Germany vs Luxembourg prediction: EUROPE: World Cup – Qualification betting tips on match 2025-10-09 18:45.
[p]Following their disappointing start to the World Cup Qualifying (WCQ) campaign, Germany will hope to begin October with a win against minnows Luxembourg. [/p]
[p]Match News and Current Form[/p]
[p]September wasn’t particularly kind to Germany, who tasted defeat in a WCQ game for just the fourth time when losing to Slovakia, which was also their third straight loss for the first time since 2023. Returning to German soil would typically be enough to boost belief they could return to winning ways, particularly having won each of their last four WCQ home games, including against Northern Ireland last time out (3-1), which ended a ten-month wait for a win in any fixture on their own turf. [/p]
[p]Luxembourg, who sit 96th in FIFA’s world rankings, are the weakest team in the group by that metric, but will still be disappointed about losing both of their WCQ games having been level at half-time in both. A teething period is underway for the Red Lions after they switched manager for the first time after 15 years shortly before this WCQ campaign, but new boss Jeff Strasser shouldn’t worry about his sour start just yet (L2), as it took predecessor Luc Holtz seven games to earn his first victory. [/p]
[p]Head-to-Head History[/p]
[p]Germany have won all but one of the previous 12 H2Hs (L1), but have not faced Luxembourg in any setting since 2006. Considering only competitive meetings, Germany hold a dominant 16-3 combined score over three victories. [/p]
[p]Hot Stats and Streaks[/p]
[p]Germany haven’t kept a clean sheet in any of their last seven matches.[/p]
[p]There’s been an average of four goals per game across Germany’s last seven home games.[/p]
[p]Luxembourg have failed to score in nine of their last 14 games.[/p]
[p]Each of Luxembourg’s last six away defeats came by multiple-goal margins, five of which also came without reply. [/p]
[p]Key Players to Watch and Missing Players[/p]
[p]Germany will hope Nick Woltemade can score his first goal at the fifth time of asking for the senior side as he comes into this on the back of three consecutive scoring appearances for club side Newcastle. Luxembourg’s Aiman Dardari is their only scorer during this WCQ cycle so far and has already scored five times for Augsburg II this season, including three match openers. [/p]
[p]Antonio Rüdiger joins Jamal Musiala on the sidelines for Germany, while Luxembourg should have a largely injury-free squad to choose from. [/p]
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[p]Betting Analysis[/p]
[p]Anything but a home win would surprise here, so we’re going with a storming -3 Germany victory in this mismatch of an encounter. [/p]
[p][i]Author: Matthew Billon[/i][/p]