THE team at bettingexpert.com have taken a look at recent league contests between City and Oldham, who meet at Valley Parade tomorrow, and discovered that only one of the pair’s last half dozen duels have been settled by more than one goal

That trend suggests supporters are in for a close encounter this weekend.

The Bantams’ fine start to the season continued last week and Marathonbet have had little hesitation installing them as their 3/4 jollies to take three points.

Oldham, by contrast, are a frothy-looking 4/1 (188bet) to claim their first victory of a campaign that has seen them score just one goal so far (although they’ve still accumulated five points), and the possibility of a low-scoring draw cannot be dismissed.

Accordingly, a goalless encounter – the likelihood of which is rated a 9/1 shot by bet365 – has found favour with punters, while the 3/1 posted by Matchbook.com against the draw has also been well backed.

In other markets, Titanbet offer 4/6 about the match yielding fewer than 2.5 goals, while Ladbrokes offer even money on the opening period ending with honours even, while bookmakers report the most popular result in the correct score markets is 1-1, priced at 6/1 by William Hill.

It seems that if we’re going to see a winner, it probably won’t be by a significant margin. Punters who concur might be persuaded to run the rule over 888sport’s 6/1 for the Bantams to secure a 1-0 victory, a win that could conceivably propel them to the top of the League One table.

* Odds supplied by www.smartbets.com, the customisable odds comparison site

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