Euro 2024: Belgium Vs Slovakia Prediction

JAKARTA The Belgian national team will play their first match at Euro 2024 against Slovakia. The following article discusses the strength of the two teams ahead of the match.

The campaign of the two teams in Group E will be held at the Frankfurt Arena, on Monday, June 17 at 23.00 WIB. In the same group, Romania and Ukraine will also play first on the same night.

These four teams have chances that look both very open to the knockout stages. Thus, each of them will hunt for positive results in the inaugural match.

Belgium, which has had a golden generation in recent years, is no longer considered one of the seeds at Euro 2024. Not too many have champions them anymore.

However, their status as black horses remains attached. Moreover, Domenico Tedesco's team was present in Germany with a victory in the test matches versus Montenegro and Luxembourg.

In those two matches they were able to score five goals and did not concede. In addition, they have also been unbeaten in all competitions since the 0-2 defeat to Morocco at the 2022 World Cup.

At the time in Qatar they failed to get through the group stage after only finishing third behind Morocco and Croatia. In fact, at Euro 2020 they could reach the quarter-finals.

Belgium's best performance at the Euros came in 1980 when they were runners-up after suffering a 1-2 defeat against West Germany in the final of the competition.

Despite filling the group with even team strength, Tedesco's squad is a favorite to finish at the top of the group. Three points against Slovakia they can get before successively fighting Romania and Ukraine.

On the other hand, Slovakia will definitely be eyeing second place in the group to qualify even if finishing third can also bring them forward to the knockout stages of Euro 2024.

The Falcons themselves have not appeared in the World Cup finals since 2010 when they were able to reach the round of 16. However, they competed at Euro 2020 and were eliminated in the group stage.

Reaching the last 16 at Euro 2016 was Slovakia's best performance in the competition. They came in Germany with two wins from a test match over San Marino and Wales with the same score, 4-0.

Francesco Calzona's side have only lost once in their last seven games in all competitions. They also finished second in qualifying behind Portugal.

It's just that Slovakia has never won over Belgium. From the previous three meetings they lost once and drew twice.