Lithuania vs Serbia prediction: EUROPE: Euro – Qualification betting tips on match 2023-09-09 18:45.
Despite a thrilling 2-2 draw against Montenegro on Thursday serving as a positive result, Lithuania remain winless in this UEFA European Championship Qualifying (ECQ) campaign (D2, L2) and sit above the Group G’s bottom spot solely due to having scored one more goal than Bulgaria. In fact, their last international victory dates back to March 2022, when they narrowly won 2-1 against San Marino, the lowest-ranked team in the world.
Coach Edgaras Jankauskas' lingering ambition is to break Lithuania’s eight-year drought for a victory in ECQ (D4, L10), which began after a 2-1 success against none other than San Marino. A game against Serbia, a team they've lost to in their last five meetings, suggests that their wait will continue, although the fact that they've lost the last two home H2Hs by just a single-goal margin suggests this game hangs in the balance.
Visiting Serbia have started their ECQ campaign impressively with a brace of 2-0 wins against Lithuania and Montenegro, but they seem to be losing momentum after a 1-1 draw in Bulgaria in June was followed up with a 2-1 loss in Hungary in midweek. As surprising as it may seem for a nation who have been blessed with footballing talent down the years, Serbia have not managed to qualify for a European championship since the independence of Montenegro and the dissolution of the Serbia and Montenegro federation in 2006.
Coach Dragan Stojković's team will be determined to achieve it this time, and a victory here would at least strengthen their grip on an automatic qualification spot in Group G. To accomplish that, they can count on their impressive away form in the competition, as they boast a five-game unbeaten streak away in ECQ action (W4, D1), a run which includes a 2-1 victory in Lithuania.
Players to watch: Lithuania's leading active scorer with 13 goals is Fedor Černych, and he made a notable entrance off the bench against Montenegro, contributing to both of his team's goals (G1, A1). While four of Serbia's last five away ECQ matches have seen one of their players score a brace, two of them were the work of Aleksandar Mitrović, including one in Lithuania.
Hot streak: Serbia’s previous nine away goals in ECQ were all scored after the break.