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Bolton Wanderers v Bristol City: Betting tips


Ross Casey, formerly top football tipster of EasyOdds and a lifelong City fan, returns to take a look at the Bristol City betting markets to help you beat the bookies.

Ross’ latest article on The Exiled Robin comes ahead of Friday night’s trip to Bolton for Sky’s Friday Night Football headliner. Over to Ross…

Bristol City head to the Macron Stadium on Friday night in a Championship fixture broadcast live on Sky Sports. With the Robins ending a seven-match winless streak last weekend, it is imperative that we push on and put pressure on our promotion rivals by bringing home the points!

MATCH ODDS
Despite our mid-season wobble, Bristol City are a best price of 11/10 to win this fixture, making them firm favourites. Some bookmakers go even shorter at 19/20 odds on - so make sure you peruse an odds comparison service - this will ensure you get the best Championship odds if you are backing us.

The Robins are now fifth in the league, just three points off second placed Derby County. However, the play-off hunting pack now goes arguably as deep as 11th with Brentford just eight points behind us with 17 games to go.

The draw is available at 12/5 with City picking up six on their travels already this season, and drawing 24% of their 37 matches this season. Of course, Bristol City drew 0-0 the last time they played this fixture in 2015.

Bolton have been made outsiders with best Championship odds of 59/20. Phil Parkinson’s side have won less home games than we have won away and the fact we have lost just two on the road in The Championship is probably the reason that bookmakers have made them almost 3/1 to win here.

KEY STATS
Only one of the last eight Bolton games have seen three or omr goals scored. If you fancy another under 2.5 goals to be scored on Friday night, you can get a best price of 8/11.

With Gary Madine sold to Cardiff on deadline day (what a classic Warnock signing that is) Bolton have lost their top Championship scorer of 10 goals. The rest of the squad scored a combined 14 without him. If you fancy a clean sheet for City, there is a best price 6/4 available.

In the last 11 meetings between these two sides, both teams have scored just four times! Backing no in the both teams to score Bolton v Bristol City betting market will get you best odds of 20/21 on Friday night.

If Bristol City are to win this one it will be their first ever victory at the Macron Stadium. They have played three times at their so far picking up a draw and two defeats. We even managed to lose back in 2012 despite going 2-0 up within 21 minutes! If you believe in curses, perhaps you will be backing Bolton double chance (to either win or draw) which has been priced up with Championship odds of 4/5.

Bobby Reid has scored 14 goals for Bristol City this season and interestingly, 10 of those have come away from home. The bookies have made him the 13/8 favourite to score in the anytime goalscorer betting market.

RECOMMENDED BEST BET
I am feeling fairly confident that we can come away with at least a point in this one. Bolton have lost the focal point of their attack, although it will be interesting to see how Gary Madine’s replacement, Tyler Walker, fares here.

Bolton play a deep defensive line as they are worried about their lack of pace in defence and for me that is a bit of a worry as our counter attack could be neutralised by such a tactic. However, only four Championship sides have scored more on the road than us and for me we can outscore Bolton and pick up our first ever three points at the Macron. Back a City win - but make sure you get the 11/10 and don’t settle for less!

Follow Ross on Twitter at @RossCasey24

Ross Casey has six years worth of experience in the football betting industry where he worked his way up from a data management input role all the way to being the editor thanks to his betting knowledge and his editorial skills.

Currently seeking new work after redundancy, we are happy to have the Bristol City fan who has supported the club from birth and had a season ticket for 15 years before moving to London, writing for us weekly. He now attends as many City games as possible and counts Tommy Doherty and Jon Stead among his City heroes.



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