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The Championship top scorer odds are exciting reading ahead of the 2023/24 big kick-off, with the second tier looking in much better shape than last season. Two longer term Premier League sides in Leicester City and Southampton have dropped into the division, while Leeds United will be gunning for an immediate return to the top-flight under new ownership. All three sides have candidates in the Championship top scorer odds, but where is the value?
That is where we come in and you can find four Championship betting tips below, one that is priced as big as 20/1. They require patience and a longer term mindset, but there is often greater value to be found in the outright markets than in the week-by-week odds over the course of the English football season, and the Championship top scorer odds are certainly worth considering ahead of the campaign beginning on August 4th. Bet365 are paying out for the first four places with their each-way terms in this market.
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Boro forward Akpom ready for another incredible campaign
Chuba Akpom started last season as an unwanted player at Middlesbrough and largely stuck around because the club didn’t back Chris Wilder in the transfer market. Sometimes, things just don’t work out.
What followed was a remarkable campaign during which the 27-year-old had the season his career was yet to see – the one where he became the main man for his side and scored goals for fun. He started over 20 league matches for the first time in his career, changed position to one slightly off the front and scored 28 goals, taking the Championship top goalscorer crown.
There’s little reason he won’t continue to be a success. Michael Carrick has set his Middlesbrough side up to be a fluent, attacking outfit that control games and spend most of their time in the final third. They have added more attacking flair and will recruit top-quality loanees. Akpom will play a similar role, starting the season with the confidence he finished the last and at 9/1, the Arsenal youth product could win you a lot of money come the end of the season.
Championship Top Scorer Odds
4th August
kick off 20:00 Chuba Akpom e/wCan Farke work his magic on another striker?
Daniel Farke has managed in three Championship seasons. In the first, when his side finished mid-table, his only striker had a return of one goal every three matches. In the second and third, his team won promotion and his leading striker scored 29 and 26 goals.
Patrick Bamford has endured a couple of tough seasons. He has struggled with fitness in a side that no longer creates the same quality of chances, therefore it is not surprising that he hasn’t had the same impact when fit. Before that, he scored 16 goals in winning promotion to the Premier League in 2019/20 and 17 in his first top-flight campaign.
Daniel Farke and Leeds United should be in the battle for promotion, such is the quality of their squad. Bamford should be the man that leads the line for them. With Farke coaching his team to play a high-intensity, creative style of football in which they spend much of their time in the final third, Bamford will be able to lead the line, stay between the width of the 18-yard box and pounce on a lot of chances. He sits at 14/1 in the Championship top scorer odds list.
Championship Top Scorer Odds
4th August kick off 20:00 Patrick Bamford e/w
Shot-heavy Armstrong good value for top scorer
Another former Championship player who has proven time and again that he can score goals. Adam Armstrong hasn’t had the career he anticipated at Southampton, the diminutive striker struggled for consistent game time in a Saints that were on a downward trajectory from his arrival. Yet, he is available at 14/1 in the Championship top goalscorer odds list and could be worth backing.
For starters, the ex-Blackburn Rovers man knows how to score goals. He has previously scored 20 League One goals during a single season and later went on to score 16 and 28 goals for Blackburn Rovers in the Championship. He returns to the Championship playing for a side that will dominate the ball thanks to the quality of their squad and the tutelage of Russell Martin. Martin has seen one of his strikers score 22 and 19 league goals for a mid-table outfit in the last two seasons.
Furthermore, statistics show that the most common age of EFL top scorers is between 24 and 28 when players typically reach their prime years. Armstrong is now 26 and a more mature version of the player that scored so many goals at his previous clubs. The sharp-shooter could be in for another big campaign.
Championship Top Scorer Odds
4th August kick off 20:00 Adam Armstrong e/w
Could the top scorer gong stay in the north of England?
It’s a debate that is had a lot in the North East. If Ross Stewart stayed fit for the whole season, he would have been Championship top goalscorer and Sunderland may have finished even higher than sixth last term.
There may be some truth to that. He scored 24 goals in 46 League One matches as the club won promotion in 2021/22. He stepped up a level and performed even better, netting ten goals in 13 matches before a season-ending injury in 2022/23. In his absence, Ellis Simms scored seven in 14 starts before Tony Mowbray was forced to adapt without an out-and-out striker.
Stewart is back and fit again. He’s 27 and raring to go at the top end of the second tier. They have a manager who has shown time and again that he can get his forwards to score goals – Adam Armstrong and Ben Brereton Diaz further prove that point. He and Sunderland have a young and exciting squad playing an open and creative style and Stewart can lead that as one of their most experienced players. At 25/1, he’s worth a punt.
Championship Top Scorer Odds
4th August kick off 20:00 Ross Stewart e/w
