5 World Cup Qualifiers Handicap Bets for Tuesday's Action – 7/9/21

Russia host Malta at home in Group H of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.

The 2018 World Cup hosts have recently appointed a new manager in Valeri Karpin who has only managed two matches so far of which his first was a 0-0 draw against group favourites Croatia, where Karpin showed that he wants to play a much more fluid system than that of Stanislav Cherchesov who used to opt to play Artem Dzyuba up-front as a target man. Last time out they managed a 2-0 away victory against Cyprus where Aleksandr Yerokhin and Rifat Zhemaletdinov got on the scoresheet.

The Russian’s have had a solid start to their World Cup qualifying so far, as they started their campaign with two victories against Malta and Slovenia by 3-1 and 2-1 scorelines with Dzyuba scoring three goals across the two matches, but, Since then, but they have also been defeated 2-1 by Slovakia.

As mentioned above, the last time these two sides met, Russia ran out as comfortable 3-1 winners via goals from Dzyuba, Mario Fernandes and Aleksandr Sobolev. Malta have conceded nine goals so far in five matches to Russia, Slovakia, Croatia and Slovenia seeing a -2 Goal Handicap priced at 1/1.

On Tuesday, Finland travel away to the current world champions France in Group D.

Finland started their qualifying campaign slowly with two draws from their opening two matches, drawing 1-1 and 2-2 with Ukraine and Bosnia & Herzegovina, with Norwich City striker Teemu Pukki scoring all three of their goals in these games, but the Finns did manage to beat Kazakhstan 1-0 in their most recent qualifier thanks to a goal from Joel Pohjanpalo.

Meanwhile, Didier Deschamps side have drawn 1-1 with Ukraine twice in World Cup qualifying with Manchester United forward Anthony Martial bailing his side out in the last match, in the opening game of the world cup qualifiers, Serhiy Sydorchuk’s second-half equaliser cancelled out Antoine Griezmann’s opener. France have also managed two wins and a draw in their qualifying matches, beating Kazakhstan and Bosnia 2-0 and 1-0, before drawing with the latter 1-1 which saw Antoine Griezmann score in back-to-back matches against the Bosnians after Edin Dzeko had given his side the lead.

At Euro 2020, France did show that they had the capability to score plenty of goals, as they managed eight goals in four matches before being eliminated and that it should only be a matter of time before the attacking trio of Karim Benzema, Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe all click up front together.

On Tuesday night, Norway play Gibraltar at home in Group G of the World Cup qualifiers in a game that the hosts are expected to win in a comfortable fashion.

Norway earned themselves a 2-0 win against Latvia on Saturday thanks to goals from Erling Haaland and Mohamed Elyounoussi in the same that they managed a 1-1 draw at home to the Netherlands in what was Louis van Gaal’s first game with the Dutch national side since the 2014 World Cup – in this match Haaland’s 20th-minute strike was cancelled out by Davy Klaassen’s 36th-minute equaliser. Prior to their draw with the Dutch, the Norwegians had won two of their last three qualifiers, beating Montenegro 1-0 and Gibraltar 3-0, with a 3-0 defeat to Turkey in between the latter two results in March.

Gibraltar have conceded 20 goals in five matches so far, including seven against the Netherlands in a 7-0 home loss last March. With Haaland in good form once again, scoring three and assisting three in three Bundesliga matches so far this season for Borussia Dortmund, as well as scoring in his side’s recent games against Latvia and the Netherlands, he will fancy Norway’s chances of scoring more than the three they managed against the same opponents with 29 shots last March.

Denmark host Israel on Tuesday night in Copenhagen, with Kasper Hjulmand’s side looking to once again show why everybody fell in love with their performances at Euro 2020.

The Danes have started life in Group F in sensational form, winning all five of their qualifiers so far, scoring 17 goals and conceding none. Last time out they narrowly beat the Faroe Islands 1-0 in what was a frustrating match for the Danes who had 19 shots and 80% of the ball, winning by Jonas Wind’s 85th-minute goal. Prior to this, the Euro 2020 semi-finalists had beaten Scotland 2-0, Austria 4-0, Moldova 8-0 and Israel 2-0.

Of late, Israel have taken advantage of poor defensive displays by both the Faroes and Austria, beating them 4-0 and 5-2, but earlier on in the group they laboured to a 1-1 home draw to Scotland and were beaten by Denmark in their own stadium as Jonas Wind and Martin Braithwaite scored in each half of the match. With this game being played in Denmark, we can perhaps expect to see a more dominant scoreline.

Republic of Ireland host Serbia at the Aviva Stadium with the hosts looking for what would be just their second win in 16 matches under the former Dundalk man.

In the opening match of qualifying Group A, Serbia ran out as 3-2 winners against the Republic of Ireland thanks to goals from Dusan Vlahovic of Fiorentina and an Aleksandar Mitrovic brace. In all truth in this game Ireland can count themselves as slightly fortunate to have scored from both of their efforts on target through Alan Browne and James Collins.

Since their defeat to Serbia, Ireland have endured a horrendous run of results, losing 1-0 at home to Luxembourg, drawing 1-1 with Qatar, losing 2-1 to Portugal via two late Cristiano Ronaldo goals, as well as needing an 87th-minute equaliser from Shane Duffy to rescue a point at home to Azerbaijan.

On the other hand, Serbia lead Group A ahead of the likes of Portugal having drawn 2-2 with them following their win against the Irish, before beating Azerbaijan 2-1 away from home and hammering Luxembourg 4-1 last time out thanks to goals from Mitrovic (2), an own goal by Maxime Chanot and a stoppage-time effort by Nikola Milenkovic. With at attacking front three of Mitrovic, Dusan Tadic and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, there is every chance that the Serbs will cause Kenny’s side a lot of problems.