Football Betting Tips: Tom Lee Picks An EFL Midweek Double

Tom Lee's Panel Tips For Tuesday, April 8

• Tom Lee's Panel Tip 1: Burnley To Beat Derby County - 17/20 With William Hill
• Tom Lee's Panel Tip 2: Sunderland To Beat Norwich City - 7/4 With Coral

Derby County Vs Burnley, Tuesday 19:45

Burnley probably didn't expect to find themselves top of the pile in the Championship after last weekend's action, but the inability of Leeds to find a winner at Luton, paired with Sheffield United's unexpected demise at Oxford, means Scott Parker's men are currently in pole position.

Jaidon Anthony's brace was enough for the Turf Moor men to secure maximum points away to fading Coventry, elevating them to a current total of 84 points, one superior to the Blades and two more than Leeds.

With six to play the Lancashire side take their ultra-mean defensive unit to Derby's Pride Park on Tuesday evening, aiming to ram home their advantage against their recently improved, but nonetheless embattled hosts. 

Derby are out of the bottom three only on goal difference, but having departed Blackburn in mid-February to a chorus of bewilderment, boss John Eustace has got them playing, picking up four desperately needed victories in quick succession, prior to Saturday's 1-0 defeat to Swansea.

Maximum points came at the expense of Blackburn, Coventry, Plymouth and Preston, but with due respect they are biting off significantly more when the Clarets come calling.

A relentless, grinding run of form has seen Burnley collect 19 points from a possible 21, and that's before you focus on their dependable rearguard.

A goals against tally of just 12 speaks volumes for Parker's leadership. The football may be workmanlike, but to get daylight against his troops is near impossible. 

For reference, the other teams directly in the title fight have conceded 30 (Sheffield United) and 28 (Leeds) respectively, while at the other end of the Championship bottom feeders Plymouth have seen their goalkeeper beaten 78 times so far!!

With that in mind, I like the look of Burnley staying top by taking maximum points in the East Midlands, an eventuality priced up at 17/20 with football betting sites.

Tom Lee's Panel Tip 1: Burnley To Beat Derby County - 17/20 With William Hill

Norwich Vs Sunderland, Tuesday 19:45

Who to pair them up with is the question in this latest EFL double. The solution, again away from home, is Sunderland.

The Mackems sit fourth, eight points adrift of automatic promotion and 15 clear of Middlesbrough directly below them.

In a season where top teams keep fluffing their lines, it would not be the biggest surprise to see them creep even closer into the equation, but to do so they need to take three points away at out of sorts Norwich.

The Canaries had a hatful of chances but pretty much saw their play-off aspirations evaporate with a 2-1 defeat at Plymouth on Saturday.

They boast proven scorers in both Josh Sargent and Borja Sainz, but three defeats in four has seen them plummet to 11th in the table, and with that descent you'd be unable to guarantee certain key players aren't already planning their summer holidays.

Sunderland, meanwhile, have one of the top talents in the Championship in Jobe Bellingham, who bagged the winner when the two sides met in the north east four days before Christmas. 

Their form is decent too; four wins in their last six have included maximum points hauls away to both Sheffield Wednesday and latterly West Brom.

Sunderland have everything to gain and won't fear Norwich, so back them at 7/4 with betting apps for the second leg of our double.

Tom Lee's Panel Tip 2: Sunderland To Beat Norwich City - 7/4 With Coral

Tom's midweek double on Burnley and Sunderland to win pays out around 4/1 with William Hill.