📏 Form Guide

Malta

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Malta, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 3-1 International Friendlies triumph over San Marino.

For Malta, goals were scored by Irvin Cardona (5'), Zach Muscat (11') and Paul Mbong (34'). Nicola Nanni (45') was the scorer for San Marino.

It’s not been often in recent games where Malta have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Malta have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 13 goals on the way. Putting that to one side, it remains to be seen if that trend will continue on here in this match.

Netherlands

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Netherlands will go into the encounter following on from a 2-3 WC Qualifiers - Europe win over Lithuania in their most recent outing.

In that match, Netherlands managed 73% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 7 on target. For Netherlands, the goals were scored by Memphis Depay (11', 63') and Quinten Timber (33'). Lithuania had 4 shots at goal with 3 on target. Gvidas Gineitis (36') and Edvinas Girdvainis (43') scored for Lithuania.

Over the course of their last six clashes, Netherlands have helped themselves to a tally of 19 goals. Netherlands have also not failed to score in every single one of those games. During that period, they’ve had 8 goals go into their own net.

↔️ Head to head

The last league meeting between these sides was WC Qualifiers - Europe match day 4 on 10/06/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Netherlands 8-0 Malta.

On that day, Netherlands had 65% possession and 27 shots at goal with 9 of them on target. The goalscorers were Memphis Depay (9', 16'), Virgil van Dijk (20'), Xavi Simons (61'), Donyell Malen (74', 80'), Noa Lang (78') and Micky van de Ven (90').

Malta had 5 attempts at goal with 2 on target.

The match was refereed by Ricardo De Burgos Bengoetxea.

🧠 Prediction

Our thinking is that Netherlands certainly have the ability to create enough chances to score more than one against Malta, who could well find it tough getting on the scoresheet.

We’re therefore expecting to see a comfortable 0-2 margin for Netherlands when all’s said and done.