Northern Ireland vs Greece – Sport Grill

Northern Ireland welcome Greece to Windsor Park in their opening Team C2 clash in 2022-23 UEFA Nations League.

Depending on the end result of Cyprus’s match towards Kosovo, victory would see Northern Ireland or Greece go leading of their team.

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Northern Ireland have no refreshing injury fears to report as Jonny Evans appears to be like to get started as he proceeds to chase match time, subsequent an personal injury-hit period at Leicester.

The adhering to six gamers in the meantime are seeking for their to start with senior international caps Josh Clarke, Shea Charles, Brodie Spencer, Caolan Boyd-Munce, Charlie McCann and Conor McMenamin.

Greece have no refreshing injuries concerns to report with Leading League stars – Dimitri Giannoulis, Kostas Tsimikas, George Baldock and Christos Tzolis all named in the squad.

Stat Assault

• This is Northern Ireland’s very first UEFA Nations League assembly from Greece.
• Northern Eire have won 3 of 6 preceding competitive meetings towards Greece in all competitions (W3, L3).
• Greece have won just a single of three earlier visits to Northern Eire across all competitions (W1, L2).
• Just a person of Northern Ireland’s 4 objectives in 2020-21 UEFA Nations League campaign was scored just before fifty percent-time, courtesy of Paddy McNair in sixth moment in a 5-1 property defeat to Norway.
• Greece kept cleanse sheets in two of their previous 3 away matches in UEFA Nations League.

Prediction

Next a narrow reduction at dwelling to Hungary in an global friendly in March, Northern Ireland will definitely be searching for a much more polished conclude product or service for the reason that they did perform very well on the attack, although a tiny defensive dip in concentration just proved high priced.

Greece in the meantime suffered a pair of contrastable 1- outcomes in March in opposition to Romania and Montenegro yet are able of robust performances, specially when struggling with opposition roughly equivalent in quality so I be expecting them to try out and make this as complicated as they can presented their good defensive absent file.

I having said that am expecting a home acquire if Northern Ireland can tidy up their their conclude product but Greece definitely should really prove a hard opposition defensively to beat.

Prediction: Northern Eire 1- Greece