Belarus hosts Albania in round 1 of the UEFA Nations League C. The match will be played on Friday, September 4th at Stadion Dinamo (Minsk)
The national team of Belarus has been playing very badly at the international level for more than six years. The White Wings took the last places in their groups in the qualifying campaigns for the 2014 and 2018 World Championships, and two attempts to qualify for the Euro were unsuccessful either. And it cannot be said that Belarus had difficult opponents in each qualification. It's just that football in Belarus has reached the bottom, and this team is not able to outrank such opponents as Northern Ireland, Bulgaria, Georgia and even Luxembourg. There is no light at the end of the tunnel, and even the results in the previous stage of the Nations League are not indicative. If the Belarusians screwed up in the group with San Marino and Moldova, then it would be time to end with football in this country.
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Unlike the national team of Belarus, football in Albania has been progressing in recent years. The Red-Blacks managed to make it to Euro 2016 for the first time in their history, where they imposed a fight on the Swiss and gave battle to the French. The qualification for the World Cup in Russia also cannot be called a failure. The Albanians took 3rd place in their group and lagged behind only two titans - Spain and Italy. However, they managed to outrank Macedonia and Israel. The Red-Blacks also performed quite well in the qualifying campaign for Euro 2020. Yes, they did not manage to compete for reaching the final stage, but Albania played the matches with strong rivals with dignity and even scored four goals to the net of the Icelanders at home. That is, the Red-Blacks are no longer whipping boys, and even the top teams are experiencing problems in matches against them.
The Belarusians' attack looks hopeless now. In the frankly weak Group D of the Nations League, they managed to score only 10 goals in six matches against Luxembourg, San Marino and Moldova. Roughly speaking, the White Wings looked depressing in the attack and reached the defense of the weakest teams in Europe with great difficulty. On the other hand, the Albanians are renowned for their solid defensive game. As for the attack, the Red-Blacks are at least not inferior to the hosts. In the qualifiers for Euro 2020, they managed to score as many as 16 goals. They even managed to score in the lair of the world champion. It is obvious that the Red-Blacks are capable of scoring against Belarus, which did not concede only from Estonia in the last eight official games. And the visitors will surely gain at least one point in the upcoming game.
Prediction for the match: Albania to win with +0.5 handicap
