Iceland – England, Nations League Prediction

| 5 of Iceland’s last 6 matches have ended with Under 3 goals

| England have 5 clean sheets in their last 7 games

🟢 Icelanders already rely much more on their defense

Iceland is without its star, Gylfi Sigurdsson. This means that a huge part of the creativity in front positions for Iceland is exhausted. Even with him, Iceland is much more cautious in its approach to matches lately. 1-0 victories are preferred by the Icelanders, and in the last 5 matches they conceded only 1 goal. Now they will almost certainly play very defensively against the strong English side, who have top strikers.

❌ England do not have their best midfielders for this match

Quite a young midfielder for England with players like Mount, Rice and Foden. Rice is expected to be the starting defensive midfielder. In front, Kane, Sterling and Sancho will most likely lead the team, and Southgate decided to give a chance to Abraham, Greenwood and Ings at the expense of players like Vardy and Rashford. In addition to the 6 matches in the Nations League group, the three lions have a friendly match with Wales in early October and this is the final preparation for the Euros.

It will not be so easy for England to score goals against their opponent

 Expert view: We believe that mainly due to the defensive approach of Iceland and the weakened creativity in the midfield of both teams we will not see many goals. In addition, the English have greatly strengthened their defense in recent years, so this further portends a low-scoring match. Of course, the British will want to get it back to Iceland for that elimination of Euro 2016. However, our forecast will be Under 3.0 – Asian goal line at 1.60.