Sunday, August 4, LFF Stadium in Vilnius, Lithuania will host the match – Slovenia, counting for the World Championship qualifications.
Lithuania
National Lithuania never failed so far to qualify for a final tournament. Although it has been more than 25 years since they emerged from the former Soviet bloc, Lithuanians have failed no important performance. In qualifying for Euro, they finished 5th in Group E, managed to advance only national San Marino. This year in March, Lithuania has played a friendly match against Romania in Giurgiu, which they lost 0-1. The only goal of the match was scored by Stanciu, in 65 minutes.
Slovenia
On the other hand, Slovenia will try to get over the disappointment of missing participating in Euro after the dam was defeated with the score of 1-3 by Ukraine. Slovenia has managed twice so far, to qualify for a World Cup in 2002 and 2010 and hopes now to repeat this performance. In preparation for the qualifying campaign, the guests played a series of friendly matches in April, in which they managed one win, one draw and two defeats.
Statistics
the two teams have met 4 times now, each time in qualifying for Euro campaign
Lithuania has achieved 2 wins, 1 draw and one defeat
In the last 9 games of Slovenia were recorded under 2.5 goals