Slovakia vs Lithuania (Pick, Prediction, Preview)

Slovakia - Lithuania
Slovakia and Lithuania will meet Friday, November 11, in a match counting for Group F qualifiers for the World Championship in 2018. The confrontation will take place on the stadium “Antona Malatinskeho” in Trnava, from 21:45.
Slovakia

The team coached by Jan Kozak started great campaign for Russia. With two defeats (0-1 and 0-1 vs. Slovenia vs. England) and one win (3-0 vs. Scotland), Hamsik & co. It is only ranked fifth.

European qualifiers for the tournament this year showed a very inspired team of Slovakia, managed to finish in second place in a group which also included Spain, Belarus, Ukraine, Luxembourg and Macedonia. Also at Euro 2016 performance was satisfactory, obtaining tickets for the knockout round thanks to a victory against Russia (2-1) and drew with England white game.

Despite a slow start in the current campaign in May, Slovakia has a team composed of players entering operating at important clubs in Europe, it is expected this time and have a word to say.

Lithuania

Baltic pleasantly surprised so far managed to go undefeated in duels with Slovenia (2-2) and Scotland (1-1), because in the last game to pass the modest Malta (2-0). Thus, accounting for 5 points, Edgaras Jankauskas’s band appear before the duel on Friday in the position of occupying the second position in Group F.

Without having top class players available, representative of Lithuania relies on a solid team game opponents and inconvenience which, as revealed in these preliminaries, and can be very effective.

direct meetings

The two selected were met twice in history (from the breakup of Czechoslovakia), both games ending with the same score: 1-1.
probable

Slovakia: Kozacik – Durica, Svento, salad, Hubocan – Hamsik, Povazanec, Kucka, Hrosovsky – Duris, Bakos

Lithuania: Zubas – Vaitkunas, Freidgeimas, Andriuskevicius, Girdvainis – Luksic Zulpa, Cernych, Slivka – Spalvis, Matulevicius