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Football Bet of the Day: Wellington for the boot

  • Tobias Gourlay
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United Arab Emirates football players
The UAE will be united as one behind Al Ain

"Since the end of their summer break, Team Wellington have played nine New Zealand Premiership games, with seven going Over 2.5 Goals"

Back Over 2.5 Goals @ 1.784/5 in Al Ain v Team Wellington

Al Ain could run up a score in this afternoon's Club World Cup game, says Tobias Gourlay

Al Ain v Team Wellington
Wednesday 15:30

Aberdeen struck first after just nine minutes of last night's Scottish Premiership game with Livingston and went on to win the match. But what happened in between brought down our bet: the Lions came roaring back to lead 2-1 at the break, before the Dons turned it back round and won 3-2 with an injury-time winner.

Champions League aside, it's another quiet day around Europe. We've come to the Middle East for the Club World Cup play-off match between Al Ain of the UAE and New Zealand's Team Wellington. Al Ain start as strong favourites, despite losing their last match 3-5 in the domestic Presidents Cup, but our focus is goals - we think there are more on the way.

Across all competitions since February, a remarkable 31/37 Al Ain matches have delivered Over 2.5 Goals, including 17/20 at Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium.

Since the end of their summer break, Team Wellington have played eight New Zealand Premiership games, with six going Over 2.5 Goals. They've scored at least twice themselves in 7/8 and we fancy they can help turn this afternoon's game into another goal fest.

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