Monday, 4 February 2013

Malta v Northern Ireland - ko 18.30

Malta have won 2 out of their last 5 games. They may have lost all of their World Cup Qualifiers so far, but they have won their last 5 friendly games, albeit against lesser opposition than Ireland have played. A wins a win though and they will have just as much confidence as the Irish and with ex Coventry and Barnsley Michael Mifsud they have a goal scorer. He is Malta’s top scorer with 26 goals in 92 games and the Irish will do well to keep an eye on him tonight.

Northern Ireland need a win here to give them confidence and momentum to go into their World Cup Qualifiers. They haven’t won since 2008 when they beat the Faroe Islands 4-0, but have drawn 4 out of their last 5 games. The last 3 games have ended 1-1 and their problem, as it has been for a long time, is scoring goals. They are playing a team that are 48 places below them in the Fifa rankings, so they really should be beating them.

These 2 haven’t met since 2005, but Malta have never beaten Northern Ireland. They have met 6 times with NI winning 5 and 1 draw. The 5 NI wins have been won to nil. Northern Ireland win @ 2.15 with BetVictor

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