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Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Nov 15, 2011 at 09:16:42 AM
[b][u]England v Sweden, KO: 20:00 live on ITV1[/u]
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Before you all start getting carried away with England's 1-0 victory over Spain on Saturday night let me throw some incredible match stats at you.
Depending on which match report you read, the world and European champions enjoyed as much as 71% possession (compared to England's 29%); they had six corners to England's one, and almost unbelievably Spain fired in 22 goal attempts whilst the Three Lions' could muster just two shots on target and one off.
True, from Spain's 22 goal attempts only two were on target, and the most important statistic is the goals scored column; but on home soil, to concede that much possession and have so many shots at goal against you is extremely worrying. Quite frankly Spain are in a different league...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Jun 7, 2011 at 08:51:38 AM
Sweden are six points behind the Netherlands in Group E and have a game in hand to play this Tuesday. Erik Hamren's team have won five home qualifiers in a row and are 1.37 to take three points at home to Finland.
Ola Toivonen, the playmaker who scored one and set up another goal in Sweden's 4-1 win over Moldova on Friday, will be expected to shine against the country of his father. But Zlatan Ibrahimovic is fit again and will want his share of the limelight too.
Mixu Paatelainen took charge of Finland for the first time against San Marino on Friday. He finished victorious, but 1-0 is not the result of dreams against San Marino.
Twelve of Finland's last 16 away qualifiers have stayed Under 2.5 Goals, which is an odds-against shot this time (2.04), perhaps because only three of ...