EFL 7/1 Acca – Gab Sutton

Despite a gap of 26 points and 18 places between the visitors and their hosts, it’s West Brom who are favourites for Saturday’s game.

Yes, the Albion have shown pale green shoots of recovery with competitive performances against Play-Off contenders Sheffield United and Southampton, earning two points that could have been four, but for an injury-time equaliser last time out.

There had been similar false dawns before for the Baggies, under Eric Ramsey, and until they get that first win of 2026, it’s difficult to trust them.

Have Hull rode their luck to get where they are in the table? Yes, enormously. But they won at Play-Off rivals Wrexham in midweek, and if anything, their performances are getting better, with Oli McBurnie striking up a great understanding with Joe Gelhardt and Lewis Koumas.

Cardiff travel to Devon off the back of a slight blip with four points from their last four games, including a 2-0 defeat to Lincoln, but they haven’t done too much wrong.

Sometimes, you can do a lot of the right things to try and carve your opponent's open but come up against a side that are so well-drilled, it becomes extremely difficult to find a way through and that may have been the case last weekend.

Ollie Tanner came in on the right for the subsequent midweek trip to Barnsley, with Omari Kellyman shifting centrally to link up with Rubin Colwill, and the balance of their attack looks stronger, which should put them in a good position to cut their mini-blip short.

Cardiff are nine points clear in the race for automatic promotion and can mathematically guarantee a top two finish if they win seven of their last 10 games, while hosts Exeter have dropped into the dogfight with a 10-match winless run.

Tensions are high at Gillingham right now, as Gareth Ainsworth’s side haven’t beaten a team currently above them in 16th in the table since mid-September, they’re riddled with injuries while fans are asking the big questions.

Ainsworth is a naturally positive manager, his reference point in interviews is always to try and find reasons to believe and shift the prevailing narrative onto a more optimistic path, and right now he’s finding it difficult to get buy-in – certainly from supporters.

Cambridge, on the other hand, have got their return to League Two spot on under Neil Harris, as they look well-placed to bounce back at the first time of asking after relegation from League One last season.

The U’s have a tight culture, a willingness to scrap like all Harris’ best sides have tended to, but they also boast quality in Ben Knight; something of a wildcard addition in the summer, the former Manchester City graduate has eight goals to his name, and has brought some wizardry in the final third.