Football Accumulator Tips: 15/1 four-fold for Thursday's penultimate group stage games
Knockout football is on the horizon in Qatar as Thursday serves up our penultimate offering of group stage action.
Canada are the only one of eight teams whose World Cup status is already confirmed, so be prepared for plenty of drama across the day's four fixtures.
And what better way to watch it all unfold than to add some personal stakes into the equation in the form of an accumulator bet.
Football Accumulator Tips
Canada starlet Alphonso Davies to commit at least one foul is how we start off. Davies plays in a more advanced wing-back role for his country, drifting centrally to receive the ball and pressure his opponents high up the pitch. This has resulted in him committing a foul in each of his appearances at this tournament - with both landing in under 20 minutes!
He and Canada will be playing their last World Cup game for four years before their co-hosted tournament in 2026, so they'll want to end only their second ever appearance at the competition with a historic win.
Over to two Costa Rica selections in their final group match with Germany. To say Costa Rica have been lacklustre at this tournament would be putting it incredibly kindly. Yet their smash and grab victory over Japan leaves them in contention for a place in the knockout stages.
However, the stats don't lie. They've managed only four shots inside over 180 minutes of football in Qatar. All four of those came last time out vs Japan, where a solitary shot on target secured them the win.
If Hansi Flick's side can limit Spain to only seven shots and three on target, then their expected dominance over Thursday's opponents should return fewer than 5.5 shots and under 1.5 shots on target for the Costa Ricans.
The fourth and final selection posits a penalty to be awarded in the other Group E offering. Bettering Germany's result would see Japan qualify for the last 16, but that's easier said than done when your opponents are Spain.
At the time of writing, there have been 11 penalties at the 2022 edition of the tournament. And while things have slowed down since that initial run of eight awarded in eight days, something's got to give in these final group stage matches.
This pair each saw a penalty given in each of their outings on Match Day 1, with Spain converting one via Ferran Torres after Japan goalkeeper Shuichi Gonda gave Germany the lead through a terrible mistake that resulted in the referee pointing to the spot.
Japan will have to weather a rampant Spain whose costly second half performance against Germany will have fired them up to make amends here.
