Wales v Panama Betting Preview – International Friendly 14th November
Wales will look to sign off for the year on a positive note as they play host to Panama in a friendly on Tuesday night. The Welsh go into this one on the back of a defeat out in Paris against France in a recent friendly. Panama will be heading to their first ever World Cup next summer and they built their successful qualification campaign off of a stern defence. Will they be able to shut out the Dragons who will be missing Gareth Bale again?
Wales v Panama Betting Tips
Can the Welsh end 2017 on a positive note? The pain of having dramatically missed out on a place at the World Cup next year has to still be hurting them. This will be their first ever match up against Panama and the Welsh need to give themselves a big boost after having suffered back to back losses in recent internationals. After that home defeat against Ireland in their last World Cup qualifier which eliminated the Dragons, they played out a 2-0 loss against France over the weekend as well and were never really in the game. In light of the opposition in this one, this will be a low scoring fixture and under 2.5 goals at bet365 brings in a price of 1/2. The Welsh themselves have scored just the five goals in their last six fixtures now.
So any win for them probably isn’t going to be by a big margin. In the bet365 correct score market, a Wales 1-0 brings a price of 15/4 with a 0-0 draw as short as 6/1. There will be no Gareth Bale still for the Dragons which always limits their output. Wales have received some kind of boost in that it seems as if boss Chris Coleman may be ready to extend his tenure as Wales boss which will give everyone a lift. In the face of the recent disappointments finishing the year on a high is going to be important for them and Wales are a quote of 13/10 at Bet365 to win to nil. The shortest priced option in the anytime goalscorer market is Sam Vokes at 9/5 with young Tom Bradshaw at 11/5. But they may have a tough time breaking down Panama who know how to defend.
Panama created some major history for themselves recently as they booked a place for the first time ever in a World Cup. That is because they finished third in the CONCACAF zone. They are not a great goalscoring side by any strength of the imagination and netted just nine goals in their ten qualifiers. But they are defensively pretty solid and they went unbeaten on home soil through their qualification campaign. So a solid defensive side with little output. Sounds familiar? Panama are in some horrible away form though as they have lost four of their last five out on the road. They have only actually taken just the one win in their last eight games on foreign soil and have failed to score in four of their last five. So they aren’t going to turn up and really rattle the Welsh defence at all, but on the evidence of their World Cup qualification campaign, they will make Wales work.
Wales v Panama Betting Odds
Wales 8/13, Draw 13/5, Panama 5/1
Wales v Panama Predictions
Draw: Panama put in a good defensive shift through their World Cup qualifiers to help them get to Russia 2018. They won’t be easy for the Dragons to break and with Wales missing Bale, they showed against France how toothless they are without him, so this could just end in a stalemate.
