Everton vs Lyon: Preview and Predictions

Everton sit at the very foot of the Group E standings after two opening rounds and they will be desperate to see off Lyon this Thursday to get the campaign back on track and boost up the shaken confidence ahead of the rest of the season.

Everton

The Toffees entered the season with the sky-rocketing expectations after they spent the historical amount of money on this summer’s acquisitions.

However, Ronald Koeman’s side opened both Premier League and Europa League campaigns in a horrendous fashion.

The Ditch manager is desperate to see a serious turnaround in his team’s form shortly or else he will likely lose the job.

Olympique Lyon

Lyon may have sold their top scorer from the last term Alexandre Lacazette, but they have found a phenomenal replacement in the like of Mariano Diaz.

The Dominican forward took his Ligue 1 tally to seven goals when he broke the deadlock against Monaco on Friday evening.

His attacking mate, Nabil Fekir, added two more to secure a massive victory for Les Gones who have bagged three goals in three straight league outings.
Everton vs Olympique Lyon: Head to head

Interestingly, this is going to be the first ever H2H encounter between Everton and Lyon.
Everton vs Olympique Lyon: Prediction

The Toffees are winless in last three games in all competitions and they allowed five goals in two previous Europa League fixtures.

With Lyon’s superb form in the final third, we can’t but look at the 5/4 odds offered for Lyon to score two or more goals at Goodison.
Everton vs Olympique Lyon: Bets

The first betting pick will be Lyon Over 1.5 Team Goals at the odds of 5/4.

You can also take Over 2.5 goals FT & BTTS at 1/1.

Sweden vs Luxembourg: Preview and Predictions

Sweden have the imperative of taking three points in the penultimate round of the WC Qualification against Luxembourg on Saturday evening at Friends Arena in Solna.

Sweden

The hosts are a single point behind France at the top of the standings, but they could also likely lose the playoffs spots in case of a failure against Luxembourg having in mind the tough away fixture at Netherlands in the last round.

Janne Andresson’s men dropped the ball in the seventh round when they lost 3-2 in Bulgaria, but they managed to bounce back quickly by beating Belarus 0-4 on the road a month ago.

We have to praise their attacking line (the most efficient attack in the Group A) led by Marcus Berg and Emil Forsberg who bagged four goals each so far.

Luxembourg

The hosts should have plenty of room to deliver in the final third if we know that Luxembourg have the weakest defensive line in the group.

Blagult will, however, have to be super careful since Luxembourg will travel to Solna in high spirits after getting four points in two games in September.

This includes a shocking goalless draw against France on the road in the previous round.
Sweden vs Luxembourg: Head to head

Sweden have entirely dominated this matchup over the history winning four and drawing one of their previous five encounters with Luxembourg.

The visitors scored no more than a single goal in five mentioned matches, but they did not concede loads either as Sweden won each of their last two games with Luxembourg by a single goal margin.
Sweden vs Luxembourg: Prediction

Since Luxembourg kept back-to-back clean sheets in September (against Belarus and France), we believe they should be able to prevent Sweden from netting four or more goals here.
Sweden vs Luxembourg: Bets

The main betting option is Sweden Under 3.5 Team Goals at the odds of 5/6
For the punters who prefer safer options, the Under 4.5 goals FT is paid at 8/15

England vs Slovenia: Preview and Predictions

England and Slovenia will take on each other in one of the most interesting clashes of the round on Thursday evening at Wembley.
The victory would see The Three Lions mathematically securing their spot in Russia, but it won’t be a walkthrough for them against the third-placed team in the group.

England

The hosts somehow managed to survive the Slovakia scare in the previous round to get on a five-point distance at the top of the standings in the Group F.

Gareth Southgate’s side was stunned by a cold-shower-goal from Stanislav Lobotka only three minutes into the game but Eric Dier and Marcus Rashford completed a comeback to secure three super significant points for their national team.

Slovenia

England’s win over Slovakia brought Slovenia back in the contest for the second position as the visitors are now only a single point behind Slovakians.

However, Srecko Katanec and his men will have a mountain to climb in order to make their way to Russia as they have to play England and Scotland in last two rounds.

The star man Josip Ilicic has been enjoying a fine run with Atalanta in this season of Serie A.
England vs Slovenia: Head to head

The draw has put England and Slovenia together in the second subsequent campaign as they played in other in EURO 2016 qualies (England had a perfect record of ten wins in ten matches there).

The Three Lions won each of their previous four meetings with the Slovenians, but the first clash in this term saw this trend coming to an end as Slovenia managed a goalless draw in front of their fans back in October last year.
England vs Slovenia: Prediction

Slovenia have failed to find the back of the net in each of their last three outings on the road and we can hardly see them on target on Thursday against England who have kept a clean sheet in six of their eight qualifying fixtures in this campaign.
England vs Slovenia: Bets

The main bet is England to win to nil at the odds of 1/1