Montenegro – Serbia: can the guests earn three points?

Athletistic/ Football. As part of the qualification for Euro 2024, two matches will take place in Group G. Montenegro will host Serbia and Hungary will face Bulgaria.

Montenegro – Serbia

One of the most important matches on Monday will be played in Podgorica. After the first round matches of the European selection, the national teams of Montenegro and Serbia led Group G with three points. As a result, Bulgaria and Lithuania, as well as Hungary, who missed Friday’s round, do not have a single tournament point after the opening matches. Serbia played their duel in Belgrade against Lithuania. Dragan Stojkovic had the opportunity to opt for a pragmatic style and give the leaders the chance to have an incomplete duel before a more important meeting. Thanks to goals from Tadic and Vlahovic in the 16th and 53rd minutes of the game, respectively, the Serbs secured a comfortable victory with the score at 2:0. Montenegro played its duel in Bulgaria, where it was not considered a favorite. At the same time, the first half already showed a slight advantage for the Montenegrins, which in the second half turned into the only goal of the game and a well-deserved final victory. Before the personal meeting of the Balkan national teams, the bookmakers consider Serbia a favorite, offering a coefficient of 1.77 for their victory. Montenegro in 2021 didn’t have much of a chance of securing a ticket to the world championship. In the qualifying tournament, the maximum for which this team had enough was a few unexpected results – a draw with the same score 2: 2 with the Netherlands and Turkey. In 2022, in one of the most equal groups in League B of the League of Nations, along with Romania, Finland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegrins retained the right to reside in the second division of the League of Nations , barely finishing in third place . Serbia approached the start of the new qualifying campaign in the most motivated state. The team performed below expectations in Qatar, failing to qualify in the group with Cameroon, Brazil and Switzerland. The decision to continue cooperation with Stojkovic was influenced by the confident play of the Serbian team before the start of the world championship. In the Nations League, the Serbian team lost only five points out of a possible eighteen in the company with Sweden, Slovenia and Norway, which allowed them to take first place. The national teams of Montenegro and Serbia met before in 2018. Both fights were later won by the Serbs and Mitrovic scored a total of three goals against the Montenegrins. We bet that the guests will continue the winning tradition.

Hungary – Bulgaria

In the second round of the European Championship qualifying round, the Hungarian team will face each other. Before the match in Budapest, in the Group G classification, the Hungarians divide the duos of the winning and losing teams. The first category includes Serbia and Montenegro, the second – Bulgaria and Lithuania. On Friday, while the competitors in the qualifying group were organized in personal meetings, the Hungarians played a friendly match with Estonia. Despite a modest 1-0 win, Marco Rossi’s wards advantage was undeniable. Bulgaria in the status of favorites with a slight odds bias started the home game with Montenegro, but during the fight they showed their unpreparedness. As a result, in the second half, Krstovich’s goal beat the Bulgarian team. Ahead of the Budapest encounter, the bookmakers consider the home side to be the clear favourites, offering odds of 1.49 for victory. Hungary flew past the world championship in Qatar, becoming only fourth in the group along with Albania, Poland and England. But last year’s Nations League was a real breakthrough for the Hungarians. In the first season in League A, the Hungarians were not enough to fight for their survival in the company of Germany, England and Italy, but until the last round they claimed an exit sensational in the “final four”. Even a draw in the home encounter with Italy would have led to victory in the group, but at the most crucial moment the opponent’s class was affected. Soboslai and the company will be clearly set on the result in the next meeting, because the composition of the group will allow them to openly qualify for the main round of EURO 2024. The Bulgarian national team in the qualification of the world championship has took fourth place in the group, only ahead of Lithuania out of four competitors. Last year, the Bulgarian team participated in League C of the League of Nations, being in the same company as Georgia, North Macedonia and Gibraltar. Despite the final push of two wins, the Bulgarians couldn’t even come close to the group winner – Georgia. The last meeting between Hungary and Bulgaria was in 2020 in the semi-finals of the UEFA EURO 2020 qualifying play-offs. Then in Sofia, the Hungarians gave the opponents no chance – 3-1. A similar result can be expected on Monday.