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Southgate's new care-free attitude means goals
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Australia corner line worth taking on
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Grealish's marker in for a rough ride
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England vs Australia
Friday, 19:45
Live on Channel 4
Leg 1: Over 2.5 goals
There is a more care-free attitude to Gareth Southgate as he approaches the latter stages of his time as England manager. You can sense from his media duties that he's becoming a little bit more ruthless in being questioned about sensitive, political subjects.
Instead of trying to play politician with his answers to try and come across like the intelligent, thoughtful man he undoubtedly is, he's now ducking tricky questions using the excuse of just wanting to concentrate on football.
There was also the leaping to the defence of Harry Maguire in a very public way after the uncomfortable mocking of the player during England's win over Scotland. The old Southgate may have kept that 'in house' a few years ago but this is a new Gareth - a more laissez-faire version.
He's allowed the handbrake to be loosened on the pitch too, giving Jude Bellingham licence to roam and playing Trent Alexander-Arnold in midfield. And it's working. England were sensational in their win over Scotland, where they played with a cohesion, aggression and attacking ethos that would've blown away almost every international team on the planet.
It wasn't quite 'GazBall' levels but we're surely closing in on that analogy.
That 3-1 victory, means England have scored 35 goals scored in their last 12 matches under Southgate - a run that has included fixtures with Germany, France, Italy, Ukraine twice and Scotland. I'd expect them to hit that average for the visit of a very limited Aussie side. Over 2.5 goals in the match makes for a solid starter for the Bet Builder.
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Leg 2: Under 2.5 Australia corners
England are certain to dominate the ball at Wembley. It's the natural occurrence of simply having the better quality of player but also Australia being a team that are happy to sit deep in a block and make life difficult.
They enjoyed just 29% of the ball in their recent 2-2 with Mexico and averaged 37% across their four games at the World Cup. This projected pattern of the match should mean the Australia corner count will be kept low.
In their last eight matches stretching back from their World Cup opener with France, they have forced just 16 corners - well done the maths gurus, that averages out at just two corners per match.
Meanwhile, England have shipped just four corners in their last five matches with their heavy possession-based style making it hard for opposition teams to sustain much pressure towards their goal. Australia to win under 2.5 corners - the lowest line available - at 4/61.67 should land comfortably.
Leg 3: Milos Degenek to make 2+ fouls
Jack Grealish being on media duties alongside Southgate on Thursday indicated that the Manchester City star will be starting at Wembley. That in turn means we must be looking at the opposition full-backs' foul prices.
This is set to be only Grealish's third start in the last 19 England games, so it's hard to draw much from his international data but with him set to be playing in the same position as he does for his club, his number of fouls won metrics are very relevant.
Across his last 50 games across all competitions Grealish is being fouled to an astonishing average of 3.24 times per 90 minutes. He is officially the most fouled player in the Premier League since the start of last season when it comes to that per 90 minutes statistic.
This means Aussie right-back Milos Degenek - an aggressive type of defender, who was booked on both his starts in the World Cup against Denmark and France - is a gigantic price in the fouls market. There is 12/53.40 available on the Crvena Zvezda man making two fouls in the game. That looks a price to attack on it's own but those with a greedy nature should add it to the Bet Builder to dream big.
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Lewis Jones, aka Jones Knows, is Sky Sports' resident betting expert - follow his Premier League tips and predictions across Sky Sports each week.