Luton and MK Dons could be home bankers in the EFL

3pm Saturday

Luton v Plymouth

Favourites had a field day in the lower leagues in the last international break and on a curtailed coupon it could be worth relying on a couple of odds-on home teams to oblige.

Nearly all of the good things collected in Sky Bet League One and Two last month and Luton, who were beaten by a classy Barnsley side on that occasion, should appreciate the drop down in class against Plymouth at Kenilworth Road.

Luton started the season unable to pick up the points their excellent play deserved, although they are now up to fifth and showed they were able to shrug off the absence of suspended striker Danny Hylton with a comfortable 2-0 FA Cup success over Wycombe last week.

Hylton remains banned but Luton are rampant at home, winning nine of their 11 Kenilworth Road clashes, with only Charlton and Sunderland escaping Bedfordshire with draws.

Plymouth are on the up themselves with three wins in their last six league matches but the financial disparity between the clubs was shown in the summer when Luton tempted star defender Sonny Bradley away from Argyle.

Derek Adams' side, who remain in the relegation zone, have lost eight of their nine matches against teams currently in the top half.

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MK Dons v Macclesfield

It's not often a League Two team are offered at 4-11 but this fixture looks for all the world as if it will be League One against National League next season with MK Dons second in the table and rock-bottom Macclesfield beginning to get left behind.

Macc, beaten by Maidstone in the FA Cup last week, are on seven points and have not even had a tough run of fixtures - this is their first away trip to a team priced at shorter than 25-1 for the title.

It's five defeats in six for the visitors, who have been stuffed 5-0 and 4-1 at home by Northampton and Bury respectively in the last few weeks and MK Dons are a strong side on an excellent league run.

Paul Tisdale's second-placed hosts have lost only once - at leaders Lincoln - and go into this game with six wins in their last seven in League Two.

The Luton-MK Dons double pays just under 11-10.

Recommendation
Luton (8-15), MK Dons (4-11)
2pts double bet365

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Thought for the week

It has been a busy week for managerial sackings with Phil Brown (Swindon), Neal Ardley (AFC Wimbledon), John Askey (Shrewsbury), Harry Kewell (Notts County) and Slavisa Jokanovic (Fulham) all biting the dust.

Ardley, who won't be short of offers when he decides to return to the game, did a magnificent job with Wimbledon but maybe things had gone stale after six years with a club he served so diligently whereas Kewell had barely been in Nottingham for two months and the decision to sack him seems harsh.

Kewell, working with Kevin Nolan's squad, was in charge for 11 matches - three wins, four draws and four defeats - with the losses coming against Exeter (fifth), Bury (tenth but much better than that position suggests), MK Dons (second) and Swindon (17th).

Three of those were away and the Swindon home defeat was the only one Notts can really grumble about. Even then it was a match where the Magpies had five shots on target compared to Town's one, but a late own goal saw County lose 2-1.

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