Greece vs Kazakhstan : UEFA European Championship Qualifiers | Date: Thursday, March 21, 2024 | Kick-off: 20:45 CET| Venue: OPAP Arena (Athína (Athens))
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The teams will go all-in in this encounter. We see the hosts as huge and clear favourites in this match. We can’t ignore the recent results by Kazakhstan, but we rate their chances 20% in this match. Greece national team are too strong at home games. In the last 21 home games in all competitions, Greece’s national football team registered 12 victories, 7 draws and just 2 defeats against Spain and Netherlands.
The hosts will earn the tough and tight victory, with 1 goal margin.
Prediction: Greece to win
For our second prediction, we will pick a risky bet. We believe that teams will exchange goals in this match. Some of you will say that Kazakhstan may not score? Well, in their last 5 away games, Kazakhstan scored at least one goal. We expect that they will find the net against Greece this Thursday too.
Betting Tip: Both Teams To score
Grecce will host Kazakhstan in the 2024 UEFA Euro Qualifying Path C semi-final match. The clash will take place in Athens.
The UEFA 2004 champions Greece will seek to qualify for the finals, after missing the last two European Championship editions.
The last time, the Greek side took part in the final round, was back in 2012, when they reached the quarter-finals (2:4 Germany).
Greece won Group 2 in Division C, which included Kosovo, Northern Ireland and Cyprus. Hellas have gained 15 points through 6 games.
Meanwhile, in the Euro 2024 qualifiers, Greece were in a tough group, with France, Netherlands, Ireland and Gibraltar. However, Gus Poyet’s men collected 13 points and fought until the end for the second spot.
On the other hand, Kazakhstan are yet to take part in the European championship final round.
However, in recent years Kazakhstan have made some good results thanks to their head coach Magomed Adiyev.
Kazakhstan won their group in C Division, registering 4 victories, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
Meanwhile, Magomed Adiyev men were close to booking their place through Euro 2024 qualifiers. They kicked the qualifying round with three consecutive victories. In their first match they came from two goals down to beat Denmark 3-2 in a shock victory.
However, the experience and a few mistakes caused them to qualify from Group H, which included Denmark, Slovenia, Finland, Northern Ireland and San Marino.
Greece: Vlachodimos; Hatdziakos, Mavropanos, Retsos, Giannoulis, Tsimikas, Bouchalakis, Bakasetas, Rota, Ionnidis, Pavlidis
Kazakhstan: Shatskiy; Vorogovskiy, Alip, Marochkin, Maliy, Bystrov, Orazov, Kuat, Beysebekov, Chesnokov, Samorodov
TV Channel: Astro, Optus Sport