Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ireland Equally Solid Against Stronger Teams

Match forecasters have their calculations and deal with all possible data from the recent matches of the two teams, and this is also the case before tonight's second playoff match between Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina, writes the Patria News Agency.

It is already clear that the Irish score very few goals. Namely, in the entire qualifying campaign for the European Championship, they scored 19 and conceded 7. Irish media refer to the Gibraltar team as "children" in quotation marks.

Ireland scored 11 goals against Gibraltar in two matches and conceded none. Therefore, in the other eight matches, they scored eight goals and conceded seven. This means they scored a goal per game, and conceded almost the same. Thus, in the last eight qualifying matches, they had 3 draws, three wins, and two losses. At home, they had two draws and two wins against Georgia and Germany, both by one-nil. 

If we look at our national team, excluding the last match against Andorra, we scored 11 and conceded 12. This is related to our disastrous start to the qualifiers. Excluding Andorra, we have three wins, three losses, and two draws.

Since everything is now in the calculations, it should be said that both Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina are equally solid teams in duels with strong national teams.

This is confirmed by simple calculations. If we take Ireland's results against Germany and Poland, the top two teams in the group, the Irish would have 5 points and a goal difference of 4 to 4. And they would still be third in the group. If we were to take the mutual results of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wales, and Belgium, they would have the same number of 5 points and an identical goal difference of 4 to 4. However, Bosnia and Herzegovina would be ahead of Wales based on goal difference.

Therefore, everything indicates that tonight's match between these two national teams will be a fierce and balanced battle. The usual winners will be knowledge, fighting spirit, steely nerves, and most importantly: whoever, along with all the qualities, has a little more luck.