Portugal vs. Luxembourg – Score prediction (11.10.2019)

Overview.

It could be a long evening for Luxembourg (FIFA rank: #93), as UEFA Nations League champions Portugal (#5), look to continue their brilliant form. The hosts have now won back-to-back European Championship qualifiers (ECQ) scoring at least four goals in each, the most recent of which came against the only other sub-90 ranked nation in Group B. Have little doubt of a home victory, Portugal have won their last nine matches against UEFA nations ranked below #90 by FIFA since 2016 (W9, 4.44 goals scored per match average). Moreover, Portugal led at the break in the first seven games in this sequence, but did draw at half-time in the last two.

The visitors are arguably more compact this time around, having kept the scoreline to a more respectable 1-0 in each of their previous two away games, both against sides ranked in the top 40. In fact, each of Luxembourg’s last three away defeats ended 1-0 and saw a goalless second half. Luxembourg’s only victory this ECQ campaign came against the only side ranked lower than themselves. Furthermore, they won just one game in the last ECQ campaign and lost all five away, four by at least a two-goal margin (3.0 goals conceded per match average).

Match Info.

Competition: EUROPE: Euro – Qualification – Round 7
Kick off: 11.10.2019, 18:45 UTC.
Venue: Estádio José Alvalade (Lisabon).
Referee: Stefanski D. (Pol).


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Quick Facts.

  • Gerson Rodrigues scored Luxembourg’s only away goal in 2019, to kick off a run of 249 minutes of away football without a goal to this point.
  • Cristiano Ronaldo has provided half of Portugal’s ECQ goals after a four-goal haul last time out – he has eight goals from six international appearances in 2019.
  • Three of Portugal’s four ECQ matches this campaign were level at half-time.
  • Nine of Luxembourg’s 11 away defeats since 2015 were ‘to nil’ (3.18 conceded per match average).
  • Portugal are yet to concede a goal in six H2Hs on home soil (4.0 scored per match average).
  • Pre-match League Table.




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