Expert football betting tips for Saturday, August 30th, 2025

The football season says farewell to August this weekend, as the action enters the '-ber' months and the impending change of weather draws ever closer. The fixtures once again throw up some intriguing ties both domestically and across Europe.

So, it's that time of the week again when we turn to our Odds Now Punters Panel. Four expert football tipsters with the knowledge and understanding to offer the best football betting tips for the upcoming action.

Before we get started with the football betting tips discussion, let's take a look and see who is giving us their tips this week.

Introducing the Odds Now Punters Panel

Matt Hill - As well as being Odds Now’s Head of Content, Matt is a vastly experienced tipster specialising in football and darts. His betting on the beautiful game has a strong lean towards the lower leagues.

Adam Drury - A regular football tipster for Odds Now, Adam enjoyed a hugely successful campaign in 2024-25, including landing three 50/1+ winners on his weekly EFL accumulator column alongside countless other top tips.

Gab Sutton - Widely renowned as one of the best football journalists around, Gab’s encyclopedic knowledge of the EFL makes him well-equipped to offer up unique betting angles for punters.

Steve Day - Experienced punter and football tipster. Steve has 15 years of experience writing football betting previews covering competitions both domestically and abroad.

Felix Morson-Pate - Football trader at a leading bookmaker and our resident data expert here at Odds Now.

Punters Panel: Football betting tips for Saturday 30th August, 2025

What is your best football bet from this Saturday’s fixture slate?

MH: Probably under 1.5 goals at Oldham vs Gillingham, currently 7/4 with Paddy Power. The visitors are starting to show the defensive doggedness you'd expect from a good Gareth Ainsworth side, while the hosts have had two 0-0 draws already this term. A cagey affair looks on the cards.

AD: In League One, I’m taking Wycombe draw no bet at Stevenage at 6/5 with Sky Bet. This feels like a meeting between two sides who could start to head in opposite directions after differing starts. Stevenage won their first four games but were comfortably beaten at Huddersfield last week and, based on their underlying numbers, are unlikely to last the pace, while Wycombe have not got the points they deserve from some promising displays. The market is favouring the results, but I’m going to side with the performance level and back Mike Dodds’ visitors.

GS: The Wimbledon clean sheet at Bradford is 10/3. They've kept six clean sheets in their previous nine league matches stretching back to last season, including Play-Off games. I reckon if you bet on the Dons shut-out every week, you'd make a profit over the course of the season, because they're so good defensively.

SD: I'm not overly keen to back my home team of Cardiff, but there is a feel-good factor about the place that we've not experienced in a while. I think Cardiff to win and over 2.5 goals scored at 6/5 in our match with Plymouth is worth looking at. If we play as well as we have been, then I can see us dismantling the visitors on Saturday lunchtime.

FMP: Over in Italy, I'm taking Como draw no bet away at Bologna at 11/10. I loved Cesc Fabregas' side last season, and they’ve backed him again this summer, while Bologna also continue to lose key players.

Is there a short-priced favourite you are keen to take on?

MH: I imagine this section could (quite rightly) see a clean sweep for Manchester United at home to Burnley. I concur, though for the sake of some variety, I'll also mention Bradford at home to AFC Wimbledon. Graham Alexander's men have made a superb start, but the Dons know how to make themselves difficult to beat away from home and will be relishing the challenge of keeping Valley Parade quiet.

AD: The obvious, and correct, answer is Manchester United at around 4/11 at home to Burnley. In the search for something more interesting, I’ll back against Bradford after successfully doing so last week. That’s nothing against the Bantams, who look good, but AFC Wimbledon have been strong this season as well, so I don’t think they should be 4/1 to win at Valley Parade.

GS: Coventry. I'm convinced Oxford are going to keep a clean sheet, which you can back at 15/4. Whenever a Gary Rowett team goes through a difficult period, you're normally millimetres away from a clean sheet because he's so good at stripping things back and reorganising teams. I'm putting my faith in 11 years of Championship history here!

SD: It's got to be Manchester United at home to Burnley, hasn't it? The Red Devils were awful in their Carabao Cup Second Round defeat to Grimsby on penalties. They look like a group of players devoid of confidence and fight. The manager, Ruben Amorim, looks like a broken man. You can see the Old Trafford atmosphere becoming toxic quickly if Burnley can keep the United attacks at bay early on. I wouldn't back United to beat anyone at the moment. Aside from that high-profile pick, I'd also point towards Cambridge Utd at home to a Newport County side that have proven tough to beat.

FMP: I think MK Dons are opposable at home to Walsall. This looks like it will be a tight, cagey affair, and MK have yet to be consistently at their flowing best. Walsall could very easily nick it.

Do any players catch your eye from across the goalscorer markets?

MH: I like the 14/5 with Unibet on Harvey Barnes to score anytime for Newcastle against Leeds. With Anthony Gordon's suspension starting, the onus will be on other Toon forwards to step up in attacking areas. Barnes – who scored an impressive seven goals in his 17 Premier League starts last term – is capable of doing just that against a wounded Whites backline who leaked five against Arsenal last weekend.

AD: The one I really like is Swansea forward Ronald at 23/5 with Unibet. Sheffield Wednesday have done really well considering their predicament, but they have a very weak squad that is likely to find things tougher the longer it is not strengthened. Swansea have started promisingly, and having watched Ronald in the flesh last week, I was taken by how lively he is in attack. This seems a cracker of a price.

GS: Yes. Watford's Luca Kjerrumgaard at 13/5 with BetMGM if you're after a forward. Alternatively, Northampton's Cameron McGeehan and Walsall's Charlie Lakin have been getting into some great positions this season, and have been given roles in their respective systems that give them lots of freedom to break into the box/ McGeehan is actually part of the front-line, even though he's priced as though he were a midfielder, which he is by trade. You can back those two at 6s and 8s anytime best price currently.

SD: Again, I don't usually meddle with my own team when it comes to betting, but I'd be getting on Rubin Colwill to score anytime against Plymouth at 7/4 or first scorer at 11/2. Colwill was omitted from Craig Bellamy's Wales squad despite his superb start to the season, so he'll be out to prove a point.

FMP: Rubin Colwill at 7/4 to score anytime against a very leaky and quickly sinking Plymouth Argyle feels like a nice bet given his eye-catching start to the season.

Any other prop bets or quirky angles you’d like to flag?

MH: I'm loving the Championship shot markets at the moment, and threadbare Sheffield Wednesday are giving a good account of themselves this term despite off-field troubles. Club hero Liam Palmer has managed a shot in each of his last two outings from wing-back and is 15/8 with LiveScore Bet to do so again at home to Swansea on Saturday – that looks too big.

AD: I flagged Amario Cozier-Duberry of Bolton to score at 21/4 last week, and though it didn’t win, he had the shot that resulted in a last-minute own goal for Wanderers. I don’t want to miss out when he does score, which I’m sure he soon will, so I’m backing him again. Blackpool have been pretty poor so far, so this looks a good fixture for Bolton, too. I’d put nobody off the Ronald/Cozier-Duberry double at 34/1 with Unibet. It’s half that price with Bet365.

GS: I love the Chesterfield win to nil, 9/5 with BetVictor. You'll hear me tip that one up on the podcast a lot this season, I suspect! I really like them defensively.

SD: I will take a look at the card markets again this week. Preston full-back Andrew Hughes stands out. North End have picked up 11 yellow cards already this season, with Hughes accounting for two of those. He also picked up nine yellow cards last season. They travel to Portsmouth on Saturday, and it's always a frenetic atmosphere at Fratton Park, which is sure to get the testosterone flowing. Hughes is 12/5 to be cautioned, which appeals.

FMP: Florent Hadergjonaj 2/1 for a shot on target for Alanyaspor against Besiktas. He's an attacking right wing-back who also looks to be on pens this season. I'm not sure firms have latched on to that yet.

Who will be the first Premier League manager to lose their job?

MH: Corr, a few fingers are hovering over triggers in Premier League boardrooms, aren't there? Nuno looked ready to walk after that press conference, but I actually feel relatively confident he'll hang around for at least a few more months. It looks like a straight shootout between Graham Potter and Ruben Amorim currently. A bad result for either this weekend could be the final straw – so I don't fancy betting on which club's media team is quicker at publishing statements!

AD: It’s looking ominous for a few, but I think Ruben Amorim and Graham Potter will get a little longer to turn things around at Manchester United and West Ham. The situation at Nottingham Forest seems tumultuous, so I’ll go for Nuno [Espirito Santo].

GS: Ruben Amorim. You can appreciate that he's had some enormous challenges at the club to navigate, and that it's a club with problems that run much deeper than the head coach. But you can still also say the results and performances should have been a lot better.

SD: The next manager to leave their post in the Premier League market has been all over the place this week. Nuno Espirito Santo, Graham Potter and Ruben Amorim have all had their time as the favourite to be sacked next. It's tough to call, but you have to feel that Potter has less credit in the bank at West Ham than the other two. One more bad result and performance, and you'd imagine he could be in line to go.

FMP: It probably should be Ruben Amorim, but I think it’ll be Graham Potter. The Hammers look like an unfixable mess right now under his stewardship. How much of that is on him, though, I’m not so sure.

Which big transfer are you hoping will go through before Monday’s deadline?​

MH: I'd quite like to see Kobbie Mainoo get his loan move. It looks like Manchester United intend to block it, but from an England perspective, I think a season of him playing 90 minutes in a progressive side could put him in contention to start for the Three Lions next summer. Right now, his promising career is stagnating.

AD: I’m flipping the question, sorry! I really hope Manchester City don’t sign Gianluigi Donnarumma. I don’t see how that’s a good stylistic fit, and having seen a fair amount of James Trafford last season, I’m sold on how good he is. It may cause City some short-term pain, but I’m not too fussed about that! Trafford is England’s next number one if he can just get through this sticky period, and I’d love to see him do it.

GS: I hope Liverpool sign a striker other than Alexander Isak (or simply stick with Ekitike). I don't like the way Isak has conducted himself, and if he got the move, it would be as if almost justifying this underhanded behaviour, which you can tell is led by agent Vlado Lemic. This kind of stuff puts me off top-level football – too much greed!

SD: I'm hoping we see Newcastle striker Alexander Isak complete his transfer to Liverpool because I think we can all agree that we're sick and tired of reading about that transfer saga now! He's priced at 10/11 to complete that move, so fingers crossed it's done and dusted and we can all move forward with our lives! It would also be nice to see Kobbie Mainoo leave Manchester United for his own sake.

FMP: Selfishly, I hope Hayden Hackney ends up in the royal blue of Everton. Looking at the bigger picture, though, Christos Tzolis moving to Palace will be very exciting to watch for the neutral – especially after he tore Rangers apart on Wednesday.