

The Juventus attacker accumulated a whopping 10 SOT from 10 shots during the two play-off games against Nantes, bagging a stunning hat-trick in the second-leg.

Di Maria, who scored in the World Cup Final, will now be licking his lips ahead of Thursday's home game against Freiburg where we expect the Argentina to register at least one SOT.

Finally, we round off proceedings with yellow-card merchant Mats Knoester.

The Ferencvaros centre-back had a card wafted in his direction four times so far in the competition, only two players have received more.

On top of that, he's been booked five times in 16 league games this term, two of which have come in his last four matches, including last time out against Debrecen.

At 19/4 he represents a massive price to pay a visit to the little black book once again during Ferencvaros's visit to Bayer Leverkusen, which cannonballs this Accumulator to 33/1 with UniBet.