Sweden Women vs South Africa Women Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions

Sweden and South Africa open up their respective World Cup campaigns against each other on Sunday. The Group G game is staged at Sky Stadium.

This is the opening match of the World Cup group stage for both Sweden and South Africa, with both of them still upbeat. They’ll fight hard to come out the other end with a good result before facing the other two teams in the group.

Bookmakers firmly expect Sweden to book their first win of the World Cup at the first time of asking. They’ll be eager to send a message to upcoming opponents of how strong they are. South Africa enter their first match at the World Cup as massive outsiders at Sky Stadium. It is exceedingly tough to come up with an argument on their behalf, as a defeat looks unavoidable against this opponent.

Team form: Sweden vs South Africa

Sweden Form

Sweden are without a win from their previous three outings, as Germany managed a draw before they lost 0-1 against Denmark. Their latest match ended in a 3-3 draw with Norway. Sweden achieved success in four of their last 10 internationals in all competitions, while three ended in a draw and three in defeat.

Sweden enter their next World Cup match, averaging a sensational 2.1 goals per game in their last ten matches in this tournament. They scored a delicious total of 21 goals, while also conceding 14. That amounts to an average of 1.4 per game in which, they kept their opponents from scoring four times.

South Africa Form

Following a 3-2 loss to Serbia and a 0-5 beating by Botswana, South Africa recovered in style by beating Costa Rica 0-2 in their most recent outing. South Africa claimed three wins in their last 10 internationals across all tournaments, while also drawing twice along the way. They endured defeat in five of the games in this run.

South Africa scored 11 goals in the last 10 internationals, averaging 1.1 a game. They conceded 2.1 goals on average, 21 in total, and kept three clean sheets.

Sweden vs South Africa Stats

Position in the World Cup standings: Sweden vs South Africa

Sweden vs South Africa H2H

Topscorer

WIN – DRAW – WIN

OVER – UNDER

Over 2.5 goals happened in six of Sweden’s last ten matches across all tournaments. They pulled off an average of 2.1 goals during this run. Over 2.5 goals happened in five of the last eight outings for South Africa, who managed to score 1.2 times in those matches.

BTTS & FIRST TO SCORE

Sweden scored the first goal in seven out of their last ten games and won three times without conceding a goal. Interestingly, South Africa scored the opening goal of the match in just one of their last eight games.