Georgia U21 and Israel U21 will meet in the first and most unexpected quarter-final of Euro 2023, with both representatives leaving out important names of European football.

Georgia U21 were certainly the surprise of the final tournament, qualifying from a last-chance group, while Israel U21 pulled off a big blow to knock out Germany U21, the title holders.

Georgia U21 topped Group A with five points after 2-0 with Portugal U21, 2-2 with Belgium U21 and 1-1 with Netherlands U21, thus becoming the big surprise of the competition. The team, coached by Ramaz Svanadze, a former Georgian midfield player who ended his career at the age of just 24 due to a serious injury, qualified for the final tournament on their own as the host nation and played two matches before the Euro 2023 friendlies, 1 – 0 with Latvia U21 away and 2-0 with Cyprus U21 at home (he is unbeaten in five games this year).

The stars of the Georgians are goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili of Valencia (played all 38 games in the 2022-2023 season) and attacking midfielder Zuriko Davitashvili of Bordeaux (30 games and five goals last season in Ligue 2), while the stars of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, the Serie A champion in “Napoli” team and the best scorer of the second division of France Georges Mikoutadze from “Metz” did not participate in Euro-2023. Israel U21 finished second in Group C with four points after 1-1 with Germany U21 and 0-2 with England. U21 and 1-0 against Czech Republic U21 (the only win in the last seven official and friendly matches!).

The Guy Luzon-coached team qualified for the finals of the European Championship after finishing 2nd in a preliminary group won by Germany U21 and also featuring Poland U21, Hungary U21, Latvia U21 and San Marino U21 (six wins, one draw). , three defeats), then drew with Ireland U21, 1-1 away and 0-0, 3-1 on penalties, at home.

The most important players are Eden Kartsev of Istanbul Basaksehir (he has five caps for the national team) and Oskar Glukh of RB Salzburg (five games and two goals for the main team).

These two teams are playing their first official head-to-head match, but they last met on November 16, 2022 in a friendly match in which Israel U21 beat Georgia U21 2-1 away.

Superbet offers odds of 1.90 on the GG prediction: both teams will score in the regular time 90 minutes in the match Georgia U21 – Israel U21.

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