Esbjerg vs Vejle-Kolding
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Today’s secondary featured game is the Danish Division 1 game between Esbjerg and Vejle-Kolding.
Hosts Esbjerg were relegated to this division after a poor year in the Superligaen but there’s simply no denying that they’re one of the two best sides in the division along with Randers. Players like goalkeeper Hradecky, midfielder Smarason, and Lange are Superligaen players, by rights. If Esbjerg continue playing as well as they are, though, they’ll soon be a Superligaen side again because when a side with a lot of quality puts the effort in too, there’s generally very little any other side can do.
It’s unrelated but I actually rate Randers as the better side between Esbjerg and themselves, despite the statistics in the Division 1 league table suggesting otherwise. I guess only time will tell as to whether that’s true or not though!
The point is that Esbjerg are a very solid unit with plenty of firepower. It took them a couple of games to get used to the physical way that this league is played but now that they have, they’re destroying sides all around them, including a recent 0-4 win at a very potent Skive. I mean, seriously – their first three away games this season were at Vestjaelland, AB Copenhagen, and Skive – three of the more dangerous home sides in this league – and Esbjerg have won twice and lost the other in an epic game with plenty of goals. Esbjerg have already won five out of six games this season due to scoring a lot of goals and the same wouldn’t surprise me today.
Visitors Vejle-Kolding are not a side to underestimate, however. They’ve galvanised well since the merger of the two clubs and they now have a stealthily able side. They’re yet to emerge as a dangerous attacking side but their defence is strong. I’d be surprised to see them lose many this season but whether they score enough to win enough to challenge Randers and Esbjerg is another matter entirely. Vejle-Kolding will become a force in due course but this game looks too early in the season for that to be applicable here, in my view. They’ll be stubborn and hard-working but Esbjerg have more firepower, to be blunt.
This is the kind of game that could explode into life or be a slow affair that Esbjerg win by a goal or two. I’d lean more toward the latter as it’s a bit early in the season for it to explode into life but in the Danish 1st Division, I’d never rule out goals. However, the home win at 9/10 looks good value to me – they ultimately should have too much for their opponents, especially given their strong momentum lately.
Verdict: Esbjerg to win at 9/10.
Friday’s Picks
Accumulator fodder:
Dinamo Zagreb, Viktoria Plzen, Vikingur Gotu, Fehervar, Bohemians, Bangor City.
Recommended bets:
Esbjerg, Fehervar, and Dinamo Zagreb at around 8/5.
As ever, if there are any explanations required then please feel free to post a comment! For the remainder of my thoughts on today’s games, see below, although I feel compelled to write that the below are not necessarily my tips but merely my thoughts to prevent endless questions about my thoughts on certain games!
Austrian Liga 1:
Blau-Weiss Linz vs WAC/St.Andra (5)
Grodig vs Hartberg (5)
Lustenau vs St.Polten (6)
First Vienna vs Austria Lustenau (5)
SCR Altach vs LASK Linz (6)
Belarusian Vysshaya Liga:
Belshina Bobriusk vs BATE Borisov (7) 0-2
Bulgarian A PFG:
Lokomotiv Plovdiv vs Beroe (7) 1-0
Chilean Primera Division:
Audax Italiano vs Union La Calera (7) 2-0
La Serena vs Huachipato (5) 1-1
Deportes Iquique vs Union Espanola (6) 1-2
Croatian Prva Liga:
Lokomotiva Zagreb vs Dinamo Zagreb (8) 0-2
Czech Republic Gambrinus Liga:
Dukla Prague vs Marila Pribram (6) 1-0
Ceske Budejovice vs Viktoria Plzen (8) over 2.5 goals
Danish 1st Division:
AB Copenhagen vs Naestved (7)
Esbjerg vs Vejle-Kolding (7) both sides to score
English Championship:
Brighton & Hove Albion vs Leeds United (7) over 2.5 goals
Faroese Meistaradeildin:
Vikingur Gotu vs 07 Vestur Sorvagur (9) over 2.5 goals
German Bundesliga:
VfB Stuttgart vs Hamburger SV (6) 1-0
Hungarian Soproni Liga:
Fehervar vs Zalaegerszegi TE (8) 2-0
Irish Premier League:
Dundalk vs St.Patrick’s Athletic (5) 1-0
Galway United vs Bohemians (8) 0-2
Drogheda United vs Sligo Rovers (7) 1-2
Japanese J-League:
Nagoya Grampus vs Vissel Kobe (7) 2-0
Cerezo Osaka vs Montedio Yamagata (7) 2-1
Norwegian Eliteserien:
Molde FK vs Viking Stavanger (7) 1-0
Peruvian Primera Division:
Universidad Cesar Vallejo vs Alianza Atletico (7) 2-0
Polish Ekstraklasa:
Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biala vs Lechia Gdansk (5) 0-1
Slask Wroclaw vs Lech Poznan (6) 1-1
Polish Liga 1:
Polonia Bytom vs Kolejarz Stroze (4)
Portuguese Liga Sagres:
Porto vs SL Benfica (4) 1-1, at least one red card in this game
Romanian Liga:
Concordia Chiajna vs Brasov (6) 0-0
Otelul Galati vs Mioveni (6) 1-0
Slovakian Corgon Liga:
Dukla Banska Bystrica vs Zlate Moravce (7) 2-1
Spanish Segunda Liga:
Elche vs Almeria (6) both sides to score
Swedish Allsvenskan:
Djurgarden vs Kalmar FF (6) 1-0
Swedish Superettan:
Brommapojkarna vs GIF Sundsvall (6)
Turkish Super Lig:
Kayserispor vs Fenerbahce (6) 1-1
Welsh Premier League:
Afan Lido vs Carmarthen Town (5) 1-2
Bangor City vs Newtown (8) 2-0
Llanelli vs Port Talbot Town (7) 2-0
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