So Scotland start their autumn internationals by welcoming Australia to Murrayfield. This will be a tough game for the Scots out of the gate, because they will have already seen the Wallabies in action. Scotland are trading as strong 10/3 underdogs for the home win. Scotland bagged themselves two wins in this year’s Six Nations, taking down Italy and recording a big win over France. That has been the key result for them this year and now the question is whether or not they can push on from there.
They also gave Ireland and Wales a hard time in their match ups in the Six Nations, so can they bring that kind of grit to the table for the Autumn Internationals? Scotland are giving prop Allan Dell his debut and they will likely have to really dig in and pull out of their best defensive efforts for some time. It’s a busy spell for Scotland here as they will go to face Argentina, Georgia, Ireland this month, with a trip to England as well at the start of December. Back in the 2014 World Cup, the Scots came heartbreakingly close to taking down the Wallabies, losing in the last minute of the game.
Australia rolled up at the Millennium Stadium last weekend and landed a massive 32-8 win over Wales. They have made just the once change to face Scotland and that is Will Genia coming in at scrum half. That was quite a large statement laid down by Australia really and the Wallabies messed up a few other good scoring chances as well so the scoreline could have been bigger. What Australia did so well was hold on to possession and Wales just couldn’t slow them down.
Bernard Foley was pinging the ball all over the pitch with his boot and showing tremendous variety which kept Wales on their toes. Australia look sharp, they look hungry and pretty driven to get out of their tour of the northern hemisphere with a full house of wins. Australia haven’t been on form this year as prior to the Wales match they had lost seven of their games. But maybe they have shaken off their tough Rugby Championship matches and are ready to start again. The Wallabies are 2/9 at Paddy Power to go and land the win over Scotland.
The head to head is in favour of Australia who have a 20-9 lead in the head to head with no drawn matches with Scotland. The points average between these two is pretty strongly in favour of the Wallabies as well. Australia have averaged 24 points per game against Scotland, while the Scots have averaged 12 point in return on average angina state Wallabies. That’s an 11 point average for Australia when they meet up. That’s right around the Australia -10 handicap for 10/11 that online betting site Paddy Power have on the game.
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