Italy v Spain Betting Preview
A good test ahead of Euro 2016 for both of these. Four years ago of course, these two were squaring off in the final of Euro 2012, with Spain running out comfortable 4-0 winners in one of their majestic performances. Spain have a pretty solid stretch of form running over the Italians and this will be a great clash between the two of them who each put in solid qualification campaigns for this summer’s European Championships.
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Italy v Spain Betting Tips
It was fairly routine for Italy during Euro 2016 qualification, going unbeaten in their ten matches, winning seven of them. So they aren’t in bad form because of all of that but there have been a couple of slips in recent performances though since the close of Euro 2016 qualifying. Italy went to Belgium last November and lost heavily by a 3-1 scoreline and they could only follow that up with a home 2-2 tie against Romania. Of course it is always hard to get a genuine read of anything from results in international friendlies but with a tough Euro 2016 group in taking on Sweden and Ireland, they may need to up their game again.
Italy will go on to play Germany a few days later in a friendly, so they are pushing themselves. The goals which have been flying in against them has to be a little bit of a concern. They have failed to keep a clean sheet in their last four games played and just two in the last seven. That’s not really what you would expect from Italy. They have gone W4 D1 L2 over their last seven games and up in the anytime goalscorer market for them is Ciro Immobile and Graziano Pelle at 12/5 options. The last time these two played was a friendly in March of 2014, Spain taking a 1-0 win in the match through Chelsea’s Pedro.
Spain have lost just one of the last ten against Italy (competitive and friendly) so have good form there. They have also kept a clean sheet in each of the last three meetings with the Italians and a Spain 1-0 correct score in this one is trading at a price of 11/2 with online betting site Bet365. Italy have failed to score in five of the last seven played against Spain. Like Italy, Spain were relatively untroubled in their Euro 2016 campaign and they are on a five match winning streak. Their most recent success was a 2-0 victory over England back in November of last year. Spain have not conceded a goal in any of their last five international matches and therefore this game is likely to go under 2.5 goals for a price of 4/7. Paco Alcacer, Aritz Aduriz and ALvaro Morata are all 2/1 anytime goalscorer options for Spain.
Italy v Spain Betting Odds
Spain 6/4, Italy 15/8, Draw 21/10
Italy v Spain Predictions
This is likely to be another low scoring affair between the two of them, with only two of the last nine meetings between them going over the 2.5 goal line. Spain have looked pretty solid at the back and while they still look as if they are crying out for a world class goalscorer, the Italian defence has been giving up enough goals lately to suggest that Spain can nick this one.
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