The Boom Banker brings you sweet 16 odds Home Wins ACCA on a weekend when the Scottish Premiership and the English Football Leagues join the growing list of Europe’s leagues to return to league action for the 2023/24 season.
With the avalanche of games to choose from, the Boom Banker’s well researched Home Wins selections for this exciting weekend of football action are mainly drawn from lower and top leagues across Europe.
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LEEDS VS CARDIFF
After promotion to the English Premier League in 2019/20 ended a 16-year absence for Leeds, their top-flight stay ending after just three seasons wouldn’t have been what they had in mind. Even the PL’s proverbial survival specialist Sam Allardyce couldn’t save Leeds last season, but the Whites have now gone from one footballing extreme to the other, with Big Sam’s resolute defensive structure being replaced by Daniel Farke’s easy on the eye football.
Farke certainly knows his way around the English Championship, guiding Norwich to the title in both 2018/19 and 2020/21, but it remains to be seen whether he can work that same magic at Elland Road. It’s not just in the dugout where Leeds are much changed though, it’s a similar story on the pitch too, with some big name summer departures leaving them thin on the ground and casting doubt over whether they can make an instant return to the Premier League.
Having narrowly escaped relegation last season, largely down to Reading’s points deduction, Cardiff have lots to prove this campaign. Like their hosts, the Bluebirds have a new manager in the dugout, with Erol Bulut taking over in the summer after securing their Championship status wasn’t enough to prevent the axe falling on Sabri Lamouchi.
That certainly isn’t the big story at Cardiff though, with Aaron Ramsey’s spectacular return to his boyhood club in the summer dominating the headlines. What impact he has in South Wales remains to be seen, but his short term aim will undoubtedly be to help Cardiff to a victory which would mark just their third win on opening weekend across the last 11 seasons (W2, D4, L4).
This is unlikely to be anything other than a home win for Leeds at 1.37 odds on BestBet360.
ELFSBORG VS IK SIRIUS
Elfsborg will be looking to maintain their lead at the summit of the Swedish Allsvenskan table when they welcome struggling Sirius to the Boras Arena on Sunday.
The league leaders saw their 15-game unbeaten run ended by title rivals Hacken last time out, while the visitors suffered a fourth defeat in five matches.
After losing to Hacken on the opening weekend of the season, Elfsborg went 15 league games without defeat between April and July, picking up 12 wins and three draws while establishing themselves as genuine title contenders.
However, Hacken returned to burst Elfsborg’s bubble last weekend, as the Yellow Ones suffered a 3-1 defeat against their title rivals, who now sit just one point behind Jimmy Thelin’s side in the standings.
Still, the Yellow Ones remain one point clear of Hacken with a game in hand over their title rivals, and Sunday’s clash with lowly Sirius provides them with the ideal opportunity to return to winning ways.
Indeed, Sirius head to the Boras Arena on a run of four defeats in five league outings, meaning that Christer Mattiasson’s side find themselves one place outside the relegation playoff spot on goal difference.
Following back-to-back losses against Malmo and Hammarby, the Uppsala outfit claimed a much-needed victory over relegation rivals Degerfors, but they swiftly returned to losing ways with defeats to Mjallby AIF and AIK Fotboll.
Sirius failed to win any of their opening nine Allsvenskan matches this term, taking just five points from a possible 27, and they currently have 17 points from 17 games following a string of negative results.
Sitting atop the Allsvenskan, Elfsborg are expected to bounce straight back from last weekend’s defeat by making light work of struggling Sirius, who are on course to suffer a fifth loss in six Allsvenskan outings.
Elfsborg to secure a routine home win comes at 1.28 odds on BestBet360.
YOUNG BOYS VS WINTERTHUR
Two sides that ended last term in the Swiss Super League at opposite ends of the table will face off for the first time this season when Young Boys take on FC Winterthur at Stadion Wankdorf on Saturday evening.
The defending champions come into this match in fourth place after the first two matches of the season, while the visitors are yet to record a win and are currently second-bottom, with just a single point so far.
Young Boys were incredible last season and secured their 16th league title and fifth in the last six seasons, winning the Super League with 74 points, which was a massive 16 points better than their closest challengers, Servette.
Following a relatively straightforward opening match win over newly promoted outfit Stade Lausanne-Ouchy, Raphael Wicky’s side were held to an unexpected 2-2 draw by Yverdon Sport last weekend.
Still, the hosts will be expected to bounce back to winning ways immediately on their home patch, where they held the league’s best record last season as the only side that were unbeaten with 14 wins and four draws in 18 matches at Stadion Wankdorf.
In fact, to find the last time that Young Boys suffered defeat on home soil in the Super League, you would need to look all the way back to March 2022 against Lugano, which is a total of 23 matches ago and includes 18 wins and five draws.
After securing promotion to the Super League in the 2021-22 season, Winterthur managed to maintain their top-flight status by the slenderest of margins as they outscored Sion by a single point last season.
While they did manage to evade relegation, their tally of 32 points was the lowest of any side that had avoided the drop since the 2014-15 season when FC Vaduz recorded 31 points after 36 matches.
By the looks of it, Patrick Rahmen’s side are likely to battle it out at the bottom of the table again this season as they played out a stalemate against Luzern in their first match of the season while slumping to a 5-2 defeat to Basel last weekend.
Young Boys are unbeaten against this opposition in their last five meetings, which included two 5-1 wins last season. It is difficult to see the reigning champions drop any point in this one.
Young Boys to win at 1.24 odds on BestBet360 comes handy.
GENK vs EUPEN
Eupen will visit Cegeka Arena on Saturday for the Belgian First Division A game with hosts Genk.
Genk go into this match after a 2-2 UCL Qualifiers drawn game versus Servette FC.
KRC Genk have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, netting in one hundred percent of their last 6 games. They have managed to rack up 13 during that period while also conceding a total of 7. That kind of trend isn’t assured to be carried forward into this match, though.
Genk are unbeaten in their last 2 home league matches. The hosts have also not lost a league tie with Eupen in their previous 3 matches.
Eupen drew 2-2 in their last First Division A match with KVC Westerlo.
A spate of pretty shaky efforts from the Eupen defensive unit has resulted in a total of 18 goals being fired past them in only their previous 6 fixtures. They could really do with paying more attention to this sub-par aspect of their play.
Heading into this fixture, Eupen have not won away from home in the past 7 league matches.
Backing Genk to secure a comfortable home win at 1.28 odds on BestBet360.
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