A number of European heavyweight's are in action in the latest round of World Cup qualifiers on Wednesday when the likes of Portugal, France and Denmark are all short prices.

 

 

 

 

Group A Portugal 1 / 5 Draw 9/2 Ireland 13/1

 

Portugal and Serbia top this group with 7 points, Luxembourg have 3, Ireland and Azerbaijan have yet to earn a point.

Portugal started their qualifying campaign back in March with a 1-0 win over Azerbaijan and a 2-2 draw in Serbia. They were 3-1 winners in Luxembourg and their more recent form in the Euro's saw them win 3-0 in Hungary before a 4-2 defeat to Germany and 2-2 draw with France. In the first knockout round they were beaten 1-0 by Belgium.

 

Ireland are not in good space right now and although they gave Serbia a run for their money, losing 3-2 away from home, a 1-0 home defeat to Luxembourg leaves them with a mountain to climb.

 

 

Group D France 0.15/1 Draw 6.25/1 Bosnia & Herzegovina 17.5/1

 

France were pre-tournament favourites to win the Euro's but after coming through the group with 1 win and 2 draws they were knocked out by Switzerland in a penalty shoot out. Their World Cup qualifying campaign is in good shape with a 4 point lead over Ukraine. A 1-1 draw at home to Ukraine was followed by wins against Kazakhstan (2-0) and the first clash with Bosnia (1-0) where Griezmann scored the only goal of the game.

 

Aside from the home defeat to France, Bosnia drew their only other qualifier 2-2 in Finland and they didn't contest the Euro's.

 

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Group F Denmark 9/20 Draw 3.25/1 Scotland 6.25/1

 

Denmark reached the semi's of the Euro's where they lost to England at Wembley. They have won all 3 of their WC qualifiers, in Israel (2-0), home to Moldova (8-0) and in Austria (4-0) and they top this group 4 points clear of their opponents here.

 

Scotland were also involved in the Euro's, playing out a 0-0 draw with England at Wembley either side of defeats to Czech Rep (2-0) and Croatia(3-1) and they failed to make the knockout rounds. In earlier WC qualifiers they drew at home to Austria (2-2) and in Israel (1-1) before a 4-0 home win over the Faroes.

 

Wednesday bets:

 

Personally the above matches make little appeal and I would battle to make a case for a surprise so my fall back position of 2-3 goals in total at odds of around 9/10 comes to mind, albeit for interest only purposes.

 

The trickier betting contests come in Group H including Russia, who take on Croatia and Slovenia who host Slovakia. That group is topped by Russia but after 3 rounds of matches 5 teams are covered by just 3 points so perhaps there is at least 1 draw there with 22/10 the odds of reward.

 

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Note, odds are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change

 

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