Latvia VS Kazakhstan MATCH PREDICTION

PRE-MATCH ANALYSIS

Two worst national teams of the first group of the Division D will meet at Daugavas Stadium in Riga. Latvia and Kazakhstan will play their third game in the UEFA Nations League. The bookmakers do not define the favorite of this encounter. Will the guests earn some points here?

Latvia are on a four-match winless run in all competitions and seeing that they failed to score in the first two games in the UEFA Nations League. The Latvians met Andorra in their opener. This match in Riga ended with a goalless draw. The hosts did not justify their favorite status. Nothing extraordinary the sides had a shot on target for both. Then the Baltic football players fought against the Georgian ones at away. Georgia took a narrow 1:0 victory over them. Latvia are third after two match days.

Kazakhstan, on the other hand, picked up one point out of six possible. Kazakhstan have seen a similar run and suffered a 0-2 loss to Georgia on the opening day, only bouncing with a 1-1 draw in Andorra – where Jordi Alaez netted a late equalizer and brought relief at the National stadium in Andorra la Vella. The guests could not keep the winning score in the last game and actually sit on the fourth place.

Latvia are without Cristian Torres to suspension, for accumulation of yellow cards. Kazakhstan have a full squad of players available to select from.

Their last H2H meetings linked to the Euro 2016 qualifying stage. Both fixtures ended with under 1,5 in total. They played with a goalless draw in Kazakhstan, then the Latvians lost with a minimal score at home 0:1.

Both sides have a small chance to succeed in the current Nations League’s campaign. Georgia are an evident leader and favorite. We expect to see the game with a modest motivation. We do not believe that there is a big value in betting on the hosts who had failed to score within 180 minutes and even more. We predict the away side’s win with an Asian handicap of 0 with a rather big coefficient of 2,00 sharp.