San Marino vs Bosnia & Herzegovina prediction: EUROPE: World Championship – Qualification betting tips on match 2025-09-05 18:45.
[p]San Marino seek their first point as they head into the second half of their World Cup Qualifying (WCQ) campaign against 2026 hopefuls Bosnia and Herzegovina. [/p]
[p]Match News and Current Form[/p]
[p]FIFA’s lowest-ranked nation San Marino (#210) are unsurprisingly winless at the halfway stage of this cycle (L4), as they’ve never won a single WCQ game (D2, L78). They’ve lost each of their last 57 WCQ matches since last avoiding defeat against Latvia in 2001 (1-1), while their very first competitive victory came just last year in the Nations League against Liechtenstein. Any confidence gained from that success may have already been shattered as they lost their last WCQ outing 4-0 against Austria on home soil, conceding all four goals inside 30 minutes.[/p]
[p]Bosnia have been far from convincing in this WCQ cycle, but a hat-trick of one-goal margin wins has them sitting pretty at the top of Group H before the next round of fixtures. They’ve not reached the World Cup finals since 2014, and managed just one victory in the previous WCQ cycle, so clear improvements have already been made. While this won’t serve as the sternest test of their credentials, Bosnia have some away day demons to vanquish as they’ve won just one of their last eight such matches (D1, L6). [/p]
[p]Head-to-Head History[/p]
[p]Bosnia have won all three prior H2Hs, all of which came in WCQ action. They were held until the 66th minute of the reverse fixture which they won 1-0, while San Marino netted one of their measly 13 WCQ goals in this fixture in June 2005.[/p]
[p]Hot Stats and Streaks[/p]
[p]San Marino have conceded an average of 4.6 goals per WCQ match across all campaigns. [/p]
[p]San Marino have conceded in both halves in four of their last five WCQ home games, losing by 3+ goal margins each time. [/p]
[p]Five of Bosnia’s last seven WCQ away wins were accompanied by a clean sheet.[/p]
[p]Six of Bosnia’s last eight goals came after half-time.[/p]
[p]Key Players to Watch and Missing Players[/p]
[p]Alessandro Golinucci has seen both of his two San Marino goals come in competitive action, the last of which rounded off the scoring in a 3-1 win over Liechtenstein in November. Bosnian captain Edin Džeko became the oldest scorer in a European WCQ game at 39 in a 1-0 victory in the reverse fixture, extending his huge lead as his country’s leading scorer (G68). [/p]
[p]San Marino have no reported long-term absences, while Bosnia are set to be without Sead Kolašinac, who has been ruled out due to injury.[/p]
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[p]Betting Analysis[/p]
[p]Finding value in such a one-sided game is always a challenge, so we’re siding with the favourites Bosnia to overcome a -2 handicap in victory. [/p]
[p][i]Author: Matthew Billon[/i][/p]