Best Games For Over 2.5 Goals In Tuesday’s Action - 4/5/2021

The first match on this list of games for the over 2.5 goals market comes from the Chinese Super League where the bottom two in Group B in Beijing Guoan and Dalian Pro meet each other at Beijing Fengtai Stadium.

Beijing are currently managed by former West Ham United man Slaven Bilic, however, despite boasting players such as Renato Augusto, Cedric Bakambu and Jonathan Viera, they have lost both of the matches they have played this season via 2-1 and 3-1 scorelines to the likes of Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai Port, despite dominating the latter fixture, having 68% possession and 19 shots compared to Port’s nine.

Dalian Pro have give decent accounts of themselves despite losing their opening two matches, in closely fought contests against Changchun Yatai and Hebei in 2-1 and 1-0 losses.

Both teams will be looking to get off the mark this season, as will former Villarreal striker Bakambu who has 40 goals to his name in 55 CSL appearances.

Next up on this list is the second-leg of the Champions League semi-final where Manchester City face PSG, with the hosts coming into this game having a 2-1 lead, following second-half goals from Kevin De Bruyne and Riyad Mahrez.

Prior to the first leg, the last time City had been involved in a game with over 2.5 goals was back in late April when they beat Aston Villa thanks to first-half strikes from Phil Foden and Rodri.

All of PSG’s last five matches have landed in the over 2.5 goals market including the first-leg, as they have beaten the likes of Saint-Etienne 3-2, Angers 5-0, Metz 3-1 and Lens 2-1.

PSG’s Kylian Mbappe and Neymar come into this match as the second and third top scorers in the Champions League with eight and six goals, only trailing Erling Haaland’s tally of 10.

Promotion chasing Holstein Kiel host Sandhausen at Holstein-Stadion in Bundesliga 2. At present, Holstein are in fourth place, seven points behind second-placed Greuther Furth with three games in hand, whilst Sandhausen are 15th in the table.

Holstein come into this game on the back of a 5-0 defeat to Borussia Dortmund in the DFB Pokal semi-finals but come into this game having won just one of their last four league matches, which was in a 3-1 victory away at Osnabruck.

Sandhausen’s last three matches have seen the over 2.5 goals market land, in 2-1 and 4-2 wins against Hamburg and Hannover 96, as well as in their narrow 3-2 defeat away at Greuther, showing that they can mix it up with the very best in the German second-tier. The away side come into this match with the second-worst defensive record in the league, conceding 53 goals in 30 games.

Tuesday night sees a crucial game take place in League One, as eighth-placed Charlton Athletic take on Lincoln City at The Valley, knowing that they must win if they are to put pressure on the play-off places going into the final game of the season, as they are four points adrift of sixth-placed Portsmouth.

Nigel Adkins Charlton have been in poor form, as they have won just one of their last five matches in the league, which came in a 6-0 victory against Plymouth Argyle at Home Park. The only other game that saw over 2.5 goals scored in Charlton’s last five games was on 27th April in a 2-2 draw at home to Crewe, where goals from Jayden Stockley and Alex Gilbey were cancelled out by a brace from Owen Dale.

Lincoln City are in the better form of the two sides having won three of their last five matches in League One. But, the two games which have yielded over 2.5 goals in their last five have seen the Imps fail to win in both, in a 2-1 loss to Hull in late April, as well as in a 3-3 draw with Peterborough United on the weekend, where they blew a three-goal lead.

This game is a battle of the fifth and sixth top scorers in the league, as Lincoln have scored 68 goals, whilst Charlton have found the back of the net 66 times.

The final game on this list sees Blackpool face Doncaster Rovers at Bloomfield Road, where a point would guarantee the Tangerines a place in the playoffs.

Neil Critchley’s side have won three of their last five matches, including their 3-0 thumping of Northampton Town at Sixfields on the weekend where goals from Luke Garbutt and a Jerry Yates brace saw the Tangerines put themselves in good stead running up to this game. Former Rotherham man Yates is Blackpool’s top scorer this campaign with 20 goals in 43 league games, the third-most in the division.

Doncaster are currently in 12th place and are too far away to mathematically worry the playoff places as they are eight points off sixth-placed Portsmouth with two games remaining. Three of Doncaster’s last four games in League One have yielded over 2.5 goals, as they beat Rochdale 2-1 last time out, as well as drawing 2-2 with Peterborough United and losing 2-1 to Accrington Stanley in late April.