Nigeria - Iceland Football prediction

Nigeria and Iceland face each other in a game for this phase of the World Cup. There is no record of previous direct confrontations between these two teams, so this will be their first confrontation.

Analysis of Nigeria

The team arrives at this Group 2 day after a defeat in their debut in this group stage, against Croatia, by (2-0). In the last 10 games, Nigeria has 4 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses. Defensive solidity has not been his strong point, having conceded goals in 8 of his last 10 games. In the 15 games he played, he managed to get back to the result in 3 of the 8 games in which he suffered the first goal.

The Nigeria national team has never managed to win a World Cup title, having only participated in six editions and reached its maximum in the last 16 of the competition three times, in 1994, in 1998 and in 2014. In the African World Cup Qualifiers of 2018, the Nigerian selection finished in the first place of Group B, with six points of advantage of the second classified, Zambia. Soon in their debut in the World Cup of Russia, the selection of Nigeria lost with the talented selection of Croatia without scoring goals, by 2x0. In the past four friendly games that the Nigerians played before the 2018 World Cup, in addition to not winning any, in two of them the Nigeria team suffered two goals. Thus, we believe that in this game the Nigerian team will again have a lot of difficulty to insure the attack of the adversary and will end up conceding goals, since it will face a team that is better technically.

Analysis of Iceland

The team arrives in this day's Group 2 after a draw in their debut in this group stage, against Argentina, by (1-1). In the last 10 matches for all competitions, Iceland have won 3, drawn 3 and lost 4. Defensive solidity has not been their strong point as they have conceded goals in 8 of the last 10 games but their attack has scored regularity, having scored goals in 9 of the last 10 games. In 15 games, he suffered the first goal 7 times and only got 1 turnaround.

Iceland's squad won their World Cup qualification in a difficult way because they had to face good teams like Croatia, Ukraine, Turkey, Finland and Kosovo all in Group I. Iceland is to make their first World Cup in history, there is a lot of expectation as to the Icelanders' performance in this Cup, because Iceland's selection surprised them all in Euro 2016, when they eliminated England in the round of 16, being eliminated only by the strong French team in the quarterfinals. The Iceland team has a good ball pass, a good collective game and is strong in aerial balls, already in the first game with Argentina showed its potential, having won an important tie with one of the great selections of this Cup.