Football Park's Best Bets | Leicester City vs Sheffield United EFL Championship Longshot Bet Builder

The EFL Championship is now in full swing, and this weekend marks the third time that all participating clubs have played a fixture in just one week.

Arguably the biggest game of the coming weekend features Leicester City vs Sheffield United, a battle between the surprise underperformers of the season so far (Sheffield), and a side unable to find any sort of momentum since relegation from the top flight last season (Leicester).

The Blades recently moved out of the relegation zone after notching wins over Sheffield Wednesday and Portsmouth, but still only sit one point clear of Oxford United - a performance here would go a long way towards feeling relatively safe.

Leicester are in a bit of a rut, winning just three of their last 13 games, a run which has seen them fall from the play-off places to a lowly 15th - certainly not where they expected to be at the start of the season.

With so much on the line for both sides, it is only right for you to put something on the line too - this one is certainly not a banker, but if it wins, you win big. So, without further ado, here is Football Park’s Leicester City vs Sheffield United longshot bet builder.

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Football Park's Leicester City vs Sheffield United EFL Championship Longshot Bet Builder

• Sheff United to Win
• Patrick Bamford to Score Anytime
• Both Teams to Score
• Over 2.5 Goals

Total Odds: 39.99

Why We Are Backing This Bet

Blades In Form

'Form' is a relative term, but by the standards set in the midst of their disastrous start to the season, Sheffield United are in a rich vein of form after managing two wins on the bounce.

Both wins ended 3-0 in their favour, and Chris Wilder, as he has done so many times before at the club, has coached some confidence and some urgency back into his players - they look so much more focused than at the beginning of the campaign.

They also come up against a Leicester that seemingly cannot string a run of games together. The Foxes had also managed consecutive victories before their midweek fixture, but this run quickly came to an end with a 3-0 demolition at the hands of Southampton.

Against a team with almost no momentum, and having picked up their own in recent weeks, Sheffield represent a good bet despite playing away from home.

Is Bamford Back?

One game isn’t a lot to go on, but it’s all we’ve got right now. Bamford scored on his full debut for Sheffield United on Wednesday night, making it one goal in one start for the Blades. By that logic, if he starts at Leicester, he’s bound to score, right? (this is a long-shot bet for a reason.)

It was a somewhat fluky finish, as the former Chelsea and Leeds man just happened to be in the right place at the right time to bundle a rebound over the line, but at the end of the day, it was a goal scored as a direct result of his sharp striking instincts.

We’ve seen Bamford thrive at this level before while at Leeds - in the 2019/20 season, he found the net on 16 occasions as Leeds earned promotion - and we all saw the quality he had to offer during his time in the Premier League.

He may not be the same player now, but make no mistake; Bamford is still a lethal Championship marksman, and we believe he’ll show it this weekend.

Goals At Both Ends

The maths works out: United have scored in four of their last five games, and Leicester in three. Overall, that works out as seven out of ten, or a 70% chance of this leg coming off.

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High-Scoring Contest

Recent history suggests that the over 2.5 goals leg is something of a banker too - this mark has been reached in all three of Leicester’s last three games, as well as four out of five of Sheffield United’s.

Neither side looks particularly convincing at either end, but that is why this leg is so useful - poor defence and inconsistent attack mean that anything can happen when chances open up. With some poor defending from both across the season, both backlines will likely struggle again.

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