Thursday, July 26, 2012

Olympic Games Soccer Play: Gabon vs Switzerland


Olympic Games - Men's Soccer - Group B - Gabon vs Switzerland

***DOUBLE DIME PLAY***

The Swiss youth teams have been excellent in the last few years, as it could be seen in the last Under-21 European Championships last year, where they were runner ups to Spain. Their roster is formed by a group of very talented youngsters, already playing some major minutes in the most competitive leagues in Europe such as the German and Italian leagues, while others are already key pieces in some of the best Swiss teams. They will be missing Xherdan Shaqri and Granit Xhaka in this competition and this removes a lot of creativity to the team, but I don't think this will be a major problem against the completely inexperienced Gabonese team.

Gabon is very surprisingly on this competition after winning the African qualifying event. However, we are talking about a team who has never played a major competition before and whose most of their players still play in the Gabonese league, whose competitive level is ridiculous in comparison to the competition the Swiss players experience in Europe. This difference of experience and competitive level between Switzerland and Gabon will surely help the Swiss team in having huge edges in terms of tactical discipline, defensive focus and even physical condition, especially in the last 20 minutes of the game.

I believe Gabon will heavily struggle today on their debut match on their first International competition ever, while the much more experienced Switzerland squad will take advantage of the silly errors Gabon will eventually commit to comfortably win this match. Therefore, I'll take the Swiss team to win today.

Pick: 4 units (Double Dime Play) on Switzerland ML @ -140 / 1.71 on Betonline

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