Northern Ireland – Romania will take place on Wednesday at 19:45 on “Windsor Park” in Belfast, the confrontation will count for the last round of League B Group 1 of the Nations League.
The “Tricolors” will end this campaign in the League of Nations in Belfast with the security of presence and at the next edition of the competition in League B. Mirel Rădoi’s team did not play this weekend with Norway after the Oslo authorities banned the national team from traveling to Bucharest. following the detection of a positive case of coronavirus in the batch. If the “tricolors” stayed instead, the Northern Irish had a curious evolution in Austria where they opened the score but lost in the end with the score of 2-1, thus losing any chance to climb in the ranking of this group and relegate to League C.
During the tour in Bucharest on “Național Arena”, at the debut as a selector on the bench of the first representative of Mirel Rădoi, the “tricolors” were followed by bad luck. Although they would have deserved the victory in terms of the game, Rădoi’s students finished undecided, score 1-1, the Northern Irish managing to avoid failure four minutes before the end of this game.
The “Tricolors” are much fresher physically than their opponents and are expected to set the pace in Belfast, Northern Ireland coming after last week’s two official matches, experiencing the disappointment of failing to qualify for EURO 2020 by giving up at the end of 120 minutes of play with the score of 2-1 dam with Slovakia, result with which they lost on the weekend in the League of Nations in Vienna with Austria.
Northern Ireland: McGovern- Dallas, Ferguson, McLaughlin, Smith, Ballard- McNair, McCann, Lafferty- Washington, Boyce
Romania: Tătărușanu – Toșca, Nedelcearu, Cristea, Camora – Nistor, Maxim, R. Marin- Pușcaș, Alibec, Man
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / NO @ 1,76
