Scotland vs Wales

Carling Nations Cup.

Similar to the match up between the two Irish sides last night we have here two sides who are seriously unbalanced.

Wales have a shadow squad selected with many of their first-choice players unavailable due to injury/other commitments (the Swansea players are required for Playoff duty). This is a Wales side that has lost their last five matches and in doing so have only managed to score one goal.

Any half decent side should be able to beat this Wales Reserve side and Scotland, with a nearly full-strength team selected are certainly more than capable of matching Wales. The Scots have three wins from their last six matches and when we bear in mind two of the losses came against World Champions Spain and formidable opposition in the form of Brazil then we see they are in good form. Scotland's players are in good form domestically with Charlie Adam having had a strong end to the season and all the Rangers players in hot form having won the title in Scotland.

Scotland's last two wins have been by more than two goals so have 1pt on that outcome as well as 8pts on the Scotland win.

Staking plan:

Scotland win

8pts @ 2.25 Stan James

Scotland win -2

1pt @ 13.0 Stan James