Cambodia take on the visitors Philippines in AFC Championship match. The match will be played on Tuesday, December 20th at Morodok Techo National Stadium (Phnom Penh).
This is a tournament among the southeastern teams of Asia, and Thailand is the most titled team. So Cambodia and the Philippines are just in the group with the mighty team of this tournament - Thailand. The level of the national team of Cambodia is extremely low, and the opponent on their way must meet a very simple one so that they eventually find justice for him. In fact, it turns out that Cambodia could beat this year only East Timo, while opponents like Bangladesh, Hong Kong, this is already an absolutely impossible task for Cambodia. So in this group, where in addition to Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, there are also Indonesia and Brunei, perhaps Cambodia is the weakest one, and here the team will have simpler tasks such as scoring a couple of goals for the group stage, rather than claiming a place to playoffs. Here, in fact, against the background of the Philippine national team, the nominal hosts of this meeting do not look like favorites in any way.
Philippines does not have absolutely no strength nor influence in Asian football, and it is unlikely that they will be able to get into the top 2 of this group, which consists of 5 teams. However, now we are talking about their duel against a completely unconvincing Cambodia. And against this background, the Philippines look very solid and confident. There was one head-to- head meeting between the data of the team at a similar tournament 9 years ago, and then the fight ended with a very memorable score of 8:0 in favor of the Philippines. Naturally, what was 9 years ago is now completely irrelevant. But if we consider the results of teams similar even this year, the Philippines looks slightly, but still more impressive, and the bet in this meeting should rather be in their favor.
Bookmakers put the Philippines as favorites here, and perhaps this looks quite logical to itself. Yes, it may not be necessary to wait for an 8:0 score here, but the victory with the score 1:0 or 2:0 Philippines are quite capable of taking. Here, in fact, we will stop here on the bet option: Philippines to win.
Prediction for the match: Philippines to win.
