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Old 7th October 2006, 05:39   #2 (permalink)
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Default Re: England-Macedonia

Gotta agree with most of that.

There are far too many unknown factors in the England line-up for this to be anything other than a bet on Macedonia +2.5.

In recent qualifiers at home England have only twice managed a 3 goal victory, against Andorra and N Ireland.

In England's last ten qualifiers at home they have scored two goals on seven occasions, and that increases when you start looking at opponents of the same quality as Macedonia.

It's surprising however that in 50% of Englands recent qualifiers at home that they have been goalless at the break.

In Macedonia's recent qualifiers away from home they have scored a surprising amount of goals. The only teams to have kept them at bay were the Dutch and Andorra (!!!!).

With an unknown formation there is every likelihood that England will start slowly again and could easily be opened up at the back.

But I like the look of 2-1 to England, maybe 3-1, and 0-0 at half-time.

A bet on Macedonia on the asians is a bit of a no-brainer and have bought the time of the first goal. If things are goalless at half time then a little buy of the total goal minutes might be in order.
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