Czech Republic vs Faroe Islands prediction: EUROPE: World Championship – Qualification betting tips on match 2025-03-21 19:45.
[p]With their last appearance at the World Cup being the 2006 tournament in Germany, the Czech Republic start their qualification group aiming to return after what will be 20 years away from the world’s biggest sporting event. This is their longest participation duck in the history of the tournament, and they will be even more eager to end that wait after their dreadful group stage performance at Euro 2024 (D1, L2).[/p]
[p]Starting their campaign against the Faroe Islands and Gibraltar, Czech fans will be expecting no less than six points after those opening two matches. With two clean-sheet victories against the Faroes in Euros qualifying in 2023, confidence should be high, and even more so because the Czech Republic have won each of their last five games against teams currently 100th or lower in the FIFA Rankings.[/p]
[p]The 137th-ranked Faroe Islands have never advanced to the finals of the World Cup and, after a rather underwhelming UEFA Nations League (UNL) campaign (W1, D3, L2), they enter this qualification group as rank outsiders. They have also scored more than once in just one of their last nine matches (W1, D3, L5), with eight of those opponents concerningly ranked lower than the Czech Republic.[/p]
[p]After ending their last World Cup qualification campaign with four away defeats, all of which saw them concede at least three times, the Faroe Islands also failed to win a single match on their travels in their attempt to reach the latest Euros (D2, L2). Those games are part of a broader run of only one victory in their last 19 competitive matches on the road (D7, L11).[/p]
[p]Key battle: After scoring a stoppage-time winner for Bayer Leverkusen on Sunday, Patrik Schick returns to the national team having netted 23 club goals in all competitions this season – of which seven have arrived in the opening 20 minutes.Trying to stop him may be defender Viljormur Davidsen, who also proved to be an asset offensively after scoring twice in the latest UNL campaign. [/p]
[p]Hot stat: The Czech Republic have scored five of their last eight goals inside the opening 25 minutes.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Tomáš Vlasák[/i][/p]