Harry McKirdy is the bookies' favourite to score the first goal when he returns to Carlisle United with Swindon Town today.

The Robins forward, who was with the Blues in the 2019/20 season, is 11/2 to open the scoring at Brunton Park.

McKirdy, the League Two fans' player of the month, has 14 goals to his name from 32 Swindon appearances so far this season, including eight in away games.

He is 23/10 to score at any stage in today's fixture, 18/1 to net two or more, and 150/1 to really rub United's noses in it with a hat-trick.

For United, new boys Kristian Dennis, Tobi Sho-Silva and Owen Windsor are all 8/1 for the opener in the Brunton Park clash.

Omari Patrick, who got the game's first goal at Colchester last weekend, is 9/1 to repeat the feat on home soil against Ben Garner's team.

Sho-Silva is 100/30 to get his second goal for the Cumbrians at any stage in proceedings.

Longer odds are available for the likes of Morgan Feeney (80/1), Jack Armer (50/1) and Dynel Simeu (50/1) to get the game's first goal.

Bookmakers, meanwhile, reckon the game is very close to call between the third-bottom Cumbrians and eighth-placed Robins.

Bet365 make United marginal favourites to pick up their first league win in eight.

Their victory odds are 19/10 compared with Swindon's 29/20.

Coral, though, fancy play-off chasing Swindon at 13/10 compared with United at 9/4.

SkyBet also favour the visitors at odds of 5/4, pricing Carlisle 21/10 for victory.

A much-needed clean sheet for the Blues after conceding 12 goals in five games is 5/2.

Source: Oddschecker.