Saturday Football Tips: Guaranteed goals at Gladbach

Bourssia Monchengladbach v Eintracht Frankfurt
Saturday 17 April, 14:40 BST kick-off

The alliteration and puns are all well worth it for this game as two teams who just love goals meet in Saturday's Bundesliga action, with Borussia Monchengladbach hosting Eintracht Frankfurt.

Not the easiest fixture to say, or spell, but what it does spell is goals - and plenty of them.

Fourth-placed Frankfurt are flying and having their most prolific season in almost 40 years with over two goals per game being scored as they push for a Champions League spot, while time is running out for Gladbach as they've fallen away from the European places.

Gladbach have going downhill ever since manager Marco Rose announced he was leaving to join Dortmund at the end of the season - and in a plot twist of Line Of Duty proportions, Eintracht boss Adi Hütter this week announced he was departing in the summer to join...Monchengladbach!

Anyway, on the betting front, these two sides are a dream match-up, with 24 of Eintracht's 28 league games seeing both teams score - that's the best rate in Europe, while with 21 of Monchengladbach's games also going that way this game just has that goal guarantee about it.

Just one of Frankfurt's last 13 games saw a clean sheet in it, with just two of Borussia's last seven having one team draw a blank.

Both teams to score and over 2.5 goals has landed in five of the last seven for both teams, while both teams to score and over 3.5 goals has come in for two of Eintracht's last three and two out of four for Gladbach.

And if you still need convincing, the last five meetings between the two have seen both sides score, and four of those have had over 3.5 goals in.

With all those stats in their favour, it's no surprise that both teams to score here is 1.42/5 while over 2.5 goals is 1.51/2 so even that double is a relatively short price, but does seem the inevitable outcome.

Over 3.5 goals is a bit juicier at 2.26/5 so that doubled up with both teams to score gives us a better return.

However, there's a third string to our Bet Builder bow in the form of Andre Silva, who has been in fine form when scoring in Frankfurt's last three games, and has also scored three times in his last two matches against Gladbach.

It's also inevitable that he'll bag again and that makes for a nice looking Bet Builder treble at 3.711/4 with plenty of stats behind it to make it worth backing.