Here we take a look at Smart Acca Picks for Wednesday’s action, with this one being a long shot at 228/1 chosen by Smart Acca via the Free FA Betting Hub App.
This is a five-fold Match Result and Both Teams to Score accumulator, with fixtures coming from Champions League and Europa Conference League qualifying as well as the First Round of the League Cup.
The first game of this Smart Acca comes from Europa Conference League qualifying as Gent faces Polish outfit, Pogon on Wednesday night.
Gent are in good form heading into this match having won all of their last five fixtures, thrashing Zilina 10-3 in the last round, while beating Standard Liege 3-1, Kortrijk 3-2 and Mechelen 1-0.
The last qualifying round saw Pogon face up against Linfield, a tie which the Polish Ekstraklasa side comfortably won by an 8-4 aggregate scoreline. Pogon have won both of their domestic matches heading into this, having beaten Warta Poznan 1-0 and Widzew Lodz 2-1.
Championship side Cardiff City takes on League Two outfit Colchester United in the first round of the League Cup.
The Bluebirds managed a 2-2 draw away at Leeds United on Saturday, a result that Turkish manager Erol Bulut will have been disappointed in having seen his side take a 2-0 first-half lead through Josh Bowler and Ike Ugbo, before conceding to a Liam Cooper header early on in the second half and a 95th-minute strike by Crysencio Summerville.
This game will actually be Colchester United’s first game of the season having seen their match against Swindon Town be postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.
Ipswich Town will be looking to continue their impressive start to the season when they host Bristol Rovers at Portman Road in the League Cup.
Kieran McKenna’s men managed a superb 2-1 win away at Sunderland on the weekend thanks to goals from Nathan Broadhead and George Hirst on either side of half time, although they did have to weather a late-storm from the Black Cats following an 86th-minute Dan Neil strike - the Tractor Boys have shown that they could potentially be candidates for the play-offs come the end of the season.
Bristol Rovers managed to earn a hard-fought point against Portsmouth at Fratton Park on the weekend although they will have been disappointed not to pick up all three points following Kusini Yengi’s 92nd-minute equaliser after Luke Thomas had given them a 24th-minute lead.
Burton Albion will be hoping to cause a major cup upset when they face Leicester City at the Pirelli Stadium on Wednesday.
The Brewers kicked off their season with a 2-0 away loss to recently relegated Blackpool at Bloomfield Road following a Shayne Lavery brace.
Meanwhile, Leicester did things the hard way in Enzo Maresca’s first match in charge, as they came back from 1-0 down against last season’s defeated play-off finalists, Coventry City, thanks to a late brace from Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall.
The final tip on this list sees Rangers take on Swiss Super League side Servette in Champions League qualifying.
Michael Beale’s men will be keen to impress following a shock opening day defeat to Kilmarnock on Saturday following a Brad Lyons goal. Staggeringly, Rangers have only ever won their domestic league four times when losing their opening fixture.
Servette could provide good opposition for the Gers to bounce back against, as since their 3-1 win over Grasshoppers on 22nd July, the Swiss outfit have gone on to draw four times, doing so against Genk 1-1 and 2-2 before beating the Belgian Pro League side 4-1 on penalties - their other draws have been by 2-2 and 1-1 scorelines versus Zurich and Stade-Lausanne-Ouchy.
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