Here we take a look at Smart Acca Picks for Saturday’s action, with this one being a decent shot at 34/1 chosen by Smart Acca via the Free FA Betting Hub App.
This is a five-fold Match Result and Over 2.5 Goals accumulator, with fixtures coming from the Premier League and Serie A.
Aston Villa hosts Burnley at Villa Park on Saturday in a battle between third and 19th place in the Premier League.
The Villans had won 15 home league matches in a row prior to their shock 1-1 draw with Sheffield United. Since then, they have suffered a 3-2 loss to Manchester United at Old Trafford. Prior to the aforementioned results, Unai Emery’s men had beaten Arsenal 1-0 and Brentford 2-1 on either side of a 1-1 draw with Zrinjski.
Burnley were beaten 2-0 by Liverpool on Boxing Day after earning a superb 2-0 victory at Fulham on 23rd December. The Clarets' other three matches had previously seen them suffer 2-0 and 1-0 defeats to Everton and Wolves on either side of a hard-fought 1-1 draw away at Brighton.
Manchester City takes on bottom-of-the-table Sheffield United at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.
Pep Guardiola’s side have won four of their last five matches across all competitions, having beaten Crvena Zvezda 3-2 in the Champions League before drawing 2-2 at home to Crystal Palace and beating Urawa Reds 3-0 and Fluminense 4-0 to become world champions. Last time out, the Cityzens beat Everton 3-1 at Goodison Park thanks to goals by Phil Foden, Julian Alvarez and Bernardo Silva.
Sheffield United are in poor form, having won just one of their first five matches under Chris Wilder’s management, doing so against Brentford 1-0 in between 2-0 defeats to Liverpool and Chelsea. Since then, the Blades have drawn 1-1 at Aston Villa and suffered a damaging 3-2 home loss to Luton Town.
Nottingham Forest versus Manchester United is Saturday’s late Premier League kick-off.
Forest are 16th place in the standings following their impressive 3-1 win away at Newcastle United where Chris Wood scored a hat-trick, having lost their first game under Nuno Espirito Santo by a 3-2 scoreline at home to Bournemouth following Willy Boly’s controversial sending off. Prior to these results, the City Ground club had lost 2-0 and 5-0 to Tottenham and Fulham on either side of a 1-1 draw with Wolves.
United managed to close the gap to the Champions League places in midweek following an impressive 3-2 home win over Aston Villa as Alejandro Garnacho (2) and Rasmus Hojlund got on the scoresheet. The Red Devils were on a barren run of form that has seen them lose 2-0 to West Ham after a 0-0 draw with Liverpool at Anfield in the aftermath of drab 1-0 and 3-0 losses to Bayern Munich and Bournemouth.
8th placed Atalanta faces off against 12th in the table Lecce at the Gewiss Stadium on Saturday.
Gian Piero Gasperini’s men were on a decent run of form prior to their 1-0 loss away at highflying Bologna, having beaten Salernitana 4-1, Rakow 4-0 and AC Milan 3-2 with Ademola Lookman (2) and Luis Muriel getting on the scoresheet against the latter mentioned opposition.
Lecce have won just one of their last five fixtures, doing so against Frosinone by a 2-1 scoreline before their 2-0 loss to Inter Milan at the San Siro. In the run-up to those games, the visitors had drawn 2-2 with Hellas Verona as well as 1-1 with both Bologna and Empoli.
The final game on this Smart Acca comes from the Serie A as an out-of-form Sassuolo side makes the trip to the San Siro to go head-to-head with AC Milan.
Stefano Pioli’s men have won three of their last five matches, having beaten Frosinone 3-1 and Newcastle United 2-1 on either side of their 3-2 loss at Atalanta, before beating Monza 3-0 and drawing 2-2 at Salernitana.
Sassuolo are without a win since beating Empoli 4-3 in late November, as they have suffered three 2-1 defeats to AS Roma, Cagliari and Genoa, while only managing a 2-2 draw away at Udinese.
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