Nigeria v Argentina Betting Tips: 1 AH+1, World Cup 2018

Nigeria can hold their own against Argentina

NIGERIA v ARGENTINA

Tuesday 26th June 2018 – Kickoff: 1900hrs

Football – World – World Cup 2018 Betting Tips

Welcome to my World Cup 2018 betting tips, and the other match in Group D concerns Nigeria and Argentina in the final match of the round, in what is a must-win game for the Argentinians.

Nigeria currently sit on three points prior to this encounter, having lost their opening group match to Croatia 2-0, but they then bounced back with a 2-0 win themselves over Iceland, and they now probably only need a point against Argentina here to send them through to the last 16, and in turn, send Argentina back home.

The Nigerians came up against a quality Croatia side and despite staying with the eastern Europeans, Croatia’s quality and passing in the final third was the difference between the two sides. Iceland’s World Cup preparations weren’t convincing, and they’ve been undone in this tournament as poor finishing in front of goal has let them down.

Nigeria now face a nervous Argentina side who have been very underwhelming so far, with Messi only making bit-part contributions, but it’s been their defence which have looked most vulnerable, and Nigeria with the pace of Moses and Idowu out wide, along with forwards Musa and Iheanacho, they could spring a surprise here.

Onto Argentina, and the whole squad seem to be struggling to play to coach Sampaoli’s instructions as the team seem very disjointed on the pitch, and not really working for each other, especially in defence where they’ve looked very shaky indeed.

Argentina started their World Cup campaign with a 1-1 draw against Iceland, which was a disappointing result in itself, but then a heavy 3-0 defeat to Croatia followed which was compounded by a horrific goalkeeping mistake by Caballero.

This means that Argentina head into this vital and final group match needing all three points, otherwise they’ll be heading home. However, they haven’t convinced me yet that they’ve got the will or the drive to take advantage of teams in this tournament.

My betting tips therefore suggest backing Nigeria with the attractively priced handicap.

Pick; Nigeria AH+1 @ 1.99 Marathonbet