International Week: Euro 2020 Qualifiers

 TOTAL SCORE 11W –9L

Intro and recap: yeah, Premier league seems to be bringing out all the salsa and pinatas with all the fiestas going on - I mean Aston Villa beat Liverpool 7-2. Hopefully, the return of international games can turn out recent luck. There is going to be a lot of games this week and over the weekend, so I will be looking to get two posts out for the international games.

Match	Bet	Odds
North Macedonia – Kosovo	1	2.50
Bosnia and Herzegovina – Northern Ireland	1	1.90
Bulgaria – Hungary	2	2.25
Norway - Serbia	BTTS Yes	1.91
TOTAL		20.41

Odds are from Unibet on Wednesday 7.10.

For this first post I wanted to focus on the Euro 2020 qualifiers as they are the games that decide the final teams to the European championship next summer. I am intending to attend some games if the situation with corona allows that to happen. These games are two legged, with both of the teams playing one game at home, but I think there is enough games to make a line of bets.

First game I chose is Bosnia and Herzegovina – Northern Ireland. Bosnia was in the same group as Finland in the qualifiers and their results swinged a lot. Talentwise this should be easy for Bosnia, but they do seem to fall flat on their face from time to time. Even with that I think Northern Ireland is just too weak with their current team to contest, so I feel a strong home victory for Bosnia. N-Ireland can try to get something in their home game, but away I see no chance.

Next up is North Macedonia – Kosovo. This game simply goes down to form: North Macedonia have won their last two home games that were against Israel and Armenia, and I see them being the same level as Kosovo. On top of this Kosovo have had some really bad results in their past games with 4 losses and a draw from their last 5 games.

Bulgaria – Hungary is the next game; both of the teams are ok, and I think the game will be fairly even. However, I am putting my money on Hungary as they have picked up more victories in their recent history and, in my understanding, this is a rather weak Bulgaria team.

Last game I chose is Norway – Serbia. This is probably the most exciting series out of the qualifiers, with the young prolific players of Norway in Håland and Odegaard. Serbia has always been a solid team and I still might see them as favorites in this matchup. Despite this, I see the safest bet to go in with is for both teams to score. Norway has scored in all of their last 10 games and Serbia has scored in 8 of their last 10, so I see the odds of 1.91 being really good value on our money.