Punters Panel: Expert football betting tips ahead of the weekend
Fri, 26 Sep 2025
Fri, 26 Sep 2025
The final weekend of matches for September is heading our way this weekend. There are plenty of fascinating clashes happening both domestically and abroad for us punters to sink our teeth into.
Our expert football tipsters have answered the call for the Odds Now Punters Panel to discuss this weekend's games. Four students of the football betting landscape with the knowledge and understanding to offer the best football betting tips for the upcoming games.
Before we begin this week's questions and answers, let's take a look and see who is providing their thoughts this week.
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.
MH: I think a shade of odds-against for Swindon at home to Bromley has to be mopped up. The Robins have won six out of nine in League Two this term and were unlucky in two of those. The Kent side are a tough nut to crack but I'd argue they've done their best work at home this season, so I think 21/20 about a home win looks well worth backing.
AD: At the risk of stumbling into a massive trap, it has to be QPR to beat Sheffield Wednesday at 31/20 with BetMGM. Wednesday have been beaten 3-0, 2-0 and 3-0 in their three league home games this season and I suspect will have more joy away from Hillsborough in their current situation. QPR have won three in a row and look a good side with Richard Kone upfront.
GS: Let's go bold. MK Dons -2 handicap at Shrewsbury - 9/1 with Betfred. I think MK Dons will be a wounded animal after losing at home to Accrington Stanley last weekend, and their squad is oozing with top end quality. Shrewsbury are in a tough situation as a club right now, a portion of the fanbase is somewhat against the manager, and I think they might find home games tougher than aways as a result. If they go behind early I could see this being a cricket score.
FMP:
MH: I couldn't back Nottingham Forest at odds-on against Sunderland. Ange Postecoglou is still looking for his first win in charge and that Wednesday trip to Betis could leave some fatigue in the legs against a Black Cats side riding an early-season wave and impressing back in the top flight.
AD: I'm not too keen on Chelsea at 3/4 at home to Brighton. The Blues draw too many games and Fabian Hurzeler's side are perfectly capable of taking at least a point from Stamford Bridge, having beaten Manchester City and drawn with Tottenham already this season.
GS: Luton. No chance am I backing them at 3/4 against a Doncaster side flying high in 7th. I actually think Grant McCann's team might do better against possession sides, too, because they're so good at transitions and transitional play - a bit like a lower league version of Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool.
MH: The National League's two top scorers meet this weekend when my club Carlisle host Rochdale. Seven of Regan Linney's eight goals so far this term have come at Brunton Park, so the 11/8 on him hitting the target here appeals. But Dale have an in-form forward in Mani Dieseruvwe too (seven goals). He's 2/1 anytime – and both to get on the scoresheet is 13/2 on the Bet365 Bet Builder. I'm anticipating quite an end-to-end affair. Particularly after Carlisle were battered at York in midweek!
AD: As referenced above, I'm going to go all in on QPR and back Kone to score at 21/10 with Ladbrokes. He's already proving himself to be one of the best strikers in the league, having scored three goals since signing last month, and is bound to have opportunities against Sheffield Wednesday.
GS: Kieran Green is 7/2 to score anytime for Grimsby against Cheltenham. Oddschecker have him as the 13th-likeliest player to score in this match, and yet if you go by the League Two xG figures, he's the 24th-likeliest player to score in the entire division. I think it's because he's a ball-winner by trade, people see the name and assume he won't score many, but the way Grimsby set up, it's a 4-3-3 that morphs into a 3-2-4-1 because the left-back flies forward, and McEachran and Khouri sit which means Green can at times be in almost a front-three with Vernam and Kabia - he's often the closest to the latter because of his driving runs.
MH: Following their 2-1 Carabao Cup defeat of Southampton, it is now six straight games that Liverpool have won by exactly one goal. Is that really a coincidence? It's the exact type of victory margin I can see occurring again this weekend when they visit Crystal Palace. Their last two Premier League trips to Selhurst Park have resulted in 1-0 and 2-1 wins. The Reds are 3/1 to win by exactly one goal again here.
AD: Backing the right-back up against Jack Grealish to be booked has proved profitable so far this season. It has landed in two of Everton's four matches and was unfortunate not to again last weekend, when Conor Bradley committed four fouls and didn't receive a yellow card. The Toffees take on West Ham on Monday night and I'm taking Kyle Walker-Peters to go into the book at 11/2 with Betway.
GS: I think Oxford against Sheffield United will be 0-0. The Blades will go, literally, with the intention of making sure they open their points account - they simply can't start the season with seven straight defeats. I don't think a Gary Rowett team has the creativity to open up opponents who play them at their own game. So, I'm saying 0-0.
MH: I'm still happy enough to top up on 6/1 for Chesterfield to win the League Two title. The bookies don't have a clue who to put in as favourites in the fourth tier currently, with seven sides priced between 6s and 10s for the title. I'm leaning towards the tried-and-trusted Spireites to keep plugging away at the levels they've set for some time now. MK Dons – who punters were clamouring to back at 7/2 ante post – are huge drifters and I wouldn't be rushing to get them on side, while the others up there have questions to answer still.
AD: I think there's the potential for a shock relegation from the Premier League. All three promoted teams look competitive, I trust Brentford to get it right, and West Ham have the talent in the squad and the pulling power to hire a high-profile new head coach if required. The problem is there are no particularly obvious candidates above them – but I've placed a very small stake on Fulham at 18/1 with AK Bets. Marco Silva seems to be constantly linked with a move away, including recently to the Hammers, and that would be a huge blow. It wouldn't shock me if Manchester United come knocking for him, too. The Cottagers' underlying numbers have them entrenched in the bottom half despite having only played Chelsea of the real challengers so far – a game they lost 2-0. This is a punt but one I want to be on now.
GS: Bolton to win League One at 6s. Them, Huddersfield and Cardiff have looked comfortably the best so far from the teams that have a realistic chance of winning it, but the latter two are managed by somebody with a coaching background - we don't necessarily know how good Lee Grant and Brian Barry-Murphy would be at the high stakes point. We know Steven Schumacher can do it because he's done it before.
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