{"id":204496,"date":"2025-10-16T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204496\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:50:09","slug":"this-weeks-acca-from-sporting-life-for-saturday-october-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204496\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Acca from Sporting Life for Saturday October 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our This Week&#8217;s Acca team are backing four odds-on home favourites this weekend, making the accumulator up to an enhanced 15\/2.<\/p>\n<p>Two of those come from the Sky Bet Championship, where COVENTRY are backed to continue their incredible start when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/football\/live\/211728\/coventry-city-vs-blackburn-rovers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they host Blackburn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Lampard&#8217;s side are scoring at an exceptional rate. Should they continue on current averages, they&#8217;ll break the record for most goals scored in a Football League season (they&#8217;re on course for 138 &#8211; Peterborough of 1960\/61 hold the record with 134).<\/p>\n<p>BIRMINGHAM may not have had the start to the season they&#8217;d have hoped for but at home they are unbeaten (two wins, two draws). That hopefully puts them in a good spot as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/football\/live\/211739\/birmingham-city-vs-hull-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they welcome Hull<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers are yet to win in four away and the underlying data shows struggle. They are 22nd for expected goal difference (xGD) with the Blues up in fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Into League One then and STOCKPORT delivered for us last week, with the same asked of them as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/football\/live\/212199\/stockport-county-vs-exeter-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they face Exeter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The home side are unbeaten in their last five in the league with three of their previous four ending in victory. In Exeter, they are welcoming a side who sit 22nd in the five-game form charts.<\/p>\n<p>Our final game comes from League Two. MK DONS have started to hit really good form and Saturday sees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/football\/live\/211062\/mk-dons-vs-crewe-alexandra\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">them welcoming Crewe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Warne&#8217;s men have won their last three in the league, whereas Crewe have managed just two wins from their last eight, five of which have been defeats.<\/p>\n<p>For our longer list, we are taking what feels like a rare trip to the Premier League. MANCHESTER CITY have been a force at home under Pep Guardiola and they are backed for success <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/football\/live\/209264\/manchester-city-vs-everton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against Everton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Toffees have been good under David Moyes&#8217; guidance but influential winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/football\/player\/jack-grealish\/4333\/stats\/everton\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Grealish<\/a> is ineligible to face his parent club, making an already difficult task even tougher.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we head back to England&#8217;s fourth tier with SWINDON backed for success <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/football\/live\/211087\/accrington-stanley-vs-swindon-town\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against Accrington<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stanley were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/football\/live\/211358\/accrington-stanley-vs-newport-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beaten by fellow strugglers Newport<\/a> last time out. Ian Holloway&#8217;s Swindon sit second in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/football\/league-tables\/sky-bet-league-two\/83\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the table<\/a> &#8211; four of their six on the road ending in victory.<\/p>\n<p>Odds correct at 1345 BST (16\/10\/25)<\/p>\n<p>More from Sporting LifeSafer gambling<\/p>\n<p>We are committed in our support of safer gambling. Recommended bets are advised to over-18s and we strongly encourage readers to wager only what they can afford to lose.<\/p>\n<p>If you are concerned about your gambling, please call the National Gambling Helpline \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamcare.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GamCare<\/a> on 0808 8020 133.<\/p>\n<p>Further support and information can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.begambleaware.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">begambleaware.org<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamblingtherapy.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gamblingtherapy.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our This Week&#8217;s Acca team are backing four odds-on home favourites this weekend, making the accumulator up to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-204496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}