The Qualification Rounds of Euro 2020 continue tonight. I plan on watching this match for some potential live betting and this preview is a way to be fully prepared for this like last time.
Cyprus vs Belgium
The Belgian Team played a good match against Russia despite all the missings. Tielemans did well on the midfield and Eden Hazard as always was the best player on the pitch with all the deciding actions that allowed goals to be scored. Russia managed to score, but it was only because one of those rare big goalkeeper mistakes you don't see very often. Overall the team is in a good vibe starting off the campaign with a win against what is said to be the strongest opponent of the group. Today they play against Cyprus who took a 5-0 win at home against San Marino. It's clear who the favorite is in the match against Belgium and the main question to ask is what the correct handicap is. Belgium is still without many important players (Lukaku, De Bruyne, Witsel, Kompany,...) but showed they have enough quality in the team still. It will the 100th international match from Eden Hazard today also.
Looking at the home results from Cyprus the past years
Cyprus vs San Marino FT 5-0 (HT 4-0)
Cyprus vs Norway FT 0-2 (HT 0-1)
Cyprus vs Bulgaria FT 1-1 (HT 1-0)
Cyprus vs Slovenia FT 2-1 (HT 0-0)
Cyprus vs Montenegro FT 0-0 (HT 0-0)
Cyprus vs Greece FT 1-2 (HT 1-2)
Cyprus vs Bosnia & Herzegovina FT 3-2 (HT 0-2)
Cyprus vs Estonia FT 0-0 (HT 0-0)
Cyprus vs Kazakhstan FT 3-1 (HT 0-1)
Cyprus vs Gibraltar FT 3-1 (HT 1-0
Cyprus vs Belgium FT 0-3 (HT 0-1)
Cyprus Bosnia & Herzegovina FT 2-3 (HT 2-2)
Cyprus vs Belgium FT 0--1 (HT 0-0)
Cyprus is not a team like San Marino that get run over each match but they also never managed to qualify for a world cup or a European championship. They might miss their top striker Sotiriou tonight and will likely start off with an enforced midfield and 1 striker. The -2 line @ 1.8 seems to be set correctly as they only lost out on that once in many years which was against Belgium with 0-3. The line back then was -1.75 @ 1.8. Belgium has improved since bit also suffers a lot of missing players. I won't be getting involved pre-game in this match but will for sure be watching this match live in the hope to get in some Live Bets. I will as always cover this match on the SBC Discord Channel.
Correct Score Contest
Predict the correct score in the Cyprus vs Belgium match in the comments. A ~30% upvote will be split between the ones that got it right.
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