ODENSE v HOBRO – Pick: 1 – 20 July 2014

Odense to hand newcomers opening defeat

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Football – Denmark – Superligaen

Sunday 20th July 2014 – Kickoff: 1400hrs

The new Danish Superligaen season continues this weekend with hosts Odense taking on Superligaen newcomers Hobro at their TRE-FOR Park on Sunday afternoon.

Odense start the new season with a home match and will be looking to get off to a good start despite a couple of disappointing pre-season matches where they lost to IFK Gothenburg at home 0-1 and managed a draw against Norwegian Tippeligaen outfit Vestsjaelland a couple of days later.

Odense finished up in the lower half of the Superligaen at the end of last season finishing with an indifferent home record of  5-5-6  25/26 but against lower half opposition on home turf they finished with a  3-3-2  18/17 record – and I anticipate Hobro to fall into the lower half category of the division this season.

Incidentally, these two teams met earlier in January in a friendly, a match that Odense won in convincing fashion as they ran out 3-0 winners.

 

Onto the visitors Hobro, and as mentioned earlier, they were promoted from the 1st Division along with league winners Silkeborg at the end of last season but the first season in the top flight of any football is a tough assignment.

Hobro’s pre-season preparations were limited to just one match which was a couple of weeks ago which they lost 0-2 away at Norwegian side Nordsjaelland. It will be interesting to see how Hobro fare away from home as their strong suite last season was their form at their DS Arena, and today’s match could give us a better idea.

 

To sum up, both teams have made indifferent starts to their respective new campaigns, albeit warm-up games, but with home advantage and a win over today’s opponents in an earlier encounter, I’ll back the hosts Odense to claim the points in this one. Could be a 2-0 win for the home side.

Pick: Odense straight win @ 1.65 Bet Victor