Slovakia vs Azerbaijan Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 8th September 2024

Slovakia head into an encounter against Azerbaijan on Sunday. Played out at Kosice Football Arena, this is their second of six outings in the UEFA Nations League group phase. Slovakia lost to 1-2 Azerbaijan in their last encounter. This served as payback for the 1-0 win, which Slovakia dished out the match before that.

Slovakia head to their upcoming match as number 44 in the FIFA world ranking. Meanwhile, there is a pretty big gap to upcoming opponents Azerbaijan. They enter the game ranked number 111 in the world.

Following the first round of the group stage Slovakia are number two on three, while Azerbaijan have zero as number four. Slovakia managed to squeeze out a tight 1-0 win, thus giving themselves a great start to the UEFA Nations League season. Keeping a clean sheet on top of a win is always a good opening.

Slovakia are not a high scoring team these days, as they only found the back of the net six times in the last seven outings. That is an average of just 0.6 goals per game, as they conceded six goals. They managed three clean sheets in these matches.

Coming away from their next UEFA Nations League match with anything but a defeat for Azerbaijan would be a massive surprise. It looks like a question of simply trying to minimize the defeat everyone expects them to suffer.

Azerbaijan are currently not the most scoring team in the UEFA Nations League, as they only found the back of the net eight times in ten matches. This is an average of just 0.8 goals a game in which they conceded seven times, an average of 0.7 per game. They managed six clean sheets in these.

Slovakia vs Azerbaijan Prediction

Slovakia Form

Slovakia went through their last three matches undefeated, but started by drawing 1-1 with Romania. Another draw followed, this time 1-1 against England, before they beat Estonia by 0-1. Slovakia claimed a middle-of-the-road three wins in their previous six internationals. They also drew one and lost two, as they scored nine and conceded five goals.

Azerbaijan Form

It is all or nothing with Azerbaijan following one win in their previous three outings. They first went down 3-1 in an encounter with Albania to which, they replied by beating Kazakhstan3-2. Their latest encounter once again had them on the losing side, when they lost 1-3 against Sweden. Azerbaijan claimed two wins against one draw and three defeats in their last six internationals. The scoreline from these matches reads 14 goals conceded and seven scored.

Slovakia are in decent enough shape to make them the value bet, when facing Azerbaijan. In their current form, we find it difficult to build an argument for the visitors to steal a point here.

Slovakia were on the scoreboard at least once in their previous 8 matches.

Slovakia vs Azerbaijan Team News

Slovakia vs Azerbaijan H2H

Slovakia were defeated by 1-2 in their last encounter with Azerbaijan, but did win the reverse match 1-0, though. Slovakia have a 67% win rate against Azerbaijan, who won two of these matches. The total record reads 4-0-2, which is worth keeping in mind before you make a choice for your next accumulator, depending on your betting strategy.

Slovakia vs Azerbaijan Results

The scenario of both teams to score came out three times in the last six matches between Slovakia and Azerbaijan.

Slovakia vs Azerbaijan Betting Tips

Despite scoring just once in six UEFA Nations League games, Slovakia still expects Ondrej Duda to add to his collection of goals sooner rather than later. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan put their faith in Emin Makhmudov to handle the home side defence and double up on his recent strike rate of one goal in six UEFA Nations League games.

In their last 10 matches at Kosice Football Arena across all tournaments Slovakia won five times, drew two and lost three times. Azerbaijan claimed four wins, one draw and five defeats in their last 10 games away. Slovakia kept a clean sheet five times in their previous 10 matches at Kosice Football Arena hoping to do so again on Sunday. Azerbaijan kept a clean sheet in two of their last 10 away games.

In the last six encounters between Slovakia and Azerbaijan over 2.5 goals came out three times, as Slovakia averaged two goals a game. Azerbaijan scored an average of one goal in these, while both teams scored three times. Over 2.5 goals came out five times in the previous ten matches across all tournaments for Slovakia, who scored an average of 1.6 goals along the way. In the last ten games for Azerbaijan, six of them had more than 2.5 goals, and they scored an average of 1.4 times goals per game themselves.