England vs. Iceland Match preview
After their 2-0 defeat to Belgium on Sunday, England will now host Iceland at Wembley this Wednesday.
As it stands, Three Lions can not qualify for next year’s UEFA Nations League finals and it is a dead rubber, while Iceland have already been relegated to League B.
England are likely to make changes to their line-up due to various injuries, but Southgate’s side will be hoping to have a better performance against Iceland than they managed in September’s 0-1 win.
England vs. Iceland Match Facts
- England have featured in five UEFA Nations League matches, winning twice, drawing once, and losing twice.
- Three Lions’ registered two clean-sheets of five UEFA Nation League matches.
- Iceland has failed to register any clean-sheet in five UEFA Nations League matches.
- Strákarnir Okkar have played five UEFA Nations League matches this season, and failed to register any win.
- England has won once and drawn once in all home UEFA Nations League matches this season.
- Strákarnir Okkar have lost the two away UEFA Nations League matches this season.
England vs. Iceland Head to Head
In the last encounter between these teams, England beat Iceland 1-0 in a match that saw each receive a red card.
These teams have met twice in European Championship, which crowned Iceland 2-0 victory.
England News
England are without Trent Alexander-Arnold, Joe Gomez, Conor Coady, James Ward-Prowse, and Marcus Rashford who were not in the team that lost to Belgium.
Raheem Sterling left the squad before the Belgium match with a calf injury, and Jordan Henderson and Ben Chilwell were both sidelined and likely may not be available to face Iceland. Reece James also remains suspended, but Harry Maguire is likely to feature.
Iceland Team News
Iceland has several unavailable players, the likes Ragnar Sigurdsson, William Williamson, Aron Gunnarsson, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Johan Berg Gudmundsson, Arnor Traustason, Alfred Finnbogason, and Vidar Kjartansson who withdrew from the current squad.
Hordur Magnusson remains suspended.
England vs. Iceland Prediction
Iceland have all it takes with a squad shorn of most of its stars, this should be a winnable game for a devastated England side.
The worry for England fans will be that Southgate sticks to the usual tactics he’s used recently, but the attacking skills of the likes of Jack Grealish, and Harry Kane should be able to make the difference in this game.
Our topbets pundit is predicting a win for the home team and Betway is backing the results with 1.20 odds while 1XBet is giving 1.20 odds.
Goals
These two teams have occasionally produced less than two goals in their previous encounters, Therefore chances of scoring less than two goals are likely to be recorded.
We expect a few goals to be produced in this match therefore under 2.5 markets ascertained by our pundits. Betway are backing the goals with 2.24 while 1XBet is placing odds at 2.34
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