On Friday evening, at 19:45, Austrian national receives Slovenia’s visit to the third round of the Euro2020 preliminaries. Franco Foda’s national team is on the way to the Balkans, who have made a series of encouraging results lately. On the other hand, the white-reds have only one success in the last five games and are looking for inspiration for the stars Arnautovic and Alaba.
On the Wörthersee Stadion in Klagenfurt will be the 4th and 5th teams in Group G, including Israel, Poland, Macedonia and Latvia. It’s a difficult team to predict, but the Poles have a maximum score after two stages, while Austria has lost both disputes so far! Slovenia boasts two draws in as many games.
Austria has already received five goals in the group, as well as Latvia, and failures with Israel (2-4) and Poland (0-1) have fired an alarm signal on white-red defensive preparation. On the other hand, Slovenia has a series of five consecutive matches without failure, with all the matches ending with the same score, 1-1! He was equal in the recent duels with Macedonia, Israel, Bulgaria, Norway and Cyprus, and Matjaz Kek’s band was almost successful a few times. Having a lot of talented players like Beric, Ilic, Kurtic, Jokic or Oblak (high-value goalkeeper), the Slovenians come with a solid moral at Klagenfurt.
We recall, however, that Austria won 3-0 with its previous direct duel with Slovenia in a friendly match in March 2018. The goals of Alaba (’15) and Arnautovic (’36 and 51) made the difference then, even if the guests aligned a prime “11” at the start. It could be profitable to bet on the selection of “do not score both teams” after winning 7 of the last eight games played by the Austrians.
The home team’s fans were upset when there were no available days, but the home team’s fans were upset and focused by the visiting team. Andraz Sporar, who scored six goals in the last three games played at Slovan Bratislava, will be particularly dangerous in the Slovenian league. However, 7 of the last 8 matches of the Slovenes ended with less than three goals scored, and statistics and intuition urge us to rely on a similar scenario.
PREDICTION: Austria to win @ 1,85
