Former world champions, Italy and Germany, clash at the San Siro in Milan for a UEFA Nations League quarter-final first leg match on Thursday night, looking to get the advantage of next week’s decisive return leg match for a place in the last four.
Match Odds
Prediction
Despite the absence of Florian Wirtz and Kai Havertz through injury, Germany remain a dangerous attacking unit under Julian Nagelsmann and the likes of Jamal Musiala, Karim Adeyemi, Serge Gnabry, Leroy Sane, and Jonathan Burkardt are available to cause Italy some headache.
Luciano Spaletti’s Italy on their part will bank on home advantage and the likes of Moise Kean, Sandro Tonali, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Riccardo Calafiori to find a way for the Azzurri past the visitors.
After all said and done, we have our money on Germany to win or draw.
Form
Italy’s last 5 Nations League matches – W D W W L
Germany’s last 5 Nations League matches – D W W W D
H2H History
Italy – 2 wins
Draw – 1
Germany – 2 wins
Italy go into this quarter-final first leg match looking to end a run of three competitive meetings against die Mannschaft without a win, with the last one coming back in the 2012 European Championship semi-final.
Both teams have an even share of wins from the last five competitive meetings with two each, along with one draw.