Slovakia hosts Ireland in the Euro qualification promotion semifinals. The match will be played on Thursday, October 8th at Tehelné pole (Bratislava)
Like Ireland, Slovakia was unable to qualify for UEFA EURO 2020 directly, and now the Falcons have to fray their nerves in the playoffs. The hosts will have to think about how to overcome one of the most intense and reliable defenses of current European football at the national team level. Moreover, the Slovaks themselves do not always demonstrate an open style. For example, they couldn’t boast of high scoring in exactly half of all meetings in the qualification for the future European Championship and the Nations League. And Slovakia played with opponents who have just the same level as the Irish. Under 2.5 goals scored took place in matches with Wales (0:1 and 1:1), Hungary (2:0), Ukraine (0:1), Israel (1:1), the Czech Republic (0:1), etc.
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If you go back to Ireland, then the recordings of its games can be sold instead of a potent sleeping pill. The Greens show a very careful and pragmatic game, trying to squeeze their opponents in a defensive grip and grind them in a positional struggle. The Irish give all their strength to "tug-of-war" in the center of the field. As a result, Over 2.5 goals scored took place in only one of the last 16 meetings in the qualification for the European Championship 2020 and the Nations League! The Irish got a chance to improve their goal statistics because they had to play against Gibraltar in the Euro qualification. Nevertheless, they beat the dwarfs with quite modest scores (2:0 and 1:0).
I strongly doubt that the visitors will change their defensive tactics in an atmosphere of an extremely important match. They will rarely show something in the attack and will not allow their opponents to do it. Well, if the Slovaks were a top team of European football, we would be able to wait for a great number of goals scored. But they are also a cautious team, so we should wait for a very tense and boring match without an abundance of goals scored.
Prediction for the match: Under 2.5 goals scored
