They say there can only be winners and losers in sport, but of course they’re wrong, there’s always the draw, and who doesn’t love a draw where everyone wins. Those winners include canny punters who look for value, and here to help is our Best of World Football Draws Tips for the week.
Our resident draw expert Frankington Stanley runs his keen eye over the many football divisions around the world to find the best draws for you. He’s sort of like the John West of Football draws and hates Dog Salmon and lop sided fixtures. Frankington spent the off season ignoring the Euros to continent-hop across dozens of countries to assess the best league and teams for draws.
Frankington Stanley is not fussy, no country or continent is out of bounds, and the more obscure the better. And some of them are quite obscure. They don’t even feature on the Who Scored website.
So get yourself ready for another weekly serving of the finest Football Draw tips from all over the world, where The Gurgler and Frankington Stanley take the stale out of stalemate.
It’s all you can eat draws. Grab a spoon.
DRAW OF THE WEEK
Here is the best of the best draw tips for the week. Grab the pen, and your wallet.
PREMIER LEAGUE – NOTTINGHAM FOREST v CRYSTAL PALACE
ODDS – DRAW $3.50
FORM / STATS – Five of the last six games between these sides have ended in a draw. Not enough for you eh? How about Nottingham Forest’s four draws from their first seven games. Or Crystal Palace’s failure to win any of their first seven games that feature three draws.
OTHER DRAW SPECIALS
SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE – ST JOHNSTONE v ROSS COUNTY
ODDS – DRAW $3.30
FORM / STATS – The last two games between these sides have ended in a draw. One of them was 3-3, so draws don’t always mean dull. St Johnstone haven’t drawn a game at home this season. They also haven’t won a game either, so maybe will settle for a point. Ross County haven’t won a game away either, but do have two draws from their three away games. Boxes ticked.
Poland – Ekstraklasa – Korona Kielce vs Piast Gliwice
ODDS – DRAW $3.00
FORM / STATS – Three of the last four games between these Polish superpowers have ended in a draw, including the last two matches.
VALUE DRAW OF THE WEEK
If $3.00-$3.50 isn’t long enough odds for you, here is Frankington Stanley’s value draw bet of the week.
LA LIGA – ATLETICO MADRID v LEGANES
ODDS – DRAW $4.75
FORM / STATS – Leganes have drawn more than half of their games this season in La Liga (5/9) and are dangerously perched just above the bottom three. Los Pepineros have also drawn their last three games in a row and have drawn 4/5 away this season. Atletico have drawn of their four home games this season while only conceding one goal. If that’s not enough, the most recent game between these sides ended 0-0.
UK FOOTBALL DRAW SPECIAL OF THE WEEK
With so many divisions, there should be so many draws to choose from. Frankington Stanley knows draws in the UK and serves up his finest.
LEAGUE TWO – ACCRINGTON v BARROW
ODDS – DRAW $3.50
FORM / STATS – Just 80 miles apart these two teams in the north west of England, so you’d expect their games to be close. And so the last two games have proven having ended 1-1. On a technicality, it’s three in a row, and the third last game ended 2-2 in regular time. Throw in Accrington’s underwhelming three draws from five home games this season so far, and the vibe says draw.
EURO DRAW SPECIAL OF THE WEEK
Some have accused us of picking easy leagues for our draws. First of all, how dare you, secondly we introduce our Euro Leagues draw of the week, where we scan the four biggest leagues in Europe for the finest draws. It could be Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, or Ligue 1, but what it will always be is a quality eye for a draw.
ITALY SERIE A – GENOA v BOLOGNA
ODDS – DRAW $3.20
FORM / STATS – Serie A is always good for a draw. Bologna certainly are so far this season with five draws from their seven games. And make that four draws from their last five games too. Their opponents Genoa are going that well either, in fact they are in the bottom three. So while they only have two draws from their seven games so far, they may well settle for a draw given their ladder position. As for the H2H, two of the last four games ended in a draw. They may have been at Bologna and not Genoa, but you can’t be too choosy. But you can choose the draw.
