Injury Time Goal at Middlesbrough Lands Punter £52k from Epic Acca Win

Goal Posts in Stadium with Red Seats

Somewhere, there’s a customer that now worships the very ground that Middlesbrough centre back Ashley Phillips walks on.

The 21-year-old notched a 91st minute winner for the Boro in their enthralling 4-3 victory over Norwich City on Saturday.

That sent around 28,000 home fans inside the Riverside Stadium berserk… while, in an unknown location, one other individual was left punching the air in delight.

The anonymous Sky Bet punter landed a remarkable 5,200/1 acca courtesy of Phillips’ late strike – helping them turn their £10 stake into a handsome payout of £52,979.

Goals Galore

Seven games featured on their coupon, with four of those permed from the lower leagues in Scotland.

Selection Opponent Result
Middlesbrough Norwich City 4-3 Win
Birmingham City Derby County 2-1 Win
Swansea City Burnley 3-1 Win
East Kilbride Peterhead 3-1 Win
Edinburgh City Stirling Albion 7-3 Win
The Spartans Forfar Athletic 5-1 Win
Stranraer Dumbarton 3-1 Win

The selections were match result and both teams to score, with four clubs north of the border – Edinburgh City, East Kilbride, Spartans and Stranraer – taking pride of place in their games against Stirling, Peterhead, Forfar and Dumbarton respectively.

East Kilbride’s game was finely poised at 1-1 early in the second half, but Cameron Elliott’s hat-trick ultimately got them home 3-1.

Scottish League Two is a remarkable division for punters seeking goals, with four of the ten teams averaging more than two goals per game scored.

Edinburgh City and Spartans are two of them, so when they won 7-3 and 5-1 respectively perhaps eyebrows did not need to be raised. And they were joined in the winner’s circle by Stranraer, who came from a goal down to prevail 3-1.

Meanwhile, back in the English Championship, goals were also on the agenda in the all-Midlands clash between Derby County and Birmingham City; thankfully for our punter, the Blues scored two of them and the Rams one.

Swansea City heaped further misery on Burnley in a 3-1 win, while Middlesbrough’s epic 4-3 triumph over Norwich was decided by that injury-time goal from Phillips.

And that completed the Sky Bet customers’ magnificent seven: £10 in, £52,979 out in the space of one glorious Saturday afternoon.

Quick On the Draw

There were plenty of other big winners over the weekend, including one William Hill customer who trousered a cool £44,210 from a £10 stake via their match result acca.

Selection Result
Cheltenham to beat Crawley 3-1 Win
Grimsby to beat Bristol Rovers 2-0 Win
Barnet to beat Accrington 2-1 Win
Colchester to draw with Crewe 1-1 Draw
Gillingham to beat Tranmere 2-0 Win
Newport to draw with Fleetwood 1-1 Draw
Chesterfield to beat Oldham 2-1 Win
Port Vale to beat Exeter 1-0 Win
Rotherham to draw with Salford 3-3 Draw

Once again, they had an injury time goal to thank for their success; Josh Stephenson may be an unlikely hero to some, but it was his 93rd minute strike for Crewe – a chance with an xG of just 0.08 – that earned the Railwaymen a point at Colchester.

The contests between Newport and Fleetwood and Rotherham and Salford also ended in stalemate; the latter a 3-3 barnburner that had two penalties, a red card and both teams leading at various points of the game.

Barnet, Cheltenham and Grimsby did the business in their games – with Barnet and Cheltenham both coming from behind. And there were also victories for Gillingham, Chesterfield and Port Vale as the William Hill punter plotted a perfect course through the League Two schedule.

In doing so, they landed a 4,200/1 multiple, with William Hill’s Acca Boost promotion adding a further £2,000 to take the total prize pot to £44,210.

Football Fever

Another football punter enjoyed an outstanding acca win over the weekend… this time with an American football coupon.

It’s not often we get to feature NFL on these pages, but one Sky Bet customer got stuck into the fixtures on the opening weekend of the competition’s 2026/27 season.

Their nine selections included anytime touchdowns for the likes of Josh Allen, David Montgomery and Chase Brown, while the ever-willing Derrick Henry and Jahmyr Gibbs were backed to score two or more TDs for the Baltimore Ravens and Detroit Lions respectively – they duly obliged.

To complete the set, they needed two quarterbacks – Allen and C.J. Stroud – to go over their respective passing yard lines.

Allen, the Buffalo Bills playmaker, laid waste to his 221.5 line, recording 334 passing yards in all to go with two touchdowns in a masterful display.

And Stroud had a decent game, albeit in the Houston Texans’ 31-36 defeat to the Bills, with 274 passing yards – again, torching his Sky Bet line of 223.5.