{"id":4206,"date":"2026-10-03T11:54:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bankrollatlas.com\/fr\/matchs\/northern-ireland-georgia-prediction-2026-10-05\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T23:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:10:17","slug":"northern-ireland-georgia-prediction-2026-10-05","status":"publish","type":"ba_match","link":"https:\/\/bankrollatlas.com\/en\/matches\/football\/nations-league\/northern-ireland-georgia-prediction-2026-10-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland – Georgia: nine days of Svanadze to wake a goalless attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 25 September, Northern Ireland won in Georgia with a Shea Charles goal in the 90+9th minute, after Kvaratskhelia had missed a penalty. Two days later Willy Sagnol left his post; Ramaz Svanadze took the team on the 26th and brings them to Windsor Park on Monday, with nine days of work to fix a side sitting on one point.<\/p>\n

Three games, no goals for Georgia<\/h2>\n

Georgia’s group stage fits in three lines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>\nMatch<\/th>\nScore<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
25\/09<\/td>\nGeorgia – Northern Ireland<\/td>\n0-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28\/09<\/td>\nGeorgia – Ukraine<\/td>\n0-0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02\/10<\/td>\nHungary – Georgia<\/td>\n1-0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Kvaratskhelia and Mikautadze stayed silent up front, and Mamardashvili could do nothing about it behind them. Svanadze ran his first training session in Budapest on 30 September; he will have to do without Otar Kiteishvili, the Sturm Graz midfielder ruled out by the federation<\/a>, even though the UEFA squad list still includes him. His eleven is out: Mamardashvili in goal, Kvaratskhelia starting in a 3-4-3, Zivzivadze and Davitashvili up front; Mikautadze does not start. The plan and the captain will show on the pitch. A first game in charge of a national team starts with damage limitation.<\/p>\n

Windsor Park and O’Neill’s youngsters<\/h2>\n

Across the pitch everything smiles on Northern Ireland: 3-0 in Ukraine on Friday<\/a> (Ciaron Brown twice, Isaac Price once), a third straight clean sheet, seven points out of nine and top spot. At Windsor Park they have not lost since October 2023 and remain unbeaten at home in the Nations League, with ten clean sheets in their last twelve home games. In Trnava, O’Neill fielded his youngest side since the war<\/a>, an average age of 22, without four regular starters, and his squad calls itself \u201cin good shape\u201d, comfortable in the underdog role.<\/p>\n