So european qualifiers start on thursday and in the same day there's this game(which is probably most intresting one):
Northern
ireland - Estonia
Northern Ireland starts these qualifiers with 2 homegames against Estonia and Belarus so unless they screw something up then they'd have 6p in the bag before visiting Tallinn in june. It's the first official game between these teams since EURO2012 qualifiers where we won both matches (4:1 at home and 2:1 on the road) but i guess it's (sadly) safe to say that neither team isn't the same like 8 years ago ...
However since our last h2h game Northern Ireland have played 18 official games at home(W8D4L6) - they scored in 15 of them but managed to keep just 7 clean sheets. I'd say that luckily for them we are still quite bad away from home cause since our 2:1 win in Belfast we've played 19 competive awaygames(W3D4L12) - apart from these wins which were to nil we've managed to keep just 3 more clean sheets - all in games which ended goalless and during these 19 games we actually failed to score in 13 so no surprise there and what's even worse is that in EURO16 qualifiers we didn't score single goal in awaygames(even against San Marino) so definitely it can't get any worse ...
Like in our typical (away)game i expect that we are going to play in formation 5-4-1, have basically 9 men behind the ball while playing for goalless draw and once that plan has backfired we suddenly forgot that we'd actually take more risks while trying to get something from the game..
* right now i'm waiting whether one of our local bookies comes out with their usual offer during Estonia NT (away)game where you can put 3€ on Estonia to score over 0.5 goals with special odds @5
If they dont do it for whatever reason then i'm probably going to bet against us while taking N. Ireland -1 AH @1.93
So let's see. Perhaps i'm actually going with both these bets ...