Very strange move of the odds, unless Halifax are not interested in the playoffs and the game is rigged making no sense to me. In the morning price for this line was 1.42.
So this is postponed game from 10 days ago, in the weekend we'll have the final round in the Conference.
Halifax will move into the playoff zone with 3 points today, even draw can do some good as they'll get even in points with Aldershot who have quite worse goal difference meaning winning today will make draw enough on Saturday.
Oldham sitting 5 pts lower have just a theoretical chance for the 7th place, needing two wins and failures of Aldershot, Halifax and Southend together in the last round. Simply not possible, anyway the recent run of Athletic is really poor with no win since 9 rounds.
Halifax won all 3 games vs Oldham since 2022.
Just Jordan Keene and possibly Angelo Cappello are out for Halifax. Oldham are minus fw Mike Fondop for suspension, mf Tom Conlon is doubtful.