Portugal vs. Switzerland Bet Builder Tips: Ronaldo and Fernandes to shine in 13/2 treble
Portugal will play Switzerland in the last-16 of the 2022 World Cup, a game that promises to be an absolute cracker. We’ll look at the match and provide you with a Bet Builder with Boylesports.
Portugal vs. Switzerland Odds
Portugal come into this game as the odds-on favourites with the majority of bookmakers thanks to their comfortable victory of Group H. On the other hand Switzerland just barely qualified after a comeback win against Serbia.
As far as team news goes, Nuno Mendes will still be out for Portugal as well as Otavio and Danilo Pereira who all missed the last game. Switzerland will potentially be without Renato Steffen due to a muscle injury but other than that, both teams have their key players available.
With all that covered let’s get into our Bet Builder.
Portugal vs Switzerland Bet Builder Tips
First up we’ve gone with Cristiano Ronaldo to have 2+ shots on target.
Ronaldo has only managed one goal this tournament and he’ll be desperate for a couple more before the end of Portugal’s run in Qatar.
Ronaldo is in line to start this game after coming off early against South Korea, so a full 90 minutes is expected from the Portuguese superstar. With him in line to start, he’s definitely worth backing in the shots on target department.
We’ll also be adding Burno Fernandes to have 1+ shot on target against Switzerland.
The Man Utd midfielder is currently averaging 1.5 shots on target per 90 minutes at the World Cup which is fairly impressive considering Ronaldo has played all the games that he has featured in.
Ronaldo is unlikely to give up penalty duty any time soon but Fernandes does take the odd free-kick which may result in a shot on target.
Switzerland have conceded five shots on target to Brazil and Cameroon and had four against them when they played Serbia.
I think Portugal can easily manage more than a couple of shots on target against Switzerland considering the quality of players they have.
If they are conceding two against Serbia, Ronaldo and Bruno Fernandes - two players that love to shoot - should have a field day against them.
Finishing off our Bet Builder is a familiar bet for most punters which is Granit Xhaka to be booked.
We all know the Arsenal man's record for being carded is as solid as it gets, strangely enough for Switzerland he isn’t near enough as prolific in the card department where he has only recorded 24 cards in 110 games and has only been sent off one.
Still solid but for Xhaka’s standard is fairly tame.
Xhaka was carded in his last game which was a crucial game for Switzerland and my theory is when everything is on the line for his country, Granit is willing to risk it all.
His last card was in Switzerland’s last game which if they lost they would have been eliminated, his last card before that was a round of 16 game against France which of course was do or die.
Hopefully, with Portugal being the favoured team they’ll enjoy the majority of the ball which will result in Xhaka putting in a fair few challenges against Portugal’s tricky midfield. That also brings our Bet Builder to 13/2 with Boylesports.
All we can do now is hope for a good game between the two sides and hope for a winning bet.
As always good luck to everyone following and remember to gamble responsibly
