Some 3,000 kilometers separate Turkey from Qatar but for Scotland it might as well be a million miles.
The Tartan Army's dreams of appearing at a first World Cup since 1998 were dashed in the summer by Ukraine and instead of preparing for a seat at the top table tonight Steve Clarke's men line up for a meaningless friendly against a Turkish side who are also absent from the tournament.
It's one of several international friendlies on the fixture list today which includes a clutch of teams squeezing in a final 90 minutes before their World Cup campaigns kick-off.
Those in action include Croatia, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Argentina, Germany and Mexico.
The Germans meet Qatar's neighbours, Oman as they attempt to acclimatise to desert conditions in Muscat. Their hosts are ranked 75th in the world and although Hansi Flick will likely give his squad a good run out he'll be keen for a morale boosting win. The four-time winners are just 1/11 to win but a win to nil makes some appeal at 4/6.
Argentina's preparations take them across the Qatari border to Abu Dhabi for a match-up against United Arab Emirates. Messi and co are 1/7 to win but again the win to nil market appeals at 8/13 in a game they should win comfortably.
Back to the Scotland match and Steve Clarke has had the usual raft of call-offs to contend with. Celtic refused to release their contingent, instead favouring a pre-arranged trip to Australia. Che Adams, Kenny McLean and Nathan Patterson also pulled out at the weekend, although Adams is the only one you'd expect to start.
Performances have been strong under Clarke but this has the feel of a bit of a free hit and and we could see the Scotland manager be a bit more experimental in his line-up.
The Turks made light work of an easy tier 3 group in the Nations League and we probably shouldn't read too much into defeat in the Faroe Islands and a home draw with Luxembourg when the group was already won. They've still got some quality in their squad and plenty of attacking threat, they've struck 21 times in seven games in 2022.
With all the usual caveats associated with an international friendly, keep the stakes small and side with a Turkey win at 21/20.
Super Single
- Turkey 21/20 Bet365
Win to Nil Double
- Germany & Argentina to both win to nil 5/2 Bet365
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Goal short last night for the double Southport game finished 1-1 👎
Brutal in the Buxton game finished 1-0.
Turkey v Scotland
I fancy Turkey to rack up a few corners today
Over 4. 1st half corners 6/5 Bet365
Over 1 corner in the 1st 15 min 27/20 Hills
Over3 Turkish corners 1st half 14/5 Hills
All 19 Internationals over 1.5 goals at 246/1 b365 only 126/1 at skybet probably fall at the first hurdle but you never know.
best of luck
That same bet macca with hills boost is 481/1 massive difference
Saudi Arabia v Croatia 12pm
Small stakes as it’s a friendly and Croatia don’t have their first team starting but there should be a gulf in class here and the Croatian fringe players will try to force their way into their managers thinking for the first game of the WC..
2+ Croatia mg Evens
3+ Croatia mg 13/4
Ladbrokes.. BoL if you follow
Hi guys and gals,
is the World Cup warm up due on site or is it somewhere and I’m just not seeing it? On Monday it said later that day there would be the usual team by team guide and tips and just interested to see what the regulars on here think – too many tipsters to name, fantastic tipping by many people on here and my go to place when researching and looking to place a bet . . . . badly usually!
Keep up the good work all,
Dicko73
🏴 WOKING v OXFORD
Over 2.5 Match Goals
(1/1, william hill)
▪️NAP
Croatia goals ✖️✖️ damn friendlies!
International football is hard enough to predict, never mind predicted the outcome of friendlies so corners is the route I’m going down for bit of interest when I’m watching the game later…
In Scotland’s last 9 games their corner count stands at 5-9-7-7-8-9-5-2-6. The stand out number (2) was in an away friendly against Austria. I’m hoping that was a one off and Turkey aren’t quite the same team as Austria.
Turkey vs Scotland 5pm KO
Scotland Over 3.5 Team Corners – 1 unit @ Evens (now 19/20)
Good luck 👍
Another one (or two) for a bit of interest before the Scotland game.
Argentina have put out a pretty strong line up so…
UAE vs Argentina 3.30pm KO
Argentina Over 6.5 Team Corners – 1 unit @ Evens
Julian Alvarez Anytime Scorer – 1 unit @ Evens
Argentina Over 6.5 Team Corners
Julian Alvarez Anytime Scorer
DOUBLE – 1 unit @ 3/1
Small stakes interest ,
Poland o1.5 mg’s
Den Haag o2.5 mg’s
Mexico o1.5 mg’s
Treble 2.27/1 hills
Goodluck all if ya can find a bet………
Calling this a loser now can’t see any goals in this , so hard to predict friendlies
LONGSHOT 🏹
Czech Republic 🇨🇿
V
Faroe Islands 🇫🇴
17:00
International Friendly
Faroe Islands to score 7-4 (SKYBET)
Czechs can’t be interested in this as they might feel they have the players to be in the world cup and could see this as pointless.
Well that’s the theory anyway 🤣.
🇨🇿🇫🇴🇨🇿🇫🇴🇨🇿🇫🇴🇨🇿🇫🇴🇨🇿🇫🇴🇨🇿🇫🇴
🇨🇿 5-0 🇫🇴
Booooooooo
Another one (or two) for a bit of interest before the Scotland game.
Argentina have put out a pretty strong line up so…
UAE vs Argentina 3.30pm KO
Argentina Over 6.5 Team Corners – 1 unit @ Evens ❌️
Julian Alvarez Anytime Scorer – 1 unit @ Evens ✅️
Argentina Over 6.5 Team Corners
Julian Alvarez Anytime Scorer
DOUBLE – 1 unit @ 3/1 ❌️
Alvarez scored on 17mins but a corner short for a full house 👎
Turkey v Scotland
Over 4. 1st half corners 6/5 WINNER
Over 1 corner 1st . 15 min 27/20 WINNER
Over 3. 1st half Turkish corners 14/5 WINNER
Full house before 20 min
Happy with that
In play 2-0
Turkey over 3.5tgs 7/2
Lost was a long shot but looked likely at one point
Iceland u19s
Mexico
Btts double 2/1
Good luck
Poor card isn’t later isnt it.
few bet builders on the Woking v Oxford game,
2 correct would see some sort of profit if they all come in would be good.
BTTS and over 2.5 goals 5-4
BTTS and over 7.5 corners 5-4
BTTS and over 8.5 corners 13-8
BTTS and over 9.5 corners 9-4
All at UNIBET…..
International football is hard enough to predict, never mind predicted the outcome of friendlies so corners is the route I’m going down for bit of interest when I’m watching the game later…
In Scotland’s last 9 games their corner count stands at 5-9-7-7-8-9-5-2-6. The stand out number (2) was in an away friendly against Austria. I’m hoping that was a one off and Turkey aren’t quite the same team as Austria.
Turkey vs Scotland 5pm KO
Scotland Over 3.5 Team Corners – 1 unit @ Evens (now 19/20) ✅️
WINNER – Not the result Scotland would of hoped for but they got across the line on terms of corners
Inplay
Peterborough
Oxford United
Both games under 2.5 goals at 1.24/1
Peterborough game decided on pens at 5/1
No joy that’s why i don’t like unders.
Iceland u19s
Mexico
Btts double 2/1**LOST** no Scotland goal against Iceland
🏴 WOKING v OXFORD
Over 2.5 Match Goals
(1/1, william hill)
▪️NAP
✔️
1-2 final score 👍
Great pick Jamesy…
Thank you jamesylfc!
Well in Jamesy couldn’t back the overs given the weather,pleased someone profited.
Cheers lads 👍
Just checked the markets available for Sydney FC vs Celtic tomorrow and surprised to find Celtic to win and o2.5mg priced at 4/5 when you can get Over 2.5 Celtic Team Goals at 5/4 so I’ll be having a piece of that. I was hoping for corners markets to be available but hey ho. Obviously it’s a friendly so small stakes only advised.
Sydney FC vs Celtic – Sydney Super Cup 8.45am KO tomorrow
Celtic Over 2.5 Team Goals – 1 unit @ 5/4
I posted before putting this on (mistake I know!) so prices are now 10/13 compared to 6/5. I’m on Celtic Over 2.5 Team Goals – 1 unit @ 6/5