Smart Acca Picks: AZ Alkmaar, Nice & Torino All Feature

Here we take a look at Smart Acca Picks for Friday’s action, with this one being a decent shot at 24/1 chosen by Smart Acca via the Free Betting Hub App.This is a five-fold match result accumulator, with fixtures coming from the Championship, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Dutch Eredivisie.

• Stoke City vs Hull City: Stoke to win - 11/10
• Augsburg vs Mainz: Augsburg to win - 29/20
• Hellas Verona vs Torino: Torino to win - 17/10
• Nice vs Saint-Etienne: Nice to win - 8/13
• PEC Zwolle vs AZ Alkmaar: AZ to win - 1/2

The first game on this Smart Acca comes from the Bet365 Stadium as Stoke City hosts Hull City.

This will be Stoke’s first game under the management of Narcis Pelach having seen Ryan Shawcross temporarily take charge for the Potters penalty shootout win over Fleetwood Town in the League Cup after a 1-1 draw. Steven Schumacher’s last three games at the helm saw Stoke lose 1-0 to Oxford United after beating Plymouth Argyle 1-0 and Middlesbrough 5-0.

Hull City haven’t won any of their last five matches, as they were knocked out of the League Cup 2-1 by Sheffield Wednesday before drawing 1-1 and 0-0 with both Plymouth and Millwall. The Tigers also went on to suffer consecutive 2-0 defeats to both Leeds United and Sheffield United.

In the German Bundesliga Augsburg go head-to-head with Mainz in what could be an interesting match-up.

Augsburg have had an inconsistent start to their campaign as they’ve managed to beat Viktoria Berlin 4-1 and St. Pauli 3-1 on either side of a 2-2 draw with Werder Bremen and a 4-0 loss at Heidenheim.

Mainz suffered a 2-1 loss at home to Werder Bremen, meaning that they are still waiting for their first Bundesliga win of the season following 3-3 and 1-1 draws with Stuttgart and Union Berlin. Mainz’s last win came in the DFB Pokal First Round when they beat Wehen Wiesbaden 3-1 after extra time.

Hellas Verona goes up against Torino on matchday five of the Serie A season.

The home side were dumped out of the Coppa Italia 2-1 by Cesena while in the league, they managed to earn a shock 3-0 win over Napoli before suffering 3-0 and 2-1 defeats to Juventus and Lazio on either side of a 2-0 win at Genoa.

Torino are unbeaten so far this campaign as following their 2-0 win over Cosenza in the Coppa Italia, they managed 2-1 and 1-0 wins against Atalanta and Venezia in between 2-2 and 0-0 draws with AC Milan and Lecce.

Nice will be looking for a confidence boosting win when they face newly-promoted Saint-Étienne at the Allianz Riviera.

Franck Haise’s men have had a slow start to the season as they have earned just four points from four matches, following 2-1 and 2-0 defeats to Auxerre and Marseille on either side of a 1-1 draw with Toulouse and a 4-1 win away at Angers.

Saint-Étienne ended their three game losing streak with a shock 1-0 win at home to Lille. In the run-up to that game Les Verts had suffered 4-0, 2-0 and 1-0 losses at the hands of Brest, Le Havre and AS Monaco.

The final game on this Smart Acca comes from the Dutch Eredivisie as AZ Alkmaar travels to PEC Zwolle.

PEC have managed to earn four points in their last two matches having drawn with FC Twente 1-1 after a 3-0 win over Heracles. The aforementioned results ended a three game losing run that had seen them suffer 1-0 defeats to both NEC and Utrecht, as well as a heavy 5-1 loss to Feyenoord.

AZ Alkmaar are in superb form, as after back-to-back 1-0 wins over Almere City and NEC, they were held to a 0-0 draw by Groningen before thrashing RKC Waalwijk 3-0 and Heerenveen 9-1.

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