Norway and Greece both play they last friendly in preparation for World Cup qualifiers in September when they lock horns on Sunday at Estadio La Rosaleda in Norway with kickoff at 20:00.
Norway are in slightly above average form as they head into the match off the back two wins including the Wednesday’s 1-0 win against Luxembourg thanks to a late goal from in-demand Erling Haaland. Prior to the win is the 0-1 win against Montenegro and a crashing 0-3 loss to Turkey at home in the World Cup qualifying matches back in Match.
Up next for the Norway is the Netherland before also facing Latvia, Gibraltar, Turkey and Montenegro in group G of World Cup European qualifiers in September.
Greece have been in a good form, impressive actually, as they have not lost a single match in their last 9 matches across all competitions registering four wins and five draws including the 1-1 draw against Spain and the most recent 1-1 draw against the formidable Belgium who rank first in the latest FIFA rankings.
The last time the visitors were defeated was back in August last year when they suffered 2-1 defeat to Austria.
Greece will take on Kosovo in their up next before facing Sweden, Georgia and Spain in their Group B of Word Cup qualifiers in September.
Both sides will go for a win as they attempt to improve their FIFA rankings.
Norway vs Greece head to head
Both teams have played in six matches against each other since 1999 with Greece taking three victories whereas Norway have won twice and they have drawn just once. Here are their previous results;
- Norway 2-3 Greece Aug 15, 2012
- Norway 2-2 Greece Sep 12, 2007
- Greece 1-0 Norway Oct 07, 2006
- Greece 1-0 Norway Feb 12, 2003
- Norway 1-0 Greece Sep 04, 1999
Home
- Norway 1-0 Luxembourg
- Montenegro 0-1 Norway
- Norway 0-3 Turkey
- Gibraltar 0-3 Norway
- Austria 1-1 Norway
Away
- Belgium 1-1 Greece
- Greece 1-1 Georgia
- Greece 2-1 Honduras
- Spain 1-1 Greece
- Greece 0-0 Slovenia
Norway team news
Norway will play without the services of Everton striker Joshua King who is ruled out due to injury
Greece team news
Greece will be without the services of Dimitris Siovas, Kostas Fortounis and Kostas Stafylidis who were all left out from the squad.
Prediction and odds
- Double chance
- Draw
- Goals under 2.5
