Scotland vs Greece prediction: EUROPE: UEFA Nations League – League A/B – Relegation betting tips on match 2025-03-22 17:00.
[p]With a spot in UEFA Nations League (UNL) A for 2026/27 on the line, it is advantage Scotland, who won 1-0 against Greece in the first leg of their promotion/relegation playoff tie. Although the introduction of playoffs is new to the competition, the match in Piraeus had all the feelings of a classic two-legged European encounter at club level, as the Scots took a 33rd-minute lead and largely held on for dear life thereafter, facing 24 shots in total, albeit with only one of them going on target. [/p]
[p]Manager Steve Clarke will be elated with the result considering that his side are the ones fighting off relegation here, having done so already when avoiding automatic demotion from Group A1 by securing all seven of their group-stage points in their last three fixtures (W2, D1). The Tartan Army should back themselves to wrap up the tie at Hampden Park now, since they have lost just one of their 11 home UNL matches (W8, D2).[/p]
[p]Greece will be disappointed with their first-leg performance, as they had the momentum on their side after winning six of their previous seven games (L1), keeping five clean sheets in the process. Five of those victories came in their UNL Group B2 campaign, with that lone loss, a 3-0 defeat to England, costing them automatic promotion by virtue of an inferior H2H record.[/p]
[p]Hitting the road here will not bother Ivan Jovanović’s men, who have won their last three away matches, with two of them being against other nations from the British Isles, England and Ireland. Greece must therefore add the scalp of Scotland to that list if their dream of featuring in Group A of the UNL and securing a second successive promotion in the competition is to be realised, and they will likely need the finest of margins to go their way to do so, since all three of the previous H2Hs have ended 1-0 (W1, L2).[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Scott McTominay struck the first-leg winner from the penalty spot, contributing to him scoring the match opener in three of his last four goalscoring outings for Scotland. Greece will be hoping that Fotis Ioannidis has a stellar performance, since they have won three of the four games he has scored in by a margin of 2+ goals. [/p]
[p]Hot stat: Only three of Greece’s last 18 matches have seen both teams score in normal time.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Peter Stavrinou[/i][/p]