Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Faroe Islands - Serbia UEFA - WC 2010 Qual. Prediction

Faroe Islands - Serbia
10.06 20:15
Faroe Islands side have surely improved over the years and is now not equal to Andorra, San Marino and those kind of teams any more, as more and more of their players are managing to get themselves a transfer to one of the more famous European clubs while their practices have gained in quality so they managed to win one point so far in this group, drawing against Austria, even though they were the better side and it wouldn`t be undeserved if they even won, which would have been the biggest success in their national team history. Now they will be hosting the group leaders and will surely be motivated to primarily keep the clean sheet and then even score, even though not conceding is surely their main goal so a defensive tactics is expected.
Only win counts
Although Serbia played way below their level in these qualifiers, they still managed to beat Austria by 1:0 a few days ago and extend the gap between them and France, two main candidates for the top spot in their group. With a win against Faroe Islands, they will increase the gap to 8 points and will only need a draw against the French to pretty-much qualify for the World Cup. Serbian mentality is such that they always underestimate the small teams and play relaxed against them but with the new coach Antic, the players are playing a lot more determined and serious and there is no doubt they will give their best in this match, especially because they underperformed against Austria. Jankovic, Stankovic and Vidic won`t play in this game but striker Zigic is returning and that will be a lot more important here as the attack was really bad against Austria, and Marko Pantelic was not very useful up front.
Sure away win
The Serbs will not sit back and wait for Faroe Islands to open up but will attack them from the first minute and try to secure the three points as early as possible before going to the summer break. Serbia beat Faroe Islands by 2:0 at their qualifying opener and will now try to leave a bit better impression and find more ways of breaking their defensive wall. I believe the bookies set such AH mainly based on their previous encounter and not much on the quality gap, which is a lot bigger than those two goals. Serbia are able to win by 4-5 goals if they get it going, and that is a lot more likely to happen than 1:0 or 2:0 so I`m almost convinced they will win by at least 2 goals here so high stakes on this bet as I expect the visitors to win comfortably.
Tip: Serbia AH (-2), Odds 2.0;

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