Russia – Slovenia Picks & Prediction
Russia - Slovenia Prediction, Picks and Tips
The Qualifiers for the Qatar 2022 World Cup does not stop in Europe and so this Saturday the action continues, and one of the interesting games that Day 2 brings us is the one that will be played at Olimpiyskiy Stadion Fisht in Sochi, when by Group H the Russian team receives the visit of Slovenia, at stake between winning teams.
Those led by Stanislav Cherchesov made their debut on the right foot on their way to return to a World Cup when they won 3-1 in the middle of the week on their visit to Malta, thus putting a six-game streak behind them without knowing of victories and even had lost their last two games for the European Nations League, in a competition where they finished in second place three points behind Hungary.
But anyway, we could see a Russia that made not only a good presentation in the last World Cup where they hosted reaching the quarterfinals losing on penalties to Croatia, but we also saw a Russia that has just gotten into the stage. final of the European Championship where they will be measured against Belgium, Finland and Denmark, and now this Saturday they want to make their local condition prevail to add three valuable points that allow them to distance themselves from the favorite to win the group such as Croatia, and beware that Russia has lost one of their last ten official home games where they won six of them.
Possible lineup: Anton Shunin; Mario Fernandes, Andrei Semenov, Georgi Dzhikiya, Vyacheslav Karavaev; Yuri Zhirkov, Aleksie Miranchuk; Daler Kuzyaev, Aleksandr Golovin, Alexei Ionov; Artem Dyzuba.
For their part, those led by Matjaz Kek maintained the level that led them to win their group in League C of the League of Nations in Europe and thus in their debut in the Qualifiers for the World Cup in Qatar 2022 they beat the favorite to win the group like Croatia 1-0 thanks to Sandi Lovric's goal in the first fifteen minutes of play.
With this result, Slovenia added a streak of nine games without losing in all the competitions where they won six of them and so this Saturday they want to continue on that path of good results and achieve a victory that will lead them to take possession of the first place in group e go like this to a World Cup remembering that the last time he was present in said competition was in South Africa 2020, in a classification that was won precisely by Russia in the playoffs stage, a series where they lost 2-1 in Russia but the 1-0 home win at home, added to the added value of the away goal.
Regarding their performance as a visitor we can say that Slovenia has not lost in their last three official outings where they won two of them where the best thing is that they did not receive any goal in that number of games.
Possible alignment: Jan Oblak; Petar Stojanovic, Miha Blazic, Miha Mevlja, Jure Balkovec; Haris Vuckic, Jasmin Kurtic, Sandi Lovric; Josip Ilicic, Andra Sporar, Damjan Bohar.
Our recommendation tip for Russia - Slovenia : Russia to win @ 1.74