Northern Ireland play host to Greece in the Thursday’s Nations League action at Windsor Park. Kick off set for June 2, 2022 11:45 EAT.
The host currently has 9 points from 6 matches played. They’ve recorded three wins and three losses. They have three winless recording in the past 5 fixtures across all competitions.In their last 6 fixtures, Ian Baraclough’s Northern Ireland have hit the back of the net a total of 5 times, with that being an average number of goals per match equal to 0.83.
Northern Ireland will be hoping for a better result following the 0-1 International Friendlies loss in their previous game against Hungary.In that game, Northern Ireland has 42% possession, 8 shots with 3 of them on target. Hungary had 6 shots with 3 of them on target.
The visitors were on the back of two unbeaten games before recording the above defeat. They’ve 9 points from 6 matches played. They’ve recorded 3 wins and 3 losses. In 5 of their last 6 fixtures they’ve failed to score, opposing sides have managed a goal tally of 5 while Greece has scored 4.
Greece and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one following a 1-0 defeat against Montenegro. In that game, Greece had 39%, 6 shots with 5 of them on target. Montenegro got 2 shots with none of target.
Northern Ireland vs Greece head-to-head
These two teams have had 4 encounters since 2003; each side has 2 victories.
- Northern Ireland 3-1 Greece 08/10/15
- Greece 0-2 Northern Ireland 14/10/14
- Greece 1-0 Northern Ireland 11/10/03
- Northern Ireland 0-2 Greece 02/04/03
Home
- Northern Ireland 0-1 Hungary
- Luxembourg 1-3 Northern Ireland
- Northern Ireland 0-0 Italy
- Northern Ireland 1-0 Lithuania
- Bulgaria 2-1 Northern Ireland
Away
- Montenegro 1-0 Greece
- Romania 0-1 Greece
- Greece 1-1 Kosovo
- Greece 0-1 Spain
- Sweden 2-0 Greece
Northern Ireland team news
Ian Baraclough will have a fully fit ahead of this match.
Greece team news
John van’tSchip will have a fully fit squad ahead of this match.
Prediction and Odds
The home form of Northern Ireland is so disappointing as they have only won once in the past 10 home fixtures across all competitions. They lost five of the past too while Greece remains unbeaten in 7 of the past 10 fixtures on road in all competitions. They won two of their past 4 on road outings too.
- Greece win
- Goals over 2.5
- Both teams to score
