5 Championship Tips for Gameweek 23 - Get £100 in Free Bets This Weekend

Saturday sees Championship strugglers Birmingham City take on a free-scoring Blackburn Rovers who sit firmly in mid-table.

Birmingham have failed to win any of their last five games in the division, with their last victory coming on 9th December. Meanwhile, Blackburn have only won one out of their last five league matches.

Rovers are the joint top scorers in the division, having found the back of the net 36 times in 22 matches, which is more than double of Birmingham’s tally, with Aitor Karanka’s side scoring just 17 times. Each of these sides have the fifth-worst defences in the Championship, having conceded 27 goals each which means that there is a good chance of both team’s scoring, with Rovers coming out on top due to the sheer number of goals they score.

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League leaders Norwich face one of the inform sides in the division when they play Barnsley on Saturday at Carrow Road.

Barnsley have won five of their last six games in the division, beating the likes of Huddersfield Town and Preston North End along the way. Meanwhile, Norwich have failed to win in their last two outings, but have been very wasteful, only scoring twice from 39 shots on goal against Watford and Queens Park Rangers. Prior to these two matches, Norwich had won five games in a row, Daniel Farke will be hoping to see his side replicate that kind of form, as the Canaries will be looking to pull away from the chasing pack as they look to earn themselves promotion back to the Premier League.

Norwich’s second top scorer so far this season is Argentinian winger Emiliano Buendia, the 24-year-old has 12 goal contributions this season in 20 appearances, finding the back of the net six times. Buendia scored four times in eight matches in December and Is priced at 6/1 to score first or last against Barnsley at Carrow Road this Saturday. Click on the link to claim this bet in your bet slip!

Play-off pushing Preston North End take on relegation battling Nottingham Forest at Deepdale this weekend, with the visitors lying just three points above the drop zone.

Alex Neil’s Preston are on a three-game winning streak, having beaten Bristol City, Derby County and Coventry City, which has seen the Deepdale club move within five points off the playoff places.

Meanwhile, Chris Hughton’s Forest side are unbeaten in their last four matches, however, three of these games resulted in draws against Millwall, Birmingham City and Stoke City, with their only win coming against Sheffield Wednesday.

Preston come into this game as favourites and have won ten games this season in the Championship, with six of them coming in the score range of 1-0, 2-0 or 2-1, which sees them priced at 5/2 to repeat this feat on the weekend.

Stoke City vs Bournemouth is arguably the pick of this weekend’s games, with the home side sitting just two points outside the playoffs and just three points behind the Cherries who are fourth.

Both sides come into this game with patchy form, as Stoke under the management of Michael O’Neill have drawn four out of their last five matches, whilst Bournemouth have won two over the same number of games, with their last victory coming against Wycombe Wanderers on 15th December.

Bournemouth are three points off the automatic promotion places with a game in hand on second-placed Brentford and are one of the favourites to gain promotion back to the Premier League, as they have kept the majority of their squad together that helped them to stay in the top flight for five years. Nobody has scored more goals than the Cherries in the league which gives them the edge on the Potters.

The odds are at 9/2 for a Bournemouth win away at the Britannia Stadium, with both teams to score on Saturday.

Sixth-placed Reading travel to the John Smith’s Stadium on Saturday where they take on a Huddersfield Town side that earned their fifth home league victory in a row in midweek, via a last gasp Naby Sarr goal against Blackburn.

Huddersfield have endured a steady season so far under Marcelo Bielsa’s former assistant manager Carlos Corberan, as they are six points outside the play-off places, with visitors Reading occupying the final play-off place.

The Royals have had an impressive start to life under former Chicago Fire manager Velijko Paunovic, winning 11 out of 22 games in the league and are also the fourth top scorers in the division, having scored 32 goals in 22 league games. Their top scorer is Lucas Joao, who has scored 11 goals in 16 matches, meaning that the Portuguese striker is third on the goalscorer charts in the Championship this season, but he is set to miss this clash due to injury, as is their second top scorer Yakou Meite, meaning that the Terriers have a great chance to win their sixth match at home in a row and are priced at 5/2 to win 1-0, 2-0 or 2-1, the same score range as they have won by in their last four home league games against Blackburn, Watford, Sheffield Wednesday and Queen Park Rangers.

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