Azerbaijan VS Belarus Match Prediction
2018-03-23
16:00:00
Azerbaijan
VS
Belarus
Our Prediction Tip
Azerbaijan will win this match.
2018-03-2316:00:00 Azerbaijan will win this match.
In two meetings between the teams to date, Azerbaijan have picked up a win (0-1 in Belarus back in 2001) and a draw (2-2 in Belarus in 1996).
Bet365 have the following odds available for this match:
Azerbaijan are at 11/8 to win, a draw is at 11/5, and a Belarus win is at 7/4.
Azerbaijan ended up finishing in fifth place in UEFA Group C of qualification. They took ten points in their matches in what turned out to be a tough group for everyone but the Germans who were perfect. This was not a bad campaign, and it would have meant fourth place in many of the groups had it not been for the teams they were placed with. Belarus, then, had a disastrous qualification cycle in which they finished in last place with five points through their ten games. They only won one match, and the loss to Luxembourg that they had ended up confining them to last in the group by a single point in the end.
Over the course of the last calendar year, Azerbaijan have played just seven times. They have only one win (over San Marino), a draw, and five losses. All of them came against higher-ranked sides in their group, and two of them were to Germany, so no real big shame there. As for Belarus, they lined up a total of 13 times. They won twice in normal time, once on penalties after a draw, had a regulation draw, and also lost eight times with the ninth coming on penalties. Their low point was their penalty loss to lowly Thailand, but they have not fared better since after failing to win any match since.
A no for both teams to score is at 8/11 via Ladbrokes.
Azerbaijan didn't really get all that close to the World Cup itself, but they have moved on up in European football of late with with Qarabag having shown some muscle. They are on the way up, and should be cruising here.
Gurban Gurbanov has decided to make quite a few changes from the team that played Germany back in November. The new manager, formerly of the club side Qarabag, has left experienced players like defender Badavi Huseynov and midfielders Rahid Amirguliyev and Javid Huseynov out of the team for this fixture.
There are not a ton of goals contained within this current Azerbaijan side, ad the man that has the most amongst them has just six. That player is Dimirij Nazarov, who plays his club football in Germany in the 2.Bundesliga with Erzgebirge Aue. He is one of their most established players in the more traditional European landscape, and he's a crucial cog in this team.
Azerbaijan have a draw, three losses, and a win in their last five matches:
0-0 home draw vs Moldova (Friendly)
5-1 loss at Germany
1-2 home loss vs Czech Republic
5-1 home win vs San Marino
2-0 loss at Norway
Igor Kriushenko has made quite a few changes to the team that he last deployed against Georgia. A lot of players that started that match have failed to even make the squad this time, including the injured defender Dzyanis Palyakow and midfielder Alexandre Hleb. Also missing out are experienced midfielders Anton Putsila and Mikhail Gordeichuk.
The Belorussians only have striker in the entire team that has scored before out of the three they have picked. He also happens to be the least capped man of them. That is Anton Saroka, the Dinamo Minsk man. He has two goals so far in just five showings for his nation, giving them hope that he can lead the line and produce a fair amount of goals in the future for them.
Belarus have a draw and four losses in their last five matches:
2-2 draw at Georgia (Friendly)
4-1 loss at Armenia (Friendly)
2-1 loss at France
1-3 home loss vs Netherlands
0-4 home loss vs Sweden
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