First Saturday match Belgium vs Ireland brings us lots of excitements and will be a great introduction for other matches. One of the pretournament favorites Belgium, after failure against Italy, now are in a must win position in order to stay in the run for the second stage. They are playing very good football and showing very good team play but somehow against Italy they just shut. Lead by Romelu Lukaku, Eden Hazard and Kevin De Bruyne, one of the best Premier league attackers, they hope for much better performance in this match. The whole team is “on fire” as another failure could mean disqualifying from the further competition. On the other side, after first round Ireland are ahead of groups favorite Belgium and now are highly motivated and eager to stay there and secure second phase of the tournament. They were better team in their opening match against Sweden but at the end they came out this match with only one point. However, lessons from that match are learned and team is fully ready for this one. They won’t take too much risk in this match and will be more focused on defense, patiently waiting for a chance to score after a counterattack. Belgians however won’t leave anything to case and will attack from the first minute. They will dominate in most segments of the match and create many scoring chances. Belgium vs Ireland for sure will be very interesting match both to watch and to bet on. Plenty of different games to play with very good betting odds are what makes this match even more interesting. Enjoy in fantastic football match and earn some money with our football prediction and betting tips.
Belgium coach Marc Wilmots said: "Even if we lose two games it won't change our philosophy. Even if you think I should. There is no lack of confidence, certainly no"
Ireland coach Martin O'Neill said: "Belgium are a really fine side, really fine. Individually they are as talented as any side in the competition. They are very dangerous anyway."

Missing players

Belgium do not have missing players for this very important match against Ireland. Eden Hazard and Kevin de Bruyne both missed training earlier this week, but expect to see them in first eleven. All other players are ready for the match and they are eager to win all three points here.
On the other side Ireland also do not have many missing players and fresh injury concerns. They could be without Jonathan Walters, who picked Achilles injury against Sweden and he is doubtful for the match. All other players are available to play.

Possible starting lineups

Belgium: Courtois; Ciman, Alderweireld, Vermaelen, Vertonghen; Witsel, Nainggolan; De Bruyne, Fellaini, Hazard; Lukaku
Ireland: Randolph; Coleman, O'Shea, Clark, Brady; Whelan, McCarthy, Hendrick; Hoolahan, Long

Key players

Belgium: Kevin De Bruyne, Eden Hazard, Thibaut Courtois
Ireland: Roy Keane, James McCarthy, John O'Shea

Belgium vs Ireland Prediction

We expect real football fight for points on Saturday at . Belgium have never lost a competitive game against Ireland and they are unbeaten in their last six matches against the Republic of Ireland. Belgium have not scored a European Championship finals goal since 2000 against Sweden and now they will do that for sure. We expect very aggressive playing from both sides and lots of yellows. Belgium have much better players, but looks like they dont play as a team. For this match, if want to win they have to play well-organised and we believe they can do that. So our prediction and betting tips for match Belgium vs Ireland Prediction: Belgium to win. Dont miss this great chance to earn money from this bet. Place 10 EUR bet at 888Sport here on really high betting odd and win 70 EUR. We expect scoring from Kevin De Bruyne. Belgium probably will score at least two goals on this match against Ireland. Have a nice betting day and good luck in earning money with our football prediction and betting tips.