England Women vs. Portugal Women Betting Tips: Two bets for Women's World Cup warm-up match
England Women’s manager Sarina Wiegman has two warm-up matches to assess her squad ahead of the Women’s World Cup, which is now only three weeks away.
England, one of the favourites to win the World Cup, face Portugal in an international friendly at Stadium MK on Saturday 1st July, live on ITV 1 at 3.15pm (TV coverage starts at 2.30pm).
European Champions England have only lost once in 31 matches under Wiegman, although that solitary defeat did come in their last game against World Cup co-hosts Australia, who carved out an impressive 2-0 win against the out-of-sorts Lionesses.
England will now take to the field for the first time since Wiegman unveiled her World Cup squad and they will be expected to kick-start their build-up with a win on home soil against a Portugal side preparing for their first-ever World Cup.
England are a short price at 1/6 to return to winning ways on Saturday afternoon. A draw is available at 6/1, while a shock Portugal win is out at 14/1.
England Women vs Portugal Women Tips
Sarina Wiegman boasts a sky-high 80% win rate in the Lionesses dugout, having triumphed in 25 of her 31 matches at the helm.
Along the way, she’s masterminded Euro 2022 glory, back-to-back Arnold Clark Cups, beaten Brazil in the inaugural Women's Finalissima, and earlier this year the Lionesses defeated World Champions USA in a statement win ahead of the Finals.
England are obviously an extremely short price at 1/6 to swat aside Portugal this weekend, however, I like the look of England to win to nil at the more appetising 5/6 with BetVictor; a bet that’s landed in a whopping 18 of the 25 wins under Wiegman.
A defensively-strong England have conceded just 12 goals in 31 matches, thrashed Korea Republic 4-0 in their last game at Stadium MK, and beat Portugal 1-0 in the last meeting in 2019.
Portugal could only draw 1-1 against Wales in their last fixture and prior to that lost to Japan, a side England beat 4-0 last November.
In the anytime goalscorer market, England's Euro 2022 Final hero Chloe Kelly represents good value at 2/1 with William Hill.
Kelly has bagged four goals in her last five starts for England and also scored the winning penalty in the famous Finalissima win over Brazil.
The Man City star will be keen to keep the momentum in front of going ahead of the World Cup and will fancy her chances on Saturday afternoon.
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