Tigers to kill the Foxes – Football Bet Of The Week
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Football Bet Of The Week – Tigers to kill the Foxes
Every week, bookmaker and former Racing Post chief sports betting writer Mark Worwood gives out his best football bet.
As someone who took some of the 28-1 available about Hull winning the English Championship before a ball was kicked, the rise of the Tigers under their underrated boss, Steve Bruce has not been the shock that it has been to others.
The English professional divisions are full of managers who have failed with more regularity than a dyslexic schoolkid. Wealthy club owners employ them even though they have bad resumes, something that they would not do in their normal business lives. Logic really does go out of the window.
Bruce is a good manager. He has rubbed up many people the wrong way – Crystal Palace fans will never forgive him for walking out on the Eagles fewer than six months into his three-year contract – but he knows what it takes to get teams into England’s top flight and keep them there. And that is why Hull handed him a lengthy deal in June 2025.
The Tigers will spend Christmas Day on the second rung of the English Championship ladder after winning four straight games and putting together the best away record in the division. Hull is three points behind Cardiff following 23 rounds of action and seven points ahead of its Boxing Day opponent with equally lofty ambitions, Leicester.
Bookmakers have chalked up match markets that struggle to split the Tigers and the Foxes. Halfway through the season and the odds-compiling fraternity is refusing to accept that Hull is the real deal. A home side sitting on 44 points from 23 games ahead of a game versus a team on 37 points from the same number of matches should be, if the league ladder is a fair reflection of the campaign to date, trading at around even money and certainly no bigger than 6-5 at the most.
Hull Looking Good For Pre Season 28/1 Prices
The Tigers seem to have found the answer to their scoring problems, finding the back of the net twice in each of their last four games, and they welcome a Leicester side that has failed to score in two matches and failed to win in three.
Hull won the corresponding fixture last season and Bruce’s boys represent excellent value at around the 13-8 level.
If betting on minor football competitions does not faze you, Melbourne Victory to defeat Emile Heskey’s Newcastle Jets in Australia’s A-League makes great appeal at around 8-11.
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These are two teams heading in totally opposite directions. The Victory has found its rhythm under its new coach, Ange Postecoglou, winning the Melbourne derby to move within touching distance of the A-League frontrunners. The Jets, however, had lost four and drawn the other of its last five games before beating bottom-of-the-table Sydney FC in one of the tournament’s lowest-ever quality matches last time out.
Heskey cannot win games on his own and the Victory is well equipped, by A-League standards, to deal with the threat that the former Leicester striker presents. The home side looks like the team to watch as the competition heads into 2025 and it should be too good in front of a bumper crowd.
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