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Second round in Group D of the World Cup 2018 qualifying tournament, with the Republic of Ireland taking on Georgia at home.
Republic of Ireland got off to a pretty decent start with a 2-2 draw in Serbia and Martin O’Neill side seems to continue being on the right track after the solid showing at Euro 2016. Still, they have plenty of work to do in a pretty tough group, which also features Austria, Wales and Serbia. A win against Georgia is definitely mandatory, so expect the Irish to accept nothing less than 3 points from this clash.
Georgia continues to struggle at international level after reshuffling the team with young players in the Euro 2016 qualifying campaign. They hired Vladimir Weiss as manager and looked decent at times in the first group game vs. Austria, but still lost 1-2 at home. Defense is the main problem for the Georgians, as they allowed 1 or more goal in 7 of their last 8 games. Over the last year, they allowed 3 goals from Estonia, 5 from Romania or 2 from Albania.
Bet on Ireland – Georgia and get your 100% (100 €) welcome bonus at Ohmbet now!Team news: Ireland deals with a number of injuries ahead of this clash. McCarthy, Pilkington, Murphy, Quinn are out, while Doyle, McGeady and Arter are questionable.
The two teams met in the qualifying campaign for Euro 2016 as well, with Ireland winning two tough matches: 2-1 in Georgia and 1-0 at home.
I feel the odds for an under are ridiculously low here and getting odds as high as 1.83 for a bet on over 2 goals, which means money back if exactly 2 goals are scored, is great.
Ireland, at home, is definitely expected to score 1, 2 or 3 goals, while Georgia is a side that can bang in a goal as well. The Georgians are not great at defending, so parking the bus will not be of much help. They also scored in each of their last 6 matches against teams like Spain, Austria, Romania, Albania or Slovakia. In the last qualifying campaign, Georgia scored away in Germany in a 2-1 loss. That being said, why shouldn’t they find the net in Dublin?
On the other hand it is true that Ireland is not the best attacking team and they also miss a number of important offensive players, so that will hurt their offensive game even more. That has to be taken into account, but I still feel there’s plenty of value betting on goals here. Georgia usually finds a way to allow even the most offensively challenged teams a way to score, so Ireland, with superior quality and at home, should be fine.
All in all, my tip is over 2 goals to be scored. Prediction: Ireland – Georgia 2-1.
Pick: over 2 goals
Odds: 1.83 @ Slbet
Stake: 7
Possible profit: 5.81
Event date: 6 October
to be honest I”m shocked that you didn t pick Iceland for today.In my eyes Iceland against a poor Finland home court advantage and at odds 1,75 is a real gold mine. I expected something like 1,35-1,40. I take it with maximum stakes and with lower stakes iceland win to nil. it seems a logical bet something like 2-0 i expect. I am very curios whi you didn t touched this game
They miss some important players and if Finland comes to park the bus, it might not be the type of game Iceland likes.
But, even so, I agree with you that it is a bet worth taking. Bookies keep underrating them. I have small stakes on Iceland myself, I just decided Croatia and Ireland over are better bets and didn`t have the time to write 3 previews.