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I just lost 3 Friendly Match last week ago, and all match results draw ;D,

• Morocco - Cape Verde,
• Germany - Ukraine,
• and Indonesia vs Palestine

I don't know why a strong team like German and Morocco didn't play seriously when meet in a friendly match. this will be noted and experienced in the future, So if you are bet in a friendly match, be careful to bet, don't look at how strong that team and squad, just look and be brave to bet in a draw. This is just my opinion, not always all friendly matches result for draw, but with my 3 last bets, I have a thing to bet 70% in the draw  ;D,

how about you?

To be honest, I have never made a bet on a friendly match because it will be very difficult to predict and even the outcome is uncertain. Morocco, Germany and Palestine should be able to win all of these matches but indeed, as I said, there is no definite outcome for matches like this. It would be nice if you don't have too much hope on the seeded team that will win the match and if there are other options such as handicap betting, the over/under goal results are more likely for you to make money. An additional note, don't use too much betting money in a friendly match like this.

Friendly matches are always difficult to predict. they sometimes don't play seriously, or some players are on vacation and aren't in the squad.
I usually don't bet on friendly matches, but yesterday when Indonesia faced Palestine, I bet on a draw. and I won the bet. because I know this is difficult so I bet with the smallest bet.

In another friendly match, Indonesia will face Argentina. would you bet on a draw? Argentina is a World Cup champion. I wouldn't think they would draw against Indonesia.

To be honest, I have never bet on a match like this, even in a match like an exhibition boxing match, I prefer to skip it because besides that a match like that will never be taken seriously, it is also the type of match that might have been arranged for what should happen because it doesn't affect anything rank or title.
Usually, countries that play friendly matches just want to make their squad more compact, but it will never be taken seriously, so it's better to just ignore it, including the later Indonesia vs Argentina friendly match, doesn't think Argentina will score many goals because they are capable do so, because they might be reluctant to do so out of respect for the home team that invited them to this game.

i have made several bets in friendly matches and what i can conclude is "don't be too serious in friendly betting" ^{(usually friendly matches are deliberately held for political purposes, practicing new strategies)} and usually i will only use small bets.  in the friendly match between argentina vs australia which was held in china, i saw that the match was not going very seriously, if only australia or argentina did the match at full power then i'm sure the match would end in an exciting way but argentina would definitely come out victorious.

The name of the match is "friendly". The clubs will play in a most friendly manner with love and care. In many friendly games, players are not always serious. In some cases, key players will not be featured because of some cheap reasons. Most friendly games are also used for formation and tactical experiments so mistakes always occur. Betting in friendly games is risky and hard to predict because anything can happen. I remember when the national team of my country won against Argentina in a friendly game and we were celebrating the historical win. A few months later, the same team gave our national team to beat our life. After that, it became clear to everyone that the Argentine team was unserious in the friendly game. I don't think I will place a serious bet on a friendly game. Betting on friendly games should be strictly for entertainment.

in friendly matches like this I very rarely choose a strong team or bet on the underdog and more often bet on the Asian Handicap it will be safer for me and it is not a guarantee to stay in a safe position.
but every now and then I also bet on the favored team if it is true that the team has a very strong game, but I bet after a few minutes to see the performance of the two teams' matches.

judging by your predictions, it seems like a safe way to bet on a draw. because friendly matches are like jokes. maybe

Indonesia vs Argentina I predict that there will be a score of 1-0 or even a draw.

The main purpose of teams in friendly match is to give opportunity for secondary players or even to try different strategy so it is reasonable if it is harder to predict. In my opinion, the best option to do on friendly matches is to avoid 1x2 market. When I have to bet on friendly matches, I would prefer to bet on O/U goals as usually friendly matches ended with more goals than normal matches. Other option is to bet on both team to score, but for sure we need to do more researches about the squad of the teams. Or maybe if available, do live bet after watching 10-15 minutes so you can decide which one is the best to bet.

That is why I never bet on friendlies as teams do not care for the results,they are only trying different tactics and new players and see how useful they are to the team in official games,friendly games are a testing ground and the only bet I rarely make on them is to bet on both teams to score yes since most teams play care free and usually the concede goals but of course I do this rarely as it still remains a friendly game.

Not all games end in draw but I can assure you that most of the games that are friendlies do not come with the results bookies expect or at least make us expect a win for example from Germany yesterday,so it is the best thing to do to move away from betting on friendly games.

Friendly matches are not always taken so seriously, it's like saying anyone can take the win and it's fine either ways, and also there can be easy manipulation at play because it's just a friendly match, this is the type of matches where a team or club can use bribing to get the cup or prize and you as the gambler won't know that this is ongoing.

Find something better and more serious like La Liga or the Champions League, the excitement and fun is like no other, and if you lose your money, at least you enjoy yourself, this is why I will keep saying that gambling is not something anyone should depend on.

That just happened like that, most matches do not end in draw, so are friendly matches, they do not end in draw too. But friendly matches has a disadvantages if you go for one team to win because the team gone for may not play as expected. The best I do choose in friendly match is over 1.5 or over 2.5 because I have noticed that there are always goals in  friendly matches, but sometimes it can end up at no goal scored or under 1.5 or under 2.5 goals scored.

Edit: I am referring to club friendlies, not international friendly. International friendlies are difficult to predict.

In friendly matches, the coach has the opportunity to look at the players, what form they are in, how they interact with the team, he can make an unlimited number of substitutions. Such matches for betting are a very bad idea, because it is too difficult to predict their outcome. I don’t know how often they resort to bribery even in official matches, but there is definitely no such thing in friendly matches, because it’s simply pointless. )

You have idea of friendly matching betting but you missed it somewhere and I also think that is why Op also lost. Friendly match betting is in two types.
1. Nations friendlies
2. Club friendlies
While Nations friendlies always most times end in draw or under 2.5 goals,
Club friendlies end in win and over 2.5 goals. This is the key to succeed in friendly matches bet and it had worked for some times and I am sure it will continue to work.

You are correct, but also wrong. You are correct that 30% to 40% of international friendly matches are under 2.5 goals, but most of the matches are not ending in draw. I have preferred to bet on clubs, not countries. Even I do prefer to bet on club leagues and cup, I do not bet on country leagues like UEFA national league and others like world cup. But as I check what you are saying that it is most of the time under 2.5, that is correct, but over 95% of the recent played friendly international matches were won.

I never bet on these friendly matches, because I feel it is just a waste of good money. There is nothing to play for... and just a fitness event for show. These teams will also not use their best players and simply use these matches to test different combinations of new players and also to test new strategies.

There is also nothing to play for, so they are not playing to the best of their abilities... because they do not want to risk getting injured and not being able to play when it actually counts.  ::)

I think people know that friendly football matches don't necessarily play with the main squad team that will be sent down to play and it's not because of the problem of playing seriously or not, but most of the friendly matches always field a squad of second-tier players, so sometimes they haven't found a style of play. them so it is difficult to play seriously let alone win a match in a friendly match.

To be honest, I've never been interested in betting on friendly matches because as you can get, the matches won't be as interesting as the championship, so playing as is, let alone playing with a second-tier team squad, and in my opinion, it's really not fun to watch, let alone bet on one of the matches.   :D

Brazil will play a friendly today against Guinea against apartheid. Brazil's highest football governing body CBF decided to organize such a friendly match mainly to stop racism. 
Although Brazil is ahead of Guinea in the ledger, the statistics of the two teams are equal in the last five matches. That means these two teams have managed to win only two of their last five matches and lost the remaining three matches.  Vinicius Junior will be in the spotlight in the match against Guinea. Because he is repeatedly subjected to racism and to stand by him, the football governing bodies of the two countries have organized such a friendly match. Hope their friendly match against racism will be useful to stop racism.

In friendly match you shouldn't bet in money line option, but better to bet on draw no bet option and pick an underdog club, so if the result is draw, you wouldn't lose any money. The chance of upset happen in friendly match is high too, that's why I said better to pick an underdog club rather than favorite club. If you think any clubs will try their best to win in friendly match, you're wrong because they only try their new strategy and players.

In friendly matches, teams usually play with their substitutes. That's why the favorite teams can't always win these games. In addition, these matches are not very important matches. Football players may have difficulty concentrating in these matches. I think it is very risky to bet on these matches. As the football leagues wrap up the season these days, the options in the match schedule have decreased. It's getting harder to find a match to bet on these days.It may be a better option to concentrate on different sports organizations. We may consider taking a break from betting on football matches or focusing only on matches that are worth it.

To increase the chances of choosing the right bet, it is important to analyze the context of the match, something that may go unnoticed, specially for friendly matches
I'll give you a very simple example that happened to me yesterday: the bookmakers were predicting that France could score many goals against Gibraltar's team, and my choice was less than 5 goals. The result was 3 x 0. Being that France would be a top 3 team in the world today and the opponent would have players that play even in amateur teams
But the context of the game made me believe that France wouldn't play to their maximum, even with their starters players, they have no reason to play trying to win by 6 or 7 goals for example, and besides that the European season is over now, the players are tired

Putting the context in the friendly match, you have to analyze if the team will play to win, if they will play to test some new formation, or if they will test several different or newer players, if they will play with a full stadium or not...
But most of the time the teams use these matches to test.
If you see a match of a stronger team vs a weak one, the stronger will probably do a lot os tests, while the weak have a lot of motivation to win, since they don't play important championships

Look at the case of Brazil vs Guinea, Brazil have one of the top teams, while Guinea will probably play the one of most important matches for them. (but in this case I believe in more than 3 goals for Brazil)

We are talking about football here which can be unpredictable in most cases especially in friendly matches. How long have you studied this countries matches recently,you can use their world cup performance to predict a friendly match because no country will play on  high level compared to how they played in the world cup. Not taking the match serious and maybe not all the best players of those countries that will be in attendance on the match day. Football is full of surprises,even the weakest team can win the best team.

I like betting on friendly matches. But mostly on club matches instead of national teams. In this match you mostly play on goals over or both teams to score. Usually teams go with first squad in first half then in second one with second squad and this can cause a lot of goals in this matches. Plus now everyone is tired so you need to be careful when betting on national teams especially on moneylines.

Im feeling the same. I just avoid to deal with the friendly match. Club is a bit easy to predict, unlike the nation. It's not even worthy to predict it.I refrain myself to take a part on friendly match.

Sometimes when you will be seen there are two nations will be doing friendly match and you can easily predict if A can win over B caused by A has a very good reputation and a lot of professional players rather than B.

You can pick A to win easily against B but surprisingly if A was not playing seriously against B and A lose. Countries are very hard to predict.

Seriously, it is always hard to predict friendly matches both club teams and also country teams friendly matches. I have bet on friendly matches many times, and I always lose my bet, despite I don't always pick more than two matches, which I always believe will win.

Teams doing friendly matches are hardly serious, especially those strong teams with classic squads, because many of their key players don't want to get injured easily. So they hardly put all their efforts into playing friends with weak teams that don't have any good records.

The best is to avoid staking friendly matches unless someone will just be continue losing money on the matches. Generally, predicting football matches is not easy and is based on luck, but predicting competitions matches is easier than predicting friendly matches.

Well, they understood that this was a friendly match so they did their best to restrain their skills and make the game as enjoyable as possible. Even though they had a chance to win, they didn't want their opponent to be embarrassed and create an unfriendly aura. Therefore, from the beginning I did not want to bet on friendly matches because it was not worth it to participate.

I don't see the logic from betting on friendly matches when there's nothing much at stake for these "powerhouse" footballing countries. Losing is a definitely a no-no but a draw against any team isn't that bad so don't expect them put that same level of effort to win. I would rather bet during qualification matches since they have something to really compete for.

I always avoid betting on these matches with nothing on the line because you can't always expect teams to go all out, and they don't mind making mistakes when there's nothing for them to lose, as it's not on the same level as the official matches. The posts above already pointed out the other factors that make these matches unpredictable, and that's why we shouldn't force ourselves to bet on these friendly matches when there are better matches in the next few days.

Indeed, you really have to be careful betting on friendly matches, especially international matches, where in fact players are rarely together, such as when strengthening clubs in their respective leagues. For example, one match between Indonesia vs Palestine, I chose to enjoy the match without betting.
Maybe in the Indonesia vs Argentina match I will do the same thing.

I dare to place bets on other official matches such as the EURO qualifier which will take place later between Portugal vs Bosnia.
I agree that friendly matches are not so serious for the players.

Betting on friendly games can be risky because even a high performing team can decide to play easy in a friendly game to avoid injury and end up loosing the game. Also coaches may use it as a time to try out new strategy, so it is not the best game to bet on. The results can go differently from whatever you expect.

Friendly games look always friendly to bet on, but the results are always far from friendly.

 Friendly games are tough, aren't they? Teams often use them to test new strategies, hence the unpredictability. Yet, let's not leap to always bet on draws from a few results. Yes, friendlies can end in ties, but that's under half the time. Also, you must weigh team synergy, player performance, and prior matchups. Don't box yourself into draw-betting. Broaden your tactics. Think about over/under goals, both sides scoring, or corner and card counts.

Coaches try new tactics in these matches. That's why there are so many surprise results in these matches. I don't bet on friendly matches. I always consider such matches as risky matches. However, under normal circumstances, Germany and Morocco should have won these matches. Even if it is a friendly match, the difference in power between these teams is very obvious. Betting on the results of friendly matches is risky, but there are usually a lot of goals in these matches. It may be more accurate to bet on goal prediction in these matches. However, I do not bet on such matches unless I have to.

Yes, one of the reasons why friendly matches are difficult to predict is that the coaching team wants to see how far the squad they bring can adapt to the new possible strategies they are implementing. It's not really surprising to see results that we didn't think about happening in that match, even though the match brought together the two countries or teams that were very far in quality.
I personally, at least so far, have no interest in betting on the match, not only a matter of risk, but also the atmosphere created in the match is not what I expected. Whereas I usually bet to get me carried away in the atmosphere of the match, so it's much more interesting and fun.

I don't bet on friendlies match because usually the top team doesn't think about the result of the match. They don't play seriously because there is nothing to fight for, so betting on friendly matches is tough. So no one would be surprised about why the friendly favorites lose or draw games where the opponents are weaker, and that's why I avoid it.

Some of the favorites team can win, but only if they play seriously like Argentina vs Australia.

Friendly match is a match that is very difficult to predict, is that true? based on my experience, it's the truth, it happens because usually strong teams don't play their important players and prefer to play second players. In addition, there is no objective in a friendly match other than points on the FIFA rankings. To avoid disappointment in betting on a friendly match, my advice is to wait until the line-up comes out, usually 1 hour before the match starts. From there, you can judge whether you deserve to choose the team or not.

There are some countries that are really serious about raising the rankings. Including Indonesia, they are trying to improve the football curriculum. In fact, they are preparing for the Asian Cup by giving the opportunity of descendant players who play in the Europa League. In addition, many young players have dared to fight abroad. Although they don't get more money to play in the Domestic League. I'm waiting for the lineage players who will debut against Argentina on Monday. Although a little disappointed that Messi is not together to play.

This depends actually, there is no way you will choose Argentina in a friendly match where Messi is playing forward and Enzo Fernandez plays midfielder and you don't expect them to win, they will definitely win that match but when you settle for fewer teams that might put the mind in skepticism, then you should expect some foul play. Friendly match are sort type of matches that people don't rate at all, it is better to put your money on serious leagues that are difficult to manipulate than all this match a player can secretly bet on his team to lose or win, it happens even within the teams and management.

For top national teams has good FIFA ranking, they looks not serious on football friendly match and most of them use young player in starting eleven. Based on what happen with Argentina national team against Indonesia will begin few days later without Lionel Messi, Di Maria and Nicolás Otamendi. Some national team in FIFA matchday not priority have to win because they have higher rankings but most of them priority with fee commercial got from opponent national teams.

Argentina FIFA friendly match in this time has weakness opponent teams, actually get fewest points only winning with teams have low FIFA rankings, but they has priority with fees commission earning when accepting FIFA matchday against China, Australia and Indonesian. Regarding some media rumor, Indonesian national team spent more than 100 billion euro for getting chance against Argentina in friendly match.

Though the question here is about betting on a friendly matches and not about rankings. Well, many countries want’s to advance their rankings and improve their system and this is also why we are having friendly matches. I’m not betting on this since we all know anything can happen and yes they are playing not so serious when it comes to this one. Most probably, they don’t want to go all out here so they can still hide their strategies, better to bet on the actual game than to bet on a friendly matches, its too risky for me.

To be honest, I'm not really interested in betting on friendly matches. because, there will be many factors that will cause the two teams not to play seriously. we can refer to first, in what context the friendly match was held. another factor, whether the team playing will play the main squad, and whether the coach is experimenting with what he is implementing and the result is that the two teams do not play seriously. it could also be, the two teams are more concerned with seeing the mental readiness of the players, player trials, system experiments and so on.

Well, we have seen there are many friendly matches where the results are far from what we expected. most likely it will end in a draw, or both teams will score a lot of goals. based on my observations, it tends to be like that. although in fact, the results are not always specific. so, I'm not interested in betting on friendlies. but if you like to bet on friendly matches, the most ideal benchmark is the odds provided by the bookies. ideally for me, bet on the Under/Over.

in friendly games team coaches use this opportunity to experiment with the players they have in stock, as coaches already have a main team but have reserve players and need to have a plan B in case one of the main players gets injured so the coaches look at friendly games as games in which they will put several new players and in different positions to be able to have results and measure how the team behaves, friendly games most often precede serious games, and that makes coaches coaches don't risk key players

for example now with the stoppage of the premier league and all major leagues the teams will be playing friendly games and betting on these friendly games is very dangerous, because even though in the case of the teams they put their best players on the field because they need to analyze each player and as you get used to in the team and this is preparation for the season, so the coaches put their best players on, but even big teams lose against small teams in these friendly games, that's why I don't place bets on these friendly games

I don't bet on friendly matches, they're friendly match which means players will not be playing with all their strength and determination to win the game that's why it usually ends in draw or both side scoring so much goals. Friendly shouldn't be taken seriously or bet on.

Players are very cautious to avoid getting injuried or injuring the other players so they play soft which is why friendly always have unexpected outcome and the weaker team might win the stronger team although when it's a competitive match, the stronger team wins.

Friendly are like advanced training and I watch them just for entertainment and not to bet on them. I'll prefer playing virtual games that my possibility of winning is very low than betting on a friendly match that both teams are just training for other important matches.

Yes a friendly its a must to avoid, no matter what you think , because players doesnt play like they normally play, they dont engage in the game at the 100%, plus a lot of diferent rules like more substitutes than normal games, and also experiments in terms of formation made by the manager.

Also national team football its very diferent than normal club games.

Yea they win most times but the goal margins are not much, that is for nations but clubs can give goals but when people also lose is that the bookmakers do not have good records of some of these nations and they just come up with odds based on the name and popularity of the country, in some times surprises hold all of us.
Every type of betting requires time and patience in order to understand how things work and follow the right steps.

So if most Friendly Match results end with a draw, why we don't bet on a draw? isn't that a profit?.
As we can see until the end of June [1], there are dozens of friendly matches we can bet. But, like you said, hard to predict, German lost again in Poland (16/6), and last night, we get a draw again in Ecuador vs Bolivia.

So, there is euphoria in Indonesia when they have a special guest team (world cup champion), Argentine. I don't brave to bet on a draw, because most likely (where don't have a strong defender) Indonesia will get lots of goals from Argentine.

[1]. https://www.eurosport.com/football/international-friendlies/calendar-results.shtml

several argentina star players will not play in a friendly match with Indonesia. there are even rumors that Argentina will field their second-tier players to face the Indonesian national team.
however, Argentina is the number 1 team in the world. they won the world cup. Even with young and second-tier players, of course, it won't be easy for the Indonesian team even if it's just holding them to a draw.

if you still want to bet on a friendly match, it's better not to bet on a draw. but maybe Indonesia has a chance to score goals. the match against Palestine, and Indonesia looks quite aggressive. although in quality of course Argentina is far above Palestine.

Talking about Indonesia's friendly match against Argentina which will take place tomorrow, it has been announced that the star players who cannot participate are Otamendi, Di Maria, and of course the GOAT Lionel Messi. Surely La Pulga fans in Indonesia will be very disappointed because they cannot see the idol directly playing with Argentina against Indonesia later. I do not recommend betting on friendly matches like this, but if you are sure and feel it is only for entertainment you can bet on matches that Argentina will obviously win, of course.

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We'll see ddds for Argentina, only @1.03, it's even very small and won't make a lot of money, on the other hand, the odds for Indonesia to get @25.00 and that's very big, there are so many draws with odds @15.00, but anyway, it's impossible Indonesia will win or draw. So I think for sure taking over 4 goals will make more decent money at odds @1.55 because either way both teams or even with the depth of the Argentinian squad themselves can do more than 4 goals.

I always avoid to bet on friendly match because both of the teams playing without any motivation to win, not to mention the match might be rigged.

I consider a good time to bet on football match is during the middle of season because during early season many players aren't stable and near the end season, usually many teams will not play very good since they already in secure position.

Well, for this reason I don't like to bet on friendly matches. Strong teams play only to fulfill their obligations, they will not play as usual because there is no title race there. Friendly matches are like training for the strong team and it is an honor for the weak team to be able to compete directly with the team that has the best ranking on the FIFA list. On paper, Germany and Morocco were able to win the match, because this match was held outside a tournament that gave a trophy, they were just having fun on the field.

Argentina is a very strong team and the World Cup winners will surely win the match. In the FIFA ranking, Argentina is in the first place and Indonesia is number 149, where the difference is almost sky-high. Although some of the best stars will not participate in the match, Argentina is the most likely to win. Indonesia is not such a strong team that given the highest betting rate it is certain that Indonesia will lose. While various gambling platforms offer odds ×1.03 for Argentina and ×26.00 for Indonesia and draw ×19.00, it is currently understood that Argentina will win. Betting in Argentina won't give you a very good profit but here you are sure not to face any losses. But it is sure to lose money if you screw up in Indonesia because Indonesia will never catch up with Argentina. And Indonesia cannot draw with Argentina, of course Indonesia will lose the match by many goals.

Friendly matches are not competitive enough to bet on, many friendly matches are played by some countries or clubs to allow the manager try or access some new players infact some clubs or countries would not play their first team squad so I wouldn't bother to bet on those matches infact majority of the players will play softly to avoid being sustain an injury, it's obvious that the Morrocan team didn't play with full strength this is a country that came fourth in the last World Cup that is expected to win convincingly against a minnow Cape Verdean but drew the match likewise Germany a strong team forced to draw Ukraine.

it is indeed very difficult for Indonesia to beat Argentina in this friendly match but have we forgotten that there are always surprises in every football match?
this is just speculation, the odds are given by the bookies for Indonesia @25 and Argentina @1.03 and a draw @15. If we try our luck betting on Indonesia or a draw, wouldn't it be very profitable if the score ends in a draw or Indonesia wins.

I have no advice on betting on this match but if just to try our luck there's no harm in trying.

Apart from not having the motivation to win, it's not worth betting on friendly matches because there could be many other reasons, namely not playing the main squad team players and being able to become squad team players in the second tier so you're not sure they will play seriously, it's also a friendly match, of course playing with enjoy the game no matter win or lose.

That's why I also never bet there other than the league, because betting on the league more matches will play seriously to secure their position in the league rankings, can't wait for the league to start again to make money from sports betting. because usually i earn money betting big league or other big championship event in europe.

Brazil's young team had a huge 4-1 win over Guinea yesterday. In this first anti-apartheid protest match, Brazil took to the field wearing an all-black jersey. Vinicius Jr. was the iconic player of this friendly match in Brazil. Vinicius Jr was awarded the number ten jersey for this protest match against Guinea. We saw the presence of most of the young players in this Brazil team and they were able to perform brilliantly in this match. 

Joelinton scored the first goal in the debut match for the Brazilian team. Then the three Real Madrid stars each got a goal. A great match was played between the two teams against apartheid.

I have always made a point of never making a single bet when there is a friendly or exhibition match, and the reason is simple, neither team is going to play with their stars and even if they do they will not play as they usually do, and why would they? It is an exhibition match and there is nothing at stake, so I hope you just learned your lesson, as if predicting the result of a match was already difficult trying to do so for an exhibition match is practically impossible.

I haven't had thoughts on betting on friendly matches because I know they aren't any firm of serious games and just as the implies, so they are expected to be without much efforts and struggles because you don't expect players to work themselves or possibly  sustain any form of injury in a friendly match and end up not playing for a real time match.
If I was to bet on a friendly match, judging from your post, then I think I will have to place most of my bets as draw with a very small amount of money.
But I wish to know if friendly  matches have any better or higher odds when betting because personally  I don't think the odds on such games will be high as people might not be so interested to bet on them.

Vinicius Jr managed the game without Neymar due to Neymar's absence in yesterday's game. Because currently the most powerful player in the Brazil team is VinnyJr, a very promising player.
And scored a goal at the last moment and kept the team close to victory, proving that Brazil is one of the best teams. Brazil was in control for most of the match. Guinea tried hard to stay on the field but despite many attacks, only one attack was successful. But in this match I notice that Brazil counter attack more which is why Brazil team can score 4 goals.

Does this apply to Indonesia vs Argentina? Lol.  ;D
There is a difference in quality it seems, Argentina has the best quality players who always appear regularly at every club. Although Di Maria and Messi will not play, perhaps Argentina is too strong for Indonesia.
Although Indonesia does have players of European descent who are ready to appear, but it seems that not conceding much ball is a good record. Indonesia has good motivation, they have never lost a home match while with Sin Tae Yong. It seems that PSSI's new football gurus in Indonesia started the stint period well. They also prepare a lot and call the players descendants.

It didn't only happen to you, I also experienced a failure in a bet where I placed a score bet for a certain club, but the facts on the ground were the opposite, what I experienced was a friendly football match between.
* Skotlandia vs. Norwegia (1-1).
* Palestine vs. Iran (1-1)
* Singapure vs. Papua Nugini (2-2)
* Dan satu lagi Belanda vs. Jepang (0-0).

The four clubs that I bet on in a friendly match, especially inter-state football, the four of them gave me a headache, it really was a bet that stressed me out, to be honest, I didn't expect that the match could end in a draw, annoying, like there was an element of collusionin game.

Today 18/6/23 singapore vs. Solomon Islands and Mauritius vs. Kenya, the game has been more and less 70', of course I want to see the final result of their match, whether it ends in a draw or vice versa.

For me I feel friendly games are not to be trusted in terms of giving winning or even double chancing any team, is best you go for goals and there's every possibility of getting a win rather than selecting teams that would win.
Like game of Germany vs Ukraine, everyone knows how good the Germany team are, they're always touching the ball around but of recent they {Germany} have been off color and that's why someone who has studied how poor they have been won't go for a win rather than GG or Over2.5. I'd advise you avoid a straight win in friendly games even on club friendlies too.

And today the odds have changed a lot for Indonesia to @35.00 and @1.02 for Argentina, if you want to keep betting on this match that isn't serious maybe you can choose another market such as the number of goals over 4. But I don't think Argentina will try to be able to score a lot goals in this match and Indonesia also has the opportunity to score goals, so my prediction will only end 3-1 or 4-1 so over 4 with the actual odds is also not very attractive @ 1.5 is enough because it's impossible for the match to end in a draw and choose Argentina on the money line is more unpleasant.

You should say some friendly games are harder to predict, not all. In a friendly game between Brazil for example, where they use all their first team players, and they are playing against a country like Malta, there is a 99% chance of them winning, and this game, a friendly game will be easy to predict even though there is a 1% chance of a draw game which will be because of Brazil not playing well. The chances of a very weak team in soccer winning a stronger team will be only because the stronger team play a lesser standard of football than they play and not because the weaker teams will outplay the stronger team. If the Stronger team play with the standard that they are known for, there will no chance of the weaker team winning. In those kind of friendly games, after you have seen the team selection and formation, you will know if the stronger team is serious about winning or not.

Wow, it seems I missed a lot of information related to friendly matches. So far, I've only focused on the league. but let's discuss it, in theory we have to see the two teams that will compete before we make a bet. I'm sure you also agree with what I'm saying. referring to what you said, the problem is not why we bet on a draw or as I said the Under/Over option and also not a question of profit, but rather whether it is interesting for me the friendly match. to be honest, not at all and therefore I didn't really pay much attention to observing. but, if these friendly matches are more interesting and profitable then you can have fun with them.

Well, this is interesting. indirectly, you led me to research the Poland vs Germany match. based on statistics, Germany mastered ball possession and tactics. but apparently, the Germans are more experimenting with their system. in fact, they tried to play long balls. I didn't watch the match, but it seems that there was an attempt by Germany to penetrate the Polish defense. and yes, as we agreed, friendlies tend to be less serious and there were a lot of substitutions early in the second half from both teams. Naturally, if Germany loses, they don't play their full squad.

Well this is the interesting part, Indonesia is my country. even rumors, Messi and Di Maria will not play. even so, it won't be a problem for Argentina because these two teams have a very significant gap. Unfortunately, I didn't get the predicted line-up for the two teams. but after all, as you said, it is highly likely that Argentina will score against Indonesia. if you predict there will be a lot of goals in this match, you can bet the under/over option of 4.25 with odds @1.90.
btw, this match is important for our national team. why, because they will face the squad that won the 2022 world cup. it doesn't matter how we lose, but the effect is huge for the mentality of the players going forward. and it is an honor for us, the world cup winning team, to be willing to visit Indonesia.

When we talk about Brazil or a strong team that has 90% winning, we have no doubt it, their second-tier players as well the same as 1st players. so there is no confusion to bet to Brazil, but again, when we read all posted above, betting on the friendly match is risky, even have 99% chance to win, because there isn't a tendency if they lose or win.

I'm not sure it's a draw, even favorite and play at home, Indonesia doesn't have the capacity to face the 2nd tiers Argentine squad. but, anything can happen, I am even more interested if Indonesia plays the U-22 squad like they got Gold on sea games 2023. maybe that's more impressive and prestigious than Senior player.

I never bet in friendly or exhibition matches because both teams and fighters are not showing their true strength, in fact, they are holding back, the team never put their strongest player for fear of injury and also for the other team not to see their real play when they are playing against them, same thing with individual games like exhibition boxing they do not throw their biggest punches because the pay is not huge compared when it's a real match.

Nope, I don't remember betting on any friendly matches on any kind of sports. Friendly matches is basically an exhibition game and there several reasons why it's hard to predict and win against it.
1. It's because obviously is not a serious game.
2. Superstars may not play or perform with like only 10% of their ability.
3. They can control the outcome of the game instantly.

Some people even suspect that the officials of the game and even some of the players are betting on their own against the bettors who choose to place a bet on the favourites, so they can make a lot of money out of these exhibition games.

Friendly matches are only like trial matches, so it makes it very difficult for us to predict who will win because all results can change and the pattern of play is also not very optimal.
I lost several bets in friendly matches so I decided to avoid betting on this match.
After all, the players only play as best they can and don't really optimize their playing performance.

The 3 matches that you are betting on actually I also see that there are quite high Odds but that is risky and don't take them.
This can be a lesson for you so that in the future you can be more careful in choosing matches to bet on.

Even in a friendly match like that, the referee won't take the foul seriously, for example about a penalty award because I'm not interested in watching a friendly match, is it possible that if there is a foul that in a normal match would get a penalty then in a friendly match it also happens?
The friendly match is only a warm-up because the league competition is on holiday for the new season, so it's not important at all, so ignore it, save the funds for the new season, which will certainly be a lot of interesting matches with various bets that can provide profit opportunities.

It is certain that Argentina will not be too serious in a match like this but Indonesia will definitely be very serious to face Argentina. Maybe the problem is that Indonesia is able to score goals or not and if a goal is scored from the Argentinian side it is likely that my target of over 4 goals will not be achieved. But I found the latest news saying that the chairman of the Indonesian football association will give bonuses to his players if Indonesia can later draw against Argentina. I think these words will motivate Indonesian players to be able to score goals against Emi Martinez.

So I think the result of over 4 goals is not bad and for sure both countries will attack each other to score a lot of goals. But since this is a friendly match I don't want to take it too seriously to live up to my expectations and I consider this as an entertainment bet for small money. ;D

Maybe the teams don't out in much effort since they know it just a friendly match and attract no much concentration unlike the leagues matches they often play, still yet that isn't enough reason which you be attributed to their low performance since all these are what were being calculated along with the major leagues play to sum up a team performance, this makes it more often that much of these friendly matches ended with draw, some gamblers already don't include such match in their games because of uncertainties from the two opponents which remains unpredictable.

the first word you said I think I slightly disagree. because even though this is just a friendly match it doesn't mean they are just playing casually.
because for me this is one of the rare opportunities like Indonesia vs Argentina which is very rarely able to face head-to-head and these two teams will try to use the strength of their performance to beat one to prove that their performance and strength are enough to compete at the next level or at big league later.
today indonesia vs argentina will take place and i think i will try my luck betting on a draw. even though it's a bit impossible but I'm sure Indonesia can quite improve their defense line.

Apart from players being on vacation and some level of unseriousness another factor you have to consider is that some of the players are faced with fatigue. They have played very well in the leagues and as the season ended, they are supposed to rest, rather they continued playing. This is one of the things that reduces their performance and another thing to consider is that most countries do not take care of their players as much as their clubs do. So they tend to perform better for club than country.

Obviously, because these two teams are different classes. Argentina is ranked 1st in FIFA, while Indonesia is ranked 149th. Imagine, there is a very significant gap. So, the question is whether this match has the potential to be a draw. terotically, no!. even though Argentina will not be playing its main squad, it's hard to imagine that this match will end in a draw. that's why the margin for a draw at odds @17.00, looks very tempting. but what's more tempting is the Indonesian odds with @41.00. these odds will still change, before the match is held. how are you interested in betting on a draw, maybe not at all. especially if you expect the home team to win the match, something that is almost impossible even though in football anything can happen. ideally, bet on the Under/Over.

I just want to see this match as entertainment, moreover we are well aware that Argentina will not play seriously. but I hope that Indonesia will play as well as possible and as much as they can. in particular, in preparation for the 2023 Asian Cup competition which will be held soon. btw, we have talented young players and currently the development of football has increased quite a bit, especially at the junior level. It's a shame, at the senior national team level, we don't have much to be proud of.

Yes but you won't get the odds that you are looking for when you actually want to make some winnings. In other words there is no point in betting on Brazil in that case. But I think what can be more interesting in those games are actually bets on the weaker teams. Unexpected results happen more often in those friendly games even when the best players play. The managers still try some new things out and the players aren't as eager to win the game as they would be in other matches. The Germany vs. Ukraine match as mentioned by OP is an example for that. It was even a lucky draw in the end.

But overall it is less predictable and that is also the same for club friendlies. the games can't be compared to serious competition games.

Indonesia vs Argentina match will start soon. Maybe, this is just a match that Argentina didn't really expect, but I'm sure the Indonesian National Team will show their skills and put up a strong fight against one of the world's football powers. The Indonesian team has been steadily improving over the years, and this match provided a golden opportunity for them to test their skills against a top class opponent. The odds for Indonesia are huge, you can't imagine if Indonesia wins. LOL
Well, anything can happen. right?

That what I was thinking, as they were friendly matches, you can't expect all players to take their game on a very serious note.
Hence, if you feel that you can't see a very aggressive game, better sit back and relax, just enjoy the game, and don't bet for the moment.
But of course, it won't be the same on every friendly match. Some teams may want to take the game seriously.
What I can compare this kind of game is like exhibition matches in boxing, not very advisable to place a bet in those exhibition fights.
Or if you are rooting for a certain team, just bet a small amount so no hard feelings if the outcome is out of your expectations.

Yes, I watched the match between Indonesia vs Argentina and so far Argentina dominated the game but I saw the Indonesian players were very excited in this match and kept trying to put pressure on the Argentinian players when they got the ball. And I see that Indonesia's defense is also good and makes it difficult for the Argentine players to score goals.
and the Indonesia vs Argentina match captured a lot of public attention, including the world community. And even though in the end this match did not feature Argentina captain Lionel Messi, and I heard that many Lionel Messi fans there were very disappointed because they couldn't come to Indonesia and he chose to take a vacation.

A very entertaining friendly match for me as an Indonesian fan.
From the start of this match plan we felt that the strength would not be comparable, but the balls were round.
Positive things emerged from the Argentina coach's answers when answering questions from the media crew that Argentina was serious in the friendly match against Indonesia even though some of the main players like Messi did not join the group.

Indonesia's target is to hold it to a draw, but Indonesia's current position is losing 0-1 in the 38th minute through Paredes' goal.

Argentina scored one more goal and it was 0-2 to Argentina and Cristian Romero's second goal in the 55th minute, it was a huge class difference game. Indonesia is ranked 149th in the world against Argentina which is ranked 1st in the world.

but at least Indonesia can face Argentina, the 2022 world cup champion and also ranked 1st in the world, and I was quite entertained watching this match and Indonesia's counterattack was also good but it's a shame the ball was so easily snatched by the Argentine players.
the match was at the end of time, and it was impossible for Indonesia to equalize the score.

Yup, the result may not have favored Indonesia, the match served as a valuable learning experience for the team. Going up against such strong opposition provides an opportunity for growth and improvement. The Indonesian players can take this experience and use it as motivation to further develop their skills and strategies for future encounters. I really appreciate Indonesian team today, even they are face the no.1 in the world, they are able to keep 2 - 0 till ends. This is an expensive experience for Indonesia, because so far Indonesia has had difficulty bringing in a strong national team in friendly matches. The change of PSSI leadership to former Inter Milan owner Erick Tohir seems to give hope to Indonesia.

That's the thing about friendly matches, people will goof off and will not be at their competitive level since there's no need to anyway. I think that's pretty much established right from the get-go already so I don't see the reason why you'd play on friendly matches in the first place lmao, but let's just suppose this is your first time and you're not aware how things go in these types of games. Moving on, I'd rather bet on games that I know are played competitively and are made with the intention of actually winning it, not to practice/waste people's time watching how the goof off on the field. It's funny watching them without betting though as it removes the tension we've been so accustomed with football matches, but that's the end of it mostly.

You were just unlucky, not every friendly match ended up with a draw result. In most friendly matches, a stronger team should win as expected although they didn't score many goals. Just look at the current match (Argentina vs Indonesia), Argentina won the match as expected but they only scored 2 goals.

It is because they have no motivation to win the match. It is only a friendly match, winning won't bring a big advantage. As far as I know, the main purpose of a friendly match is for entertainment. Commonly, a big team will play seriously if they are competing for a prestigious title. Since the purpose is only for entertainment, the players don't really care about the result of the match.

I'm sure all gamblers will be tempted to seek their luck by participating in this sports bet. High odds can sometimes make a lot of money faster to get. I watched the match until it was finished and the end result was that Argentina won with 2 goals without reply. Messi came on in the match it was clear it would be more than 2 goals. unfortunately Messi was on vacation so he didn't come to the match against Indonesia.

Bets on today's friendly matches, to be honest, are very difficult to predict, I often lose every bet on sports betting, it seems that people also know that Argentina will come out victorious in that match because they can't possibly draw against Indonesia later. Argentina certainly keeps their score points so they don't lack against Indonesia because Argentina is ranked first in FIFA.

Naturally, the chances of winning for Argentina are far greater than for Indonesia.
The odds given by the dealer for those who choose Indonesia to win are quite large. Likewise the odds that choose a draw.

After the results of this friendly match, Shin Tae-yong was able to find new things that needed to be done in order to improve the Indonesian national team players.
When compared to the FIFA rankings of the two teams, Argentina should be able to win more than 2 goals, in fact 0-2 is the score that lasts until full time.

This shows that Indonesia's defense line looks good.
Granacho was not free to play his trademark fast game as usual.

Actually, betting in friendly matches is playing real gambling, we don't know how to calculate exactly even if it's a strong team though. It's the same as playing dice or slot, you just push the button, and the result will be different than you expected.

If bet like this, we have to get rid of the national pride. it seems impossible to bet Indonesia wins even play at home though. Play in guess score is better than bet who the winning. I almost won, if no goal on 2nd half. so far, the Indonesian defense is good, they can hold until minute 20. So with this result, there are many records that can fix by the team and coach for the future.

This is normal, after all friendlies are not things that you are suppose to bet on, it is a thing where teams just test out tactics and players get in shape and learn to play with each other because not everyone played for the national team all the time, so some players are new, and they need to learn to play together. I personally believe that any friendly is not good to play, club ones are not that good to bet on neither, because teams do not care if they win or lose, that's not the point of a friendly.

There are some of them like friendly cups, in which case that could be important because they may care about it, but even in those cases it is not really that much of a big deal and teams rarely play to win those games at all.

It's a shame that the match ended with Indonesia's defeat, which could have been predicted beforehand, but the bookies don't seem to want to take the risk by giving better odds to Argentina than the odds @ 1.02, if the odds for Argentina in this friendly match reach @ 1.20 then more people will immediately choose bets on money. line because of course even though this is a friendly match they will not let their name be tarnished because only getting a draw or even losing is even more impossible to happen.
But with only two goals scored in this match you are right in saying that the home team is more serious so those who bet on under get the win, but the result would be very different if a player like Angel Di Maria played.

Actually last night Argentina could have scored more than 4 goals but we have to appreciate the Indonesian defense which is so strong and very difficult to concede more goals. On the other hand, Indonesia also often threatens the Argentine defense by throwing the ball which makes goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez panic a little with the chaos in the goal box. :D

Apart from all that, we can see how Argentina really dominated the game and this was a pretty good defeat for Indonesia because they didn't lose badly with more than 2 goals. Indonesia will definitely learn a lot from Argentina through this match and of course it can be a good experience for Indonesian players in the future. I think if Mac Allister and De Paul had also started last night maybe we would have seen more goals, but for sure Argentina didn't want to take the risk of bringing on their main players. After all this is one of the best friendly matches between the two countries.

Betting extends beyond outcomes, encapsulating team dynamics and players' performances. New recruits introduce unpredictability, creating a platform to evaluate their potential. Your claim that outcomes dont concern teams holds some truth, yet misses the mark. Winning, while not the sole aim, provides players an avenue to establish their value, lending relevance to matches. Friendly cups, though seeming less significant, hold prestige and boost team morale. They may lack the cut-throat competitiveness of championships, but labeling them as trivial play is a gross simplification.

I have long stopped betting on pity odds like the one bookmakers assigned to Argentina. I hate those kinds of odds lone 1.03 and I do not include them in my selections anymore. Any odd that is not upto 1.20 does not appear on my bet. Even if they are multipliers, but they have weak strength of multiplication and yet they are not guaranteed

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Friendly matches of nations often go with draws but the world champions will have to convincingly win Indonesia

I may be wrong but nobody puts their best into a friendly match where they have nothing to lose if they lose. Some famous players are even careful not to get injured because they know how much it would cost them in their clubs. Some other players know that if they get injured, their home country may not make the effort to take care of them and give them the best medical attention like their clubs will, so why sweat it? The smaller countries that always win know that they are at the bottle of the ranking and would want to make a name for themselves and be recognized so the play very well. This is my own hypothesis though.

It's in the name "friendly" this might be the reason why players are not aggressively playing with all of their skills but it's also more exciting to watch if the players play the normal way. In the end, win or lose, it wouldn't really matter because this was only a friendly match anyway.

Before we place a bet on a friendly match, we must be sure to check their previous video, only to have an idea if how it works and which team mostly wins so that we won't be disappointed of the result that we will get on our early tries. Maybe some like to participate on it more than the normal matches because it seems special and events like this can rarely happen.

Yes, moreover friendly matches don't field the main squad team, usually only squad teams are in the second tier so playing won't be too serious, as you said winning and losing is commonplace but it can also affect the world ranking, we also can't blame the platform gambling because they added that match in their platform for gamblers can have fun betting on that friendly match, although in the end it is hard to guess.

I think not many people will bet there unless you want to throw money away to bet on a friendly match, personally I will definitely stay away from that let alone betting on a friendly match, apart from being difficult to predict it is also difficult to get a win let alone profit in betting. My advice is never to try betting on friendly matches between leagues or country teams.  ;D

It is difficult to say which team will win the Brazil vs Senegal friendly match. However, today's match will have enough hard attacks between the two teams. We know that Brazil is a much stronger team than Senegal, they have many good stars. If Brazil can perform well in the match then surely they can win against Senegal. In today's match, Brazil has a high probability of winner, which is why Brazil's odds is the lowest on various betting platforms. Whereas Brazil ×1.63 and match draw ×3.95 and Senegal ×6.50 betting rate. According to this, it can be understood that there is not much chance of Senegal winning in this match today, it can be said that Brazil can win. Brazil showed great performance in the last match and they won the friendly match with Guinea. So if today's match can perform as well as the last match then there is a possibility that Senegal will lose to Brazil.
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Yes, it's true, friendly matches will always be difficult to predict, because usually they also don't have big ambitions to win. After all, because the title of the match is only a friendly match, it is very likely that they will also only play with strategies and tactics that are only limited to trials and or the team will only play players who are usually only on the bench. Therefore, friendly matches are always more difficult to predict if we compare them to the main match.

The progress is quite good for Indonesia, the results are quite satisfactory for me. 37 minutes of no goals was good enough. In addition, the Indonesian coach applies 5 defenders and relies on counterattacks. Indonesia also dared to build up attacks from below, although many failed. I think Indonesia will not be able to make shots on goal, but at least Indonesia is able to make 2 shots on goal that can make Martinez difficult. In addition, I am also happy to see the No. 7 from Indonesia, he is very confident and it seems that only he dares to hold the ball longer. Indeed, if you look at some of Argentina's mainstay players not entering, but Indonesia's progress is already on the right path. I think Sin Tae Yong deserves another long-term contract.

But there is also no reason to underestimate every opponent in a friendly match. Every match is important and will be a moment to remember. Big clubs usually only play substitute players during friendly matches because they think it's quite worth it, even though some fans are waiting for the main players to play.
Whether it's difficult to predict or not depends on which club is playing. If Argentina's class competes against Indonesia, surely all predictions will point to Argentina as the winner of the 2022 World Cup.

Friendly games are both easy and difficult to forecast; winning bets on friendly games require simply smart strategy and luck. The unbelievable happens in a friendly game, I'm not sure about activating my wager against top games, because it's unpredictable, experienced a scenario when an average club defeated outstanding clubs. Friendly games are not considered competitive for great personalities on the pitch; they simply use that medium to showcase their skills against their opponents with no regard for the outcome.

If you pick either sides to win you might likely not win the bet because in most of the friendly games they coaches don't use to take them seriously. In most cases they use unknown players or players from the adecamy to play the games, they see friendlies as an opportunity to spot out young talents or give young players some minutes. When placing bets on friendlies, the most favourable market are the goal market. Over 2.5, 3.5 or 3.5 are my desired picks and it hardly disappoints.

That's why these matches are called friendly matches. Winning these matches is not the top priority of the teams. In these matches, different tactics are tried and it is aimed to give the match tempo to the players who are usually substitutes. I always stay away from these matches when I bet. If there are no good alternatives in the match schedule and therefore I have to bet on one of these matches, I prefer double chance or goal predictions. However, it is always my first choice to stay away from these matches. I think you should try to control yourself and stay away from these matches or use very small amounts of money when you bet on these matches. I wish you good luck...

Actually this is a bit off topic, but I just wanted to review it. I thought Sin Tae Yong would apply the 3-5-2 pattern like when I saw Indonesia's predicted line-up. for Argentina, Scaloni remained as predicted line-up with 4-3-3. to be honest, this annoyed me a little. because, I want to see Sin Tae Yong use the 3-5-2 pattern. this formation too, in the end when defending changed patterns with 5-3-2. that's why, I want to see Sin Tae Yong adopt a new pattern. the point is, how the Indonesian players will fight in the midfield. if, they get the ball to counterattack, the 5 midfielder system up front can do a good build up starting from the defender. if they can do well, Argentina will not have too much possession of the ball in the midfield area.

But apparently, Sin Tae Yong didn't want to take the risk if the system failed and in the end Indonesia conceded a lot of goals. well, if Argentina fielded its full squad it looks to be a lot of goals going on. but at least, our players are pretty good in defense. naturally, they were a little pressured because they were up against a FIFA rank 1 squad. as a result, for those who bet on a draw, they lose, for those who bet on Argentina the handicap option -3.75 still loses, so do those who bet on Over. so, I'm sure there will be many losers at this bet. because if betting 1×2 chooses Argentina, the odds are not ideal @10.3.

For Indonesia, hopefully they will get the momentum to compete in the 2023 Asian Cup later.

The main problem in the friendlies between top class national teams like Argentina and a very low level national team (like indonesia), its one very simple,the player from the a+ national team doesnt play at full gas, they dont find the game competitive and also they are not gonna risk a injury in one non sense game, most of this games are played because of money or marketing/political things.

For thetop class national team this kind of games doesnt serve for nothing, they cant try new formations because the opponent its so weak.

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As per the title of the thread, this is what happens in a friendly match which is very difficult to predict. ;D

Like the results of the friendly matches between Brazil vs Senegal and Germany vs Colombia which were unexpected, the hosts lost in this match. It should be obvious Brazil and Germany will win this friendly and there will likely be so many bettors who lose money betting on the team that is the favorite to win. It's no wonder why this could happen to Germany because out of 15 official/non-official matches Germany only won 3 times. Meanwhile, Brazil did not make sense this time and even though Brazil has the best goalkeeper in the Champions League this season, namely Ederson, they conceded 4 goals instead.

Did you know that friendly matches are only for testing purposes?
That every team that is strong enough does not play optimally apart from avoiding unethical talk as well as to maintain the stamina and condition of each player so they don't get injured.
It looks like not only the Brazil vs Senegal and Germany vs Colombia matches but also several other friendlies will be the same and this is a very good opportunity for the house edge as they can take a lot from matches like this.

I myself have never been interested in betting on friendly matches because it only makes me panic and lose some money.

maybe my mistake betting carelessly.
Initially I placed a draw bet because I watched this match live and I saw the two teams between Indonesia and Argentina trying to draw a bit and after that I decided to place a draw bet.
even though in the first half Paredes was able to score the first goal, I still believe that Indonesia can keep up with Argentina's game by scoring 1 goal.
but in the end not according to my predictions.

It's true that friendly matches are full of surprises.  :D

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Friendly matches are more of entertainment than wanting to win at all cost, the two trams are invited to show the fans fun of football, their main players they have been wanting to see as many of them don't get the chance to get their ticket to watch their match in their favorite stadium, it's an opportunity for the fans to see them, that's why we hardly see them been aggressive in the field to prove that they are good, a yellow card are even rare in the friendly matches.


If friendly matches doesn't have a team I'm sure could be dominant in a match, I will never place bets on such teams, besides when players are on break after big leagues, there used to be numerous national leagues that do started, if there are better alternatives than the friendly matches, I don't think it's worth it trying to bet on friendly matches.

Friendly matches are not very serious. Especially for the bigger teams. They use their reserve players most of them time so there will be no injury and fatigue on their squad. Friendly is an opportunity for coaches to try news things and experiment with their team. Odds doesn't really matter when it comes to friendly matches. But the bigger teams win more times than they draw or lose. Concluding that 70% of friendly matches end in a draw is not true. I agree that it can be disappointing at times though.

I saw a part of the game and seriously how did you think that both teams were a bit playing to tie the game? Argentina was massively superior and there was one shot and one corner after another. It was nonstop pressure and ball possession by Argentina and Indonesia got lucky half a dozen times in the first half alone. If you thought that Argentina will be without luck until the end of the game and therefore bet on a draw, ok that is understandable, but they didn't both play to tie the game.

Yeah, draw sometime happens to on the professional matches.

Aside from betting on draw or underdog team, we can bet on over goals betting option because sometime there are many goals scored. This is rarely happen on the professional matches, only few matches in a season there are more than 5 goals scored.

Friendly match is a good way to turn an upset.

Some players might be on holidays and since it's not so important, most players won't fancy the game, so players from the home base would be used or from under23.
Three draws would fetch nice odds, lemme day bout 30 odds, and playing full time draw results are my thing why didn't I see it?  :'(

Well, the best you can do if you find them difficult to predict is to not play at all or get a punter you believe and edit whatever games he plays. Germany lately have been a poor Germany, they didn't do so well during the FIFA World Cup ( December ) last year.

Chances of average clubs beating elite ones have higher odds and probability compared to the real games. Gambling with odds does not have to be limited to friendly games; an average club can score numerous goals and defeat outstanding clubs. It is common in the English Premier League. Betting on friendly games with the expectation that your prediction will be correct is only inappropriate; friendly games don't push me because I know most of the big names wouldn't trigger their seriousness and qualities during the game, always playing safe in order to avoid injury.

I understand your perspective. These games are a tactical testing ground for coaches and a platform to assess players' fitness, often sidelining the pursuit of victory to ready the team for pivotal contests. Look at the Brazil vs Senegal and Germany vs Colombia friendlies - perfect illustrations. The teams never unleash their full potential, prioritizing player health over competition. Indeed, why risk a key player's injury in a non-consequential match?

Indeed, betting agencies capitalize immensely on these erratic games – their sustenance depends on it. Choosing not to bet on friendly matches is a wise course. At least, it spares you the anxiety of potential losses.

I unde that there's less efforts rendered from the recognized national teams than the attack and full force received from the unrecognized national team in terms of performance ranking, the big team would perform less because they will consider the match as being a friendly game and as you've already said, they wouldn't want to risk having injuries at the cause on their key players, you could deduce that most of the friendlies matchs, the big team will bench their star players in reserve against any key matches ahead.

Yes, the aim of those games is simply to make some money and nothing else, and even if fans know this is the case if some of their favorite stars are to participate in the game people are willing to pay a lot of money to watch an exhibition match, however the results of such match are incredibly difficult to predict as no one is taking the game seriously, and no one can really blame the players of this as it is not as if they are mistaken.

if the friendly matches that are held are on the agenda of FIFA, this is also related to the ranking of the national team. apart from having fun and earning money. I think we can see how the national team will prepare their squad. this is more about the preparations made by the Indonesian national team for the experience of facing strong teams. this is what is being rumored in the media because they are preparing their team to compete in the Asian Cup. and their opponents are also strong teams like Japan and Iraq.

I know about that and maybe don't expect more because whether it's official matches or not I think Germany is the worst team at the moment. Maybe if you don't agree, that's your choice, but apart from this it's just a friendly match, Germany shouldn't have lost after a series of bad matches in official matches that have continued until now.

So yes even if Germany uses a main player or layers thereof it doesn't change the fact that they are the biggest team in the world and shouldn't lose to a team that is weaker than them. So I think that's it from my point of view and I also don't bet on matches like this, but if the original goal is just to have fun betting on friendly matches then that's fine for me. Anyway, don't be too serious about this. :D

As you said it shouldn't end in a bad series and if it happens once, it is ok because other great teams have suffered from losses against weaker teams as well especially in friendly matches, but Germany is bad for some time now.

I think OP is also referring to those matches being hardly predictable in regards to the favorite team. But that is where is also a chance to bet on the weaker team because in those friendly matches the odds are often good for the weaker teams and in those matches they have a higher chance of winning. At times it could be worth the risk.

Has betting on soccer ever been easy before?  ;D draw is the most difficult option to play in football betting. It is some time very common in some local matches especially in Africa leagues thou.

As a gambler, you should be aware that players do not perform at their best form during friendly matches and one should not expect much from the game. Morocco should have beaten Cape Verde normally but this is football and everything is possible.

The result of the friendly match between Brazil vs Senegal was really surprising as Brazil lost to Senegal by a huge margin of 4-2. One of the four goals was an own goal. Marquinhos has scored for his team and scored against his own team ie an own goal from him. But we missed the Brazil that always performs against Senegal. Brazil took the lead in the first 11 minutes but Diallo paid for it in the next 22 minutes. Later, Marquinhos own goal as well as Mané scored in the 55th minute to make their goal difference with Brazil 3-1. Marquinhos' goal in the 58th minute brought some hope back, but Brazil were unable to match their form later, resulting in a massive 4–2 defeat against Senegal.

The reason that friendly matches are difficult to bet is because of the purpose of the match which is only as friendly as it can be including the roles which are loosen up , most times even the numbers of changes to make during the game is more than the maximum 3 for serious and normal football match. It is for recreation, keeping fit and for coaches to size their team up incase of a more serious match or tournament. The best players are most times not invited to play or are rested to avoid injuries. So because of this lowered standard, betting on them is difficult to predict. To predict draw for it or winning is a higher risk on the bettor. What most gamblers bet on it is either goal goal (g g) or 1.5 / 2.5. The believe to bet based on goals is because of the lack of seriousness and defenders / keepers may not put harder effort to defending goals.

This is how the gambling system works; they hope for us to believe that premier clubs always win when they play inferior clubs, but the current results on the wager lists show that premier clubs can lose a game at any time. I don't normally go for modest odds, always aiming at the bigger ones, since I'm always confident about the average club performance, a club without significant names, where everyone is serious and showcasing outstanding performances except for specific clubs where their key players will show-off instead of mean business.

Since friendly games are not important in FIFA ranking the players must play the game with caution. It will be needless for players to pick injuries because of an unimportant game. But some players take this game seriously because it contributes to players’ goals and caps. So a player that wants to break a record or wants more caps will play his best in the game just to achieve his aim.

Some teams are natural rivals which makes them take friendly games between them seriously. There has been an old rivalry between Brazil and Argentina, Nigeria and Cameroon, and some other examples. In such friendly games, national interest is of great importance. So the player will give thier best because of pride and records.,

To be honest, I have never won multibet or single bet on friendly match so far, anything, including big clubs in Europa. Indeed, it is difficult to predict because the match is not as important as chasing a trophy, so both clubs or countries are not playing too seriously. The results are unexpected, even we often see draws results like your bet. Right now it's better for me, not bet on matches which I don't understand, or matches that aren't too certain like friendly matches because the results are often disappointing.

I can totally relate to your experience with betting on friendly matches. Personally, I've never had any luck with bets on friendly matches either, so I now avoid them completely. The thing about friendly matches is that they lack the motivation that you typically see in competitive matches where teams are fighting for a trophy or a title. Since these matches are more like practice sessions, the teams involved don't always give their 100%.

One example that comes to mind is a friendly match I once bet on between two top-tier European clubs. On paper, one team seemed to have a clear advantage, but the match ended in a surprising draw. Of course, everyone's experiences may vary, and some people may have had success with friendly match betting. But for me personally, I now focus my betting efforts on matches that have higher stakes and where the teams are more motivated to win.

Friendly matches are difficult to predict and its not advisable to bet on them because since its just a friendly game the teams will not put enough effort as they should, the players also will not give their best because they wouldn’t want to risk being injured in a friendly match. And the coach we want all the players to play so after some time the Coach will bring in as many substitutes player as he can. That way the outcome of the game will change and it will affect the results. I don’t Take friendly matches seriously and that’s why I don’t even bother to bet on them because I know the results will not be as it should be so why waste time on them.

This is why i dont really have that interest on betting up a on a friendly match because of performance issue on which they wouldnt really be playing at their best on which there's no way that you could determine
on which one is good and which one is underdog with these type of match up and since from the word its a friendly match then it wouldnt really be shocking at all that their plays wont really be that serious.
Never ever in my gambling experience and moments on having that kind of betting on these type of matches unless if you are a die hard fan then you might be considering on throwing some bucks
but sensibly speaking about odds and chances on winning would really be hard. Getting some "draw" results? Its not that shocking and could really happen on which at least
this do give out that real experience on how betting on these matches would be ending up.

I have tried to bet on friendly matches for a while to give it a chance. But the ending of it is really not well at all. Because in friendly matches you never know how the favourite side would play. Especially when they don't play with their best players your bet gets closer to a loss already. I have experienced this many times.

Even in times that friendly matches are organized close to the beginning of a new season, I bet on favourites by thinking they would have many main players on the field. But even in those times I come across by big surprises. Therefore I have just decided to bet on only official matches as technically my chance to win is bigger in most cases.

Because from the name alone this is a friendly match so there is no target they are looking for to win and seem to want other results such as how to see the schemes that are carried out or the players that are played and of course see whether the formation is suitable or not because in short this is just trying to make national team to be better and ready when there is competition.
To be honest, in this case, I have never done this for a gamble because indeed this is also an experiment for several big clubs so it is definitely difficult to predict how victory can be obtained because the focus of several clubs in this case is actually not on winning.

I would say it depends on which players get a chance during friendly games. If there are a lot of routined players then it usually doesn't have the pace as the real games have when something is at stake. But there might be some action when younger players get one of their first or few chances to show what they are able to do, but that can also lead to less predictability as they are emotionally kind of overwhelmed and don't play as well as they would usually do. I would rather go with teams who usually don't have a chance but can win a friendly game because anything else is often not worth the risk that a team out of a sudden literally forgot how to play the game.

Well most of this teams play first half with first team and second half with a reserve squad or players that or on trial. This is where we can see more goals. This games are just screaming goals and odds are pretty okay for this kind of matches. Moneylines should be avoided when playing friendly matches.

You have to understand that the dynamics of a friendly game will never be the same as a championship game. I don't like to bet on friendlies, but for those who want to risk it, I advise you to follow this important tip:

The result is the least important thing to bet on friendlies.

Obviously everyone wants to win, but the final score is what matters least to coaches in this type of game. Generally, a friendly is for players to assimilate the tactical concepts that must be developed in the season or championship to come, it serves to test new signings, test younger players and risk new game arrangements against a completely different team, something that goes beyond training between the teams.
So, in friendlies you should wait for the game to start and place more immediate bets.

Also consider that an inferior team may be more motivated to face a top team, for them a draw against a great team ends up becoming a great victory. We can't say the opposite, an "elite" team that is used to playing against others at a higher level will not have the same motivation.

as I said before, I made a decision too quickly to place a bet without looking at the details of the match because I watched the broadcast of the match outside the house, so I couldn't focus on my predictions, so I was too careless myself, I placed the wrong bet.
but that's okay, this will be my additional experience for not being too careless when placing bets.  ::)

Sure it can happen and often it helps to really watch the game for a while to see how it is going.

I had a look at the friendly games in the last couple of days and Brazil lost their game against Senegal, but I can't remember what the odds were. But that was probably one of those games where a bet on Senegal would have paid off quite well.

Do you remember the odds?

I remembered this thread now that I'm reviewing some results of the friendlies

From the 15th of June until the 20th there were the official FIFA dates and with it several friendlies
I will list here the unlikely and difficult to predict results. It is a great example to illustrate the context of being difficult to bet on these matches

Costa Rica 0 x 1 Guatemala
Poland 1 x 0 Germany
South Korea 1 x 1 El Salvador
Germany 0 x 2 Colombia
Brazil 2 x 4 Senegal

Emphasis on the last two results that surprised me a lot, in "normal" situations Brazil and Germany would not lose
South Korea draw with El Salvador also, because Korea has a very good team and played very well in the world cup
Poland also beat Germany, despite Poland having a reasonable team, in a championship it would be very difficult for Germany to lose
Costa Rica also has a better team than Guatemala, including Costa Rica has participated in the World Cup

I agree with you, however we do not equate friendly matches with championship matches. In terms of quality, maybe we will assume that a team that has better quality than its opponent will be able to win the match. But what happens in the field is not like that, instead they focus on strategy and the end result will not be one of their goals. Their final goal is to evaluate what are their weaknesses and shortcomings in that competition.
And also you are right, that maybe lesser team will be much motivated and a draw can be a big achievement for them.

Its difficult predicting with football friendly match after looking Germany national team loss against Poland and Colombia indeed has Senegal success defeat Brazil. I can't believe how Germany loss actually last friendly match against Colombia although first starting line up filled by regular player but they can't win against Colombia. I am not really interested for watching football friendly match although have super big match because many national teams not serious and head coach try with new tactic for giving young player more minutes.

South Korea is the best national teams in Asian but how come they can't win against not popular national team El Savador, seems some national teams tactician not focus the result have to win and many of them try with new scheme and many young player get chance for playing on the first minutes.

The odds in the match between Brazil v Senegal yesterday were Brazil @ 1.44 and Senegaal @ 7.50, clearly in the odds Brazil is the favorite but because this is a friendly match, of course the results will not always be as expected. I'm sure, if this was an official match then of course Brazil would maximize the quality of the players it has, because of course it has a different tension. Therefore, friendly matches cannot be used as a benchmark for mediocre teams, because when it comes to official matches, of course, the top teams will have very different playing styles.

If we bet here just to enjoy the friendly match, the results may not come as expected. Because in these friendly matches, relatively strong teams do not enter the field with their full team. And the players who enter the field save themselves and then play the game because these friendly matches are not so important but if they take these friendly matches seriously, if they get a serious injury, it can threaten their career. Not an exciting match. In the friendly match between Brazil and Senegal, we saw Brazil lose to Senegal. It would have been very difficult for Senegal to win against Brazil if Brazil had not fielded their main team or those who had played seriously.

Betting on friendly matches  based on the most popular team is the best way to lose. However if it is a game Messi would play, my money is definitely goin to be on Argentina. That country never fails to deliver. For the others, I do not trust them. Another red flag is that in some of the friendly matches the team is mixed up between professional players and those who play in the local league. Prior to that time they would not have spent time playing together to understand themselves, so we see a lot of silly mistakes in the field of play that leads to them losing. These are the best explanations that I can come up with. 

Any match at all is hard to predict. A standard league has a style the players use that's why one can easily say which team would win because of the consistent display of performance on every match day till seasons end.

Whereas for friendly matches, the teams have different styles or non at all, different ideas from different teams they play for, and have to adapt and play with a different team from another land, zone entirely.
Only star players make betting easy because we can easily rate their individual performance as more than half of the entire team performance. When the star player fails to shine, most times it is disastrous.

The problem in this case comes back to the friendlies again I think. Conditionally maybe what you say could be true but that's only a fraction of the many chances one has in a friendly match.
Players also know that this is friendship so sometimes they don't really do it in the sense that they sometimes don't touch too hard in body fights or when trying to make attacks sometimes they also prefer which one is best and don't push too hard like a match for competition.
Just looking at the OP's case when we examine it, of course we know Morocco in the world cup and what it's like on the other hand Germany is also having problems but they are a big club and compared to their opponents they are much better but of course this also cannot be used as a benchmark for friendly matches because indeed the results sometimes it's not the win they are looking for but something else like i said before.

Personal matters or not then its not really that something that recommendable on making up some bets with the friendly match. Most likely you would really be able to see some draw or even underdog teams would be beating up those high tiered or good ones on which you would really be having that lost bet because you would of course be betting on stronger one but since this isnt an official match then you would expect that
performance or gameplays wouldnt really be the same unlike on a real match which it is really that understandable.This is why i do skip on betting with these matches because results are really that something
you could predict because every team or member would really be just simply playing without having that competitive kind of approach which it would be affecting out their overall performance
and this is something that a very common approach.

Every player must avoid injury in a friendly match because it is not a very serious match. The main purpose of a friendly match is for fun, not for winning a prestigious title. Players show up their abilities/skills in a friendly match, but they will play not seriously. So, we rarely saw top players play full-time in a friendly match, most players should be the substitutions. It is only important for substituted players, it is the time to show that they deserve to be selected as main players. In this matter, top players won't target for goal or caps achievement in a friendly match.

Sure. When it is about rivalry, the match should be more serious. Players will try to win the match because it is for their pride or self-esteem. But since it is a friendly match, it shouldn't be as serious as in the real match.

This makes the whole point of betting on friendly game very risky and unpredictable. Nobody is playing professionally and they are just playing or training to use a more appropriate word. I understand why coaches don't allows their star players to play all 90minutes of the game.

Star players are already certain of starting in the game, the second choices are those who'll need to impress the coach in this friendly games so they can be substituted on during the serious games. It's the second choice players that play with all their mind during this friendly games.

The B team isn't the strongest side of a team and they can't be bet on to win the game which usually lead to both sides settling for a draw. Friendly games can end in two ways, ether there's no goal in the match or there's are lots of  goals due to the absence of chemistry between players.

Injuries are a major concern in friendly matches and both players and coaches will try to avoid these incidents as much as possible. Of course, players who have had good careers and become key players at their clubs will rarely meet in the starting line-up and even if they do enter the field they don't fully play at full capacity in normal times.

Friendly matches are also very good for young players who have just joined the national team and can see their quality through these matches. So the most important thing is the rotation of players in friendly matches and of course the opposing team also wants to be able to face star players so they can get more experience.

That's why if you prioritize friendly matches too much it will only hurt the team and we can also see that many friendly matches are not very exciting to watch because the team that is actually very strong actually plays mediocre and even they only lose to the other team.
For example, in the match between Argentina and Indonesia, there was one incident that was quite astonishing between Garnacho and Asnawi.

Well, this match is only used by bookies to be able to reap huge profits.
In fact, not a few gamblers have suffered big losses when betting on friendly matches.

Friendly match is a little more less being competitive and this makes to come in ease for us to adjust to the dictate of the mandate as a team that we have to play them at ease and at every comfort because no much attention is needed but it's played to know how week and strong a team can appear to be against eac other and also helps to know the measure to the level of their performances each when playing.

Argentina is ranked no.1 in FIFA, without Messi, Argentina can handle the win in every match because they are risking their reputation. Argentina must show as the no.1 team in the world, and they mustn't lose even a friendly match. Because of that, I bet Argentine when meeting my National Team, Indonesia, beside argentine has the best player on each line, The Match statistic is shown us they are have strong team where never lost in the last 10 matches, they just draw when meet Netherland and France, 8 of rest is won.

I expected that there would be a surprise in this friendly match when Brazil who should have won but Senegel got lucky in the second half and last minute with a penalty. In yesterday's match I deliberately didn't try to bet because I was very hesitant to bet again because I think this friendly match really depends on luck because there are always unexpected surprises.
so it doesn't hurt that last time Indonesia vs Argentina I bet on a draw because I thought there was another surprise. :D

Thank you for sharing the odds and yes that is what I wanted to say here. It can be worth the risk in these friendly matches to go with the weaker team and this is a great example. Senegal is not a very weak team and yet the odds @ 7.50 could be worth the risk in a friendly game. They often put the odds as if this was a serious game situation, but it isn't and even if Brazil plays with most of their best eleven, those best eleven don't play their best. ;) While other nations are often still motivated when they get the chance to play against the world's best teams.

Less competitive but it doesn't discourage people from coming to the stadium and watching the game, and it doesn't seem to reduce the habit of bettors to bet on matches like this which is why we see bookmakers providing markets for friendly matches.
If you want to bet, we can take more risks by choosing a weak team but of course the difference shouldn't be too far away, if a team that is considered weak gets odds of up to @20.00 or even more then you can be sure it's only a one-sided match, but if the team is weak get odds under @10.00 there is a chance to win or at least end in a draw, the odds of the bookmakers can't always be right and also wrong.

Almost friendly matches are played when the local league breaks or end of the session, so in that situation only friendly match the bettor can bet in that spare time. Therefore, If they like sports, better to do not to focus and hobby only on 1 sport, they must have a hobby in another sport like Moto, F!, fighting, basket and etc. So when football language breaks, the bettor can bet on any sport which is still running on the session to avoid losing from the friendly match.

It is rare for a fan to only care about a single sport, most of the time they will have several sports that are dear to them, so even if one of those sports is going through a period in which most leagues are over and there is nothing decent to watch, there are other sports which could be on TV which could offer way better entertainment than just an exhibition match and which could help you to make more meaningful sport bets than what any exhibition match could offer.

There is some truth in your opinion and I totally agree with what you said that there are so many kinds of sports and we shouldn't just stick to one sport if we want to make money from gambling. Now the domestic league in football has ended, so friendly matches will be medicine for tiredness waiting for the competition to start again in August. Maybe I still need to learn more about other sports besides football but I think it's not too late to start now. I am quite interested in moto gp and basketball because when I was a teenager I often watched them on television.

@Strongkored not sure if I’m just unlucky but whenever I’m wagering in a friendly match I feel that both sides look disinterested to win and it ruins the mood for me as a gambler. Furthermore from my experience the key for friendly matches is to see which reserve player’s are included because these player’s usually will go out of their way to impress the coach and can guarantee goals which can lead to the country winning at least that’s what I personally believe.

of course it's pretty well done but i think it takes a little longer to get to grips with other sports like the NBA. but if it's a better way to make money at sports betting it never hurts to try and I think it's better to bet on other sports than in friendly football matches which are full of surprises.

Not difficult for Argentina winning in their friendly match this time against Asian national teams, Argentina won against Australia on their first friendly match with Asian national team and Messi played full until 90 minutes. For second match against Indonesian teams, Argentina easily winning 2-0 although not has Messi in starting eleven, not only Messi but also Lionel Scaloni not including Angel Di Maria in player list against Indonesia teams. Argentina still on the positive trend without loss until 10 matches and next FIFA Friendly Match on September and waiting with national teams opponent for Argentina and until how many games success unbeaten.

I think only the main players who don't play seriously. For substituted players, they may play seriously because it is the time to show up. They mostly sit on the bench, they may have a chance to be main players if they can play well in some friendly matches. Or it may attract some football clubs to consider signing them if they perform well.

As far as I know, coach only limit the time to play for superstars or main players.

In most friendly matches, the result of the matches are draw.
That's because not all players have the motivation to play with their best. Most players just play for entertain, they show their skills without thinking much on how to score goals effectively.

Injury is actually one of the risks that must be passed when someone becomes an athlete. Even if what you say is true but I see something else for friendly matches because the purpose of friendly matches sometimes makes this a trial in several factors such as giving opportunities to some players especially those who are always reserves of the national team, besides trying to do some variations of attacks and schemes so that they also know what is lacking and of course with things like this looking for victory in some friendly matches is clearly a little difficult especially if it is only aca to a large national team because if you look at this condition, the bigger the team, the more they will try in friendly matches.
The matches will still be serious but the results and wins are not the main points sought in this case so it will definitely be very difficult to predict or bet on some friendly matches.

Even if there are some who are targeting victory but of course that is only a small part of the majority of the time they will try something new in friendly matches.

There are many ways to understand and learn other sports if there is a wish like reading the news or watching on youtube. Or if you are lazy to read and research, just follow the odds, I used to play bets where I don't understand it like hockey, I just follow the best odds and bet it. sometimes wins, but because of enough risk where I don't understand that sport, I just bet a little money. the important thing is that you have fun.

I understand the way you say but placing bets follow the odds and betting on low odds or underdog is sometimes a big risk because I sometimes try to bet several times on underdog but the result is losing😬
but if you just want to try your luck it's actually okay to follow the odds like you said and there are other ways like following other people's high roller bets sometimes they bet a large amount and share their analysis.
but all that is also no guarantee.

Of course, being an athlete or a professional football player must deal with the injury problem. That's why a football player should understand when he must play seriously and when he doesn't need to play too seriously. If it is an important match, a player will play very seriously and don't really care about the possibility of injury. But in a friendly match, a football player seems not to play very seriously because the result of the match isn't so important for the team.

Sure, a friendly match is the time to try a new tactic or a new starting line up. This is a serious matter, but the coach won't force the players because the result of the match isn't so important part. Because of this matter, betting on a friendly match will be harder than usual matches.

Upsets do really happen on sports betting which is something that it is really hard to point out because no matter how well or hard you do try on studying on a certain match up and on that certain teams then it wouldnt

really be giving out that 100% assurance about that sure win thing.There are really that underdogs which could beat up high tier teams which us doesnt really even believe that it could possibly happen.
When we do speak about sports betting then we do know that it would really be that sensible that we should really be that trying out to go along on whats the gamblers favorite on a certain match up.
We do have that moneyline or simply the favorites on which it would really be considering on betting on them.There are really indeed times which you would be having those hesitation on doing so
and might consider out the underdog, this is why intuition and gut feeling is sometimes relevant when it comes to sports betting i should say.

The main problem with betting on the underdog is the low winning rate, after all if the odds given by a casino are low for a team or an athlete then most likely they are right about them and the chances to get the win are not very high, however a person which knows what they are doing could make money by betting on the underdogs, but psychologically this is a very difficult strategy to follow, as after you lose several times in a row you will have the desire to change gears and use another strategy.

The low winning rate? What is low for you? We have had this example here lately between Brazil and Senegal and the friendly match that ended 4-2 for Senegal and the odds if I recall correctly were above 7. I think that was a good opportunity to for the underdog with a good probability of winning or maybe go for a double chance bet with win and draw for Senegal and the odds would probably still have been acceptable. In a serious game it often doesn't pay off that well to go with the underdog. But in these friendly matches it happens more often that the big favorite doesn't really care and loses.

Obviously because of its name which has a word "friendly" on it. It could mean that participants don't need to be harsh with each other, especially to the professional player because they will likely be a match to a weaker opponent. They need to make sure that the game was only entertaining and they are giving chances to that weak players to score.

So if we are betting on it, I think we should go to the weaker teams the most as they are the ones who will likely win the game. Maybe sometimes the game can also end up with a draw so we can also choose it when we are betting. In gambling, disappointments are expected. Most especially if you take it seriously.

After all, why do we have to bet on those who are not superior because there is very little chance of winning it.
There are lots of betting options in the casino and we can choose several sports bets to get bigger chances of winning and Odds.
Only those who can't do research and analysis bet on an not underdog team or athlete.

But for friendly football matches, betting on a team that is not at the top can give us victory, considering that almost all friendly matches always end in results that don't make sense.

I don't know yet, is the friendly match can add points to push rank FIFA? If not, maybe FIFA must implement it, this might be a motivation for the big country to take seriously when they play against the underdog team. Apart from practice, Friendly Match can also bring spectators and sponsors to the tribune, this might add to the income for the association, and they will get many benefits if can grow the rank also. the more friendly matches, the more they get opportunities to benefit. certainly have to pay attention also for the state of the player from injury and fatigue.

Friendly match are hard to predict because they are less entertaining and that is because it is just a friendly match, you won't get the same performance that you can get out of a La Liga football match or Champions League since this is just a friendly match you should expect less performance and possible manipulation because when things are not be taken very seriously it will be easier for the football coach to take bribe behind the back and take accept defeat for the money.

I also have some friends that are into football gambling specifically, They always complain about friendly matches and none of them have ever bet their money on any friendly matches because they believe that it is less fun and more harder to predict.

It's true that that is the reality and if we have full expectations if the superior team can win easily against a weak team then that is a big mistake and often the results are reversed if the weak team wins. Maybe that's basically we can judge the results of the friendly match and also this is not an official competition where a good team should win the match.

On the other hand, friendly matches are very good for testing some young players who have just entered the national team squad and it can be a good benchmark for the coach to give his assessment later. For gambling, I think that friendly matches are really not worth the trouble, but as long as you only intend to find entertainment by risking money on the match, then it's okay even if the results are not as expected.

I would agree, but up to a certain point... because starting from mid-July and early August there will be friendly matches for team teams and not (only) for national teams. Each year I watch with interest and I have also placed some (small) bets...
this is a really interesting season moment because many of these teams (even if of high-level) have a lack of preparation and playing against opponents with better physical shape... ::)
see below 11 matches and at least 6 "uncommon" results...(if you count also GG or under 2,5 ... there are more "uncommon results"...

Friendly matches are being played a lot these days as teams that will play in preliminary qualification for the Champions League want to see the condition of their players,of course in such games it is very difficult to predict the outcome of the game but not only that,also it is very difficult to predict with goals,both teams to score or other type of bets and the reason is simple,we don't know how the players of each team will behave as they have no real objectives in these games except to test their form.Therefore it is much better to refrain from betting on such games or the risk of losing money will be bigger than in normal games that have an objective in them.

In friendly match the best bet is GOAL-GOAL, its been play with an average players. nothing serious about the game. because there is no price to be won after the game, its just a preparation for the season ahead, so if you're staking, use spare money, knowing its not an important game.

The truth is , in my personal opinion, I don't believe in friendly matches, although sometimes they don't have friends, in the case of my national team they can Play very well, they can even Beat teams like Argentina and Brazil, but when it comes to do the qualifying rounds, which is when it really is necessary for them to win and for them to be constant, they tend to disappoint and come last in the table, to tell the truth, when it comes to Friendly Matches , I don't see them, because they have false Illusions, the Other teams may not play with their entire arsenal , and most of the time the coaches go to these matches to test the new Ppayers , those of other categories as well as see how they look in the Professional.


I very much respect the decision of each person to place their bets, but placing bets based on the fact that it is pure friendly games is something that goes down to luck, because you do not know which players you are going to play with, firstly because some players do not they lend them due to their clubs, second the risk they have of getting injured in a friendly match is imminent, the players from other teams may be new, novices and they are being tested, it is not very good that the best players who are stars risk themselves in friendly matches, then placing bets based on friendly soccer matches is not good.

I've colleagues that are willingly to stake on friendly games because the rules are simple, in most cases average clubs defeats the superior ones. All games have a cost, and we don't expect players to expend the same kind of effort they did in competition to demonstrate around in Friendly game, which is out of the question. Friendly games aren't more important as competitive ones like Laliga or the English Premier League, or even the UEFA Champions League. Friendly games are not competitive games; every result is thought to be set in order to fit the desires of elite sports gamblers.

We must also not forget that the chances for friendly matches to be fixed go up exponentially compared to official games, during an exhibition match no one is really expecting top performance from the players and they know that weird things could happen, so the people behind fixing games can more easily convince some of those players to throw the game away as it is almost impossible there could be negative repercussions for doing so, and while this is unlikely to happen with the top clubs, it would not surprise me if it happened with lesser known leagues and teams.

Its seems hard to predict with club friendly match than national teams, usually all club friendly match or pre season match used young player composition and almost main player still not in starting eleven. Looks bet for small teams against bigger teams is not mistake looking on current starting line up from bigger teams. Club friendly match will begin few weeks later and many teams has schedule against with small or bigger teams but its risk when betting on club friendly match than national teams friendly match.

Update social media account which one team want to bet, we can see there player list name one day before club friendly match start and could be source to know starting line up filled by young player or main player.

But this is where it's wrong for people to expect victory from friendly matches hoping the club will play as well as possible just because the club is great, but you need to know that friendly matches don't necessarily field the main squad players and they can only field second-tier players so it also can't be said that matches are easy to predict. , this is why it is never recommended to bet on friendly matches because it is very risky.

Your expectations will be beaten by the facts on the field so don't expect that the favorite club can win, there are always surprises for anyone who bets in friendly matches of course there are many factors as you said where the coach doesn't expect the result of the match like that, that's why people always assume this is a serious match.  ;D

For me, playing friendly matches is similar to training; I don't believe the players will force themselves to play difficult games; when playing friendly matches, you will see small clubs beating big clubs; you can never predict who will win the match; friendly games are similar to making the players more fit before the league begins; and the coach rests some key players due to injury. When a player is injured during a friendly, it is a terrible thing to happen to him because it damages his team and keeps him on the sidelines. Playing friendly is not so essential, and when it comes to predicting, you may bet money on a large club to beat a little club and lose.

Players who consider gambling as a way to make money on gambling will never bet on friendly matches, the exception may be the presence of some insider information about this match. And so there are quite a lot of official matches, and they are almost all year round, with the exception of small periods of the off-season. Friendly matches are a good way for a coach to assess the current condition of the players, which is why in such matches the coach often makes a lot of substitutions per game.

@Cryptmuster I agree with you because player’s will not risk their career by underperforming in these matches especially when the fringe player’s know that the coach will select them if they perform well. @Silberman if any big amount is made during friendlies then the authorities are bound to investigate hence I don’t feel that all friendly matches could be easily be fixed.

It may have an art of its own if he tries it. And, the meaning of gambling is guess and play luck. I already got the answer after reading all 9 pages, so if we can calculate who can win by looking at the squad statistic, I think it's not called gambling but math. because we already know who can win. However, especially for a friendly match, I think it's real of gambling because we don't really know who can win, and lose, its the same as playing dice or slot. imo.

Friendly football matches are not about competition, so strong teams tend to make the game more exciting by balancing the situation. It would be devastating for one team and its supporters if there is a significant defeat. A match that was originally intended for friendship would turn into a platform for ridiculing one team, which is something none of us want to happen.

Big teams also understand the hearts of supporters of weaker teams. Therefore, sometimes matches are arranged in such a way to make them more thrilling and evenly matched. It's no wonder there are so many unexpected outcomes in these games.

The big teams don't feel like they're losing out because it doesn't affect the competition. The weaker team, on the other hand, becomes even more motivated to sharpen their skills.

as I said before all that will not guarantee anything. about betting wherever we will choose it everything is fine depending on what you want.
I mean if you choose to bet on the favored team with very low odds it doesn't matter even with a small win but the problem is sometimes low odds don't always give a bigger chance of winning. let's remember again in the case of sports that it often happens that the opposing team makes a comeback then the favored team loses, for example, it's all our own decision to bet anywhere.
regarding betting on underdog teams on several sheets previously discussed by OP that if you want to bet on underdog teams it's okay as long as the odds are not too far away from the underdog team. so that there is still a chance to win for the underdog team.

but nevertheless everything still depends on luck even though it has made analysis and predictions, especially this friendly match, a little complicated.

I don't think it can be said better, in your post you covered many things, and everything is very complete, in fact I am one of the people who no longer likes to watch friendly soccer matches in my country, because they win them and then Qualifying matches for the World Cup do absolutely nothing and come last, what they do is excite an entire country and then leave with nothing, and that is something that I come back and say, it disappoints, maybe some countries do give it importance Everything, the preparation, but I don't trust these matches, one day they beat Brazil, and they were very excited, when they played in the South American qualifiers, Brazil practically swept the team.


Like you, I think that it is very complicated to do it, bet and see that it is a friendly match, nothing is certain, I see it as entering a game of craps in the casino and saying that I will always bet on Low, but yes They come out 50Low often I lose everything, what I want to say is that there is nothing certain when it comes to mysterious football matches, some good and famous teams or take their entire squad from the bench to test them in real play, others take advantage of their players and put them out to play to see how they do it and if their strategies work well in official matches, there are many criteria that coaches use to determine what they should do and what they should not do.

I never bet on friendly matches, there are even friendly matches that I have seen Brazil and Argentina lose, with teams that one considers are not so good, and they end up winning, so nothing is certain, but of course they lose because they don't take out the Better, for a matter of time, who do not let them leave their club to take risks, there are many things that influence them.

It is from this type of Speculation that we must make much stronger analyzes because we do not know who the Players are going to go out with , and that can be Surprising , just imagine that a whole Bench goes to the field of play, I think that this is Equivalent to any thing can happen

Friendly football game is tough to predict for gamblers? That is completely correct; it is happening to me on a regular basis. One might be absolutely certain about a game, and then significant odds would vanish as if there was a glitch in the system that circulates the odds. In fact, I despise gambling on friendly games because the participants tend to show their lack of seriousness on the field. Gambling is never a clear path from the start; we simply have to give up our positions when it comes to gambling, I can bet on any other games but anyone concerning friendly games, there outcomes are always shocking.

Rather than their being fixed or not the reason is that friendlies aren't technically official matches. They are just matches to help players improve their match fitness to get ready for next season. This is also important of course but the matches just don't look as important as a league match for example.

Players also don't show their best performance mostly in these matches. We don't even see teams having their usual starting eleven in many friendlies due to some players' still being on holiday or maybe even playing for their national teams meanwhile.

As a result it is harder to predict the result of the friendlies due to the higher possibility of seeing surprising scores.

I would like to add that apart from improving the fitness of the players, friendly matches are also an opportunity for selected players to be able to integrate with the team because those who are called up to strengthen the national team do not play in one team when they play in the league.

Friendly matches are not that important, but I think friendly matches can turn out to be important for H2H in the number of matches played and can also affect the value obtained in the FIFA rankings.
Like the friendly match Indonesia vs Argentina. If Indonesia is able to hold the world cup champions to a draw, then there will be an added value that will have a positive effect on their ranking.

The main point of the friendly match is the participants are not too serious to do the match on the field and I totally agree with what you said. Therefore it's better to just watch the match if you are interested and don't need to place bets on such a match.

But sometimes we still expect more results for friendly matches and that's one of our mistakes if we get hooked. I think betting on other sports where the competition is still officially active is much safer than throwing money away in a friendly match where it is not clear who will win.

to be more precise, in terms of speculating on friendly football betting, this is a little difficult or if you don't bet, it's just to try your luck. because I myself saw from previous matches that several times the favored team actually lost but the underdog team won and this will be very profitable if we dare to speculate on the underdog team.
so it's better to always analyze carefully and speculate a little to place bets on friendly football.

Due to the presence of unknown factors, extreme vigilance is required. There is an unmanageable and harmful amount of randomness introduced by the uncertainty, the unanticipated strategies, and the unplanned player rotations.

Like the gambler's conundrum, the outcome of a friendly match depends on more than just the quality of play from both teams. Teams with a superb lineup, like Brazil or Argentina, can nonetheless lose to unknown opponents. Attempting to construct a betting strategy on these factors is like attempting to catch smoke in a jar; there are simply too many unknowns.

The problem is made even worse by the lack of certainty in the player selecting process. Thats why, even when wagering on friendly matches, I urge caution and careful consideration.

These things about currently fixed matches can be seen as something common, especially in matches where there are new players, the results can be fixed so that none of them look bad, it is very rare that those teams that are Brazil or Argentina style reach a I agree, because they are countries that have always had a rivalry for many years, so this is something that is seen, in fact these countries always go very far in world competitions, in fact Argentina is champion, and that is something that we all know.

When there are preparation matches, for example for the World Cup qualifiers, it is very good to watch the games and not get emotional, because a country can show a lot and then when they really have to win, which are the qualifiers, it will be disappointing.

As far as I'm concerned, the qualifiers are the Main source of fútbol matches to prepare for the World Cup, some coaches from the most prominent countries put their youngest players to the test, I've seen that there are even up to 15s in the professional , because There is so much talent that is so good that they can already participate in the team.

It must be remembered that friendly games also count points for Fifa (if I'm not mistaken), so... as much as coaches use this to make several substitutions and tests, there is still the will and need for the team to win the match, because it's not just a joke and "it's okay if we lose".

However, as I said before... friendlies are the type of game in which you should bet much more on the number of goals, as it tends to be greater, and not on the victory of team A or B.

Anyway, friendlies is a good game to enjoy and have fun, discover new talents hitherto unknown and drink a cold beer at the bar... it's not the kind of game that we really should bet money on.

Yes, because usually friendly matches are only used as warm-up matches, and also to form cohesiveness between players, so a strong team also really expects their opponent to also play relaxed to prevent player injuries, so there is nothing to worry about during the match.
And now, before the leagues return to play, many clubs are doing pre-season matches, the matches are running normally and there are indeed some that are quite surprising, like Arsenal who only drew with Nurnberg or such as when Liverpool fell behind 1-2 from their opponent Karlsruher SC, although in the end they managed to score 3 more goals to win the game and from the pre-season matches it can be seen that the coach is trying to formulate his squad later so that he can perform well in the main competition.
What might be interesting enough to look forward to is when Arsenal will face Manchester United tomorrow.

The big teams think we can easily beat them. So they don't play very seriously. Weaker teams sometimes do very well in exploiting that time.  which is not expected from them.  Such a game is rarely seen.

FRIENDLIES

Russia vs Serbia

Russia StartXI: 4-3-3
Matvey Safonov; Sergey Volkov; Aleksandr Silyanov; Maksim Osipenko; Daniil Khlusevich; Dmitriy Barinov; Daniil Glebov; Anton Miranchuk; Ivan Oblyakov; Konstantin Tyukavin; Aleksandr Golovin

Serbia StartXI: 4-3-3
Đorđe Petrović; Milan Gajić; Strahinja Eraković; Strahinja Pavlović; Filip Mladenović; Dušan Tadić; Saša Zdjelar; Saša Lukić; Andrija Živković; Luka Jović; Mijat Gaćinović

Cyprus vs Latvia

Cyprus StartXI: 3-5-2
Joel Mall; Andreas Karo; Alexander Gogić; Konstantinos Laifis; Chambos Kyriakou; Danilo Špoljarić; Ioannis Kousoulos; Charalampos Charalampous; Anderson Correia; Loizos Loizou; Ioannis Pittas

Latvia StartXI: 3-4-3
Rihards Matrevics; Daniels Balodis; Kaspars Dubra; Raivis Jurkovskis; Alvis Jaunzems; Eduards Emsis; Aleksejs Saveljevs; Andrejs Cigaņiks; Jānis Ikaunieks; Roberts Uldriķis; Vladislavs Gutkovskis

Belarus vs Montenegro

Belarus StartXI: 4-4-2
Pavel Pavlyuchenko; Sergei Karpovich; Sergei Politevich; Egor Parkhomenko; Denis Polyakov; Max Ebong; Kirill Kaplenko; Evgeni Yablonski; Kirill Pechenin; Egor Karpitsky; Denis Laptev

Montenegro StartXI: 4-2-3-1
Milan Mijatović; Marko Vešović; Meldin Drešković; Marko Tuci; Andrija Vukčević; Marko Janković; Edvin Kuč; Adam Marušić; Stevan Jovetić; Viktor Đukanović; Nikola Krstović

Malta vs Slovenia

Malta StartXI: 3-5-2
Henry Bonello; Steve Borg; Zach Muscat; Jean Borg; Joseph Mbong; Stephen Pisani; Matthew Guillaumier; Yannick Yankam; Juan Corbalan; Paul Mbong; Luke Montebello

Slovenia StartXI: 4-4-2
Jan Oblak; Petar Stojanović; Vanja Drkušić; Jaka Bijol; Jure Balkovec; Tomi Horvat; Adam Gnezda Čerin; Jasmin Kurtić; Jan Mlakar; Andraž Šporar; Benjamin Šeško

WHAT IS YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS GAME

Let's see if I have some luck in this "round" of friendlies

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I think it's easy win to South Africa, Italy and Portugal, not bad odds of 2.65 and a little boost hehe
But just 5 usd to watch and have some fun, because some friendly matches, like OP said, are hard to predict

Unfortunately, South Africa drew with Andorra. I was a bit surprised by the result, which made me lose the bet. Thankfully it was only 5 dollars hehehe

But I managed to get the other two results right: Italy beat Venezuela and Portugal beat Sweden.

About the Venezuela game, it's quite interesting how the team has improved this season 23/24
A few years ago, Italy would surely have scored 4 or 5 goals in Venezuela, and that's not what happened in the game. It was a great opportunity for the team to play against a European team and gain experience for a probable World Cup in 2026.
Remember that in the South American qualifiers, Venezuela is in a very good 4th place  :o

GUYS! DONT bet on friendlies is gonna make you sweat and shout like no tomorrow, is pure sorrow, the teams doesnt play in the normal way they do, and also they change formations or play at 50% of their total strenght.

Look what happen yesterday, South Africa CANT win against a shit national team like Andorra.

Romania vs Northern Ireland

Romania StartXI: 4-2-3-1
Florin Niță; Vasile Mogoș; Radu Drăguşin; Andrei Burcă; Cristian Manea; Alexandru Cicâldău; Răzvan Marin; Dennis Man; Nicolae Stanciu; Florinel Coman; George Pușcaș

Northern Ireland StartXI: 3-5-2
Conor Hazard; Trai Hume; Eoin Toal; Paddy McNair; Conor Bradley; Shea Charles; Jordan Thompson; Paddy Lane; Brodie Spencer; Jamie Reid; Isaac Price


Albania vs Chile

Albania StartXI: 4-3-3
Thomas Strakosha; Elseid Hysaj; Berat Djimsiti; Enea Mihaj; Mario Mitaj; Kristjan Asllani; Ylber Ramadani; Nedim Bajrami; Jasir Asani; Rey Manaj; Taulant Seferi

Chile StartXI: 4-2-3-1
Claudio Bravo; Mauricio Isla; Paulo Díaz; Igor Lichnovsky; Gabriel Suazo; Rodrigo Echeverría; Marcelino Núñez; Darío Osorio; Alexis Sánchez; Victor Dávila; Eduardo Vargas

Even 2 days ago I was thinking about whether it was worth taking the big risk of adding some friendly games to my multibet bet, I spent the whole day thinking about it, I analyzed some friendly games but I always remembered what happened to me in the past when I lost money with these friendly games, so I prefer not to take risks and give up placing my bets. Many coaches use these friendly games to further test the players who will be on the bench and how they can adapt in cases where the starting players become injured, while other coaches instruct their players not to exert themselves during friendly games and to preserve their conditioning. physical and as football is a profession for players, it has become their source of income and employment

So the players won't exert themselves, they save their legs during friendly games. I remember last year in August when the clubs' friendly games started, I bet on some games for Real Madrid, Manchester City and many big teams and I lost my bets, in every game that those big teams played against weak teams from weak leagues and When they lost, I was irritated because I was losing money and as a consequence when the big league games started, my bankroll was small because I was losing in the pre-season games, it was ridiculous how the big teams lost against teams from much lower leagues in Asia.

That's why I learned my very important lesson: not to bet on friendly games, and I would almost fall into the temptation two days ago, luckily I remembered the unpleasant consequences I went through in August last year when I placed bets on friendly club games and I didn't place any bets on yesterday's games.

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yesterday in portugal's game against sweden, ronaldo and joao felix were neither on the field nor on the bench. I suppose the coach is making rotations, typical of these friendly games, but I was surprised that Portugal still won comfortably, Sweden has been very weak in recent years

You already said it, not all friendly matches end in a draw, like over here in africa, Nigeria played against Ghana today in a friendly, and the game ended in a score of 2:1 in favor of Nigeria, it's actally the first time the Nigerian team are beating the Ghanaian team in a friendly encounter since 2006, I was actually going to bet on this match but I wasn't really sure what the outcome would be, so, I simply didn't bother betting on the game.

So, in all honesty, I believe you were simply not lucky though, and thinking on what you said about strong team not playing with seriousness in friendly matches, i personally think it all depends on what is at stack, what are the playing the frendly for, are they playing to qualify for any major game? Ot tournament?, or are they just playing to keep fit and so on?
If they are playing to qualify for any major game, or tournament, then expect the team to be on their toes and play with all seriousness, but if they are just playing the friendlies to keep fit, then I think it's easy to know why they won't play too seriously in the game.

There's a big friendly match today, England vs Brazil
And the odds are very interesting

I'm placing my bet on Brazil. Playing with a new coach, wanting to give their all, while England are already preparing for the Euro 24
Great game, will anyone be watching?

I'm going to bet on Brazil winning

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For me the best choice if I have to bet on a friendly match is just Both Teams To Score.
Its difficult to predict who will win or guess Over/under, even if we watch the live broadcast it often won't help much.
Because winning is not mandatory, the important thing is to play well, compactly according to the coach strategy and the most important is not to get injured.

My picks for Both Teams To Score today are:
Denmark vs Switzerland
England vs Brazil
France vs Germany

Both teams scoring is indeed the best betting option for betting because each team only views a friendly match as nothing more than to test the formation and test the players who are prepared for the match.
On the other hand, both teams scoring is the best option because the chance of success is greater because every player in a position other than defender wants to show their strengths to the coach.

I think this chosen match will be successful in giving you victory.

On a friendly match played today Spain lost to Colombia 0-1 in london. This was one of the friendlies the south american and European teams are playing as they prepare for Copa america and Euro Cup. Spain has been on a decline while colombia is a young and fit team. Both of the team were equally impressive on the field creating good attack and attempt to post. Both the keepers saved some close goals. Colombia scored through an impressive goal by Daniel Munez on the 61st over. A counter attack and an good assist turned into a goal through forward flying kick.  Spain would now play another friendly with Brazil while colombia would play one with Romania.

Whenever I saw football teams playing friendly matches, I will try to avoid betting on it as the coach of the team might just be testing out some strategy to prepare for upcoming competitive matches and sometimes you might even see a lot of new players getting substituted into the match right at the start in the second half of the game. The chances for surprising upset result to happen even when traditional strong teams playing against weaker teams in friendly matches is high since the final result of the match does not matter.

It's a really good way of betting, I agree
Did you make 3 separate single bets, or did you make a multiple with the 3 results?

A multiple like that (with odds of 1.80 or so for each bet) should give you over 5.0, very good, and good luck

Maybe I'll try that bet with 2 usd to test in friendlies  ;)

That's why it's called friendly and these countries that we all know can score goals to win a match can start playing like teams that are ranked 100 below, the bigger country can lose to the smaller ones or even draw like your game OP.
Before making any selections on these country sides, to me I'd advise you go for tips that doesn't favor any of the teams unless you're the type that take risks, I even prefer the friendlies either club or country, easy money to get.

Actually betting on friendly matches is very unclear and less convincing than convincing. We as betting players will be very serious about watching the match in this friendly match. what about the players who played in the match? Friendly matches are matches that are held during the break in official competitions or team trials before playing matches in official competitions, of course this really helps the coaching team with friendly matches. Of course the coaching team will try or experiment with a lot of formations and starting line ups in friendly matches. Of course, the intensity of the match in friendly matches is not as hot or serious as in official competition matches. After carrying out many trials of formations or starting players in each line. The coaching team will definitely use a formation and starting line up that they feel is suitable for their team in official competitions. So a friendly match can be called a team trial. because it's too risky, betting on friendly matches is really not recommended in my opinion...

France vs Germany

France StartXI: 4-3-3
Brice Samba; Jules Koundé; Benjamin Pavard; Dayot Upamecano; Lucas Hernández; Warren Zaïre-Emery; Aurélien Tchouaméni; Adrien Rabiot; Ousmane Dembélé; Marcus Thuram; Kylian Mbappé

Germany StartXI: 4-2-3-1
Marc-André ter Stegen; Joshua Kimmich; Jonathan Tah; Antonio Rüdiger; Maximilian Mittelstädt; Robert Andrich; Toni Kroos; Jamal Musiala; İlkay Gündoğan; Florian Wirtz; Kai Havertz

Friendly matches, I just overlooked the fixtures because I've slim accuracy. They are challenging and difficult to predict, it do comes with suspense actions and the impossible always get triggered. It's only in Friendly matches were France will lose to Croatia or Finland. These are the random game outcomes that emerges because it's a Friendly game. It's understandable that we should be having quite important stats in the system, always ready to express ourselves and claiming to be good points.

I'll give you that about friendly matches. My bets lose in these matches the most.  :D  I'm not blaming the team I bet on for that though. Because I'm betting on that team by accepting the higher risk of losing. These matches are just preparation for real tournaments in the end. Not all teams are keen on showing their real strength here.

Plus, these matches are played during the season. Coaches don't want their players to get injured or too tired in this kind of matches. This is also a factor in national teams to not get full efficiency from their players.

I wish I didn't bet on France yesterday...  :'(

If you're accepting higher risk of losing, didn't you bet on underdog?

For me in friendly match, the chance underdog can pull upset is higher than the league match, so it's already correct to bet on underdog. Just like yesterday, Czechia won against Norway, Colombia won against Spain. It's true that I'm cherry picking, but people didn't expect with the result.

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Anyway, is this thread intended for general discussion about friendly match or we're discuss about the match lol.

It seems like you read my exact thoughts on this subject of friendlies being hard to predict.
I tried to dissuade one of my friends who love betting on such soccer matches to not do so last night during some friendlies, but he was adamant and of course did place his bet and lost. At least he didn't get to lose much because he was careful.

Many of the friendlies is just like a prologue to an on coming encounter or fixture and as such a good coach  uses it to test the morale of his players and those with the potential to be on the first team.
Although in some cases such friendlies can be a decider to ranking on the governing board list of best teams, hence why many would still like to win.

As I often say, friendly matches or exhibition matches are not matches that I am interested in watching, but the England vs Brazil match should be an interesting match.

Congratulations because your bet won where Brazil succeeded in beating England with a narrow score of 1-0, and if we look at the highlights of the match, the two teams played very evenly, where no one dominated more, but Brazil was luckier by managing to score the only goal in the match, and Brazil's young talent is reappearing, as usual they are a country that has many good players but recently their performance has not been so good.

Strong teams don't care much about friendly matches because there is no competition and there is no hunger, the outcome of the match doesn't matter for anyone and doesn't decide the fate of anything. I don't even watch friendly matches. The last match that I watched was Al Nassr - Inter Miami and I watched it because of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Al Nassr scored 6 goals, Inter Miami did nothing, this only proves that Al Nassr took the match seriously and Inter Miami didn't care about it. It would be a huge mistake to make a bet on corners, number of goals and etc because the outcome of this match was not logical. I always try to place bet on Champion's League games and on famous domestic leagues like La League, Premier League, Serie A and etc.

Nope, failed miserably hehe. This is an example of why it is so difficult to predict the outcome of a friendly match.
Who would have thought that France and England couldn't even get 1 goal back.
Denmark vs Switzerland end with 0-0 was also an unexpected result.
The last time Denmark played with a score of 0-0 was in November 2022, and Switzerland was in September 2021.

Friendlies could be difficult to predict. The game could go either way in football but with friendlies, it could be more difficult to predict a winner.
Teams aren’t always concerned about winning friendlies as there’s no trophy nor title to be won and I don’t think it really affects their rankings. I haven’t placed a bet and don’t think I’ll be moved anytime soon to place bets on a friendly match. Unless, they’re actually trying to win the game, I don’t see any team using their first choice of players for a friendly game. They’re more likely to use perhaps a mixture of players who enjoys playing time and others who don’t normally have a lot of playing time.

Thanks hehehe
It was a very equilibrated game, not at all like a friendly, the two teams played as if it were a championship match. There were even a few fouls that don't usually occur in friendly matches
England wanted to prepare for the Euro 24 with a strong team as their opponent, but they suffered without some of their players, such as Harry Kane, who could have made the difference

But in any case, Brazil played well, a little differently from what they had been playing, and managed to create some good chances, but the England team is very good
I managed to win the bet only at the end of the game hehe
If I'd bet on both teams scoring goals as suggested, I'd have lost

Any outcome (even if we are talking about a normal game) is difficult to predict, but this is not required: you just need to understand where the value is. In friendly games where there is an obvious favorite, you should bet on the outsider (even taking into account the fact that bookmakers usually adjust the value odds on this side), if approximately equal teams play, then (this is my personal opinion, not financial advice hehe) the value is in BTTS No (since everyone expects that there will be BTTS Yes).
In general, friendly games are a very random topic, and in order to make a profit from it, you need to place live bets.

The lack of stakes and intensity in friendly matches can indeed lead to teams experimenting with tactics, giving playing time to less experienced players, or simply not performing at their peak level. Regarding the Al Nassr - Inter Miami match exemplifies this sentiment. This discrepancy in motivation and effort can lead to unpredictable outcomes that makes friendly matches less reliable for betting purposes.

Placing bets on renowned competitions like the UEFA Champions League or prominent domestic leagues offers a more stable and competitive environment for betting. The higher stakes, consistent level of competition, and familiarity with teams and players make these matches more conducive to informed betting decisions. Bettors need to assess the context and significance of matches before placing bets, considering factors such as team motivation, lineup changes, and recent form. Friendly matches can provide entertainment, but they may not always offer the same level of predictability or reliability for betting purposes as competitive fixtures.

Friendlies are quite random since there is not a reward by winning it or a punishment in the other case. It is like a test mode for the coach and his players, using some tactics and giving a chance for new ones to prove themselves, it depends from the teams and coaches obviously but this is applicable for most scenarios.
Placing a live bet is a better idea but it is not that perfect either because the team that usually score faster end up by losing the game. Well this wasn't applied here but still applicable worldwide.

But this is the essence of live betting on friendly games. When one team has taken the lead, you need to bet on the one that loses at the moment when the odds become most favorable. In friendly games, coaches usually make a huge number of substitutions and the game is often turned over, so such bets can be profitable.

If anyone is looking for a good match to watch tomorrow:

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Unlike any other friendly match, Spain will use this game to make the final adjustments before Euro 24, while Brazil will play their second game under their new coach, and want to take advantage of the opportunity to find an ideal team for the Copa America

It's all set to be a great game
I'm studying the best bet here, I consider this match more difficult to predict than Brazil vs England

I agree with you. Most friendly games are used for experiment and that is why it is difficult to make a successful predictions whether in a country football or a club football. Most players always want to play and get rewarded for their efforts and to them friendly game cannot offer them this. Most importantly, these players are very conscious of sustaining an injury because they have more important games to play for their club. In addition, most coaches don't feature the best players due to personal sentiment and as a gambler when you make predictions you have certain players in mind and when such players are not featured it affects that outcome of the game and then create disappointment in the mind of the gambler.

I have a shocking revelation to make and that is, ever since I started gambler, I haven't won a multibet with friendly games but it is always difficult for me not to play because most times the odds can be juicy and so neglecting the odds by not playing is like loosing some bucks.  Sometimes, matches that aren't supposed to end draw, will end draw even when the opponent is not know for having a good football prowess. Well, gambler is always unpredictable but I think it is even "more unpredictable" during friendly matches.

Sports betting, especially friendlies? Not for the timid. Its a game within a game - understanding the odds is just the start. Your underdog strategy with clear favorites? It shows you get it. Too often, the obvious value is a trap. Bookies may set the lines, but they dont write the story. We do. Its about finding those hiden edges, the potential others overlook.

That BTTS No with even matchups? Clever move. Goes against that "goals, goals, goals" mentality. Live betting, thats where the true test lies. Real-time analysis, split-second choices - thats the thrill. Friendlies are more volatile. But remember, opportunity comes from chaos. Profit isnt luck in this game. Its about having a system, seeing the angles, knowing where the real value hides. Theres always value to be found.

Montenegro vs FYR Macedonia

Montenegro StartXI: 4-2-3-1
Matija Šarkić; Marko Vukčević; Stefan Savić; Igor Vujačić; Risto Radunović; Marko Bakić; Stefan Lončar; Vladimir Jovović; Stevan Jovetić; Driton Camaj; Stefan Mugoša

FYR Macedonia StartXI: 3-5-2
Stole Dimitrievski; Gjoko Zajkov; Visar Musliu; Darko Velkovski; Darko Churlinov; Jani Atanasov; Enis Bardhi; Tihomir Kostadinov; Ezgjan Alioski; Bojan Miovski; Eljif Elmas


Cyprus vs Serbia

Cyprus StartXI: 3-4-3
Joel Mall; Andreas Karo; Alexander Gogić; Konstantinos Laifis; Stelios Andreou; Chambos Kyriakou; Ioannis Kousoulos; Anderson Correia; Loizos Loizou; Ioannis Pittas; Charalampos Charalampous

Serbia StartXI: 3-4-2-1
Predrag Rajković; Nikola Milenković; Erhan Mašović; Srđan Babić; Andrija Živković; Srđan Mijailović; Saša Lukić; Filip Kostić; Lazar Samardžić; Sergej Milinković-Savić; Aleksandar Mitrović


Sweden vs Albania

Sweden StartXI: 4-2-3-1
Robin Olsen; Emil Krafth; Carl Starfelt; Victor Lindelöf; Ludwig Augustinsson; Simon Olsson; Samuel Gustafson; Dejan Kulusevski; Emil Forsberg; Alexander Isak; Gustaf Nilsson

Albania StartXI: 4-2-3-1
Thomas Strakosha; Iván Balliu; Enea Mihaj; Berat Djimsiti; Mario Mitaj; Ylber Ramadani; Kristjan Asllani; Jasir Asani; Nedim Bajrami; Qazim Laci; Armando Broja

This is a condition that is bound to happen because seeing from the situation of friendly matches sometimes even though in their games they are serious but for some occasions this is actually used as a trial in the scheme, formation and placement of players so that the results are definitely random because we are difficult to make a real step when betting in a match like this regardless of who competes everything will not be able to be used as a benchmark.

It would be quite logical not to make any bets in friendly matches and we can only enjoy it because things like this cannot be guessed. I personally always skip friendly matches and for countries I also often skip the UEFA Country League because in my opinion this match is also no further than a friendly match for a country so the situation is the same so when a match like this takes place I prefer to just enjoy it without making any bets on it.

True, both team is hard to predict, but the point this game is for war the rascisme and violence in football, even play at home, spain won't play comfortably because they are facing the best team in the world, draw is possible but the possible of winning is bigger because they have the support of fans at the Bernabeu.

Another game to watch today is england vs belgium, and France vs Chile. which I think england it won't be easy to beat belgium, while france chances have big win at their home.

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The odds are good to bet on Belgium, England will suffer without Harry Kane, Kyle Walker, Sam Johnstone and Harry Maguire, they are injured, the total count is 15 players unavailable.
Coach Southgate is frustrated because these 2 matches are supposed to be the final preparation to Euro 24
So betting on Belgium could be a good risk reward option

France vs Chile, in my opinion, there's no chance for Chile, France will win, but the odds are not good, only 1.24, maybe goals over 3

Brazil vs Spain, I'll bet on Brazil victory

lol! Take friendly matches serious at your own risk.

Most key players don't take friendly matches seriously and some of them won't even come in the first place and you want to try your luck with a second squad of a term playing with another's first square? If you've watched most international friendless you will observe the casual play from most teams as they mostly use friendlies to check out their players to see if some are good enough for the main tournament.

Friendly games is better staked on goals and not direct win. You have stated correctly that key players don't play most times and when they do they are careful and the coach substitute them early in the game to avoid being injured because they could be target and subject to injury.

The question is why play a key player when nothing is at stake only fitness and to taste your strategy of which the key player can fit into the real game since he is already fit or he can do the fitness exercise somehow not necessarily on the friendly game. So the best betting option that I have successfully tried is on goals because defenders too are not keen on defense, nobody wants injury on friendly game.

Malta vs Belarus

Malta StartXI: 3-5-2
Henry Bonello; Kurt Shaw; Enrico Pepe; Zach Muscat; Carlo Zammit Lonardelli; Nikolai Muscat; Matthew Guillaumier; Yannick Yankam; Paul Mbong; Kemar Reid; Kyrian Nwoko

Belarus StartXI: 3-5-2
Sergey Ignatovich; Denis Polyakov; Sergei Politevich; Pavel Zabelin; Danila Nechaev; Nikita Korzun; Evgeni Yablonski; Max Ebong; Kirill Pechenin; Artem Shumansky; Maxim Kireev


Norway vs Slovakia

Norway StartXI: 4-4-2
Ørjan Nyland; Julian Ryerson; Kristoffer Ajer; Leo Østigård; Fredrik André Bjørkan; Oscar Bobb; Martin Ødegaard; Sander Berge; Mohamed Elyounoussi; Erling Haaland; Alexander Sørloth

Slovakia StartXI: 4-3-3
Marek Rodák; Michal Tomič; Norbert Gyömbér; Adam Obert; Vernon De Marco; Juraj Kucka; Patrik Hrošovský; László Bénes; Dávid Ďuriš; Róbert Boženík; Lukáš Haraslín

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Luxembourg vs Kazakhstan

Luxembourg StartXI: 4-5-1
Anthony Moris; Florian Bohnert; Marvin Martins; Lars Gerson; Laurent Jans; Danel Sinani; Leandro Barreiro; Christopher Martins Pereira; Mathias Olesen; Yvandro Borges Sanches; Gerson Rodrigues

Kazakhstan StartXI: 5-4-1
Igor Shatskiy; Erkin Tapalov; Marat Bystrov; Aleksandr Marochkin; Nuraly Alip; Roman Asrankulov; Ramazan Orazov; Askhat Tagybergen; Adilet Sadybekov; Bakhtiyar Zaynutdinov; Maksim Samorodov


Scotland vs Northern Ireland

Scotland StartXI: 3-4-2-1
Angus Gunn; Liam Cooper; Jack Hendry; Kieran Tierney; Nathan Patterson; Billy Gilmour; Scott McTominay; Andrew Robertson; John McGinn; Ryan Christie; Lyndon Dykes

Northern Ireland StartXI: 5-3-2
Bailey Peacock-Farrell; Brodie Spencer; Daniel Ballard; Paddy McNair; Eoin Toal; Trai Hume; Conor Bradley; Alistair McCann; Shea Charles; Jamie Reid; Isaac Price


England vs Belgium

England StartXI: 4-2-3-1
Jordan Pickford; Ezri Konsa; Lewis Dunk; John Stones; Ben Chilwell; Jude Bellingham; Declan Rice; Jarrod Bowen; Phil Foden; Kobbie Mainoo; Ivan Toney

Belgium StartXI: 4-3-3
Matz Sels; Timothy Castagne; Zeno Debast; Jan Vertonghen; Arthur Theate; Youri Tielemans; Amadou Onana; Orel Mangala; Jérémy Doku; Romelu Lukaku; Leandro Trossard


Rep. Of Ireland vs Switzerland

Rep. Of Ireland StartXI: 3-4-3
Gavin Bazunu; Andrew Omobamidele; Nathan Collins; Dara O'Shea; Séamus Coleman; Josh Cullen; Jason Knight; Robbie Brady; Sammie Szmodics; Evan Ferguson; Michael Johnston

Switzerland StartXI: 3-5-2
Yvon Mvogo; Nico Elvedi; Fabian Schär; Silvan Widmer; Eray Cömert; Xherdan Shaqiri; Granit Xhaka; Michel Aebischer; Vincent Sierro; Dan Ndoye; Zeki Amdouni


Austria vs Turkey
Austria StartXI: 4-4-2
Alexander Schlager; Stefan Posch; Kevin Danso; Maximilian Wöber; Phillipp Mwene; Konrad Laimer; Xaver Schlager; Nicolas Seiwald; Romano Schmid; Christoph Baumgartner; Michael Gregoritsch

Turkey StartXI: 4-2-3-1
Uğurcan Çakır; Mert Müldür; Merih Demiral; Kaan Ayhan; Cenk Özkaçar; Salih Özcan; Hakan Çalhanoğlu; İrfan Can Kahveci; Arda Güler; Kerem Aktürkoğlu; Kenan Yıldız


Germany vs Netherlands

Germany StartXI: 4-2-3-1
Marc-André ter Stegen; Joshua Kimmich; Antonio Rüdiger; Jonathan Tah; Maximilian Mittelstädt; Robert Andrich; Toni Kroos; Jamal Musiala; İlkay Gündoğan; Florian Wirtz; Kai Havertz

Netherlands StartXI: 3-4-1-2
Bart Verbruggen; Matthijs de Ligt; Virgil van Dijk; Nathan Aké; Denzel Dumfries; Jerdy Schouten; Joey Veerman; Daley Blind; Tijjani Reijnders; Donyell Malen; Memphis Depay


Slovenia vs Portugal

Slovenia StartXI: 4-4-2
Jan Oblak; Žan Karničnik; Miha Blažič; Jaka Bijol; Erik Janža; Petar Stojanović; Adam Gnezda Čerin; Timi Max Elšnik; Sandi Lovrić; Andraž Šporar; Benjamin Šeško

Portugal StartXI: 3-4-2-1
Diogo Costa; Danilo Pereira; Pepe; Gonçalo Inácio; Diogo Dalot; Rúben Neves; Vitinha; João Cancelo; Otávio; João Félix; Cristiano Ronaldo


Spain vs Brazil

Spain StartXI: 4-2-3-1
Unai Simón; Daniel Carvajal; Robin Le Normand; Aymeric Laporte; Marc Cucurella; Fabián Ruiz; Rodri; Lamine Yamal; Dani Olmo; Nico Williams; Álvaro Morata

Brazil StartXI: 4-3-3
Bento; Danilo; Fabrício Bruno; Lucas Beraldo; Wendell; Lucas Paquetá; Bruno Guimarães; João Gomes; Raphinha; Rodrygo; Vinícius Júnior


New Zealand vs Tunisia

New Zealand StartXI: 4-2-3-1
Max Crocombe; Tommy Smith; Michael Boxall; Tyler Bindon; Liberato Cacace; Alex Rufer; Marko Stamenić; Matthew Garbett; Sarpreet Singh; Callum McCowatt; Kosta Barbarouses

Tunisia StartXI: 5-3-2
Bechir Ben Said; Wajdi Kechrida; Dylan Bronn; Hamza Jelassi; Oussama Haddadi; Ali Abdi; Aissa Laïdouni; Nader Ghandri; Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane; Hamza Rafia; Elias Achouri

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I am so excited with England national team starting eleven against Belgium with Gareth Southgate give senior team debut for Manchester United young player Kobbie Mainoo. He filled the midfielder position with most talented senior players such as Jude Bellingham, Declan Rice and Phil Foden, FIFA friendly match become good opportunity for some teams manager giving regular position or more minutes playing for young players and Kobbie Mainoo should proof his capacity after getting first regulation position.

Until 60th minutes, Belgium leaded awhile over 2-1 and left thirty minutes will England make comeback or not, Gareth Southgate still not change the starting eleven yet except John Stones replacing by Joe Gomez on 10th minutes after getting injury. Will this score extend until the end match and England got losses two matches in a row after losing before against Brazil?

The match between Brazil and Spain ended in a 3-3 draw despite a wide margin. In the match between these two teams, Spain controlled the ball for most of the time, but Brazil did not give up. Spain had 58% team control and Brazil had 42% team control. And in terms of attack, Spain team is far ahead, they made 19 attacks in the whole match and Brazil team made 12 attacks in total. While I can see most of the differences within the game, the game results are pretty even, based on experience alone, this game wins.

The first half of brazil vs Spain was mostly spain attacking and brazil defending. The brazil defense looked vulnerable as spain were being able to get into dbox without much issue. A bad tackle from brazillian team led to a penalty goal for Spain. The second goal was Dani Olmo single handedly avoiding entire brazillian defense and goalkeeper. A mistake from the Spanish goalkeeper made Brazil score their first goal.
Brazil was able to score early in the second half making it 2-2. Another penalty in 87th minute made Spain lead again by 3-2 while the last minute of the injury time, brazil got a penalty goal as a spanish defender pulled a brazilian's leg with his hands. Even being a friendly, it was a heated match.

The game was evenly matched, but the lack of VAR was decisive for the game. The second penalty for Spain wasn't a penalty at all, anyone who watches the video will know that it wasn't a penalty. And that totally influenced the game
I don't know how there are still people who are against VAR

Brazil showed that they've improved a lot with the change of coach and they played very well against England and Spain, the Brazilians finally played well again. The friendlies were very fruitful

And I lost my bet  :P

I just won the bet  ;D, as my prediction before, the match is potential draw. but, I wasn't so sure to bet draw before look who the player take to the field. when I look the match, Brazilian players getting better day by day, they are quite coherent in supplying the ball and defending the goal. But when I compare like they champions on world cup before, their game is certainly not better than the previous one, they need improvement in midfielder and attacker.

Congratulations on the winning bet  ;)

Brazil does need to improve, but it is quite remarkable how much it has improved
Brazil were losing to the weaker South American teams, and now they've managed to get good results against England and Spain, who are Tier A, and that's just 2 games under the new coach

We still have 2 friendlies for each team until the start of the Copa America and Euro 24, I'm really looking forward to it, but the games won't be until June

Brazil will face Mexico in June 08 and USA June 12

I'm so unlucky as for friendly game bets.  :(  This is even affecting my predictions in BSFL on the questions regarding some friendly games in a bad way.

It is quite hard to predict how serious players will play in these games. The Spain - Brazil game can be given as a perfect example for that. I was expecting to watch a boring game but the result was totally opposite, haha. I thought England would beat Belgium and got wrong once again. I guess I will leave betting on friendly games for a while.  ;D


Exactly mate. It was like a totally different game than just a friendly. Especially Brazil looked like they took this game even more serious. Maybe Dorival Júnior had some good impact on the players after starting his job.