Italy takes on the visitors Albania at "Stadio Renzo Barbera" in the gameweek five of the Europe’s Qualifiers Group stage for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. The match will be played in Palermo on Friday, March 24th.
Italy and Spain are two favourites of the group G of the Europe’s Qualification Group stage. "Gli Azzurri" recorded 10 points with 11:4 goal difference after 4 played matches allowing it to share first and second places with Spain in group. Italians got victories against Israel 3:1, Macedonia 3:1 and Lichtenstein 4:0 alongside with 1:1 draw vs. Spain. Italians come up to the first game in 2017 with five-match winning streak recording three victories and two draws.
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Albania sits at fourth place with six points taken and 4:6 goal difference after the same four gameweeks still keeping chances to qualify for the Mundial 2018. In the group Albanians recorded two wins against Macedonia 2:1 and Lichtenstein 2:0 alongside with two defeats against Spain 0:2 and Israel 0:3. And now they have to play third match with the team which name starts at “I” after disappointing results in two previous games.
Italy and Albania met only once in the friendly match on 18th of November 2014 with 1:0 score in favour of Italy. It is obvious that "Gli Azzurri" is the favourite in the upcoming match at its own turf and has no right to fail, otherwise it will be impossible for Italy to reach Spain at the same time the match score won’t be big for sure.
Prediction for the match: Albania to win with +2.0 Asian handicap.
