Matchplug

After missing out on World Cup qualification, Romania have picked up some form in the friendlies ahead of this game. They recovered well from a loss to the Netherlands by beating Israel 2-0 away from home before following that up with a 1-0 win over World Cup participants, Sweden.

This game offers them the chance to collect three wins on the trot.

Chile also failed to qualify for the World Cup in a more surprising turn of events.

They followed up their disappointment with a win over Sweden also before being held by Denmark in their next match. Although they are a star-studded side, they seem to be hot and cold, it would be interesting to see which Chile turns up for this game.

Romania have developed their offensive side of play since missing out on the world and netting twice in Isreal was impressive, scoring against a Sweden side that is notorious for digging deep to get a result even does more to show that Romania can hurt any team at the moment.

These sides seem to find the net more often as they have both found the back of the net in four of their last five friendly games, both notching up eight goals in the process respectively.

Portugal gets their preparation for Russia 2018 underway with this friendly match against Tunisia who are also headed for the world football showpiece. One player who would be missing this game is Christiano Ronaldo who helped Real Madrid to win their third consecutive Champions League title in Kyiv on Saturday.

Going by how important he would be to Portugal in the World Cup, we feel they should have waited a little longer so he can join them.

This game offers the Portuguese the chance to give some of their up-and-coming players the chance to impress, however, they risk coming off as a one-man team here and in the competition when it begins if the next generation fails to kick on in this game.

They play Morocco in the finals, and they would be hoping Tunisia can help them understand how the North Africans would play.

Tunisia would be playing against England and Belgium in Russia and they see this game as one to help them play the Europeans when the competition begins.

We expect them to defend deep in this game and that would see the Portuguese struggle as they seem to be very blunt in their attack when C.

Ronaldo does not play for them.

Ronaldo scored almost half of Portugal’s 32 goals in the qualifiers with 15, he and Andre Silva netted a combined 25 goals for the European champions.

Silva, however, would struggle to lead the attack without Ronaldo after coming into this summer off the back of a poor first season in Milan.

This match pits South Korea together with Honduras who nearly qualified for the World Cup before falling to defeat at the hands of Australia in the playoffs. The South Koreans have suffered some dip in form since they secured qualification for the World Cup.

Would they get back to winning ways here ahead of their next three other warm-up games or would Honduras get revenge over an Asian country?

The hosts find themselves in one of the toughest World Cup groups that include Germany, Sweden and Mexico.

They have a chance of making it to the knockout rounds, but they have to pick up some form as they seem to have been on holiday mood for a while now. They secured World cup qualification since September last year with two goalless draws in their last two matches.

However, they have struggled to defend in their friendlies so far as they have conceded 14 goals in their last six friendlies beginning with a 4-2 loss against Russia and ending in a 3-2 loss to Poland, they know they need to up their game if they want to survive their World Cup group.

Honduras would be stepping into the field of play for the first time since their 3-1 loss to Australia in the playoffs in November. This match would see them come up against a team competing in the World Cup, but they would be confident that they can stretch the Koreans’ run of games without keeping a clean sheet having conceded in their last six games already.

Having ended the 2016 and 2017 season as league champions, it must have hurt really bad for Copenhagen to see themselves in fourth position this season.

In truth, they never really threatened the top two teams, but this game offers them the chance to finish the season in a European place.

If Copenhagen can beat this Aarhus side that finished the season in the tenth position, they can finish in a Europa League spot.

Judging by how easily they have dispatched teams on their home turf this season, that shouldn’t be too much to ask of them.

Aarhus come into this game still struggling defensively like they did when both sides met the last time, and they would need to be better than they have been in recent weeks to get a result in this game. The last time they visited this venue, they conceded 4 times.

The hosts, who come here having conceded at least once in all but one of their last ten matches, have been by no means secure defensively this season, so the visitors, who have scored plenty of goals recently, won’t hesitate to have a go.

Profiting offensively may not be beyond Aarhus, though keeping things tight at the back is likely to be a step too far, especially since they’ve struggled to hold off lesser opposition in recent weeks.