Dragons to make their mark!

21/03/2024
20:45 CET

Wales host Finland at the Cardiff City Stadium on Thursday night in what could be a tense evening with European Qualification at stake.

It promises to be a tight affair, with both sides finishing 3^rd in their respective groups and there hasn’t been much to separate them in previous meetings.

It finished 0-0 the last time these nations met back in September 2021.

Wales have 3 victories and Finland have 2 wins from the last 8 times they’ve faced each other and with the Welsh crowd cheering them on, marginally Wales are favourites with playing on home soil.

Rob Page’s side are unbeaten in their last 5 international matches with 3 wins and 2 draws, meanwhile for Finland it’s 2 wins and 3 defeats from their last 5.

The graphic below shows Wales’ last 5 international results.

The graphic below shows Finland’s last 5 international results.

The Dragons have both scored and conceded 6 goals in their 4 home matches during qualifying and coupled with Finland only scoring 5 goals and conceding 7 in their 5 away games, it might well be a one goal margin which decides the outcome.

Betfred are offering 2.4 on a Wales win and under 3.5 goals and given the statistics it looks very unlikely there will be any more than 3 goals maximum in this clash.

The graphic below shows Wales’ statistics from their 4 home matches during the qualifying campaign, with them accumulating the same number of points as both Croatia and Turkey.

Furthermore, Wales managed a 1-1 draw at home to group winners Turkey in qualifying and also defeated runners-up Croatia 2-1 so come into this fixture in fairly confident form.

On the other hand, Finland managed a narrow 2-1 victory away at San Marino who were bottom of Group H with 0 points and lost 3-0 at Slovenia in their away match before that.

Kieffer Moore is Wales’ biggest goal threat and alongside Brennan Johnson and Daniel James in attack, Page’s men should just have enough quality to defeat Finland and edge a step closer to booking a place at this summer’s championships in Germany.