Smart Acca Picks: Nottingham Forest vs Fulham Providing Good Value

The first tip on this list sees Auxerre face off against Lorient in a battle of 14th against fourth in the standings.

Auxerre enters this game off the back of three losses in a row, having been beaten 5-0 by Rennes, 2-0 at home to Marseille and 2-1 away at Lyon. Prior to this poor run of form, Auxerre had managed 1-0 and 2-1 victories over Strasbourg and Montpellier.

Four of Lorient’s last five matches have seen the Over 2.5 Goals market land, following 3-2 and 3-1 victories over Nantes and Olympique Lyon after a narrow 1-0 away win at Ajaccio. This is a good run of form considering the fact that they were thrashed 5-2 away at Lens after a 2-1 victory over Clermont Foot.

Aston Villa against Southampton is one of two Premier League matches that will take place on Friday night. This is a meeting of 17th and 12th in the standings, a must-win game for Steven Gerrard’s men.

The Villa boss has been under huge pressure following an underwhelming start to the season, with their 1-1 draw at home to Manchester City providing some temporary rest bite. Before this, the Villains had lost their last three Premier League matches 2-1, 1-0 and 3-1 to Arsenal, West Ham and Crystal Palace. Their last win came via a 4-1 scoreline away at Bolton in the League Cup.

Southampton have lost two of their last three games in the Premier League 1-0 tp both Wolves and Manchester United on either side of a 2-1 victory against Chelsea where Romeo Lavia and Adam Armstrong got on the scoresheet. Ralph Hassenhuttl’s side had managed good 2-1 and 3-0 victories over Leicester City and Cambridge United before their last three matches.

In Bundesliga 2, 17th place Eintracht Braunschweig meets ninth place Karlsruher at Eintracht-Stadion on Friday night.

The home side have managed to pick up some form, via a 1-1 away draw with Hannover 96 and a 4-2 home victory over Nurnberg. Before this, they had been comfortably beaten 4-1 and 3-0 away at both Arminia Bielefeld and Holstein Kiel on either side of a 2-2 draw with Fortuna Dusseldorf.

Karlsruher are winless in their last two matches, having drawn 0-0 with Heidenheim and lost 1-0 away at Hamburg. This is following a sequence of matches that had seen them beat Hansa Rostock 2-0, Jahn Regensburg 6-0 and Sandhausen 3-2.

Mainz hosts Hertha Berlin at MEWA Arena on Friday night, in an encounter between sixth and 15th in the Bundesliga.

Despite their good league positioning, Mainz have lost two of their last three matches by 4-1 and 3-0 scorelines to Hoffenheim and Bayer Leverkusen on either side of a 1-0 away win at Borrusia Monchengladbach. Both of Mainz’s last two wins have came away from home, having beaten Augsburg 2-1 prior to the aforementioned sequence of matches.

Hertha Berlin are enduring another difficult season, but, they can feel positive heading into this match, having drawn 2-2 at home to Bayer Leverkusen and beaten Augsburg 2-0 away. Before this, they had lost 1-0 in back-to-back matches against Monchengladbach and Borussia Dortmund as well as only managing a 1-1 draw at home to Eintracht Frankfurt.

The final game on this list comes from the City Ground where Nottingham Forest go up against Fulham.

Forest enter this game in poor form, as after a 1-1 away draw against Everton and a 3-0 League Cup win over Grimsby Town, Steve Cooper’s men were beaten 2-0, 6-0 and 3-2 by Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and AFC Bournemouth.

Fulham have managed to win just two of their last five league fixtures, following a 2-1 win over Brighton before their 2-1 loss to Tottenham. Prior to their victory over the Seagulls, the Cottagers had lost 2-1 and 2-0 to both Arsenal and Crawley Town after beating Brentford 3-2 at home thanks to a late goal by Aleksandar Mitrovic.