Lays of the Weekend: Greece to frustrate Bosnia again

 

Christian Crowther takes a look at the upcoming internationals to find three more carefully chosen lay bets...

 

Lay Bosnia to beat Greece @ 2.06

These two nations currently sit joint top of Group G, in what is probably the easiest group in the UEFA Zone. Given the absence of a real heavyweight in this group, it's shaping up to be a three-way tussle between Bosnia, Greece and Slovakia (currently three points back), with the three L's of Lithuania, Latvia and Liechtenstein already some way off the pace. When Greece hosted Bosnia in October, things were so tight the game ended in a rather unspectacular 0-0 draw, the second straight stalemate between the sides following a friendly which produced the same result just over a year earlier. In six meetings with their Balkan neighbours since 1996, the Greeks are still unbeaten, winning four of those contests, and would settle for another point this time.

 

Lay Poland to beat Ukraine @ 2.24

There is no doubting that the third-placed Poles are in a much stronger position in Group H than their Euro 2012 co-hosts ahead of this crunch qualifier in Warsaw. However, a win for Ukraine will suddenly send them level on points with their neighbours and back in the mix for that second spot at least. Ukraine proved by drawing with England at Wembley in September that they have enough in their locker to cause problems away from home. Due to an intense rivalry, matches between these eastern European neighbours have been fraught affairs in recent times, producing a 1-0 win for Ukraine sandwiched between a pair of 1-1 draws. The high stakes should only serve to increase the tightness.

 

Lay USA to beat Costa Rica @ 1.65

USA started off the final stage of their World Cup 2014 qualification campaign in the worst possible fashion in the six-nation group which decides which three or four teams represent north, central America and the Caribbean. The Stars and Stripes went down 2-1 in Honduras to a nation which they dwarf by almost 40 times in terms of population size. Now, they face a Costa Rica side on the up after finishing second only to Mexico in their group in the previous round of qualification for Brazil. It's now nine games unbeaten for the Costa Ricans across qualifiers and friendlies. They are also a bogey team for their hosts having beaten them on US soil in 2011, making it five clashes without defeat for them.

 

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