England vs Ghana betting
England’s disposal of Wales was clinical and was arguably their most comfortable performance of 2011. It marked a point where Fabio Capello scrapped his favoured 4-4-2 formation in favour of a more forward thinking 4-3-3, the key selections in this new formation though had to be man of the match Ashley Young, who terrorised the Welsh defenders for 90 minutes and also was brought down for the 1st penalty. So a bet on him continuing his fantastic form and scoring in this fixture could be a good bet, at odds of 3.75 on William Hill. A start is almost assured for £35m Liverpool signing Andy Carroll and he will be looking to terrorise the Ghanaian back line with his pace and power, he will most likely be playing alongside Wayne Rooney with the latter dropping deep and providing support from the left. So why not have a bet on both of these players scoring at any time in the fixture with odds of 4.2 on William Hill.
England looked a lot more defensively stable with a pairing of John Terry and Michael Dawson in the centre of defence shaping up to be quite a formidable one so why not put a bet on England keeping a clean sheet with odds of 2.5 on StanJames. England managed both of their goals against Wales, within the first 15 minutes of the fixture, so a bet on the first goal coming within the first 15 minutes could be a prudent one at odds of 3.5 on William Hill.
Ghana
Ghana enjoyed a successful world cup and were unceremoniously dumped out due to a Luis Suarez hand ball against Uruguay in the quarter final. They are lucky enough though to have an extremely young squad of very talented players at their disposal. One of these who ply’s his trade in the premiership is Asamoah Gyan, he has yet to find his best goalscoring form in the British divisions yet, but we all know the talent is there so why not bet on him to be the final goalscorer in this match at odds of 9.0 on Coral.
Richard Kingson of Blackpool is likely to start between the sticks for Ghana and with him there they can be assured of not conceding any silly goals, so why not if you are rooting for the reigning African champions have a bet on a Ghanaian clean sheet at odds of 5.0 on Betfair.
This is likely to be either a very tight affair or one that the rejuvenated England will run off with, the fact that it’s a friendly does remove a lot of the competitive edge and does allow for Capello to make a few changes.