TURKEY VS IRELAND PREVIEW & PREDICTION
Entertaining game is what awaits us this Friday in Antalya Stadyumu when the Turkish national team plays the home game against an always tough Ireland, in a friendly game in preparation for the UEFA Nations League.
Turkey:
The run by Mircea Lucescu did not close anything well in 2017, so they added three losses in their last four games, tying the rest against Finland with two goals.
What worries the most is his poor performance in defense, as the Turkey national team has received between two and three goals in each of those games, and even up to Albania in his last friendly match of the month of November last year he endorsed three goals for beat it for 2-3.
Ireland:
Meanwhile the Boys in Green made a good group stage for the qualifiers to Russia 2018 and this led them to qualify for the playoff for a place in the World Cup where they faced Denmark, everything started well for Ireland after drawing to zero goals on Danish soil , the return game started very well with the goal of Shane Duffy six minutes into the game, but after that it was all horror because in the end they were defeated by a forceful 1-5 that left them out of the World Cup.
For this new campaign the Irish leaders have decided to continue with Martin O’Neill as coach and is determined to take revenge in this new process and to continue maintaining the confidence it is important to start with a win and for that it will have its main referents as are Daryl Murphy and Shane Long.
This will be the twelfth time these teams face four victories for Ireland by two from Turkey, but even though they have the advantage in direct confrontations, it must be said that their games have been very pleasant, to the point that both teams they have been present with a goal in four of the last five commitments.
PREDICTION: Under 2.5 goals @ 1.46
