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Why there will be more goals in the second-half tonight


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Our friends at chickendinner have been looking at ways for you to make money on tonight’s England match and believe that betting on the second-half containing more goals than the first is a sound bet. Here’s why:

» In each of England’s last five competitive games there have been more goals scored in the second half than there have in the opening forty-five.

» The margin by which the second-half has outscored the first has increased as the run has gone on:

Russia (A) 1 first-half goal 2 second-half goals
Croatia (H) 2 first-half goals 3 second-half goals
Andorra (A) 0 first-half goals 2 second-half goals
Croatia (A) 1 first-half goal 4 second-half goals
Kazakhstan (H) 0 first-half goals 6 second-half goals

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Posted: October 15th, 2008 by Michael Lintorn