Georgia vs Turkey prediction: EUROPE: World Championship – Qualification betting tips on match 2025-09-03 16:00.
[p]The path to the 2026 World Cup begins at the Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena for both Georgia and Turkey, who’ll be looking to get their qualification bid in Group E off to a perfect start.[/p]
[p]Match News and Current Form[/p]
[p]Georgia will be most desperate to have a fruitful World Cup qualification (WCQ) campaign, having never reached the finals before. The Crusaders did get a taste of a major tournament when they qualified for Euro 2024 and surprisingly made it to the Round of 16, where they lost to eventual champions Spain. Since then, Willy Sagnol’s team have avoided defeat in seven of their ten matches (W5, D2), capped off with a four-game unbeaten streak in 2025 so far (W3, D1), so they should carry plenty of confidence into this tie. [/p]
[p]Turkey will also be feeling they’re trending in the right direction as a footballing nation. They went one better than Georgia at Euro 2024, losing in the quarter-finals to the Netherlands, before a successful 2024/25 UEFA Nations League campaign saw them get promoted to League A for the first time ever. Manager Vincenzo Montella will now try and guide his side to the World Cup finals, a feat achieved just twice in Turkey’s history (1954, 2002), and preparation for qualification has been mixed with a 2-1 victory against the USA and a 1-0 defeat to Mexico, two of the hosts for next year’s showpiece event.[/p]
[p]Head-to-Head History[/p]
[p]These two teams shared a group at Euro 2024 with Turkey winning that encounter 3-1, their fourth victory in the six previous H2Hs (D1, L1).[/p]
[p]Hot Stats and Streaks[/p]
[p]The first half has produced more goals than the second in four of Georgia’s last five matches.[/p]
[p]Six of Georgia’s last eight home matches saw under 2.5 goals.[/p]
[p]The same half-time result has been replicated come full-time in five of Turkey’s last six matches.[/p]
[p]Nine of Turkey’s last 12 matches on foreign soil saw both teams score.[/p]
[p]Key Players to Watch and Missing Players[/p]
[p]Georgia’s Zuriko Davitashvili has helped his country win four of the five games he’s scored in (L1), and has scored the match opener in two of his last three goalscoring outings for his country. Hakan Çalhanoğlu will step out for his 98th international cap, and he’ll be looking to carry his nation here since his last four Turkey goals have come on foreign soil.[/p]
[p]Georgia will be without the services of Giorgi Chakvetadze, while Turkey have no major absentees in their squad.[/p]
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[p]Betting Analysis[/p]
[p]Turkey have already picked up wins against the USA and Hungary away from home this year, two teams ranked higher than Georgia in FIFA’s rankings, so backing Turkey to win here seems logical.[/p]
[p][i]Author: Peter Stavrinou[/i][/p]