There is a tingling attraction in Monday’s match of the championship series.
Watford beat Sheffield United 1–0 in the opening game of the season. PDO
The most interesting game of the day
Monday’s most interesting fight can be found in the English Championship, where West Bromwich, who is looking for promotion, will host Watford, who have been relegated from the main league.
The start of the WBA season is really challenging, because in the opening round, Albion faced another promotion candidate, Middlesbrough. The match ended in a 1-1 draw – in the light of the data, Boro was slightly better. The Baggies’ last season was a disaster in terms of investment and the tenth place was badly below expectations.
Now the team is experienced By Steve Bruce under and the material is still strong and fully capable of fighting a direct climb. The only thing that has doubts is specifically the head coach Bruce, who nevertheless has experience in climbing jobs.
However, last spring was also a clear success for Bruce and the old fox seems to be able to adapt to the demands of modern football. Bruce is ready to play with different formations and adjust tactics according to the opponent.
Of course, the basic principles are more familiar than usual: keep your head tight and it would be good to keep it at zero. As a ball, Bruce’s teams are typically very straightforward. WBA was active in the summer transfer market and added more quality to its ranks. The material is so good that the experienced Bruce can very well raise Albion back to the brightest lights.
Watford’s opening game was good and Sheffield United fell at home, deservedly so, with a score of 1-0. As a whole, the game was well under control, and although ball control was fairly evenly distributed, the Hornets created more of a scoring threat in the match.
As expected, the team played with three strikers and four in the midfield, but instead of two forwards, there was only one striker. I would think that the same tactics will be continued for this second challenging game. On the other hand, now the opponent is a more defensive team, so the two tops would bring more threat in the depth.
Regarding the opening game, it seemed that an inexperienced head coach Rob Edwards has sold his way of playing to his crew. The Hornets are a team with the material that should be able to be in the playoffs.
Watford strives for an active and high press, is straightforward and particularly strong when playing with a change of direction. Based on these starting points, today’s opponent presents a slightly different challenge to Watford – how can the team operate with longer attacks with a slightly slower rhythm? From midfield Imran Louza is injured.
A very interesting top match of the Championship series is available for Monday. There are interesting tactical nuances in the encounter, and two skilled and striking teams also march onto the field.
Thus, at the beginning of the season, evaluating the power relations is a bit of a challenge, but I would see that WBA is ahead of the teams as a whole. Minimalism would not come as a surprise, nor would it be a solution to a special situation.
There are also game ideas that offer an advantage in the match, but we will come back to them further down. I rate the home team as a 45 percent favorite in the match. a low goal expectation value raises the estimate of a tie up to 29 points.
I have estimated 2.35 as the expected goal, which means there is a 58 percent probability of staying under two and a half points. Thus, the visitors remain goalless almost two times out of five. The most likely final results derived from these estimates are 1–1, 1–0 and 0–0.
The match starts at 22:00.
The best betting tip of the day
The best bet idea of the day can be found in the predicted Championship match above. Veikkaus offers a coefficient of 2.36 for the home win, which, judging by the 46 surfaces, is already quite a clear overcoefficient, when the limit is 2.22. However, a more relevant option is the Asian handicap -0.25, where half of the bet is returned if the match ends in a draw. For this bet, Veikkaus’ coefficient is 2.00 and Arvioni’s event is 53 percent (limit coefficient 1.89). In both bet forms, the expected values are sufficient to grant a game recommendation.
Games of the day: West Bromwich – Watford 1, Asian handicap -0.25 (odds 2.00)
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