H2H: Romania vs Norway - Prediction (UEFA Nations League

H2H: Romania v Norway – Comparison.

Reading’s George Puscas scored in midweek for Romania, and has scored their only home UNL goal in this group stage. Norway’s Erling Braut Haaland has six goals across four UNL appearances, scoring a hat-trick in the reverse fixture. He has six goals across his last five competitive matches for club Dortmund. Accounting only for results attained with their respective current clubs, the two ‘players to watch’ have seen a combined average total of 23.26% of their goals act decisively in victory.

Romania Insights.

Going into the last two matches five points behind Austria and Norway at the top of Group B1, Romania entertain the latter knowing that a win is crucial towards staving off relegation from League B of the UEFA Nations League (UNL). A recent 5-3 win vs Belarus marked Romania’s first win at home in five attempts (W1, D2, L2). That high-scoring victory was the third home match across the last 11 to see them score more than one goal, while they conceded at least one goal for the sixth time across the seven last such matches. Furthermore, opponents Norway have not taken part in a goalless international fixture in 43 straight matches, and thus goals seem likely to feature abundantly.

Norway Insights.

With fresher legs due to a friendly match cancellation, Norway have nine points after four UNL matches (W3, L1), but finish with tough away matches against Romania and Austria. Even so, they are unbeaten in five straight international matches away from home (W3, D2), scoring 2.2 goals on average across those fixtures. However, they have conceded at least once in eight of their last ten matches played away from home, doing so precisely once in the four most recent ones. They are difficult customers nonetheless, with Norway not conceding any later than Sergio Ramos’ 71st-minute penalty winner for Spain across their last 11 away from home.