WCQ Preview: Montenegro vs Turkey – key Stats, H2H, Line-ups, Prediction

Turkey takes on Montenegro in the World Cup qualifiers this week and they will be hoping to close the gap with the group leaders with a win here.

Venue: Podgorica City Stadium

Key Statistics

Turkey are undefeated in nine of their last ten World Cup matches.

The visitors have scored at least twice in eight of their last ten World Cup matches.

Montenegro have failed to win any of their last three matches against Turkey.

Head to head

These two sides have met three times in the past and two of those matches have ended in a draw. Turkey did manage to grind out a win in an international friendly against Montenegro back in 2016.

Latest performances in all competitions

Montenegro: DLDWLD

Turkey: DWLDWW

???????? Norway 0-0 Latvia ????????
???????? Turkey 6-0 Gibraltar ????????
???????? Montenegro 2-2 Netherlands ????????

???? This group's going down to the wire! Clear your schedules and grab your popcorn because Netherlands-Norway & Montenegro-Turkey on 16 November will be must-watch football! ????#WCQ | #WorldCup pic.twitter.com/3L9HZEK5ll
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) November 13, 2021

Montenegro

The home side are coming into this game on the back of five winless performances in their last six outings across all competitions. They are currently 4th In Group G with just three wins from nine World Cup qualifiers so far.

Montenegro have failed to beat Turkey in the past and it will be interesting to see if they can pull off a morale-boosting win here.

Possible Montenegro starting line-up

Matija Sarkic, Marko Vukcevic, Stefan Savic, Zarko Tomasevic, Risto Radunovic, Luka Mirkovic, Adam Marusic, Nebojsa Kosovic, Marko Jankovic, Sead Haksabanovic, Uros Djurdjevic

Turkey

The visitors are coming into this game on the back of two consecutive wins over Latvia and Gibraltar.

Turkey will be confident of grinding out a third straight win here it remains to be seen whether they can extend their impressive head to head record against Montenegro this week.

Turkey are currently second in Group G just two points adrift of leaders Netherlands and they will be hoping to climb to the top spot with a win here. The visitors are unbeaten in five of their last six qualifiers and they will be firm favourites to pick up all three points.

If the Netherlands lose to Norway, and Turkey beat Montenegro, they would fail to qualify for a second consecutive World Cup ???? pic.twitter.com/azUDn0Kd8D
— International Champions Cup (@IntChampionsCup) November 13, 2021

Possible Turkey starting line-up

Ugurcan Cakir (GK); Zeki Celik, Merih Demiral, Caglar Soyuncu, Mert Muldur; Ozan Tufan, Berat Ozdemir; Cengiz Under, Hakan Calhanoglu, Kerem Akturkoglu; Burak Yilmaz