{"id":5693,"date":"2019-06-09T16:27:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T16:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/?p=5693"},"modified":"2019-06-10T04:51:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T04:51:27","slug":"spain-and-sweden-face-off-in-euro-2020-soccer-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/sports\/spain-and-sweden-face-off-in-euro-2020-soccer-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain and Sweden Face Off In Euro 2020 Soccer Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The biggest event of Summer 2020&#8211;at least in the soccer world&#8211;will be the UEFA European Championships, known more commonly as Euro 2020.  With an aging backline and a formidable group of competitors there&#8217;s a perception that defending champion Portugal is living on &#8216;borrowed time&#8217; and are vulnerable.  They&#8217;ll have no shortage of claimants to their crown but first there&#8217;s the formality of qualification.  The Euro 2020 qualification games are going on this Summer on on Monday two intriguing teams will meet as Spain hosts Sweden at Madrid&#8217;s<em> Estadio Santiago Bernab\u00e9u<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain was expected to be a Euro 2020 contender but Sweden has been something of a surprise of late.  They&#8217;ve gone unbeaten in their first three qualification matchups with home wins over Romania and Malta along with a 3-3 deadlock against regional rivals Norway.  They&#8217;re well poised to qualify for the European Championships and their strong offensive output during the qualifying competition has only boosted their chances.  Sweden has scored 8 and conceded 4 in the three games giving them 7 points and a +4 goal differential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain has also shown well in their qualifying run with three wins in three games against Norway, Malta and the Faroe Islands.  They&#8217;ve also scored 8 goals in the competition but have only conceded two giving them 9 points and a +6 goal differential.  The game against Norway did give Spanish soccer boosters a bit of concern as they expected an easier outcome than the 2-1 result.  Spain&#8217;s offensive catalyst is Iago Aspas who plays for Celta Vigo&#8211;who barely managed to survive relegation&#8211;in La Liga.  Despite his weak team affiliation he&#8217;s scored 42 goals over two season which included a fair amount of time lost to injury.  He&#8217;s got 17 goals playing for the national team and he&#8217;s an extremely dangerous offensive threat that can score at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head to head play has been fairly evenly matched but worth noting that there hasn&#8217;t been a match between Spain and Sweden since 2008.  Spain won a matchup in the European Championships that year but going back further the last 7 meetings stand at 3 wins for Spain, 2 wins for Sweden and a pair of draws.  Taking a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/sportsbook\/soccer\/uefa\">Euro Qualifying soccer odds<\/a>, the total on the game looks a bit low given the offensive potency of the sides involved.  We&#8217;ll look for Spain to take the victory and play the total accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BET SPAIN -1.5 -105 OVER SWEDEN<br>BET SPAIN\/SWEDEN OVER 2.5 -122<br>BET SPAIN\/SWEDEN BOTH TO SCORE&#8211;YES +130<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get the latest soccer odds and props from all over the world&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/betonline_ag\">follow BetOnline.ag on Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest event of Summer 2020&#8211;at least in the soccer world&#8211;will be the UEFA European Championships, known more commonly as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5695,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions\/5695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}