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Sweden vs Belarus Prediction & Betting tips
In order to get a win that will allow him to continue in the fight for a place for Russia 2018, the Sweden team jumps to the grass of the Friends Arena in Solna, to face Belarus, in match corresponding to Group A.
Sweden :
Those led by Janne Andersson know that they can not lose points to selections that are accessible on paper, since they are in a tough group with France and Holland as the main favorites.
With the departure of Zlatan Ibrahimovic said that everything was going to be complicated for Sweden, but for now this has not been so and after a start with a home draw to a goal against the Netherlands, the Swedish team has begun to take up positions and so Currently in third place with 7 points, the same as Holland who is second and three of the leader France, so a win this Saturday would be great for their aspirations.
Belarus :
For their part, those led by Aleksandr Khatskevich are having a rather bad campaign at the moment, things could be said that started well with a draw at home goals against France, but nevertheless, they lost the second match in their visit to Holland 4-1, then came a modest draw at home goal against a weak selection as Luxembourg and now last lost 1-0 in their visit to Bulgaria, to be the penultimate of the group, with just 2 points and obviously do not believe Have much to do in the competition.
As for direct clashes, Sweden have been quite successful in previous face-to-face encounters with Belarus, where they won in each of the three meetings with a total difference of 8-2 goals.
Sweden know that in this game the only thing worth is the victory if they want to remain in the fight of one of the two first places, in their last game as home beat 3-0 to Bulgaria and from our humble point of view, we do not believe That there is reason not to believe in a similar scenario against Belarus.
Possible alignments:
Sweden: A. Linde; A. Tinnerholm, J. Une-Larsson, J. Nilsson, L. Wahlqvist; J. Allansson, O. Lewicki, V. Claesson; S. Andersson, D. Moberg-Karlsson, A. Isak.
Belarus: A. Gorbunov; E. Filipenko, S. Palitsevich, D. Polyakov, A. Martynovich; A. Hleb, P. Nekhajchik, I. Maevski, J. Kendysh, M. Gordeychuk; D. Laptev.
Sweden vs Belarus head to head
02.06.10 FI Belarus Sweden 0 : 1
19.08.97 WC Belarus Sweden 1 : 2
31.05.96 WC Sweden Belarus 5 : 1