Wednesday’s third Club World Cup games pits together Mexico’s Pachuca and Austria’s FC Salzburg in Group H action at 6:00pm EST at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati. Read on for our top Pachuca vs FC Salzburg picks.
Pachuca vs FC Salzburg Odds
| BET | ODDS |
| Pachuca | +175 |
| Draw | +240 |
| FC Salzburg | +150 |
| Over 2.5 | -106 |
| Under 2.5 | -188 |
Club World Cup odds at Bet365.
Pachuca vs FC Salzburg Head-to-Head
This is the first meeting between the teams.
Pachuca Preview
Pachuca were 8th at 8-4-5 in the Clausura, scoring 29 and allowing 23. They advanced to the playoffs and won 2-1 in the first round over Monterrey, but fell short in the quarterfinals to Club America with a 0-0 draw and 2-0 loss.
Their final few weeks weren’t great, going 1-2-2 and scoring only 3 goals in those 5 games. Before those final 5 games though they had scored in 11 straight.
Venezuelan Salomon Rondon led the way with 14G/5A followed by Brazilian John Kennedy with 9G/1A. Kennedy didn’t produce much in his final 3 games but he only played a combined 68 minutes. In his 11 games prior he had 7 goals and at least 1 shot on target in 10/11.
Considering they were 16th in the Apertura the season prior, it’s been down times lately for the Tuzos.
They did warm up for the CWC with a friendly with fellow tournament team Al Ahly, which is resulted in a 1-1 draw and Pachuca winning on PKs.
FC Salzburg Preview
Salzburg were 3rd in the main stage of the Austrian Bundesliga at 10-8-4 scoring 32 and allowing 22, 8 points back of 1st-placed Sturm Graz. Overall, in the Championship Group, they ended 2nd behind Sturm by 2 points. That gave Strum back-to-back league titles, but Salzburg had won 10 straight prior and have 17 total wins.
Salzburg had 2 double-digit scorers in Nene Dorgeles and Oscar Gloukh with 13 and 10 goals respectively.
The ended the season with 2 wins, with wins in 3/4, but also only 3 wins in 6. Bets on BTTS went 8-1 and BTTS & Over 7-2 down the stretch as well.
With no action or friendlies since, they’ve been off since May 24.
Pachuca vs FC Salzburg Prediction
I would say Salzburg are the team in better form coming into the CWC, but their games have been rather open with goals coming at both ends. Salzburg should be the better team but could have some rust. The odds show this is basically a coin flip between +150 for Salzburg and +175 for Pachuca. Both teams to score at -135 is an option or because Pachuca hasn’t scored much in recent games we take Salzburg to score and Kennedy to have 1+ shot on target in a same-game parlay at DraftKings.
- FIFA Club World Cup Picks: Salzburg to score and Kennedy to have 1+ shot on target (-105)
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