England v Malta Betting Preview – World Cup 2018 8th October
This isn’t going to be a game which goes badly for interim England boss Gareth Southgate. A win will be put on the board and really it is only going to be about the amount of goals that England can produce in the fixture. You would imagine that the only thing that could go wrong is England stuttering to a low-scoring win in the game. England opened their World Cup 2018 qualification campaign with an injury time winner over Slovakia in what is probably going to be their toughest game of the campaign. So they have the chance to start building further momentum. Malta lost their opener 5-1 against Scotland and are heavy underdogs for their trip to Wembley.
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England v Malta Betting Tips
Games as easy as this don’t come along too often,so England should be putting a comfortable three qualification points on the board on Saturday. A nice way to ease into the interim managerial job then for Gareth Southgate. England, thanks to an injury time winner from Adam Lallana, took a deserved 1-0 win out in Slovakia to kick off their campaign on the road to Russia 2018. England never faced a shot on target in that match up and it’s hard to see Malta causing them too many issues at the back either. So right out of the gate you would be expecting England to win to nil which isn’t a tremendous value at 2/9 with online betting site Paddy Power. That’s just a reflection of how easy this game should be for the Three Lions, so you will have to go shopping around for other value in England v Malta betting.
Winning margins are worth a look as you have a quote of England to win by three goals at a price of 4/1 while England winning by 4 or more goals is a 1/2 shot. England have the scoring power in their ranks to warm up the back of the net, and it may be a great chance to throw young Marcus Rashford into the starting eleven. He is a 4/11 joint favourite in the anytime goalscorer market with Daniel Sturridge, with Jamie Vardy 1/3 to net and Wayne Rooney at 1/2. Going off England winning the game to nil there are good options in the correct score market where and England 4-0, England 3-0 or England 5-0 are all trading as 5/1 options. Over 4.5 goals in the game will fetch a quote of 4/5.
A three or four goal haul for England sounds about right. Despite Malta being 101st in FIFA Rankings, just once in their last eleven competitive matches have they shipped more than three goals in a game. That exception was in their 5-1 loss against Scotland in their opening World Cup 2018 qualifiers (when they had two player sent off). Malta have met England just once before and that was in an international friendly Ta Qali National Stadium in Valletta back in June 2000. England only managed a pretty poor 2-1 win in the game thanks to Emile Heskey netting a winner. Gareth Southgate as in the squad for that game. Since beating Lithuania in a friendly back in 2015, Malta have failed to win any of their last eleven games, putting up a D3 L8 record in their last ten games played. They have scored in just four of their last eleven but have netted in each of their last two. They have won just one of their last 21 games played. They will be pretty much doing nothing more than trying to keep the score down.
England v Malta Betting Odds
England 1/50, Draw 18/1, Malta 50/1
England v Malta Predictions
This is a game which England will win and it just going to be about the margin of victory for them. They aren’t likely to ship a goal in the game and given the fact that Malta haven’t really been hammered much over the last year or so, it may be worth looking at a winning margin of three goals for England, or an England 3-0 correct score punt. Malta haven’t shipped a lot of goals really considering their lowly position in the world rankings, so don’t expect them to get totally rolled over in defeat.
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