Our prediction for this Nations League match:
Estonia
Match Time & Date:
15/10/2018
02:45 PM
Prediction: 0-1
Hungary
A Le Coq Arena will host Monday’s football game between Estonia and Hungary. Estonia made a slow start to their UEFA Nations League campaign, with the team suffering a loss in each of their first three games in the process and they are certainly low on confidence ahead of the visit of Hungary. The Baltic side have yet to find the net in the UEFA Nations League and seeing that Hungary are desperate to bounce back from a 1-0 loss to Greece, we are tempted to put our money on the visitors. This has to go down as a must-win situation for the Hungarians and we predict that they are going to prove their worth on the field. A man to watch in the away team will be Bundesliga attacker Roland Sallai, who found the net in a 2-1 win over Greece, and we believe that the opposition defenders are going to have their work cut out for them when facing the Hungarian rising star.
Highlighted Player (Ragnar Klavan):
Ragnar Klavan is a defender who started his senior career at Elva. After playing for Tulevik an Flora between 2002 and 2005, the Estonian footballer joined Heracles Almelo on 4 August, 2005. Klavan made his debut for Heracles five days later and he scored his first goal for the club on 31 December, 2005, in a 2-2 draw with Vitesse.
In 2009 he was sent on loan to AZ Alkmaar and he signed a permanent deal with the Dutch outfit on 4 February, 2009. He played 12 games for AZ in the 2008/2009 season and it has to be noted that the Cheeseheads won the national championship that season. He played for AZ Alkmaar until 2 July, 2012 when he decided to move to Germany.
The Estonian defender signed a two-year deal with Augsburg and he made no less than 125 appearances for the German club between 2012 and 2016. Klavan impressed in the 2015/2016 Bundesliga campaign and, as a result, Liverpool chiefs decided to sign him on 20 July, 2016. He made his Estonia debut on 3 July, 2013 against fellow Baltic side Lithuania.
Highlighted Team (Hungary):
Widely known as the Mighty Magyars during the 1950’s, Hungary national team had the world at its feet as the team featuring Ferenc Puskas, Sandor Kocsis and Zoltan Czibor reached the final of the 1954 World Cup, while recording several impressive wins over England and other top sides in international friendlies.
Hungary also made it to the semi-final at the Euro 1964 and Euro 1972, but they have since largely struggled to return to old glory days. The barren run finally came to an end as Foci defeated Norway in the play-off to qualify for the Euro 2016 finals, but there still appears to be a huge gap behind the top European sides.
Long-serving goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly has managed to break a 58-year record held by Jozsef Bozsik, having surpassed the 101-cap mark, but Ferenc Puskas still remains the top goalscorer in the history of the national team with an unbelievable record of 84 goals in 85 caps, followed by Sandor Kocsis, who has 75 goals in 68 appearances.
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