San Marino vs Kazakhstan
EURO Qualification
Date: Saturday, 16 November 2019
Kick-off at 17:00 UK/ 18:00 CET
Venue: San Marino Stadium (Serravalle).
TEAM NEWS
SAN MARINO
San Marino have not registered their first goal in the EURO 2020 qualifying campaign and will see the match against Kazakhstan as their best chance to do so because they seek to end their desperate run of 16 games without scoring.
As usual for small fish, it is difficult for them to compete and in what was a relatively tough group, it will come as little surprise that they have conceded 43 goals at an average of more than five per game.
San Marino have tried a lot of different options in their attempt to break their duck and the best chance they may come from young children to 19 years Nicola Nanni has collected seven caps in his career so far.
KAZAKHSTAN
Kazakhstan would want to put three consecutive losses behind them when they travel to San Marino with high expectations take their third win of the qualifying campaign with a third place finish is not out of the question.
They will have to overcome their last three results, even though they are competitive in all of them and only lost by a single goal to Russia and Cyprus while Belgium were able to beat them 0-2.
After beating San Marino 4-0 when they hosted them in June, Kazakh would believe another big win in this contest and will be looking to midfielder Islambek Strong to add to his tally of four international goals.
San Marino vs Kazakhstan Predictions
San Marino was totally flabbergasted last match-day on the street by Scotland. The latter is another team that failed to advance to the tournament host, but against Marino, they turned deadly killer.
Assisted with home advantage, Scotland put one goal after the other, for a total of six of the pile in style. Embarrassing, is not able to record the contingent visited even a single goal in the process.
Meanwhile, Kazakhstan's squad had to deal with a table-toppers Belgium in their previous game-week. The former does have the home advantage, and they succeeded where the limit world-beater par scorecard to 0-2.
This Saturday, the guests of Kazakhstan have the rare opportunity to play the role of favorite. They placed second last in the table at the moment but still note that while the Kazakhs have a total of seven points on the board, the San Marino squad had 0 to lose a record 100%.
In addition, the mammoth Marino have conceded 43 goals so far from their eight games and have not scored none in return. In terms of their opposite number, stat reads nine goals and thirteen goals conceded - relatively miles ahead of the host for the day.
Importantly, when the two have squared off in the reverse fixture, San Marino lost without even lifting a challenge. Four different goal-scorers appear to host later, to complete a 4-0 victory.
In addition, San Marino is on a 35-match losing run, and a 48-match winless streak, of which 47 are losses. Does not mean they will even challenge the guests even for one point this weekend.
San Marino vs Kazakhstan Betting Tips
Kazakhstan -2 Handicap @ 1.44 (4/9)
Half Time / Full Time: Kazakhstan / Kazakhstan @ 1.44 (4/9).
