FA Cup 17/1 Acca - Gab Sutton
All eyes will be on the FA Cup this weekend, and expert pundit Gab Sutton has provided a super FA Cup Acca ahead of the big weekend!
Burton to win
Despite Burton Albion being two divisions above their National League hosts, they are priced as big as 21/10 for the victory.
The way the game has been chalked up is partially justified by the form guides, which show that Boreham Wood are flying high in second in their division after five straight wins, and their visitors have dropped to 21st in League One following one win in eight.
Nonetheless, the odds on Burton still feel a touch on the large side, bearing in mind they’ll still have League One quality players on the pitch in North London, in the likes of Brad Collins, Terence Vancooten, George Evans and Fabio Tavares.
The Brewers could be underestimated.
Southampton to win
Doncaster aren’t in the form they’d like to be in, as they host Championship side Southampton, and their squad, jam-packed with quality; Rovers have taken just seven points from their last 17 games in League One.
New Year’s Day’s 1-1 draw with Bolton, at least, ended a five-match losing streak, but Grant McCann’s side have needed FA Cup wins at Crewe and Chesterfield to serve as a distraction from their awful league form, in which results and performances haven’t aligned for the newly promoted side.
As such, the Saints will go marching into South Yorkshire confident of securing passage, despite their own mild blip, with the team winless in six.
Nonetheless, a squad containing the likes of the likes of Taylor Harwood-Bellis and Leo Scienza should prove too strong for Donny, as Southampton look for the cup run to ignite their season.
Stoke to win
Frank Lampard and the staff would never admit it, because of Coventry City’s history with the FA Cup, winning it in 1987, and what that meant to supporters, but in some ways a cup run is the last thing the team needs.
The Sky Blues struggled through a congested festive fixture period as best they could, with a thin squad that hadn’t really been given those extra three or four players it needed for the required depth in the summer.
With the second half of the season ahead, it’s all about getting to the finish line in the Championship, and it’s unlikely that this group of players has what’s required for a cup run on top of that.
Whereas Play-Off outsiders Stoke may have more of an appetite for this competition and have players who could thrive in it – namely right-siders Junior Tchamadeu and Million Manhoef, who have struck up an excellent understanding.
