Greece – Italy, Euro Qualifiers Prediction
ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION FOR GREECE - ITALY
The Greeks are far from the level they had in many moments since the beginning of the century. Of course, the climax was the title of Euro 2004. Now the group of Greece is not easy. Italy is certainly the favorite for the first place, so the fight will be with Bosnia for the second, but Bosnians are much better rivals. We expect Greece to try to take something from the match, even a point.
The Italians are looking way better in recent months and in the last 5 games they have 4 wins with no goal in them. At the moment, Mancini is the man the nation counts on, and it seems that the Skuadra itself is a bit more balanced than the period they could not qualify for the world, for example. Italy has no significant injuries, so it comes out with an optimum squad.
What is important to consider is that Italy always has difficulties with Balkan teams. The Greeks are pretty rough and we expect the battle between these two teams to be very serious and both teams can easily make cards. Even in seemingly calm matches of Italy lately there are always 4-5 cards, and for Greeks the same applies in their home games, where they are more aggressive. Anthony Taylor gives a lot more cards in international matches than in England, so prediction – Over 3.5 cards at 1.61.
GREECE TEAM NEWS
Vasilis Torosidis (100/10 D), Alexandros Tziolis (75/2 M), Kostas Mitroglou (65/17 F), Orestis Karnezis (49/0 GK), Lazaros ChristodoulopoulosI (35/1 M), Giorgos Tzavellas (30/2 D), Giannis Fetfatzidis (25/3 M), Nikos Karelis (19/3 F) are out.
ITALY TEAM NEWS
Mario Balotelli (36/14 F), Domenico Criscito (26/0 D), Gianluigi Donnarumma (12/0 GK), Davide Zappacosta (13/0 D), Giacomo Bonaventura (14/0 M) are out.