Comments and predictions for Israel vs Estonia: Home team dominates the game

Latest Israel vs Estonia force information

All three names Miguel Vitor, Dia Saba and Dolev Haziza have withdrawn from this month's training session of the Israeli national team, in which the first two left the team due to injury.

Omri Glazer – who missed the previous training camp due to fitness issues – is competing with Daniel Peretz for the starting spot in goal. In defence, Roy Revivo has returned to the starting line-up and could be handed a starting spot at left-back by coach Ben Shimon.

Up front, Manor Solomon – who has been in impressive form for Leeds United with seven goals and seven assists in 31 Championship games – is almost certain to start. He will likely partner Dean David and either Liel Abada or Oscar Gloukh in a front three.

On the Estonian side, veteran Henri Anier (34 years old), currently playing for Lee Man FC in Hong Kong, is preparing to play his 100th match for the national team. However, he still has to compete for a starting position with young talent Alex Tamm in the front line.

FC Koln’s 17-year-old Patrik Kristal could start in an attacking midfield role, partnering Markus Poom and Kevor Palumets in midfield. In goal, Karl Hein – currently on loan at Real Valladolid from Arsenal – is expected to continue to start for Estonia.

Latest expected lineups for Israel vs Estonia

Israel:

Peretz; Dasa, Nachimas, Shlomo, Goldberg, Haziza; Solomon, Abu Fani, Jaber, Gloukh; David

Estonia:

Hein; Schjonning-Larsen, J. Tamm, Paskotsi, Saliste; Poom, Palumets; Yakovlev, Kristal, Sinyavskiy; A. Tamm

Latest football commentary on Israel vs Estonia

Amid tensions over the Gaza conflict and fan-related violence before matches, the Israeli team failed to stay in League A Group 2 of the UEFA Nations League in the second half of last year.

Grouped with heavyweights France, Italy and Belgium, Israel lost all four of their opening games by a combined score of 4-13. However, they ended their campaign with two surprising performances: holding France to a 0-0 draw in Paris and beating Belgium 1-0 in their final game.

Currently ranked 76th in the world by FIFA, Israel are looking to make a strong start to their 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign. The only time they qualified for the biggest football festival on the planet was in 1970. Since then, they have finished third in European qualifying five times and still missed out.

Due to the unrest in the country, Israel have been playing their home games in Hungary since November 2023. In their six games there, they have won one, drawn one and lost four – a record coach Ran Ben Shimon will be keen to improve on as they prepare to host Estonia and then Norway this month.

On the other side of the front line, Estonia – currently ranked 123rd in the world – have not had much joy in 2024 either. After a 10-game winless streak in 2023, they won three of their 12 games last year, including two in the Baltic Cup – a tournament they won for the fifth time after a penalty shootout victory over Lithuania in the final.

However, in the Nations League, Estonia only avoided relegation thanks to goal difference, and their last three games were disappointing without a goal: a 0-0 draw with Azerbaijan and losses to Sweden 0-3 and Slovakia 0-1.

Estonia have never played in a World Cup or Euro, and in their last two World Cup qualifiers they failed to win any of their 17 games (D2 L15).

Estonia have two away games coming up against Israel and Moldova, but they can hardly be confident as they have not won an away game in 90 minutes in their last 13 attempts (D3 L10), and have won just one of their last 12 away World Cup qualifiers – a 6-0 win over Gibraltar in October 2017.

Latest Israel vs Estonia score prediction

Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Israel vs Estoniaas follows:

• Sportsmole:Israel 2-0 Estonia

• WhoScore:Israel 1-0 Estonia
• Our newspaper predicts:Israel 2-0 Estonia

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