The coaching staff of the Turkish national team, has decided, that one match is not enough in the allotted for nationals window, and the management of the Turkish Football Federation reached an agreement with Moldovan federation on holding an additional friendly match. Turkey national team is a clear favorite of the match in the couple and it is hard to disagree with that, due to at least the squad potential of the future competitors.
On 24th March, Turkey national team managed to defeat strong Finnish national team within the 15th round of the 2018 World Cup qualification tournament. The score of the encounter is 2:0 and after that victory the Turkish team has come close to Ukraine in the qualifying group I, but falling behind the Icelanders by two points and the Croatians by five. The chances on advancing to the World Cup final stage are pretty decent, but to do use those, an even higher quality football must be performed.
Moldova national team on 24th March, but unlike the Turks, it lost in away game against Austria. The future guests play in group D of the 2018 World Cup qualification tournament, and occupy the sixth place in the tournament table, i.e. the last place. Within five played rounds, the Moldovan team managed to get only one point, scoring only twice in the matches, and conceding 13. Even this statistics shows, Moldova national team is an outsider of the European football.
One can assume, that the coaching staff of the Turkish team will not put out to play the strongest squad, and give a chance the “Benchmen” and youth to prove themselves, but even this should not prevent the future hosts to defeat one of the weakest European national football teams.
Prediction for the match: Turkey to win with -1.0 Asian handicap.
