AFL Friday night Sydney versus Collingwood Preview
The AFL Betting Tips round 10 Sir Doug Nicholls round gets underway with the Sydney taking on Collingwood at the SCG. These are two sides at very differing stages in their premiership window.
Collingwood – 7 of 9 games in 2019 at the “G”
Collingwood has played 7 of their 9 matches this year at the MCG. Their only interstate game so far was a very convincing win against the Lions in the Easter round. The have also played an “away” game from the home of footy at Marvel Stadium. So Collingwood has left Melbourne once in two months of the AFL Betting Tips 2019 season! And people say Eddie doesn’t run the AFL!
Collingwood – interstate successes 10 wins last 16 games
Collingwood even when they weren’t going well a few years ago always performed well interstate. They traditionally travel well and this should be no different and the away record is as good as anyone in the AFL. To attest to this, try 10-6 win/loss in the last 16 games…that’s the Collingwood away record in recent times.
Sydney last 2 has them on the up
Sydney is off a really strong two week effort that has seen them with back to back upsets. Sydney may take some heart from the fact that Collingwood haven’t been 100% on their game with serious challenges from the Blues and Saints in successive weeks. This could also have the reverse effect where the Pies are ready to turn one on!! One of these sides is in a battle for the AFL Grand Final the other for the AFL wooden spoon.The SCG should see a bumper crowd for this one with the big drawing Magpies in the Harbour City.
AFL Betting Tips – Sydney v Collingwood
Sydney is on a double peak performance here with improved effort the last two weeks and last week a 77-72 win over north in Tasmania. Collingwood continues to roll along and is second top of table with a peak performance win over St Kilda last week. It happened late but it did come together well in a 112-71 win.
Sydney has won three of the last five head to head. The last two games are 1-1 each of two and have been very close with Sydney by 2 points in 2018 and Collingwood 1 point in 2017. Four of the last five have been an average margin of 8.5 points per game. So they do have a historic close edge to them.
Total game scores has been average 162 points per game so not all that high scoring. Collingwood ranks 3 points for and 4 points against so they are highly rated. Sydney has won just the one game at home this season and its recent home record contrasts greatly to the halcyon days of not so long ago when they were nearly unbeatable at home.
The double peak performance of Sydney and associated stats has Collingwood as a small investment here.
Collingwood .75 unit win $1.50 and .5 unit -13.5
