Saturday Accumulator Tips: 17/1 fourfold for the 3PM Coupon

Last Saturday was the most galling day for our Acca columns so far this season as we fell short by one-leg in all three.

It was Stockport whose 13-game winning streak in the league snapped and cost us as West Ham, Newcastle and Norwich all did the business.

This week we go Championship-heavy with one brief trip down to the National League South as part of our 17/1 Saturday Accumulator...

Leg 1 - Hull City vs Watford - Home Win @ 23/20

We start our fourfold this Saturday up in the only place in the UK which has a telecoms monopoly. The stadium may not be called the KCOM any more but it is still one of the most bizarre situations in the land where one company owns the rights to all the telecommunications within a city. Anyway that is pure editorial guff and we are here to talk football.

Hull have been sneakily good in recent weeks and have made their way into the playoff places in the Championship. They aren’t exactly prolific scorers but they seem to find the back of the net enough to have seen them rise up the table. Liam Rosenior’s side have won three straight at home and have shown that it is a tough place to go and get a result.

Saturday’s game though won’t be a gimme. Watford might be a mid-table side but they’ve only tasted defeat once in the past eight and that was at top-of-the-table Leicester. That might be why we are getting odds-against when based solely on league positions, I would expect the price to be shorter.

Still, give me Hull’s good home record at a decent price. 

Leg 2 - Ipswich Town vs Coventry City - Home Win @ 8/11

This write-up will be short but sweet. Ipswich have won seven straight in the league at Portman Road. Kieran McKenna’s side are very much in the thick of the promotion race and despite some early-season question marks about whether they could hold on, they have been firmly erased and through 18 games, they have already built up a seven-point buffer to the play-off spots.

I think Coventry are a decent enough outfit but honestly, betting against the Tractor Boys at home is not a smart play. I think the 8/11 on offer in this one is more than fair considering what we’ve witnessed from the home side so far this campaign.

Leg 3 - Plymouth Argyle vs Stoke City - Home Win @ 7/4

The only underdog play in Saturday’s Acca comes at Home Park where I’m taking the Pilgrims to keep up their relatively decent form in front of their own fans. 

Plymouth might be on the outskirts of a relegation battle but that is primarily based upon their poor form on the road. If we look at their home/away splits, they are the ninth best side when looking solely at how they've performed at the 16,388 capacity arena but 22nd on their travels. They have won more than half of their games down in the West Country.

Stoke are a proper Jekyll & Hyde side. One week they are beating Leeds and the next they are getting humped at QPR. You just don’t know what version you are going to get but a long journey coupled with the solid home form of Plymouth makes me think the three points do not get on the coach and travel back up the country.

Leg 4 - Hampton & Richmond vs Hemel Hempstead Town - Home Win @ 5/6

We end up with a trip down to the National League South where one of the form teams across the whole of the football pyramid are priced-up pretty reasonably to win yet again in front of their own fans. 

Visitors to the Rocket Hospitality Beveree Stadium have only witnessed the hosts win in the last two months. The last time Mel Gwinnett couldn’t congratulate his side on winning a game at home was back in the last week of September. Only Tonbridge have stopped them from taking the full amount of points home or away in their past nine. That is a good run folks.

Hemel Hempstead are a proper middle-of-the-pack side who don’t score or concede too many. They are facing the form side in the division though on Saturday afternoon and this feels like one of the best home bankers on the 3PM coupon.

This acca is part of our Football Accumulator Tips that we provide week in, week out here at Betfred Insights...