Bulgaria vs Georgia prediction: EUROPE: World Cup – Qualification betting tips on match 2025-11-17 19:45.
[p]The 2026 World Cup qualification (WCQ) cycle comes to an end here for Bulgaria and Georgia, who were both eliminated even before their losses on Saturday evening.[/p]
[p]Match News and Current Form[/p]
[p]Bulgaria will simply be hoping to avoid finishing the tournament amongst the small handful of teams without a single point to their name after being outclassed handsomely in all five of their WCQs so far. A mid-campaign change of manager from Ilian Iliev to Aleksandar Dimitrov did not produce any immediate improvement in on-field output from the Bulgarians, with a 2-0 weekend loss to Turkey seeing them concede 12 goals in three defeats under Dimitrov. Coupled with their unsuccessful attempt to climb from League C to B in the UEFA Nations League, Bulgaria are now winless in ten consecutive games (D2, L8), even failing to score in five of the most recent six. [/p]
[p]Georgia’s 3-0 win at home to Bulgaria in early September secured their only points of this campaign as the gulf in class between them and Spain/Turkey became all too evident throughout the cycle. They can still try and match the two wins (from eight games) earned in the previous edition of WCQ which, along with their retention in UEFA Nations League B via a comfortable play-off win over Armenia, signals that the national team aren’t going backwards under Willy Sagnol, even though their long wait for their first World Cup finals appearance as an independent nation will continue for another four years. [/p]
[p]Head-to-Head History[/p]
[p]Georgia are unbeaten in three games against Bulgaria (W2, D1) since 2022 after losing four of the first six H2Hs (W1, D1). [/p]
[p]Hot Stats and Streaks[/p]
[p]Bulgaria’s last six losses were all by a 2+ goal margin. [/p]
[p]Bulgaria’s 2-0 loss to Turkey was the only one of their last nine matches to produce under 2.5 goals.[/p]
[p]Georgia’s last 14 games on opposition territory produced a winner (W8, L6). [/p]
[p]Of Georgia’s last 18 wins, 14 were accompanied by a 2+ goal margin. [/p]
[p]Key Players to Watch and Missing Players[/p]
[p]Georgi Rusev came close to scoring with his only shot on target against Turkey and could be getting closer to breaking his ten-game goalscoring drought for club or country. Whilst unsuccessful against Spain, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia could be inspired to deliver as one of the scorers in the reverse H2H. [/p]
[p]Bulgaria’s squad is missing their only goalscorer of the campaign Radoslav Kirilov through injury as well as Anton Nedyalkov, Fabian Nurnberger and Petko Hristov. Georgia are without Otar Kakabadze, Saba Goglichidze and leading goalscorer Georges Mikautadze, whilst Anzor Mekvabishvili is doubtful after going off early against Spain.[/p]
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[p]Betting Analysis[/p]
[p]The trends and the result of the reverse H2H point towards Georgia winning by a 2+ goal margin. [/p]
[p][i]Author: Aaron Murphy[/i][/p]