Croatia vs. Malta tip, prognosis & odds - World Cup qualification 2022 - 03/30/2021 Free soccer tips
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Croatia - Malta tip, prognosis and odds - World Cup qualification 2022
As the reigning vice world champion, the Croatian national soccer team naturally has the ambition to come a long way again at the 2022 World Cup. After playing two games in the 2022 World Cup qualifying, the Vatreni are currently only third in Group H. Last Wednesday, they finally lost 1-0 away in Ljubljana at the beginning.
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Now the Kockasti receive Malta at the bottom of the table. A threesome is of course an absolute must. In the run-up to the game between Croatia and Malta, the odds of the bookmakers are clearly pointing towards the home side. Meanwhile, read here what the current legal situation of online sports betting is like in Germany.
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As expected, the Maltese national football team lost their first group game against Russia, but celebrated a minor success in a 2-2 draw against Slovakia on Saturday. In general, the football dwarf has only lost one of his last nine international matches. A surprise in Rijeka seems unrealistic to us. A runaway win for Valtreni is not overly likely either.
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Accordingly, we find a lot of value in Croatia against Malta in the tip on a handicap of +3 for the Maltese. Further betting recommendations for the games in the qualifying rounds for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar are available in the World Cup Tips category.
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Croatia - statistics & current form
The Croatian national soccer team has been in a state of upheaval since the lost World Cup final in 2018. In the first competitive game after the big tournament in Russia, the Vatreni (in German: the fiery ones) caught a 6-0 defeat against Spain.
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Croatia has not really caught on since then. In the first edition of the Nations League, the Kockasti managed to stay at the bottom of the league only at the green table. Most recently, the European Championship qualification as group winners succeeded. In the group with Wales, Slovakia, Hungary and Aiserbaijan - none of them heavyweights - ultimately only succeeded in five wins from eight games.
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The vice world champion in search of his form
It continues to be similarly mixed at the moment. Most recently, Croatia lost five of the six games in the 2020/21 UEFA Nations League last autumn and also suffered a 1-0 defeat in Slovenia at the start of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.
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It is true that the Vatreni secured the first three on matchday two against underdog Cyprus. Instead of sweeping the football gnome off the pitch, it was only 1-0 for the reigning vice world champion, who is still lagging behind his tournament form from almost three years ago.
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Won only one of the last six international matches
The 1-0 win over Cyprus is also the only victory in the last six international matches, four of which have even been lost. All of this does not mean that the selection of Zlatko Dalic shoots the Maltese national football team out of the stadium in Rijeka.
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Reason enough for us to bet a handicap of +3 on the Maltese in Croatia against Malta. A victory with two goals difference seems to be the highest of emotions in view of the current constitution of the Vatreni, which is to be expected of the counted vice world champion, in which attacker Andrej Kramaric (Hoffenheim) is no longer injured.
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Expected formation of Croatia:
Livakovic - Barisic - Caleta-Car - Lovren - Vrsaljko - Brozovic - Modric - Perisic - Pasalic - Brekalo - Budimir
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Malta - statistics & current form
As number 176 in the FIFA world rankings, the Maltese national soccer team is certainly one of the big outsiders in the context of World Cup qualification. The Reds have never before qualified for a World Cup or European Championship and have recently been far from ending this dry spell.
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As part of the European Championship qualification 2021, the falcons landed on the last place in their group. The sad result: one win and nine defeats from ten group games with a goal difference of 3:27.
Only one of six possible points from the first two games
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What was particularly bitter for the Maltese was the fact that even the Faroe Islands, against which the direct comparison was lost, landed in front of them. This is exactly what was repeated last autumn when Malta ended up in second place in the Nations League Group D2. The unbeaten Faroe Islands rose as group winners before that.
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Now the Reds are once again in the outsider role in qualifying group H for the 2022 World Cup, where after only one of six possible points, only the last place is recorded. After all: After the 1: 3 home defeat against Russia, the football dwarf surprisingly led 2-0 in Slovakia at halftime on Saturday. In the end it was only enough for one point (final score: 2: 2).
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23 of the 26 nominated players make their living in Malta
It is true that the men of Devis Mangia sold themselves very dearly recently and lost only one of their last nine international matches. In Rijeka, a point win by the reigning vice world champion would still be a big surprise.
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The reds arrive as a clear outsider, which is also shown by the quotations of the betting providers. The bookmaker William Hill, which was tested by Wettbasis, offers odds of 56.00 for the away win of the Falcons in Croatia against Malta, in which just three of the 26 nominated players earn their money outside the top Maltese league.
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Expected formation of Malta:
Bonello - Camenzuli - Borg - Pepe - Shaw - J. Mbong - P. Mbong - teuma - Guillaumier - Gambin - Satariano
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Direct comparison / H2H
Head to head: 7 - 1 - 0
Both teams faced each other eight times and with seven wins and one draw the direct comparison with a total of 19-4 goals clearly goes to the Croatians. In the last duel, the Kockasti celebrated a 1-0 victory in Malta on October 13, 2015 as part of the 2016 European Championship
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Betting base forecast & Croatia Croatia - Malta Malta tip
In Croatia against Malta, our prognosis is shaped by the latest form of the runner-up in the world championship. The Kockasti were quite beside themselves and only won one of the last six international matches. Accordingly, there is little to be said for a runaway victory against the alleged football dwarf Malta, who in turn has only lost one of the last nine international matches.
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However, there is little to be said for the Reds to win points in Rijeka, which is why the greatest value is to bet on a rather narrow victory for the Croatians. With the handicap of +3 on the hawks, we cover most eventualities.
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For this purpose, betting odds of 2.17 are available for Croatia against Malta, which we play with five units at bookmaker Merkur Sports, which has been tested by Wettbasis.
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