To date, 7 Euro matches have been played so far with total goals steadily on a decline ie 6 4 3 3 3 2 1. Going by the flow, tonight's game may well end up to be a very low scoring affair.
While historical H2H encounters between these 2 sides often produce high-scoring results, we should be mindful that all these are of friendly nature, not competitive major tournaments.
Since Euro qualifiers began until now, Romania has recorded 60% cleansheet probability against their group opponents. Such spectacles are still running with recent friendlies.
If we look back further for the last 40 games played by Romania, they had only lost by two goal margin or more in only 2 encounters out of 40 matches, translating to a 95% hit rate.
Although Ukraine may have big name players plying their trade in EPL/ La Liga top clubs, they will have difficulty finding the net against Europe's top cleansheet specialist in tonight's opener. Likewise, Romania will also have trouble scoring against trophy-lifting keeper from best club in the world.
Prediction:
Romania 0-0, 0-1 Ukraine (Dovbyk to score only goal)
Total Goals: 0, 1
Under 2.5 goals
Romania +1.5
