Ukraine vs Iceland prediction and betting tips on March 26, 2024
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Game Prediction
On Tuesday, big football will return to Wrocław. It is in this Polish city that the national team of Ukraine, having no chance to play at the home arena due to hostilities, will host Iceland. The winner of the confrontation will go to the Euro – whose chances are higher? The audience of the website has been offered a prediction for this match on March 26, 2024.
Ukraine is one step away from travelling to a big tournament again
“The Yellow and Blues” were the participants in all three previous Euros – first as the hosts in 2012, then finally winning the play-offs. As for the previous championship, the team, being under the leadership of Shevchenko, set a record by means of reaching the quarter-finals. Performing without Andriy, Zinchenko and the company overcame Scotland, but disappointingly lost to Wales in previous battles for the right to play at the World Cup. Nowadays, being under the leadership of Rebrov, there was little chance of directly qualifying for the Euro due to the presence of such rivals as England and Italy (although they played a draw with both). Moreover, the team was losing to Bosnia for a considerable part of the second half of the previous round. One way or another, it won – Yaremchuk brought a strong-willed 2-1 victory with a goal and an assist after the substitution.
Iceland will try to make the best of the situation
“The Icy” played at the Euro and the World Cup once. Moreover, the debutant from the northern sparsely populated island created a full-fledged sensation, reaching the quarter-finals of the continental championship, in 2016. Still, then the team didn’t get anywhere else. And it, to be frank, had spent a mediocre qualification (10 points in 10 matches, 6 of which were taken in the games against Liechtenstein) and it had not won in the Nations League before that (all 4 matches there resulted in draws). Nevertheless, Guðmundsson won the battle against Israel with a 4-1 score on Thursday, and now any success with the Ukrainians will send them to the Euros.
Previous head-to-head matches
“The Yellow and Blues” won in Reykjavik and played a draw on the native field in 1999. Speaking about the qualification for the World Cup 2018, 4 points were got by “the Icy”.
Free prediction for the match Ukraine vs Iceland on March 26:
This time, the nominal hosts look stronger both as a team and individually. We bet on victory for Rebrov’s wards with “a -1.0 goal handicap” (odd: 1.8).