Smart Acca Picks: Brighton & Sheffield United Both Involved

Here we take a look at Smart Acca Picks for Friday's action, with this one being a decent shot at 17/1 chosen by the Smart Acca feature via the Free Betting Hub App.

This is a six-fold match result accumulator, with fixtures coming from the Premier League, Championship, Bundesliga, FA Cup. Dutch Eredivisie and the Polish Ekstraklasa.

• Brighton vs Southampton: Brighton to win - 2/5
• Sheffield United vs Sunderland: Sheffield United to win - 1/1
• FC St. Pauli vs Holstein Kiel: St. Pauli to win - 4/5
• Harrogate Town vs Gainsborough: Harrogate to win - 1/3
• Heerenveen vs Waalwijk: Heerenveen to win - 11/20
• Piast vs Lech Poznan: Lech Poznan to win - 17/20

Brighton & Hove Albion hosts Southampton at the Amex Stadium in a South Coast Derby.

The Seagulls have managed to win both of their last two matches via 2-1 scorelines against AFC Bournemouth and Manchester City following back-to-back 2-1 and 3-2 defeats to Liverpool in the aftermath of a 2-2 home draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Southampton have won two of their last five matches, however, they enter this game off the back of 3-2 and 2-0 defeats to Liverpool and Wolves after 1-0 and 3-2 wins over Everton and Stoke City. In the run-up to the aforementioned sequence of matches, the Saints had suffered a narrow 1-0 defeat to Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium.

Sheffield United go head-to-head with Sunderland in what will be a tense affair with both sides aiming for the automatic promotion places come the end of the season.

The Blades have won four and drawn one of their last five matches across all competitions, as Chris Wilder’s men managed to beat Blackburn Rovers (2-0), Bristol City (2-1) and Sheffield Wednesday (1-0) prior to a 2-2 draw with Coventry City and a 3-0 home victory over Oxford United.

Sunderland have drawn all of their last five matches, having played out three 0-0 stalemates with QPR, Preston North End and West Bromwich Albion while also drawing 2-2 with Coventry City and 1-1 at Millwall.

On Friday night, 16th-place St. Pauli goes up against 17th-place Holstein Kiel in the German Bundesliga.

St. Pauli enter this game off the back of 2-0 and 1-0 defeats to Borussia Monchengladbach and Bayern Munich after a vital 2-0 win at Hoffenheim. In the run-up to these matches, the home side had been knocked out of the DFB Pokal 4-2 at RB Leipzig after a 0-0 draw with Wolfsburg.

Holstein Kiel’s only positive result in their last five matches was a narrow 1-0 home victory over Heidenheim on 2nd November. The aforementioned result came after 3-0 and 2-1 defeats to Koln and Stuttgart, while since then, Holstein Kiel have suffered further losses to Werder Bremen (2-1) and Mainz (3-0).

In the Second Round of the FA Cup, League Two Harrogate Town meets Northern Premier League outfit Gainsborough Trinity at Wetherby Road.

Harrogate are in decent form heading into this tie, following 2-1 wins over both Gillingham and Chesterfield after a 5-4 penalty shootout defeat to Blackpool in the EFL Trophy (after a 2-2 draw). Town’s other two matches in this sequence saw them lose 2-1 at home to Morecambe after knocking out League One side Wrexham (1-0) in the First Round of the FA Cup.

Gainsborough Trinity scraped a penalty shootout win over Hednesford Town in the last round of this competition after a 3-3 draw. In the Northern Premier League they have recently earned 2-0 and 3-0 wins over Whitby and Workington, while earning a shock 1-0 victory over Chester City in the FA Trophy.

12th-place Heerenveen takes on bottom of the table Waalwijk in the Dutch Eredivisie.

Robin van Persie’s side have won three of their last five matches entering this fixture, as they’ve beaten the likes of Sparta Rotterdam (2-0), IJsselmeervogels (3-2) and Go Ahead Eagles (1-0) while suffering 3-0 away defeats to both Fortuna Sittard and Feyenoord.

Waalwijk have earned four points from their last four league matches, as away from their 3-1 cup win at Vitesse, they had suffered defeats to NAC Breda (4-1) and NEC (3-0) on either side of a 2-0 win over Almere City before drawing 2-2 at Heracles.

The final game on this Smart Acca sees Polish Ekstraklasa leaders Lech Poznan travel to 10th-place Piast.

Piast are without a win in their last four matches since winning 2-0 away at Korona Kielce on 18th October, having drawn with Lechia Gdansk (3-3) and Radomiak (1-1) prior to recent defeats to Motor Lubin (3-2) and Gornik Zabrze (1-0).

Lech Poznan are in excellent form as they’ve won four of their last five fixtures, having earned victories over Cracovia (2-0) and Radomiak (2-1) prior to a 2-0 loss at Puszca. The visitors last two matches have resulted in further wins against Legia Warsaw (5-2) and GKS Katowice (2-0).

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