Jake Cooper best bets

Best bets: EFL Championship and Ligue 1 tips for 22 September 2025


Our team assess the Monday night action, including the Championship fixture between Watford and Millwall, picking out their best bets.


Football betting tips: Today

0.5pt A red card in the match in Marseille vs PSG (19:00) at 7/2 (Sky Bet, Betfair, Paddy Power)

0.5pt Both teams to have a red card in Marseille vs PSG at 50/1 (Betfair, Paddy Power)

0.5pt Jake Cooper to score anytime in Millwall vs Watford (20:00) at 10/1 (General)

1pt Cooper 1+ shots on target at 29/10 (General)

Sky Bet odds | Paddy Power | Betfair

Marseille vs PSG

Jimmy 'The Punt' Cantrill

Bad weather means this fixture was delayed 24 hours having originally meant to take place on Sunday, but the tip still stands.

Ligue 1 has been great for RED CARDS this season. Last weekend there were six across the nine games, and we have seen two in the last three Le Classique's, contested between Marseille and PSG.

Marseille have played five times this campaign and four of their fixtures have seen reds, none of PSG’s games have had them yet but Les Parisians did have three players sent off at the Club World Cup.

Now for the best bit. Referee Jerome Brisard has sent four players for an early bath in four appearances this season. In Ligue 1, he sent two Rennes players off in their 4-0 defeat at Lorient and last season he gave reds in five of the 18 games he took charge of.

Backing both A RED CARD IN THE MATCH and BOTH TEAMS TO HAVE A RED CARD are the bets.

Odds correct at 0910 BST (22/9/25)

Millwall vs Watford

Joe Townsend

There a few centre-backs in the Championship who are as consistent a set-piece threat as JAKE COOPER.

Since entering the division with Millwall in 2017 he has had 349 shots in 345 league games, hitting the target 109 times and scoring 26 goals.

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Cooper is yet TO SCORE ANYTIME this season but three of the six league goals Watford have conceded this season have come at set-pieces, and the Hornets have allowed the most set-piece expected goals per 90 in the second tier (0.56).

With the giant Millwall defender 10/1 to find the net and 29/10 to simply have 1+ SHOTS ON TARGET he is very much worth backing.

Watford have not kept a clean sheet in all competitions this term, conceding eight times in six fixtures.

Odds correct at 0810 BST (22/9/25)


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