England vs Malta Predictions, Betting Tips and Preview

England play their first home qualifying game on Saturday when they host minnows Malta, here are some England vs Malta predictions and betting tips for the game live on ITV.

 

Former England striker Alan Shearer said that England could not get any lower after the revelations of Sam Allardyce who of course was England manager for one game back in September. I agree with Shearer as English football has become a joke in the past couple of months with the national side losing to Iceland in the summer and then appointing a new manager for him to only last one game because of an undercover story. Gareth Southgate has taken temporary charge of the side but quite frankly in qualifying the players could manage themselves and still qualify for the World Cup. In the past few years England have done brilliantly in the qualifiers and they actually won all ten matches when they qualified for the Euro’s back in the summer and they haven’t actually lost a qualifying match since October 2009 which is impressive. As for Malta, they have never qualified for any major international tournament and have only won two competitive internationals since 1993 which is why they are ranked 176th in the world. Their record goalscorer and arguably their most famous player is ex Coventry City star Michael Misfud who once scored at Old Trafford in a League Cup match and at the age of 35 I doubt he’ll be able to cause the English defence many problems.

 

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England vs Malta Predictions

 

You have to look long and hard to find any value for money in this game with England such strong favourites for the win but I think I have found a couple of football tips that are exactly that. The handicap markets are normally the way to go in these matches and I think that England -4 is a good price. England should comfortably beat this side and will be disappointed if they don’t grab a few goals and with Gareth Southgate wanting to get the job on a permanent basis he will want his side to put on a performance so that’s why I’ll be backing England-4 for my first England vs Malta betting tip which is 11/8 at 888sport.

 

England to win (-4 handicap): 11/8 with 888Sport (sign-up to get treble odds for your first bet).

 

My second England vs Malta prediction is going to be for an own goal to be scored in the match. England will be putting constant pressure on the Maltese goal and I don’t think the defence will be able to deal with it and could potentially slip up and put the ball in their own net. This is a special bet but with odds of 6/1 at Bet365 I think that is way over-priced.

 

Own goal to be scored – 6/1 with bet365 (sign-up to get a £200 bonus).

 

Correct Score Tips

My third and final betting tip for England vs Malta is going to be in the correct score market. This bet is normally for a bit of fun as predicting the correct score is never easy but I think that England will win easy and grab a few goals so I think that 9/1 for England to win 6-0 is a fair price at Bet Victor and I’ll be having a little dabble on that.

 

England to win 6-0 – 9/1 with Bet Victor (sign-up bet £10 get £30 free).

 

Team News

Raheem Sterling and Adam Lallana are both missing for this match due to injury which will be a shame for Gareth Southgate as both players have made a very good start to the season. Marcus Rashford has been called back up to the first team squad and will be looking to score on yet another debut of his if he gets a chance. The majority of the Malta squad play their club football in the Maltese league including Misfud who I mentioned earlier. They do have one player who plays in England; Luke Gambin plays for Barnet but will be missing for this game as he got suspended in their previous match.

 

Head to Head Stats

England and Malta have only played each other three times and unsurprisingly England have won all three of the games. However, in the last match that they played back in 2000, Malta got on the scoresheet and only lost 2-1 in a friendly and if that was to happen on Saturday, the Malta camp will definitely count that as a success.

 

England vs Malta Betting Odds

England are best priced 1/50 to win the match at Bet365 with Paddy Power offering the best odds for a draw or a Malta win. They are offering 35/1 for the draw and 125/1 for a surprise Malta win. Daniel Sturridge and Marcus Rashford are both favourites to score first with odds of 16/5 at Bet Victor but one to look out for could be Dele Alli who is 7/1 to get on the scoresheet first and this is with BetVictor again. If you fancy a simple both teams to score bet Coral are offering 16/5 for this.

 

England vs Malta Betting Tips

England to win (-4 handicap): 11/8 with 888Sport (sign-up to get treble odds for your first bet).

Own goal to be scored – 6/1 with bet365 (sign-up to get a £200 bonus).

England to win 6-0 – 9/1 with Bet Victor (sign-up bet £10 get £30 free).

 

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