Luxembourg vs Bulgaria Prediction & Betting Tips (15 November)

After having shown a lot of progress in recent years, this Luxembourg team disappoints in this Nations League where it was normally expected to play the leading roles in this group which is quite weak on paper. But things went badly for the Duchy players who brought up the rear in the standings after 4 days with only 2 points on the clock. Dominated in September by Northern Ireland 2-0 and by Belarus 0-1, the Red Lions corrected the situation a little last month by obtaining 2 draws against Bulgaria 0-0 and against Belarus 1-1 . Bulgaria, for its part, is far from its former prestige when it was capable of being a troublemaker on a global scale. Unable to qualify for any international competition since Euro 2004, this selection was very disappointing during the last qualifications for the Euro, finishing in last place in its group behind Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro and Lithuania.

On the other hand, the Tricolores were able to draw some reasons for satisfaction during the first 3 matches in this competition by winning against Northern Ireland 1-0 and holding off Belarus 0-0 and Luxembourg 0-0. But on the last day, the Lions fell back into their mistakes by losing heavily against Northern Ireland 5-0 . In the ranking, the Bulgarians are in 3rd place with 2 units behind the Northern Irish leader.

Luxembourg must deal with the absences of senior defender Maxime Chanot (Los Angeles FC, 72 selections, 4 goals) and midfielder Chris Philipps (57 selections, Wiltz 71) who do not appear in the list of selected players. However, the majority of the executives of this team are present like the goalkeeper Moris (Union Saint-Gilloise, 71 sel), the defenders Mahmutovic (NAC Breda, 35 sel), Carlson (St Pölten, 59 sel) and Martins (Austria Vienne, 36 sel), captain Laurent Jens (Beveren, 108 sel) and midfielders Bonhert (Bastia, 48 sel), Olesen (Cologne, 26 sel), Barreiro (Benfica, 60 sel), Martins (Spartak Moscow, 71 sel) and Gerson (Kongsvinger, 98 sel). Up front, we find the fairly prolific Sinani (Sankt Pauli, 67 sels, 13 goals) and Gerson Rodrigues (66 sels, 22 goals). On the Bulgarian side, the squad is less known by the general French-speaking public than that of Luxembourg .

In this team, the executives are Antov (Cremonese, 30 sel) and Hirstov (Spezia, 19 sel) in defense, Milanov (Dinamo Bucharest, 47 sel), Krastev (PEC Zwolle, 20 sel) and Rusev (Ludogorets, 17 sel) ) in the middle and Minchev (Caykur Rizespor, 22 sel) in attack. But the real danger of this team remains captain Kiril Despodov (PAOK Salonika) who crashed 15 times in 53 caps. It should also be remembered that defender Turitsov (CSKA Sofia, 19 sel), midfielders Chochev (46 sel, Ludogorets), Gruev (Leeds, 18 sel) and Kostadinov (APOEL, 44 sel) and attackers Minchev (Ümraniyespor, 13 sel) and Delev (Ludogorets, 47 sel, 5 goals) are not on the list.