Football Accumulator Tips: LOI strugglers to produce in Friday’s 6/1 four-fold

Several European leagues start up for the new season on Friday, and two of them - the Austrian Bundesliga and the German 2. Bundesliga - feature in Friday's Football Accumulator Tips, which you can check out below.

This four-fold, which takes us to two continents and four countries, pays out at 6.44/1.

Both Teams to Score - Yes in LASK Linz vs SK Puntigamer Sturm Graz (19:30 BST) @ 4/7

LASK Linz and reigning champions Sturm Graz kick off the 2025/26 Austrian Bundesliga campaign on Friday, meeting at the former's Raiffeisen Arena in Linz.

LASK finished seventh last season, a far cry from their third-place finish in 2023/24, while Sturm Graz managed to retain the title.

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The two teams played each other twice last term, and both games produced entertainment.

Sturm Graz won 2-1 in Linz last October, before triumphing 4-2 at the Merkur-Arena in March, despite being reduced to 10 men in the 67th minute with the score at 2-0.

Unsurprisingly, Sturm Graz were the highest scorers in the division, netting 66 times across their 32 matches, but despite their lowly standing, LASK were fourth for goals scored (51).

BTTS-Yes landed in both meetings last season, and could well do so again in this season opener.

Both Teams to Score - Yes in FC Schalke 04 vs Hertha BSC (19:30 BST) @ 4/9

Moving to Germany's second tier, Schalke host Hertha Berlin at Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen.

The 2024/25 campaign wasn't great for either club, with Schalke finishing 14th, just three points above the relegation play-off position, while Hertha were only six points better off in 11th.

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Both head-to-heads produced goals, though, with four strikes shared in a 2-2 draw in Gelsenkirchen last October, before Schalke went to the Olympiastadion in Berlin in March and won 2-1.

Schalke and Hertha both ended the season with a BTTS-Yes record of 65% (22), with only four sides posting higher percentages. That number rose to 76% at home for Schalke, too.

Both teams have scored in the last seven head-to-heads, and I'm backing an eighth in a row here.

Both Teams to Score - Yes in Cork City FC vs Galway United (19:45 BST, LOITV) @ 8/11

League of Ireland Premier Division strugglers Cork City and Galway United face off at the former's Turners Cross on Friday, with both sides in awful form.

United are bottom of the form table over the last five games, picking up just a single point to sit eighth in the 10-team league.

City, meanwhile, are bottom of the division, and have taken just two points from their last five matches.

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Despite their issues, neither side has had much trouble in scoring goals, with BTTS-Yes landing in 80% of City's games, and 64% of United's - the highest and second-highest record in the LOI.

Both teams have scored in both head-to-heads this term, with four goals shared in a 2-2 draw at Turner's Cross on Valentine's Day, before United won 2-1 in Galway on May 23.

Match Result - Clube do Remo (H) to beat Ferroviaria (23:00 BST) @ 9/10

We end the night at the Estadio Evandro Almeida in Belem, where Remo host Ferroviaria in the Brazilian Serie B.

The visitors are third-bottom in the 20-team division, 10 points behind their fifth-place hosts, who boast the joint-second best home record with 21 points claimed at the Estadio Evandro Almeida so far.

Remo have won six of their 10 home matches, keeping five clean sheets, while Ferroviaria, who are winless in their last six league games, suffering four defeats, have triumphed just once on their travels this season (W1, D6, L2), losing three of their last four on the road.

Ferroviaria claimed a point in a 1-1 draw in April's reverse fixture, but in Belem, I'm expecting Remo to come out on top.

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