After taking my first loss on Tuesday due to a late goal by NZL in extra time, I will be trying to get back on track on Wednesday:
I will make several bets on that early game between Chile and Honduras:
Chile to win -145
Chile -1 (Asian Handicap) +125 (small bet)
Chile clean sheet/Honduras Under 0.5 goals +102
I really like what I've seen from Chile: Quick passing game, pretty decent team play and rather good spacing so that they create many situations, where they have a superior no. of players around the ball.
They barely lost 0-1 at Mexico in May, otherwise they won their 5 preparation matches all by nil. Ok, all these games were against rather weak competition, but teams like NZL or ISR shouldn't be weaker than Honduras. Chile scored several times in most of these matches and also defeated teams like Denmark or Slovakia last year, so they should be favorite to advance to the next round behind Spain. They need 3pts here (and should try to win by more than 1 goal because goal difference might decide who advances to the elimination rounds if the game vs Switzerland ends in a tie) and Honduras defense was ... horrible: As soon as an opponent picks up the pace and quickly switches from defense to offense after a Honduras' turnover, their defense was extremely unorganised and out of sync. The quick forwards of Chile and their passing game could cause havoc in that defense and imo Honduras is a really good matchup for Chile.
Chile also held their opposition scoreless in 5 of their last 6 preparation matches, while Honduras was scoreless in 4 out of their last 5 matches.
I will also add one more bet on Uruguay clean sheet / South Africa Under 0.5 goals +152:
Like I said before the France game, URU has a really solid defense and limited FRA to very few scoring chances. RSA played an extremely poor 1st half against Mexico and although they were better in the 2nd half, almost all their chances came by counter attacks, when Mexico gave up their defensive discipline.
URU on the other hand almost never opens up much room for counter attacks and RSA lacks players with playmaking abilities to break up that massive defense by Uruguay. URU should play a little bit more offensive minded than against France, but they will still heavily rely on their defense and then, after creating a turnover, try to find Forlan in midfield to quickly switch to offense and create scoring chances...but all after all the physical style of play by URU should dominate that game and I would even expect them to score once or twice after free/corner kicks or after one of their counter attacks.
The best bet imo still is an under bet on South African goals since that game also could easily end scoreless.
I will make several bets on that early game between Chile and Honduras:
Chile to win -145
Chile -1 (Asian Handicap) +125 (small bet)
Chile clean sheet/Honduras Under 0.5 goals +102
I really like what I've seen from Chile: Quick passing game, pretty decent team play and rather good spacing so that they create many situations, where they have a superior no. of players around the ball.
They barely lost 0-1 at Mexico in May, otherwise they won their 5 preparation matches all by nil. Ok, all these games were against rather weak competition, but teams like NZL or ISR shouldn't be weaker than Honduras. Chile scored several times in most of these matches and also defeated teams like Denmark or Slovakia last year, so they should be favorite to advance to the next round behind Spain. They need 3pts here (and should try to win by more than 1 goal because goal difference might decide who advances to the elimination rounds if the game vs Switzerland ends in a tie) and Honduras defense was ... horrible: As soon as an opponent picks up the pace and quickly switches from defense to offense after a Honduras' turnover, their defense was extremely unorganised and out of sync. The quick forwards of Chile and their passing game could cause havoc in that defense and imo Honduras is a really good matchup for Chile.
Chile also held their opposition scoreless in 5 of their last 6 preparation matches, while Honduras was scoreless in 4 out of their last 5 matches.
I will also add one more bet on Uruguay clean sheet / South Africa Under 0.5 goals +152:
Like I said before the France game, URU has a really solid defense and limited FRA to very few scoring chances. RSA played an extremely poor 1st half against Mexico and although they were better in the 2nd half, almost all their chances came by counter attacks, when Mexico gave up their defensive discipline.
URU on the other hand almost never opens up much room for counter attacks and RSA lacks players with playmaking abilities to break up that massive defense by Uruguay. URU should play a little bit more offensive minded than against France, but they will still heavily rely on their defense and then, after creating a turnover, try to find Forlan in midfield to quickly switch to offense and create scoring chances...but all after all the physical style of play by URU should dominate that game and I would even expect them to score once or twice after free/corner kicks or after one of their counter attacks.
The best bet imo still is an under bet on South African goals since that game also could easily end scoreless.
