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Football Bet of the Day: Bulgaria to take a beating

Tobias Gourlay
28 Mar 2021

Roberto Mancini Italy coach — Roberto Mancini has been doing Italy proud recently

"Italy have won all of their most recent five away qualifiers by an aggregate 16-2"

Back Italy -1.5 & -2.0 on the Asian Handicap @ 2.0421/20 v Bulgaria

In-form Italy can make short work of their hosts in Sofia tonight, says Tobias Gourlay

In Prague last night, the party never quite got started for Belgium. The Red Devils failed to win an away qualifier for the first time in half a decade, drawing 1-1. We need to up our game like the Czechs today.

Under Roberto Mancini, the Italians are W14-D3-L0 in competitive games since the start of 2019. They breezed through Euros qualifying that year, winning 5/5 away qualifiers by an aggregate 16-2 (11-2 in four games if you want to discount a 5-0 stroll in Liechtenstein).

The Azzurri notched a full house of three clean sheets in three recent Nations League away games - against opponents ranked higher by Fifa than Bulgaria - and should have too much for hosts who were beaten comfortably at home to Switzerland in midweek, going 0-3 down within 20 minutes and eventually losing 1-3.

Bulgaria have conceded at least three times in 4/4 competitive home defeats in the last couple of years, so we'll take the visitors to win with something to spare this evening.

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Back Italy -1.5 & -2.0 on the Asian Handicap @ 2.0421/20

2021 P/L (1pt per bet)

Staked: 44pts
Returned: 42.79pts
P/L: -1.21pts

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