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The domestic league season has already kicked off for the majority of teams in the English football pyramid, and now comes the time when clubs will look to have a go at EFL Cup glory. Despite the Premier League big hitters dominating the competition in recent years, many of the EFL clubs will look at sides like Cardiff City and Bradford City of the past and will look to emulate their success by reaching the EFL Cup final.

The EFL Cup opening round has fluctuated somewhat in how goal heavy it has been. However, it is usually a bit more goal-laden than regular league football, which opens up the opportunity to place an interesting value acca on goals in the right ties.

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Another trend worth taking notice of is the one between Championship and League Two sides in the same tie. Over the last two seasons second tier and fourth-tier sides have met in the opening round on 15 occasions, 11 of which ended up going over the 2.5 goal line, 73%.

This will be one of the factors taken into account in the selections for this midweek.

Lucky for you, we have an EFL Goals Accumulator for this evening's action, and it's coming in at 8.63 for anyone interested in taking part in what we believe could be a goal-ridden first round.


Tuesday's EFL Cup Goals Accumulator


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