Belgium vs Iceland International Friendly November 12, 2014

Belgium vs Iceland - Competition: International Friendly
Match date: 12 November 2014
Kick Off Time: 18:45 BST
Venue: Stade Roi Baudouin 

Belgium team want to test themselves with a strong opponent before the qualification match with Wales. They are currently on the 3rd place in group B, but they played just 2 games, while Wales, who are leading, played 3 matches already. After a successful World Cup in Brazil, they have risen to a 4th place in the FIFA World Ranking which is their best standing ever. They lost just one game in the whole year 2014, in the WC quarter-final to Argentina. From other 11 games in 2014, they won 9 and drew twice. Chadli, Hazard and Lukaku are in good scoring form in their BPL teams.

Iceland started the qualifications for Euro 2016 very well, they won all 3 matches and are group A leaders. The match with Belgium will be a great test for them, before the important qualification game with the Czech Republic. Sigurðsson is in great form and just last weekend, he scored an extraordinary goal from a free-kick. He also scored 4 goals in the last 3 matches for his National Team. Iceland won their last 4 international games and kept clean sheets in all of them. Still, they lost all 8 games played versus Belgium so far and Iceland are currently ranked on the 28th position in the Fifa World Ranking.

Belgium last 5 matches:

01/07/14 Belgium E 2 – 1 United States
05/07/14 Argentina 1 – 0 Belgium
04/09/14 Belgium 2 – 0 Australia
10/10/14 Belgium 6 – 0 Andorra
13/10/14 Bosnia-Herzegovina 1 – 1 Belgium

Iceland last 5 matches:

30/05/14 Austria 1 – 1 Iceland
04/06/14 Iceland 1 – 0 Estonia
09/09/14 Iceland 3 – 0 Turkey
10/10/14 Latvia 0 – 3 Iceland
13/10/14 Iceland 2 – 0 Netherlands

You can watch the match here: Link 1 , Link 2 [Live Scores]

Categories: International Friendly