Montenegro vs Georgia prediction: WORLD: Friendly International betting tips on match 2024-06-08 18:45.
[p]After suffering their first defeat of the Robert Prosinečki era, Montenegro will be hoping they can bounce back to form quickly. The manager, who was appointed after the Brave Falcons failed to qualify for UEFA Euro 2024, saw his side beaten 2-0 by Belgium on Tuesday, having won his previous two matches in charge.[/p]
[p]It has therefore been a decent start to life in the job for Prosinečki, who is focusing his efforts on building a team that can reach the next FIFA World Cup. That will be a tough ask, given that Montenegro have never qualified for a major tournament as an independent nation, but a win in this fixture would be another feather in the cap for a country who have won three successive matches on home soil.[/p]
[p]They take on a Georgia side who will be the only European Championship debutants this summer. Indeed, it will be a first major tournament appearance for the nation, who qualified by beating Greece on penalties in a play-off final in March. Such an achievement has raised the profile of manager Willy Sagnol – a World Cup runner-up with France in 2006 – who is being linked with the Republic of Ireland job.[/p]
[p]Thankfully for Crusaders fans, that will not be happening before the trip to Germany, where Georgia are in a group with Portugal, the Czech Republic and Turkey. Expectations of reaching the knockout phase are therefore low, but they will at least hope to go into the tournament on a high by further improving on an impressive run of four wins from their last six friendlies (D1, L1), including an 8-0 demolition of Thailand last October. [/p]
[p]Players to watch: Montenegro striker Nikola Krstović has netted first or last in 18 of his last 19 goalscoring appearances for club and country. Battling him for supremacy will be Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, who has helped Georgia to victory in eight of the last ten internationals in which he has found the net (D1, L1).[/p]
[p]Hot stat: Only one of Georgia’s last six friendlies has seen both teams score.[/p]