Slovenia vs Russia. Predictions and Betting Tips for 2022 World Cup qualifier

Slovenia national team performed successfully in the Nations League, they won the Group C3, so they will be promoted to Division B for the next season. 

Balkan team started the World Cup qualification tournament with a victory over the World Cup runner-up, but then lost focus and suffered two consecutive defeats.

After seven rounds Matjaz Kek's men have three victories and a draw, which brought them 10 points and a third spot in the standings. They are six points adrift from leaders of the group, so they need only a victory to keep the chance for World Cup qualification.

In the most recent match team left no chance to Malta (4:0). Atalanta midfielder, Josip Ilicic, scored a brace in this match, Sandi Lovric, a Lugano player, made three assists. 

After a failure at Euro 2020 Russia national team got a new head coach and a hope for a success.

In the first match under the management of Valery Karpin team managed to avoid defeat in the match against Croatia. A 0:0 draw against the World Cup runner-up is a good result for the team.

Then Russia recorded three consecutive victories over Malta (2:0), Cyprus (2:0) and Slovakia (1:0), as we see, Russians didn't concede a single goal so far. 

On Friday team recorded a victory over Slovakia, but Russians were actually not so convincing in this match - winners hit only one shot on target and the only goal was scored by Milan Skriniar, who put a ball into the own net.