Israel vs Latvia Predictions

Israel are aiming to boost their fortunes with a home victory on Tuesday night, as they take on Latvia. The hosts are struggling in this group, meaning this is a battle between the bottom two. Their defeat at Austria left them five points shy of the top two, with their hopes of making the Euros looking slim. That’s likely to bring a low-key end to this campaign for Israel, but can they at least restore a little pride this week?

The home side are aiming to end a poor run of form, with a four-game winless run leaving the hosts in trouble. They are pushing for a return to winning ways after consecutive losses, which has Israel on the back foot. However, those trips were away to sides in the mix for second, so this home tie with the bottom side should be a very different test for the hosts.

Latvia are in awful form, with their pointless campaign leaving them eight points shy of strugglers Israel. The visitors have been poor throughout 2019, scoring just once across their qualifiers. The visitors are even worse at the back, which has brought a losing streak that has made them the minnows of Group G. Can Latvia come back from their awful run of form here?

It’s hard to see the visitors turning this around with Israel now unbeaten in six at home. The hosts have won four of their last six here, while Latvia are winless since June 2018. The visitors have lost seven games on the spin, while they head into this one having conceded far too many goals. They’ve shipped three in five of their seven games, which has seen them ship 24 goals in seven matches, an average of 3.4 per game.

Israel hit three goals in their away win at Latvia, while the hosts should be in the mood for another thumping win to turn around a dreadful streak of results. We are backing the hosts to add to their three goals from the reverse meeting by handing out another thumping defeat to Latvia. They were beaten 6-0 by Austria in their last trip, so Israel should score a few. We are backing over 2.5 goals for the hosts, while we are also backing another 3-0 victory for Israel in this week’s qualifying clash.