The Welsh could do with rolling out a home win in this fixture against group leaders Serbia. The Dragon’s trail them by two points going into this one and certainly can’t afford to suffer a home loss here. The Welsh have remained unbeaten from their three games so far, but Serbia are currently running on a seven match unbeaten streak in internationals. But Ireland have already held them to a draw in the World Cup 2018 qualification group, so would Wales be happy enough with that as well to keep themselves in touch? Wales are 13/10 for the win, with the draw at 11/5 and Serbia at 21/10.
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Wales v Serbia Betting Tips
Four years ago Wales were hammered 6-1 by Serbia in Novi Sad, which was current boss Chris Coleman’s fourth game in charge of the country. That result made his start the worst ever of a Welsh manager. But how times have changed, with him guiding Wales to the semi finals of Euro 2016 in the summer. Now the two nations meet again as they fight for a place at Russia 2018. Wales have a two-point deficit to leaders Serbia in the group so far with the Welsh having gone W1 D2 over their first three matches. After opening with a comfortable 4-0 home win over Moldova, their progress was stunted with 2-2 draw in Austria and then a disappointing 1-1 draw with Georgia.
So this will be their third home game of the campaign so far and will really want to put maximum points on the board, because the group looks as if it will be tight. Four years ago then in World Cup 2014 qualifying, Wales lost 3-0 at home against the Serbians after suffering that 6-1 away loss against them. Those are the only two previous meetings between the nations and this one to go over 2.5 goals as well will return you a price of 8/13 at Bet365. You can take a shot of both teams to score in the match for a quote of 19/20. That may not be a bad punt with Serbia having netted 8 goals in the group so far and Wales 7. Gareth Bale is trading at a price of 21/20 in the anytime goalscorer market for this one.
Serbia have been producing a lot going forward then and will give Wales a tough game and they look as if they could be under-priced for this one. They top the qualification group with seven points so far. After opening with a 2-2 home draw against Ireland, they have gone on to put back to back wins together over Moldova and Serbia, netting three goals in each of them as well. Southampton’s Dusan Tadic has scored to qualification goals so far, as has Newcastle’s Aleksandar Mitrovic. Mitrovic is a 12/5 punt in the anytime goalscorer market with Tadic at 7/2 and that’s not to mention other threats through Aleksandar Pecic and Andrija Pavlovic around the 11/4 mark.
Serbia are in decent form at the moment as they have not lost any of their last seven competitive matches and they have scored at least two goals in five of those last seven games. So they are doing alright at the moment and could give Wales some problems. A point on the road would probably be pretty welcome for them as well so that will make them hard to beat. Serbia to go out and win to nil in this one will return you a price of 15/4 at Bet365, a huge shot. There is a tempting shot on the draw to be in place at half time and a Draw/Wales half time/full time option is a 9/2 shot with a Draw/Serbia half time/full time option at 11/2.
Who will win – Wales v Serbia Predictions
Neither of this will get an easy game. Serbia aren’t going to give up top spot in the group without a battle and can well frustrate Wales to a share of the points. The draw in the match outright has some appeal, particularly with Serbia proving that they are a hard side to beat lately. The way they kept going for their 3-2 win over Austria was commendable and a score draw looks likely in Cardiff.
