Smart Acca Picks: Galatasaray, Sheffield Utd & Sporting Lisbon Providing Good Value

Here we take a look at Smart Acca Picks for Friday with this one being a 53/1 long shot chosen by Smart Acca via the Free FA Betting Hub App.

This is a five-fold Match Result & Over 2.5 Goals accumulator, with fixtures coming from the Championship, League One, Liga NOS, Danish Superliga and the Turkish Süper Lig.

• Preston North End vs Sheffield United: Sheffield United to win & Over 2.5 Goals - 11/4
• Barnsley vs Mansfield Town: Barnsley to win & Over 2.5 Goals - 21/10
• Sporting Lisbon vs Rio Ave: Sporting Lisbon to win & Over 2.5 Goals - 11/20
• Midtjylland vs Vejle: Midtjylland to win & Over 2.5 Goals - 21/20
• Galatasaray vs Hatay: Galatasaray to win & Over 2.5 Goals - 3/5

Preston North End hosts Sheffield United at Deepdale on Friday night as the 2024/25 Championship season kicks off.

The Lilywhites have had a mixed bag of pre-season results, as they’ve suffered 1-0, 2-1 and 3-0 defeats to the likes of Lincoln City, Southport and Everton while beating Bamber Bridge 3-0, Fiorentina 2-1 and Salford City 2-0.

Sheffield United have gone unbeaten in pre-season, as they managed 2-1 victories over York City and Rotherham United on either side of 3-0 and 4-1 wins against Chesterfield and Harrogate Town. Last time out, the Blades were held to a 1-1 draw by Huddersfield Town.

Promotion hopefuls Barnsley take on League One newcomers Mansfield Town at Oakwell on Friday night.

Barnsley managed to beat the likes of Alfreton Town 3-1, Accrington Stanley 3-0 and Derby County 4-3 in pre-season, while also suffering 1-0 and 4-0 defeats to Mallorca and AS Roma.

Mansfield’s last five pre-season fixtures saw them draw 1-1 with Alfreton Town and earn 6-0 and 3-0 wins over Hucknall Town and Matlock Town on either side of 1-0 victories against Oxford United and Grimsby Town.

League champions Sporting Lisbon kick-off the new Liga NOS season against Rio Ave.

Ruben Amorim’s men recently suffered a 4-3 defeat to FC Porto in the Supertaca Candido de Oliveira despite racing into a 3-0 lead after just 24 minutes following goals by Goncalo Inacio, Pedro Goncalves and Geovany Quenda.

Rio Ave have failed to win any of their last five matches against Sporting Lisbon, as they suffered a 2-0 away defeat before earning a dramatic 3-3 draw with Friday’s opponents back in February.

In the Danish Superliga, sixth-place Midtjylland meets 12th-place Vejle.

Midtjylland have won four and drawn one of their last five matches, as they recently managed to beat Ferencvarosi 2-0 in Champions League qualifying after defeating UE Santa Coloma 4-0 on aggregate in the previous round. In the Danish top-flight, Midtjylland managed to defeat Aalborg following a 2-2 away at Nordsjaelland.

Vejle are bottom of the table and are yet to pick up a point as they’ve suffered 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 defeats to the likes of Nordsjaelland, Brondby and Randers.

The final game on this Smart Acca sees Turkish Süper Lig champions Galatasaray go head-to-head with Hatay.

Galatasaray will be fired up for this match after their humiliating 5-0 defeat to Besiktas in the Turkish Super Cup. When Galatasaray last met Hatay at RAMS Park, Okan Buruk’s side won 1-0 thanks to a 12th-minute goal from Mauro Icardi - during this match they had 59% possession and 19 shots.

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