Norway vs Czech Republic
World Cup Qualifiers – Europe (Group C)
Date: Saturday, 10th June 2017
Kick off at 19:45 UK/ 20:45 CET
Venue: Ullevaal Stadion.
Norway
Norwegians decided to make the change on the bench as Per-Mathias Hogno has been dismissed after a disappointing display the team showed in a 2-0 loss to Northern Ireland on the road.
The famous Swedish expert and the former head coach of Iceland, Lars Lagerback. Arrived to try and build on the team for the next qualifying campaign.
This one is already wasted since Drillos collected no more than three points from the opening five rounds.
Czech Republic
Czechs were also off to shaky start to their qualifying campaign as they took no more than two points from the opening three rounds, but they found their way back in the contest with consecutive wins over Norway and San Marino.
Karel Jarolim’s men showed quite a decent display in a friendly match with Belgium three days ago at Stade Roi Baudoin where they lost narrowly 2-1 at the end.
Michal Krmencik, who scored the only goal for Czechs, has had a tremendous campaign netting 10 goals in Viktoria Plzen’s shirt.
Match Preview and Betting Tips.
Norway have gone through a very turbulent period in this term of WC Qualification. The team got eliminated from the race for the second position with the away defeat against Northern Ireland in March this year. The loss left them at three points after five rounds and the potential defeat to Czech Republic in the sixth round would mean the definite goodbye to Russia and 2018 World Cup.
The former head coach of Sweden and Iceland, Lars Lagerback, has been brought to fix the poor impression the team has left at the very start of qualifications. However, he started off with the defeat on the debut as the team was completely powerless in the visit to Northern Ireland. To make things worse for the Swedish expert, the star man Joshua King will skip the qualifier with Czechs due to injury troubles. This is a massive handicap for the hosts since the striker has had a tremendous second part of the season wearing Bournemouth’ shirt.
Czechs, on the other side, are back in the contest for the second position (Germany are untouchable at the top) with consecutive wins over Norway and San Marino. Michal Krmencik, who had a fantastic season in Viktoria Plzen, has been in good touch with the national team lately. He was on target in the mentioned win over Norway (2-1) at Eden Arena as well as in a narrow 2-1 defeat in a friendly against Belgium days ago.
The value must be with the visiting side here since Norway will be without their key player in the final third. We’ll back the Czechs not to lose at 8/15 with maximum stakes, while the braver punters can chase the clear away win at 19/10.
Norway vs Czech Republic: Head to head
Narodnak have been much more successful in head to head meetings as they lost only a single of seven clashes with Norway.
The two sides met each other in mid-November last year at Eden Arena (Prague) where Michal Krmencik and Jaromir Zmrhal bagged goals in a convincing display for Czechs.
