Cyprus vs Lithuania Prediction & Betting Tips (15 November)

Unsurprisingly, this Cyprus team was not able to play the leading roles in its Nations League group. Currently ranked 127th in the Fifa rankings , this team is only 3rd in its group, with 3 points taken in 4 matches. She won them by winning, on the first day, against Lithuania precisely 0-1 . Otherwise, the Blues and Whites subsequently fell quite heavily against Kosovo 0-4, Romania 0-3 and Kosovo again 3-0. With 3 lengths ahead of their opponent of the day, the Cypriots could still secure 3rd place by winning this meeting.

Opposite, Lithuania, too, is far from being ranked among the teams who count on the European scene. Worse still, she has not even managed to do well in this League C group where she has not yet taken a single point during her first 4 matches. Consequently, it brings up the rear in the ranking and must win to have a chance of avoiding immediate relegation to the lower level. In September, the Baltics first lost against Cyprus 0-1 then against Romania 3-1 and they followed up with 2 other losses the following month against Kosovo 1-2 and Romania 1-2 once again .

A large part of the players selected by the Cypriot coach play in local clubs, mainly at Omonia Nicosia or Pafos. Among them, we can remember the names of the senior defender Laifis (Apoel Nicosia, 60 sels), the midfielder Kousoulos (Omonia Nicosia, 41 sels, 4 goals) or the interesting striker Kakouillis (22 sels, 4 goals). However, several elements went to try their luck abroad. We are thinking in particular of the goalkeeper Mall (Servette, 13 sel), the defenders Ioannou (48 sel, Como) and Andreou (Charleroi, 21 sel), the midfielders Gogic (St Mirren, 33 sel) and Kastanos (Hellas Verona, 64 sel, 6 goals) or to the attackers Pittas (AIK, 43 goals, 7 goals) and Sotiriou (Hiroshima, 60 salts, 12 goals).

The last two mentioned are the two main threats of this formation. On the Lithuanian side, the observation is quite similar to that of its opponent of the day and a large part of the elements summoned to this gathering evolve in the country all year round like the top scorer and captain Cernych (95 salts, 15 goals) who wears the colors of Kauno Zalgiris. However, several elements of this selection went to try their luck elsewhere such as defenders Lasickas (55 sel, Olimpija Ljubljana), Girdvainis (Sandhausen, 54 sel), Syrvys (Maribor) and Utkus (Cercle Bruges), midfielders Slivka (Sagan Tosu, 69 sel) and Gineitis (Torino, 16 sel) or the striker Paulauskas (Kolos Kovalivka, 17 caps, 2 goals).