Macedonia vs Spain Betting Tips

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Macedonia sit bottom of Group C and a matchup with Spain doesn’t offer an obvious opportunity to correct that record. For Macedonia, they do have a mini-battle with Luxembourg and Belarus over the bottom three places in the group.

They’ve lost all five of their last five group matches including a frustrating home loss to Belarus and a fruitless trip to Luxembourg at the weekend. Trajchevski and Ademi can be dangerous attacking players, controlling the football and creating attacks from behind the front three. However, in general, Macedonia’s defence is porous.

Spain didn’t allow Saturday’s game against Slovakia to be too interesting or too close. They took immediate control and could have easily won by four or five goals. The issue of a lack of a serious strike option is a slight concern still perhaps, but they did a good job of getting players forward and creating quality chances against an opponent that sat back.

Having Diego Costa up front helps significantly, he’s a target man and helps to link up play around him with Pedro and David Silva in particular benefiting from playing alongside Costa.

Three Reasons for Betting Tips

1. Diego Costa and the attack

It looked a lot better with Costa, Pedro and Silva operating as a front three. They can get such dominance moving forward when Cesc Fabregas and Iniesta join attacks and the different players can switch it up to create different points of pressure.

2. Goals will come against Macedonia

They’re not the best at taking their chances, but against Macedonia they will get plenty of them and we’re anticipating that they will run up the score as a side that has picked up some serious rhythm.

3. Asian Handicap is worth taking a shot

This game, in Spain, is worth two goals, Macedonia don’t really have much on the defensive front. Even a two-goal win earns a return on stake, but we can see a few different periphery members seeing action in this game and take it as their chance to get into contention for a permanent place.