Lithuania vs Hungary Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 17th October 2023

Lithuania and Hungary meet this coming Tuesday at Dariaus Ir Gireno Stadium, as the final rounds of the qualifying group stage approaches. While the visitors side still has a chance to reach the European Championship, the home side is done and dusted. Lithuania were unable to penetrate the Hungary defence the last three times they met in the European Championship. The latter ended up winning by a 2-0, 4-0 and 2-0 scoreline.

We have arrived at the end of the group stage qualifications, with Lithuania placed at number four with five points. Hungary collected 13 points to place them as number one. Lithuania arrive at this match placed as number 143 in the FIFA world ranking, while Hungary lack behind as number 32 in the world.

Lithuania won't make it out of this group, but they proved against Bulgaria on Saturday they are still alive and breathing. Could they cause an upset against the frontrunners in this group as well?

Hungary look set on topping their group after a great win against their closest rival, Serbia. Beating Lithuania would book their ticket for Germany 2024.

Lithuania vs Hungary Prediction

Lithuania Form

Lithuania hope for some consistency, as their last three matches added four points to their account. A meeting with Montenegro resulted in a 2-2 draw, followed by a 1-3 defeat against Serbia, before beating Bulgaria by 0-2. Lithuania just have a single win to show from their efforts in the past six internationals. They also drew three and lost two of these six encounters, in which they scored six and conceded eight goals.

Hungary Form

Hungary are unbeaten in their last three matches, first beating Serbia by 1-2. This was followed by a 1-1 with Czech Republic and a 2-1 win against Serbia. threeHungary won four of their six latest internationals, scoring ten and conceding five as well. They also drew two and lost zero.

Lithuania, are on a streak of three successive games in which they scored at least once.

Hungary managed to remain unbeaten in nine consecutive games.

Lithuania vs Hungary Team News

Lithuania vs Hungary H2H

When these two nations last faced off against each other, Hungary ended up taking all 3 points in a 2-0 victory. Trying to pick a winner from their h2h is a tough task as neither side have been able to fully dominate their coming opponent. Hungary won four of the previous five encounters, whereas Lithuania claimed three points zero times in these five matches. The bookies have Hungary to win this match at best price odds of 1/4.

Lithuania vs Hungary Results

In two of the previous five matches between Lithuania and Hungary both teams scored.

Lithuania vs Hungary Betting Tips

Pijus Sirvys has found the back of the net two times in his previous six European Championship games for Lithuania; who won't mind him striking again on Tuesday? Punters will also be looking for Roland Sallai to keep up his current streak for Hungary, having scored three in his last six European Championship games.

Lithuania won just one of their last 10 games at home, while drawing five. They lost four at Dariaus Ir Gireno Stadium in this run of matches. Hungary won five of their last 10 away games, whilst drawing three and losing two. While Lithuania might manage to fight their way to three points this coming Tuesday at Dariaus Ir Gireno Stadium, they'll probably allow their visitors a say in the matter as well. The home side claimed just zero wins to nil in their last 10 matches at home.

Over 2.5 goals happened two times in the past five encounters between Lithuania and Hungary, with Lithuania scoring 0.4 goals on average per game. Hungary averaged three goals, while both teams scored two times. Over 2.5 goals happened in two of Lithuania’s last ten matches across all tournaments. They pulled off an average of 0.6 goals during this run. Over 2.5 goals happened in five of the last ten outings for Hungary, who managed to score 1.5 times in those matches.