Germany vs Latvia Prediction: the Germans are the favorites

Prediction for the IIHF World Championship Germany vs Latvia match which will take place on May 15th. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

The German national team is competing for a place in the playoffs for the 2024 World Cup. The Germans find themselves in an intriguing group with two clear favorites in Sweden and the USA, an outsider in Poland, and Harold Kreis' charges, along with the Latvians, Slovaks, Kazakhs, and French, all battling for the two remaining tickets to the quarter-finals. The Germans took on the Slovaks in their tournament's opening match and ended with a crucial 6:4 win. Since then, the Tricolours have been beaten 6:1 by the USA and 6:1 by Sweden, but those defeats are of little consequence in the fight for the playoffs.

The 2024 World Championship calendar prepared a very comfortable calendar for the Latvian national team in the tournament's opening round. Harijs Vītoliņš's team has played three consecutive matches against Group B underdogs. They are unbeaten but have dropped two points in those encounters, beating Poland and France 5:4 and 3:2 after extra time. The day before, they had picked up three points with a 2:0 win over Kazakhstan, which moved them up to second in the standings. It's all for nothing, but Latvia has games against Germany, Sweden, Slovakia, and the Americans ahead of them, where it will be much harder to hang on to points.

Germany and Latvia are rivals for a place in the play-off from Group B. As a result, this match has huge implications for the tournament, and the Germans are the favorites. The statistics are in their favor, having beaten the Latvians in six of the last seven World Championship meetings. In addition, they had a day off the day before, while their opponents had an exhausting encounter with the Kazakhs, so they will be less fresh.

Meanwhile, the German national team continues to delight us with spectacular and effective hockey. Even before the start of the World Cup, the Germans played two brilliant exhibition matches against the French, losing 5:3 and then winning 4:3. In their 2024 World Championship debut, they continued to play high-scoring games. In their three matches, they have managed 24 shots on goal (an average of 8.00 per game), a respectable result.