On Friday, starting with 19:45, the match Norway – Austria will be played, within the 1st round of the League of Nations, Liga B. Austria is undefeated in 5 of the 6 matches with Norway, ticking 5 successes in this time interval. However, the Norwegians won their most recent duel, 1-0 in November 2002, in a friendly away match.
Norway had an excellent first edition of the League of Nations, managing to finish first in the group with Bulgaria, Cyprus and Slovenia. The Nordics ticked 4 victories in the 6 matches, so they got the promotion from League C to League B. A campaign for Euro 2020 followed, in which the team coached by Lars Lagerback finished in third place, under Spain and Sweden, but over Romania. The dispute with Austria will be prepared by Norway with an attack that does not lack Martin Odegaard, Josh King and Erling-Braut Haaland.
Austria also played in the previous edition of the League of Nations in League B, finishing the campaign in second place, after Bosnia and Herzegovina. In that group of 3, Northern Ireland did not get any points. Austria qualified for Euro 2020 from the group won by Poland, finishing 6 points less than Robert Lewandowski’s team. Bayern star David Alaba is missing from the squad convened by coach Franco Foda, who announced that he is injured for the double with Norway and Romania.
Austria is undefeated in 5 of the 6 direct matches with Norway!
Norway is doing very well at home and will try to get a positive result against Austria.
-Norway finished the first edition of the League of Nations in 26th place;
-The Nordics rank 44th in the FIFA rankings;
-Austria finished the first edition of the League of Nations in 18th place;
-The Austrians rank 26th in the FIFA rankings;
Norway (4-4-1-1): Rune Jarstein, Omar Elabdellaoui, Even Hovland, Kristoffer Ajer, Haitam Aleesami, Stefan Johansen, Martin Odegaard, Sander Berge, Mohamed Elyounoussi, Joshua King, Erling Haaland
Austria (4-2-3-1): Alexander Schlager, Stefan Lainer, Martin Hinteregger, Philipp Lienhart, Andreas Ulmer, Julian Baumgartlinger, Florian Grillitsch, Xaver Schlager, Christoph Baumgartner, Marcel Sabitzer, Adrian Grbic
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / NO @ 1,82
