Expert football betting tips for Saturday, November 15th 2025

The English football season is really up and running now, with divisional tables starting to take shape and some serious form lines emerging.

That spells good news for football bettors, who have an array of data to dive into when putting together their weekend bets.

We've sounded the horn to call the Odds Now Punters Panel to arms. Four expert football tipsters with the knowledge and understanding to offer the best football betting tips for the upcoming action.

Before we begin this week's questions and answers, let's take a look and see who is providing their thoughts 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.

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.

Felix Morson-Pate - Working as a trader in the industry, Felix offers up his meticulously refined data-driven insights to Odds Now readers both here and on his regular World of Wagers column.

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

Now, let's get into the good stuff!

What is your best bet for the footballing weekend?

MH: Keeping it close to home, I'm going to go for Chris Conn-Clarke anytime goalscorer for Carlisle against Eastleigh at 13/10. The Peterborough loanee is absolutely loving life in Cumbria and seems to be getting better by the game – running rings around Southend in an impressive 2-1 away win last weekend, which featured a lovely strike and a bad miss which should've got him a brace. With the confidence he's showing right now, I struggle to see how Eastleigh will keep him quiet and he'll be in the thick of things for the Blues here no doubt.

GS: I’m imitating Myleene Klass this weekend, going Pure & Simple - Bromley at 3/4. I share Myleene’s suspicions about Barrow’s 7-match unbeaten run. I feel they’ve had a healthy dollop of fortune along the way, and I don’t know if Wyll Stanway and clinical finishing can bail them out every week. Bromley are a fantastic set-piece side with a predatory goalscorer in Michael Cheek - they have an uncanny ability to make their opponents worse, but that’s just Hearsay.

FM-P: 6/4 Notts County to beat Harrogate to nil. [Alassana] Jatta is starting to remember that he is one of, if not the best, forwards in the division, and I don’t see any reason why Harrogate's miserable recent run will end against a well-drilled County side.

SD: I'm looking at Blackpool being odds of 2/1 to beat Burton away, and I can't ignore it. Ian Evatt is giving the Seasiders a new manager bounce. My Cardiff side suffered the full impact of their counter-attacking approach last weekend with that 3-1 loss. Burton have also lost 4 of their last 5 league games at home.

Is there a favourite you would advise punters to steer clear of?

MH: Sticking with the National League, Rochdale have been superb this season but have to dust themselves down after a disappointing 4-1 defeat at title rivals York in midweek. At no bigger than 1/3 to beat Aldershot, I'd give Dale a watching brief this weekend.

GS: Shrewsbury at 10/11. I’d sooner massage a cactus than back Shrews at odds-on.

FMP: Surely nobody is touching Tranmere at an odds-on price currently? Unless they plan on winning this one 1-0, their recent form and data don’t suggest they’ll comfortably roll Cheltenham over.

SD: I'm going to have to pick Shrewsbury. It's rare this season that Michael Appleton's side have been the favourites, but they face a Newport County team that looks to have turned a corner. The Exiles have won their last two away games with clean sheets, and even in the 4-2 loss at home to league leaders Walsall last weekend, they gave as good as they got. The Salop did look to have turned their poor season around, but back-to-back league games without a win suggest that decent form has stalled.

Give us a game from Saturday’s slate that screams goals, please!

MH: York are really starting to motor in the National League and are back into favourites for the title. They host a Morecambe side who have leaked goals for fun this term but are also quite capable of finding the net themselves. This could be any score – let's try a small stake on over 4.5 and 5.5 goals at 33/20 and 7/2 respectively.

GS: Fleetwood against Swindon. The best counter-attacking side in the league against the best attacking side in general. Fun.

FMP: Tightly priced games can sometimes be cagey (see Stoke-Coventry last weekend - poor Adam!), but I like a goal-fest in Cambridge vsBarnet, given their respective home/away splits thus far. 11/4 for over 3.5 goals makes some appeal.

SD: Two of the highest-scoring teams in League Two meet on Saturday when Grimsby host Chesterfield. The Mariners have scored 29 goals in 15 league games, and the Spireites have scored 27 goals in 15 league matches. 7 of the last 9 league matches involving David Artell's side have seen over 2.5 goals scored. Both teams have scored in 7 of the last 8 league games involving Paul Cook's side. The Met Office says there's an amber alert in place for goals at Blundell Park this Saturday!

Any goalscorer or prop bets taking your eye?

MH: I've already given a goalscorer, so let's try a prop bet. Wales travel to Liechtenstein for what their penultimate World Cup qualifier on Saturday, knowing two wins will seal a play-off berth. Sorba Thomas is having an excellent campaign for Stoke with four goals and five assists in the Championship already this season. He's also set five goals up in his last seven international outings – so 6/4 for an assist here with LiveScore and BetMGM looks really generous.

GS: Alassana Jatta at 11/8 anytime. Harrogate lack the defensive reliability we associated with them last season; key figures like keeper [James] Belshaw and defender [Anthony] O’Connor have been dropped recently, which suggests their go-to unit isn’t quite as dependable as it was.

FMP: It’s not a sexy price, but 6/4 for Jaze Kabia to net against Chesterfield for Grimsby. The defence is starting to leak a little too much for Cook’s men, and one of the league’s most in-form strikers should surely take advantage of that.

SD: I'm going to back Michael Cheek to continue his fine scoring form for Bromley against Barrow at 11/10 with Bet365. The veteran striker has scored in 4 of the last 5 league games for the Ravens. Playing against a Barrow defence that has conceded 5 goals in their last 3 league games only encourages my confidence.

With a lot of the under-pressure bosses having departed, where does the value currently lie in the Next Premier League Manager To Leave market?

MH: I'd have to lean towards Daniel Farke at Leeds – currently a 7/4 chance. Marco Silva is the market leader currently but he's shown his quality over an extended period with Fulham and I feel the club will give him time to turn things around. The Whites are doing okay this term but with four very tough fixtures coming up, I wouldn't be surprised if Farke found himself bang under pressure in the coming weeks.

GS: I think the contenders are Daniel Farke at Leeds and Eddie Howe at Newcastle. Howe, I’m subjectively a huge fan of, but even objectively, he has that reputation as an excellent Premier League manager. History is on his side. With Farke, there is that perception, fairly or otherwise, that he’s a top Championship manager rather than someone who can do it at this level. I don’t necessarily buy that myself, but given the choice, I’d go Farke to go.

FM-P: I would probably say it’s Daniel Farke at 7/4 purely because he should be the favourite and he’s not, that “honour” falling to Marco Silva. It’s probably 60/40 that Farke goes next for me.

SD: Leeds manager Daniel Farke at 7/4 with William Hill feels like the most likely departure. The German gaffer has always struggled to get results in the top flight, and with the Whites down in 16th place in the Premier League, having lost 4 of their last 5 league matches, it's not looking good. I am looking at Newcastle head coach Eddie Howe as the best value pick at 9/1 with William Hill, though.

The National League are kicking off at 3.03pm this weekend to draw attention to their 3UP campaign. Is it time to revert to three promotion places for non-league sides chasing the EFL?

MH: You'd think me being a Carlisle fan, I'd be campaigning for this thoroughly! But really, I think the money floating around at the top of the National League is far removed from the restrictions which exist at the bottom of League Two. If the National League bring a few more rules in line with the EFL – such as transfer windows and some kind of FFP rules – then I think it would become impossible to deny them an extra promotion spot. But they need to take the lead with that first.

GS: No, I think we should stick with two up two down (not to be confused with the fictional talent show runners-up to Peter Kay’s character, Geraldine McQueen!). For reasons outlined in this week’s column, I may be in a minority here… puts tin hat on!

FM-P: Absolutely. I’d like to see three up, three down, right across the pyramid if I’m honest.

SD: I think the National League has effectively been League Three in everything but name for a long while now. Teams that get promoted from the National League rarely struggle in League Two, and that alone is an argument enough to move to a three-up and three-down promotion/relegation format. I think more needs to be done to ease the financial impact of dropping out of the Football League. This is where we need to see more Premier League money filtered down into the lower leagues.