Smart Acca Picks: Freiburg vs Borussia Dortmund Could Provide Plenty of Action

On Friday night, second takes on third in Bundesliga 2, as Kaiserlautern hosts Paderborn at Fritz-Walter-Stadium.

All of Kaiserlautern’s four matches this season have seen the Over 2.5 Goals market land, having beaten both Hannover 96 and St Pauli 2-1 on either side of a 2-2 draw with Holstein Kiel and a 2-1 loss to Bundesliga outfit Freiburg in the DFB Pokal.

All four of Paderborn’s matches have been action-packed, having defeated Karlsruher 5-0 on the opening weekend, before losing 2-1 to Fortuna Dusseldorf. However, they bounced back in emphatic style by thrashing Einhrit Wernigerode 10-0 in the DFB Pokal. Last time out they beat Hannover 4-2.

On Matchday two of Serie B, Parma goes up against Bari in what should be an intriguing encounter.

Parma managed to beat Crotone 1-0 on the opening weekend, before defeating Serie A outfit Salernitana 2-0 in the Coppa Italia, sparking talks of a potential return to Serie A this season.

Bari have also had a bright start to their season, having earned comfortable 3-0 and 4-1 victories over Calcio Padova and Hellas Verona.

An out-of-form Sarpsborg side faces the inevitable task of going up against Bodo/Glimt in the Norwegian Elitserien.

All of the last five meetings between these two sides have seen Over 2.5 Goals scored, including their most recent match in early July that saw Bodo/Glimt run out as 4-1 winners.

Since then, Sarpsborg have lost 1-0 to Valerenga, 3-1 to Haugesund, as well as 2-0 and 3-1 against both Lillestrom and Stromgodset.

The visitors have been rampant in their last five outings, hammering Linfield 8-0, before beating Aalesund 2-1, Zalgiris 5-0 and Odd 7-0 before drawing what was effectively a dead-rubber second leg against Zalgiris in Champions League qualifying 1-1.

Freiburg and Borussia Dortmund meet for the first time since the Black and Yellows thrashed their opponents 5-1 back in January.

Both of Freiburg’s first two matches have seen the Over 2.5 Goals market land having beaten Kaiserlautern 2-1 in the DFB Pokal before thumping Augsburg 4-0.

Meanwhile, Dortmund beat 1860 Munich 3-0 away from home as Donyell Malen, Jude Bellingham and Kerim Adeyemi all got on the scoresheet, before narrowly beating Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 in their opening match of the German Bundesliga season.

The final tip on this list sees recently relegated Levante go head to head with Huesca in the Spanish Segunda.

To many people’s surprise, Levante have managed to keep hold of the likes of Shkodran Mustafi, Enis Bardhi, Roberto Soldado and more meaning that they enter this match as strong favourites.

Levante have shown some promise in pre-season, as despite their 3-1 loss to Villarreal, they dead managed to beat Castellon 4-0 and Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-1.

On the other hand, Huesca could only manage a 13th place finish in the Spanish Segunda, but, they did play out some entertaining matches in pre-season, beating Andorra 3-1, after drawing 2-2 with Gimnastic and losing 3-1 to Eibar.