Wales vs. Ukraine Picks, Predictions, Odds

Andrew Beasley Sports Betting Expert

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Europe’s final World Cup spot will be decided on Sunday, Jun. 5 with the winner of Wales vs. Ukraine heading to Qatar. The match gets underway at 12:00 p.m. ET from the Cardiff City Stadium in Cardiff, Wales and will air on ESPN.

Score Prediction

Wales 1, Ukraine 1

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Ukraine vs. Wales Betting Predictions

Nobody knew how Ukraine would perform in the previous round against Scotland thanks to the war in their country, but they played superbly, and fully merited their place in this match. With their opponents here another British side, they will approach the game in similar fashion.

However, where Ukraine are above Scotland in the rankings, they are below Wales, so this will be a tougher task. Though these teams have only met once since 2001, two of the three clashes ended 1-1 and the other was a 1-0 victory for Ukraine. This should be similarly close.

Ukraine vs. Wales Betting Odds

• Wales +170
• Ukraine +175
• Draw +200
• Over 2.5 (+150)
• Under 2.5 (-200)

World Cup Odds 

Wales vs. Ukraine Betting Resources

• Date: Sunday, June 5, 2022
• Matchup: UEFA
• Stadium: Cardiff City Stadium
• Location: Cardiff, Wales
• TV-Time: ESPN - 12:00 p.m.

Wales Betting Analysis

Wales lost to Poland in midweek in the Nations League but manager Robert Page sensibly held back some of his key players with this game in mind. The Welsh only lost once in qualifying (and there’s no shame in being beaten in Belgium) so will be confident of getting a draw in 90 minutes at the very least.

They are also unbeaten on home turf since November 2018. Gareth Bale sat out the Poland defeat and will surely return here. Wales’ all-time top scorer got both of their goals in the win over Austria in the previous round and is undoubtedly the man to watch here.

Ukraine Betting Analysis

Ukraine will be full of confidence after the win over Scotland. Andriy Yarmolenko scored the opening goal in their 3-1 victory, and he also settled his nation’s previous meeting with Wales, a 1-0 success in 2016.

Like Wales, Ukraine don’t lose very often when playing teams of similar standard to themselves. They emerged from their World Cup qualifying group unbeaten. However, six of their eight games ended all-square and that could easily be the outcome here too.

Key Players to Watch

• WAL: Viktor Tsygankov - Midfielder
• WAL: Roman Yaremchuk - Forward
• UKR: Viktor Tsygankov - Midfielder
• UKR: Roman Yaremchuk - Forward

Wales vs. Ukraine Betting Conclusion

With two teams who’ve collectively lost just one of the 18 qualifying matches they’ve played to reach this point, there’s every reason to believe this will be tight. There are unlikely to be many goals so Draw looks a good selection, which Wales has seen in two of four matches.

Andrew Beasley

Andrew Beasley is a freelance football writer who uses his statistical knowledge and insight of soccer to provide betting previews, strategy articles and podcasts for a variety of websites and bookmakers. Primarily focussed on the EPL, if the data is available for another league, he’ll manage to find an edge somewhere.Andrew was also part of the victorious team in season 15 of the BBC quiz show Only Connect. He’s good at spotting sequences and connections in soccer too. More from Andrew Beasley