Football Tips Today Acca for Saturday 28/10/2017
Scotland v Slovenia: Pre-Match Betting Analysis
If Scotland are to stay in touch with any slight chance of qualification a win here is necessary. Scotland have mustered up just the single win in 4 qualification games, away to Malta which they followed up with a well-fought draw at home Lithuania. Gordon Strachan’s side then lost away to both Slovakia and England and are now 4th in the group. Robert Snodgrass scored a hat-trick against Malta and he along with Fulham’s Tom Cairney (if starts) will likely provide the Scottish with quality in possession while the highly-rated Leipzig winger Oliver Burke will cause problems out wide.
Slovenia occupy 2nd place at the beginning of play and will be looking to keep up with England via a win in Scotland. Slovenia have kept 3 consecutive clean sheets with their only 2 goals conceded in World Cup Qualification coming away to Lithuania in their opener. They have come out of their 3 recent friendlies unbeaten, conceding just the solitary goal. Slovenia will be tough to beat with Jan Oblak in net and in the likes of Ilicic, Kurtic and Kampl will have enough to cause Scotland problems.
Immediately the 12/5 for a Slovenia win seems a cracking price, they are unbeaten so far in qualification and are solid at the back while carrying a respectable attacking threat. The 11/8 offered for Slovenia Draw no Bet covers the draw at a fiery Hampden Park and looks a great bet here. The clean sheet market needs to be acknowledged given Oblak has not been beaten in any of his 3 previous qualifiers and 21/10 for a Slovenia clean sheet does seem appealing.
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