Scotland v Macedonia Odds

The Scotland v Macedonia Odds for this Scotland Macedonia betting world cup qualifier has Scotland as slight favourites. Scotland travel to Macedonia without several first choice players and will be forced to field a weakened team; something which manager, George Burley could do without.

Macedonia have never qualified for any World cup finals but Scotland would do well not to underrate them as they are a side who are improving all the time. They proved this in the Euro 2008 qualifiers where they drew with England 0-0 and actually beat Croatia by 2-0.. In manager, Goran Pandev, they have a man who is very tactically astute and who is a great motivator.

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This of course is Scotlands first competitive game under George Burley, they will want to maintain their excellent consistency. It is the much talked about lack of firepower up front, where the Scots may struggle, their recent 0-0 draw with N Ireland proved that they do not have a striker of any note and as such might struggle to win games. They have drafted in Celtic's Shaun Moloney and Birminghams, Gary O'Connor, to answer this particular problem. Scotland are a workmanlike team, who will be grateful that they are in a Group with only five teams, but that means that they cannot afford to get off to a losing start. Burley, will probably be happy with a draw and in our opinion, that is the likely outcome. Scotland are 13/8 to win, Macedonia are 2/1 and the draw is 9/4.

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