Championship Betting Tips

This bet has won in 11 of the last 12 meetings between these two teams.

Both have began the season in excellent form in front of goal, Al Hilal are averaging four goals for per game, while Al Ahli are at two goals for per game.

There is a lot of attacking talent on both sides, with Al Hilal’s left flank alone stocked with Theo Hernandez, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Crysencio Summerville.

Al Ahli have the league’s top scorer so far, Ivan Toney, who also bagged 32 goals last term.

Al Ahli have scored in the first half of two of their three in the league so far, and should test an Al Hilal backline that conceded twice to rock-bottom side Al Faysaly in their opening game.

From an entertainment point of view, it’s so good to have Tony Mowbray back managing in the Championship.

The chocolate enthusiast just loves attacking football and his Blackburn side, who were amongst the pre-season favourites for relegation, have seen BTTS in every game and are a great watch for neutrals.

Four of their five games have ended 2-1, losing two and winning two of those scorelines, and the other game was an enterprising 2-2 draw at newly-relegated Wolves.

Lincoln are clear favourites for this game, and have scored in all three of their Championship games so far this season - Blackburn are unlikely to be the first to deny them given they’re yet to keep a clean sheet in all competitions.

Wednesday won 7-2 on Saturday (v Bromley) and won their only away game so far 2-1, at Leyton Orient.

Wednesday are yet to keep a clean sheet in the league, and they travel to a Wycombe side who have scored in all three of their league outings.

They’ve been a touch unfortunate to only score three times from 4.1 xG in the league, and need to bounce back after getting thrashed 5-1 at Stockport on Saturday.

Wednesday are rightful narrow favourites for the game, but are yet to show any kind of defensive solidity.

Wolves are very close to overtaking West Ham as the favourites to win the Championship, and it's easy to see why.

They've scored nine goals in their first three games since relegation, picking up seven points and winning their last two 3-1 and 4-1.

West Ham are yet to win, drawing at Burnley, losing at home to Charlton and drawing at Watford.

Even their goal at Watford came from a defensive howler rather than anything you'd expect to see from the title favourites.

Wolves beat West Ham 3-0 at home last season, even at their worst they were able to get one over the Hammers.

West Ham have conceded five in three in the league, Wolves have looked the best attack in the division so far and we only need them to notch one for this bet to land.

Huddersfield have looked really goalsy so far.

Three goals came from the 80th-minute onwards in their 2-1 win at Cambridge on Saturday, and they've seen both teams score in all three league games to date.

BTTS has landed in each of Oxford's two league outings so far, and they could go above 2nd-placed Huddersfield with a win.

Huddersfield have scored three first half goals across their opening trio, and Joe Taylor is joint-top of the scoring charts with three to his name already.

The 23-year-old has always looked capable of winning a golden boot, just without putting it all together across a full season.

Oxford had a free weekend and should be fresh for the challenge in West Yorkshire.

Wednesday won 7-2 on Saturday (v Bromley) and won their only away game so far 2-1, at Leyton Orient.

Wednesday are yet to keep a clean sheet in the league, and they travel to a Wycombe side who have scored in all three of their league outings.

They’ve been a touch unfortunate to only score three times from 4.1 xG in the league, and need to bounce back after getting thrashed 5-1 at Stockport on Saturday.

Wednesday are rightful narrow favourites for the game, but are yet to show any kind of defensive solidity.

Rovers look a really quality attacking unit and have scored two or more goals in each of their first three games.

The exciting thing about that is that their manager, Steve Evans, is more known for producing well drilled sides who are hard to beat.

So, if they can become one of the best defences in the league alongside this attacking firepower, they’ll be a League Two team for the ages.

Seven points from three games really flatters Colchester, they’ve benefitted from a red card and some low probability strikes going in for them, they’re not at Rovers’ level if they can reproduce what they have done in the last couple of weeks.

York have seen 10 total goals across their three League Two games so far.

Over 1.5 and Both Teams to Score has landed in all three of them.

Cheltenham have been in the goals without looking as convincing as newly-promoted York so far, scoring five across their three league games.

Alex Newby has scored in all three games for York, and he'll be encouraged by Cheltenham's vulnerable backline.

Both sides have seen this bet land in every league game they've played so far, with Cheltenham allowing their opposition more than 1 xG in each of their matches.

Stoke have lost all three games in the league this season and look very vulnerable against Norwich.

Norwich pulled off a statement win, dismantling newly-relegated Burnley 4-1 at Carrow Road at the weekend.

They've been better than their three points from as many games suggests, and made great strides last season under Philippe Clement to finish just three positions back from the play-offs after a terrible start.

Stoke's opening three games have been tough, but they've failed to create more than 1 xG in any of them and were on a downward trend to finish last season, to the point where them flirting with the relegation spots at the start of this campaign has not come as a surprise.

Rovers look a really quality attacking unit and have scored two or more goals in each of their first three games.

The exciting thing about that is that their manager, Steve Evans, is more known for producing well drilled sides who are hard to beat.

So, if they can become one of the best defences in the league alongside this attacking firepower, they’ll be a League Two team for the ages.

Seven points from three games really flatters Colchester, they’ve benefitted from a red card and some low probability strikes going in for them, they’re not at Rovers’ level if they can reproduce what they have done in the last couple of weeks.

Stoke have lost all three games in the league this season and look very vulnerable against Norwich.

Norwich pulled off a statement win, dismantling newly-relegated Burnley 4-1 at Carrow Road at the weekend.

They've been better than their three points from as many games suggests, and made great strides last season under Philippe Clement to finish just three positions back from the play-offs after a terrible start.

Stoke's opening three games have been tough, but they've failed to create more than 1 xG in any of them and were on a downward trend to finish last season, to the point where them flirting with the relegation spots at the start of this campaign has not come as a surprise.

Stoke have lost all three games in the league this season and look very vulnerable against Norwich.

Norwich pulled off a statement win, dismantling newly-relegated Burnley 4-1 at Carrow Road at the weekend.

They've been better than their three points from as many games suggests, and made great strides last season under Philippe Clement to finish just three positions back from the play-offs after a terrible start.

Stoke's opening three games have been tough, but they've failed to create more than 1 xG in any of them and were on a downward trend to finish last season, to the point where them flirting with the relegation spots at the start of this campaign has not come as a surprise.

Brooks has hit the ground running since arriving at Norwich from Sheffield United for big money.

He’s scored two goals from seven shots in the club’s first three league games, averaging 2.83 shots per 90.

This bet has won before the hour mark in two of his three Championship appearances so far.

The variety in Brooks' shots is encouraging when considering including him in this bet, four of his seven shots in the league have come from inside the box and three outside, and he's had two shots with his weaker right foot as well (scoring from one of them).

Norwich are fancied to have the better of things at the bet365 Stadium which should result in plenty of opportunities for Brooks to pick up the ball in dangerous areas.

Gallagher had three shots on target and four in total in Saturday’s 4-1 loss at Wolves.

That included scoring an absolute rocket from range.

He’s been playing off the right but showed against Wolves he’s still a threat from there, and his aerial ability means he can produce shots from a range of situations.

Two of his five shots this season have been headers, and that could be part of the thinking behind playing him out wide, allowing him to enter the box late - he has had two headed shots, one on target, both have come from regular play and from the right half of the penalty area.

Ben Chrisene (Norwich's LB who'll likely be up against Gallagher at RW) is 10cm shorter, and has won 50% aerial duels (winning three) this season where Gallagher is at 60.9% (winning 14).

Only three attacking players have won more aerial duels than Gallagher in the Championship so far this season

Johnson has committed 1.50 fouls per 90 in the Championship so far this season.

Looking at a larger sample, he fouled 1.07 times per 90 in the second tier last season across 17 appearances for Ipswich.

On that flank he may come up against Ben Chrisene, bombing on from left back, who has won three fouls from as many games this season, and a range of dribbly attacking players who can drift around wide left and more central attacking midfield positions.

Johnson started at right back three times for Ipswich last term, fouling six times in those appearances, has committed two fouls and one foul in his two starts there for Stoke so far this season.

This bet has won in 10/10 games that Stoke and Norwich have played so far this season.

Norwich covered this line themselves two times over in their 4-1 win over newly-relegated Burnley on Saturday, Stoke look like even more vulnerable opposition at this point in time.

Both sides are yet to keep a clean sheet in the league and are playing catch up after picking up lower points hauls than they’d have liked from their opening three (3 for Norwich and 0 for Stoke).

Both head-to-heads last season covered this goal line.