{"id":87399,"date":"2026-06-27T18:34:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/?p=87399"},"modified":"2026-06-27T18:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:35:01","slug":"dr-congo-vs-uzbekistan-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/2026\/06\/dr-congo-vs-uzbekistan-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo vs Uzbekistan Predictions \u2013 Group K (Match 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entain-block teams-tip-block hoverable\">\n  <div class=\"teams-tip-header\">\n    <div class=\"teams-tip-header-meta\">\n      <!--div class=\"teams-tip-header-meta__inner\"-->\n        <div class=\"team-vs-team\" style=\"display:flex\">\n          <span class=\"icon\"><svg width=\"32\" height=\"32\" fill=\"currentColor\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\"><!----><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/punters\/assets\/brand-icons\/neds\/svg-sports-country-flags-icon.svg?v=20260515h#Congo\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span>\n          <div style=\"display:flex; flex-direction:row; flex-wrap:wrap; justify-content:center; align-items:center; text-align:center; column-gap:5px; font-weight: 700\">\n            <div class=\"team_1\" style=\"flex-direction:column;\">DR Congo<\/div>\n            <div class=\"versus\" style=\"font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;\">vs<\/div>\n            <div class=\"team_2\">Uzbekistan<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"info\">Sunday 28th June 2026 9:30 AM<\/div>\n                                              <\/div>\n          <span class=\"icon\"><svg width=\"32\" height=\"32\" fill=\"currentColor\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\"><!----><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/punters\/assets\/brand-icons\/neds\/svg-sports-country-flags-icon.svg?v=20260515h#uzbekistan\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span>\n        <\/div>\n      <!--\/div -->\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n      <div class='teams-tip-content'>\n      <p>DR Congo have been one of the harder teams to play against in this group, and they have made both Portugal and Colombia work for everything.<\/p>\n<p>They held Portugal to a 1-1 draw, then went down 1-0 to Colombia in a game where they were still organised, physical, and very tough to break down.<\/p>\n<p>Yoane Wissa gives them a real outlet in transition, while Cedric Bakambu offers that focal point up front when they can get bodies forward.<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan are still chasing their first win and have not quite been able to put together a complete 90 minutes across their opening two games.<\/p>\n<p>This looks like the sort of tight, grinding contest DR Congo are comfortable in, and they look the better chance to edge it.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction: DR Congo to Win @ $1.75<\/p>\n<p>Value: Draw @ $3.90<\/p>\n<p>Player Pick: Cedric Bakambu Anytime Goalscorer @ $2.50<\/p>\n        <div class=\"teams-tip-button\">\t\t\t\n          <a class=\"track-me btn-standard bet-now-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/sports\/soccer\/world-cup\/world-cup-2026\/dr-congo-vs-uzbekistan\/4417d4f0-1d94-4900-80c3-4f2983e873f6\" target=\"_blank\" \n          data-tr-event=\"blog\" data-tr-method=\"bet now button\" data-tr-action=\"open sport_event\" data-tr-label=\"4417d4f0-1d94-4900-80c3-4f2983e873f6\" data-tr-event-id=\"4417d4f0-1d94-4900-80c3-4f2983e873f6\"  \n          >DR Congo vs Uzbekistan<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DR Congo vs Uzbekistan Odds &amp; Popular Betting Markets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick look at the current odds and popular betting markets for the DR Congo vs Uzbekistan matchup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*odds are correct at the time of publishing and are subject to change&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div data-league=\"World Cup 2026\" data-event=\"lclkafka-256213722\" data-market=\"Anytime Goalscorer\" data-sport=\"soccer\" class=\"sport-data\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div data-league=\"World Cup 2026\" data-event=\"lclkafka-256213722\" data-market=\"Half Time \/ Full Time\" data-sport=\"soccer\" class=\"sport-data\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DR Congo have been one of the harder teams to play against in this group, and they have made both Portugal and Colombia work for everything. They held Portugal to a 1-1 draw, then went down 1-0 to Colombia in a game where they were still organised, physical, and very tough to break down. Yoane Wissa gives them a real outlet in transition, while Cedric Bakambu offers that focal point up front when they can get bodies forward. Uzbekistan are still chasing their first win and have not quite been able to put together a complete 90 minutes across their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":86678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"hub_post_cat":[],"class_list":["post-87399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"acf":{"md_tip_date":"","md_tip_date_end":"","md_market_url":"","tip_date":"27\/06\/2026","event_country":"Australia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87401,"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87399\/revisions\/87401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87399"},{"taxonomy":"hub_post_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hub_post_cat?post=87399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}