Football Bet of the Day: Hammarby headed for a hammering

Norrkoping v Hammarby
Thursday 18:00

In Sweden yesterday, Ljungskile left it late, but they eventually came through for us. After AFC Utd missed a first-half penalty, Ljungskile opened the scoring in the 70th minute, before being quickly pegged back. But they scored again in the 86th minute and that gave us - and them - the home win we wanted.

We're sticking in Sweden today but stepping up a level. In one of this afternoon's six Allsvenskan matches, second-placed Norrkoping are hosting sixth-placed Hammarby. Norrkoping are unbeaten at home this season and W4-D1-L0 in this fixture across the last five seasons. We're backing them to win this evening at a better-than-evens price.

Norrkoping are W5-D2-L0 at Ostgotaporten this term and, in four of those five victories, they won comfortably - by at least two clear goals.

Hammarby are an unremarkable W2-D2-L3 on the road this term, going W1-D1-L2 against teams now above them in the table. Those two defeats were comprehensive - 0-3 at league-leaders Malmo and 0-3 at fifth-placed Hacken - and, with a poor record at Ostgotaporten, they could well fall short again tonight.