Netherlands travel to Malta on Thursday, with Ronald Koeman’s side attempting to wrestle control of Group G, with Netherlands currently tied on points with Poland and three points ahead of Finland.

Malta were always going to find it difficult to qualify for the World Cup and have failed to win any of their five qualifying matches so far, losing three of these games. Malta fell to an 8-0 defeat when they faced Netherlands a few months ago.

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Netherlands have won three of their four qualifying matches so far, with 14 goals scored across these games and just three conceded. They’re quite clearly the strongest side in the group, with their main opposition to topping it being Poland, but even that would take quite a bit of good fortune.

Ronald Koeman is a manager that divides opinion, on the one hand he led this Netherlands side to the semi-finals of the European Championships last summer, but another side of Koeman reveals a stubborn manager who is very particular about who gets called up to the squad. This results in the former Barcelona manager calling players up based on their relationship with him, rather than merit.

Malta have never been able to compete in these qualifiers and that doesn’t look like changing here. The 8-0 defeat they suffered against Netherlands a few months ago highlights the gap in quality that exists between these sides, with Netherlands having 27 shots to Malta’s five, revealing an xG of 4.52 to 0.16. It’s clearly a mismatch and it’s hard to find any source of positivity for the home side here.

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