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Nations League · Tuesday 6 October

North Macedonia vs Switzerland Best Pick, Prediction and Odds

No bet on North Macedonia at Switzerland. The market makes Switzerland the favourite at 85.6%, and nothing in the results these two teams hold can say whether that price is wrong.

DraftKings, read via ESPN on 6 October 2026, 04:37 UTC, has Switzerland at -1200, the draw at +850 and North Macedonia at +1900. The book’s margin is 7.8 points across the three. Taken out, the prices leave 85.6% for Switzerland, 9.8% for the draw and 4.6% for North Macedonia.

The total is 3.5 goals, with the over at +100 and the under at -125. Without the margin, the over is a 47.4% chance.

Why there is no bet

For club soccer our method is one clause: each side’s expected goals come from its scoring rate at this venue and the opponent’s conceding rate at the other, both against the league average, in a Poisson model. A side or the draw is a bet when our chance is at least 5 points above the market’s.

That needs a league, where every team plays the same opponents. National teams have none. The results ESPN holds for Switzerland and North Macedonia since September 2024 are Nations League and World Cup qualifying games, spread across divisions and groups of very different strength. A goal against the weakest team in a group counts the same as one against the strongest, and the method has no way to tell them apart.

This Nations League season is too young to fix that. On 6 October, Switzerland had played three games in it and North Macedonia three, fewer than the four we need before any bet.

Switzerland at home, North Macedonia away

Since September 2024, Switzerland have played 7 competitive games at home. They won 4, drew 2 and lost 1, scoring 17 and conceding 9: 2.43 and 1.29 a game.

North Macedonia played 9 away in the same span. The record is 4-2-3, with 11 scored and 14 conceded, or 1.22 and 1.56 a game.

Across every competitive game in that window, Switzerland are 7-4-4 in 15 and North Macedonia are 8-5-5 in 18. Those records include games against sides from other divisions, so they rank neither team.

In Group B1 of this Nations League, on 6 October, North Macedonia are fourth with 0 points from 3 games, 0 scored and 7 conceded. Switzerland are first with 9 points from 3, 8 scored and 1 conceded.

Head to head

ESPN lists one earlier meeting between the two. The latest, on 26 September 2026, ended North Macedonia 0, Switzerland 3.

That was in 2026. One game proves nothing about Tuesday.

The total

Of Switzerland’s 15 competitive games since September 2024, 5 finished with four goals or more. North Macedonia’s went that way in 3 of 18.

The market prices the over 3.5 at 47.4% with the margin out. The same problem applies here as to the result: those games were played against opponents of every level, so the rates do not price this total. No bet on it.

Pick: no bet

No bet on North Macedonia at Switzerland: not Switzerland at -1200, not the draw at +850, not North Macedonia at +1900, and not the total of 3.5.

What would change it is a sample where the opponents are comparable. The group stage adds one game at a time to that: on 6 October, Switzerland had played three group games. Nothing on this page says who is fit or selected for Tuesday; check the lineups before any bet on this game.


North Macedonia at Switzerland, Tuesday 6 October, 2:45 PM ET, Swissporarena. Prices: DraftKings via ESPN, read 6 October 2026, 04:37 UTC. Results: ESPN, read 6 October 2026. Nothing here states who is available.