Argentina vs. Saudi Arabia Bet Builder Tips: 5/1 double for Argentina's opener
Tuesday sees our first quadruple-header at the World Cup with Argentina kicking the action off against Saudi Arabia. We’ve taken a look at the game and picked out a 5/1 Bet Builder for you.
Argentina come into this tournament in red-hot form having not lost a game since 2019, which was a Copa America clash against their main rivals Brazil.
Argentina have rightfully seen their outright price for the World Cup shorten since their Copa America win, and they come into their opening fixture as the overwhelming favourites against Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia are likely to be used to the playing conditions in Qatar with the two only being about 500 miles away, but Argentina are no strangers to playing in hot and humid conditions.
As far as injuries go, Saudi Arabia have their full 26-man squad fit whereas Argentina have already had to make two late call-ups to the squad, with Correa and Gonzalez picking up late injuries.
Lionel Messi is another player coming into this in stunning form with the forward finally looking settled in the star-studded PSG team.
With Argentina being a fairly short price for the World Cup now, Messi has also seen his price shorten for the Golden Boot, but I think the value will lie more on the Argentine racking up some assists.
In 19 games this season Messi has assisted 14 times, and when you consider how favoured Argentina are for this opening game, you’d expect them to score a decent amount of goals. If they’re scoring about four or five goals you’d be surely expecting Lionel to assist one of them.
Argentina have so many goalscorers in their squad with the likes of Lautaro Martinez and Angel Di Maria, Messi may even play a deeper role in this World Cup to support them. Messi is 6/5 for an assist against Saudi Arabia and that will be our first selection for the Bet Builder!
Our next pick involves one of the aforementioned goalscorers who is Angel Di Maria, a player who recently picked out a brace for his nation in a friendly. Di Maria has had a quiet start to the season with his new club Juventus, but don’t expect that to hamper his performances for Argentina.
Di Maria has been class for Argentina in his later years and has actually scored three goals in his last two games for them. Di Maria is expected to be playing as a striker at the World Cup next to Martinez with Messi playing just behind them. I think with the creativity Messi possesses, Di Maria will have multiple scoring opportunities in this game.
We’ll be backing Di Maria to have two shots on target at 11/10 bringing the overall Bet Builder to 5/1 and that'll do us nicely.
Of course as always best of luck to everyone that is following and please make sure to gamble responsibly.
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