Here we take a look at Smart Acca Picks for Friday’s action, with this one being a long shot at 37/1 chosen by Smart Acca via the Free FA Betting Hub App.
This is a five-fold Match Result and Over 2.5 Goals accumulator, with fixtures coming from the Championship, Liga NOS, AFCON, Coupe de France and the Scottish FA Cup.
Friday night’s Championship action sees seventh-place Sunderland host ninth-in-the-table Hull City at the Stadium of Light.
The Black Cats have lost both of their last two matches against Ipswich Town 2-1 and Newcastle United, however, prior to this, they had beaten Preston North End 2-0 and Hull 1-0 on either side of a 1-1 draw at Rotherham United.
Hull are on a four-game winless run, with the Tigers' last victory coming on 29th December via a 3-2 scoreline at home to Blackburn Rovers. Since then, City have suffered 3-1 and 2-1 defeats to Sheffield Wednesday and Norwich City, while being knocked out of the FA Cup by Birmingham City 2-1 at St Andrew’s having drawn the initial tie 1-1.
Second in the table Benfica faces ninth in the table Boavista at the Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica on Friday night.
Benfica are in perfect form, having won all of their last five matches, beating RB Salzburg 3-1 in the Champions League before earning 1-0 and 4-1 wins over Sporting Braga and Rio Ave on either side of back-to-back 3-0 wins over Famalicao and Arouca.
Boavista ended a four-game winless run last time out with a 4-1 victory at Vizela. In the run-up to the aforementioned game, the visitors had drawn 1-1 with Porto and Vitoria Guimaraes while losing 1-0 and 3-1 to Gil Vicente and Estrela.
At 5 pm on Friday, a heavyweight clash in the Africa Cup of Nations takes place, as the holders, Senegal, take on Cameroon in Group C.
Senegal beat Cameroon 1-0 in an international friendly back on 16th October, before earning 4-0 and 1-0 victories over South Sudan and Niger on either side of a 0-0 draw with Togo. On matchday one of AFCON, the Lions of Teranga earned a 3-0 win over Gambia thanks to goals from Pape Gueye and Lamine Camara (2).
Cameroon drew their opening game in Group C with Guinea via a 1-1 scoreline. Since their 1-0 friendly loss to Senegal, the Indomitable Lions have beaten Mauritius 3-0 and drawn 1-1 with Libya and Zambia.
In the Coupe de France, Lyon travels to Championnat National 2 outfit Bergerac in the Round of 32.
Bergerac have already played in two rounds of this competition to reach this stage, having beaten Montlouis 4-0 on 18th November before earning a 4-2 home victory over Panazol on 10th December.
Lyon had managed to find some decent form just before the winter break, as despite losing to Le Havre 3-1 last time out, they had earned three victories in a row, having beaten both Nantes and AS Monaco by 1-0 scorelines, as well as Toulouse 3-0 thanks to a hattrick from Alexandre Lacazette.
The final game on this Smart Acca comes from the Scottish FA Cup as Scottish League Two outfit Clyde go up against Aberdeen.
Clyde are in poor form heading into this match, having suffered 2-1 defeats to Stenhousemuir and Peterhead on either side of a 4-4 draw with Dumbarton before beating Bonyrigg Rose 3-2 and drawing 1-1 at East Fife.
Aberdeen have won three of their last five matches, having beaten Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 before losing 1-0 to Rangers. Since then, the Dons have emerged victorious over Livingston 2-1 and Ross County 3-0 while losing 3-0 to St. Mirren.
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