Topic: UEFA Conference League 2023/24 Season - page 13. (Read 4930 times)

I have a lot of real life Aston Villa fans so very happy to see them go to the semi finals. They are having a great season, they have a real chance to win a first trophy since 1996.

Emery is doing a great job there, if they can finish 4th and get into the CL too he has to be up there for manager of the season in England.

PAOK and Olympiakos had been doing great so far, the two greek clubs that had made it into international competition for this season.
But it seems like PAOK's run in the conference league will be ending today. It was a good run though, can't complain.

Olympiakos is on an aggregate 3 - 3, I'm not an Olympiakos supporter but seeing a team from my country make this far in an international competition only makes me glad and I'm happy to show my support. Hopefully they'll get a good result before penalties though. Otherwise it'd be hard.

As its stands now there are on their way going home because the match is almost at the end and the scoreline is still 1-0 in favour of the Turkish team and if it end like this then they are out and I would like to clarify that it would have been hard for them to even win the trophy looking at the teams remaining in the competition.

Let's see how it will go this week but it is obvious that they were playing at away game so it was harder and Olympics fans are worldly known for their passion, so it may have been not so easy, this game will be a home game and the difference is not that big, so we are going to see Fenerbahce have a chance again, maybe it will not be that easy but it could definitely change the result.

We are going to see plenty of games where teams will try their very best because these games are win or go home games, so everyone will try their very best without a doubt. I hope that we could see them do fine, we could probably see the situation change eventually, it may not be all that simple and we could probably see it change a lot.

Oh man, they really can win at home but too bad they lost on penalties.
And you are correct, Aston advanced to the semifinals and it looks like they will meet Fenerbache.
Many people predict that Fiorentina will meet Aston in the final and it looks like that will happen.

Fenerbahçe lost in the first match, but I have no doubt that they will win this match. I think it has a much stronger squad than its rival. The fact that this match will be played in İstanbul is a great advantage for them.
If they don't make stupid and simple mistakes, they will win this match. It will be enough for them to be close to their performance in the league. It will be an exciting evening, Fenerbahçe's motivation for this match is very high

Fenerbahçe suffered a shock in the first leg. Olympiakos almost went through to the next round with a 3-0 lead. Fred and Ismail were on the bench in the first leg because they were not fully fit. They came on in the second half and Fenerbahçe started to play better. Fred and Ismail will probably start this game in the starting 11. Also, Fenerbahçe will have the support of the fans. I also think that the coach Ismail Kartal has studied Olympiacos well and he can spread the last 30 minutes of the first match into 90 minutes in this match.

Thanks and yeah I also agree about Lille's home performances. These statistics are really like a silver lining for Lille to make it in the Conference League also. There is a difference too though. Aston Villa are a much stronger team than nearly all of the teams Lille have played against home so far. Therefore I think it would still be a really difficult job.  

Emery is known by great successes at any team he goes to. He always has this potential to do it with another team just as he is doing it with Aston Villa now.

I will still give Lille a shot as I said but Aston Villa's qualification wouldn't surprise me.  

Fenerbahçe, who showed a good reaction after going 3-0 down in the first leg and finished the match 3-2, will book their semi-final ticket if they win by two goals at home. We know how much they want to win this trophy this season. Their chances in the Turkish League are still strong, but their dream of winning a European Cup has been around for years and they are only 4 games away from it. That's why they will focus on this game more than anything else. Tadic also spoke very motivated in the press conference. İsmail Kartal said that we practiced for penalties but we want to finish the job in normal time. I don't know what they will do on the pitch but I can see that mentally they are fully ready for this game.

Of course Aston Villa would win again against Lille. One thing i have noticed about this club is that they never back down until the final whistle has been bowled. We all saw what they did to Arsenal last week in the EPL. It was 80 minutes of play without any goal. but Aston Villa came with a different style and performance in the second half where they were pressing more in the Arsenals goal line. At last they were able to score tow goals before the end of the game.

Even if Lille would give  a fight i feel Aston Villa are so prepared from any battle that day. There is nothing better than a team who is united and have the belief that they will come out victorious. However i wish Lille Goodluck that day.

Today we will see two exciting matches to determine their fate to the semi-finals, just like you, I also predict if Fiorentina and Aston Villa will be able to win in the second leg later, Aston Villa of course only needs to find a draw to ensure their position in the semi-finals later, in the previous match, Aston Villa managed to win over Lille 2-1 at home,  So I think Lille will try to give a fight in the second leg later because Lille  will play at home but Aston Villa certainly will not let Lille beat them later, so far Aston Villa is a strong candidate to win the Conference League trophy compared to other teams available.

In addition to Aston Villa, of course Fiorentina is still worthy of our favor, because for now Fiorentina's performance is still better than Plzen, indeed Plzen is able to hold Fiorentina's draw at their home but of course Fiorentina who will play at home today will certainly to totally attack in order to get a ticket to the semifinals, if you compare the two teams, of course Fiorentina is still far above Plzen and my prediction for the final result of the match will be Fiorentina will win 3-0 over Plzen.

In the first leg game, while Olympiacos Piraeus were leading by 2–0 at the end of the first half I was expecting one-sided game and Fenerbahçe out of the competition, but suddenly they have done good comeback and having 3–2 at the end which was much better, and now they are having home game which they needed to be won and have another step for going to final which could be not easy as they have to through pass Aston Villa which is also one of the best side in English Premier League.

Even right now, all teams in the competition because we have no big difference of goals with any team can pass this round for the spot into last four which is surely interested as now UEFA competitions are going entertaining day by day due to increase of quality and performance as well.

Fenerbahçe fell behind 3-0 in the first match and could not make any difference until these 3 goals. Later, they scored 2 goals and had an advantage in the match. After all, there are big differences between 3-0 and 3-2. Fenerbahçe can win in Istanbul today. They are playing well at home and their fans will be more interested since it is a European match. There are also bad results in the past with the Greek team. They want to make you forget these too. We are very hopeful for them to reach the semi-finals. I hope Fenerbahçe reaches the semi-finals.

Aston Villa have already win from Lille in the first leg this result is makes them open their chances to advances to the next round but they have to hard struggling to do that because Lille is quite strong and so far during this season since group stages Lille is still unbeatable at their home but indeed i think Aston Villa can gets at least draw result from Lille today and for betting options recently i have checked the odds and Lille is slightly the favourite with odds @2.47 but this option is quite risky because i am sure Aston Villa will not lost and probably the best pick for this match is both teams to scores

I think i have to agree with you that most likely Aston Villa can able to advances to the next round even so with Fiorentina because previously they can successfully to playing draw from Viktoria Plzen so for second leg Fiorentina only required to win with 1 goal margin or more and i think they can able to do that and i know the odds for Fiorentina win is not high even it's too low but i think it's safe bets because certainly Fiorentina can be the winner of this match

And for Fenerbahce i think they have hard match because Olympiacos is strong team for them and both teams has been met several times at European competitions and if we see from head to head statistics Olympiacos has good records from Fenerbahce moreover in the first leg Olympiacos have already win and my prediction for this match is Olympiacos can able to beat Fenerbahce again and advances to the semifinal

I believe that we are going to see Fenerbahce and Villa win their games, that will be early finals if you ask me because those two teams are the best teams remaining based on what I have seen so far from them.

I think Brugge and Fiorentina will probably be the other two teams at the semi finals. I am not saying that this is guaranteed, if you bet just because of that then I am sorry, I could be wrong. I am just saying this based on the games I have seen from these teams so far this season, and I have also seen the first games as well so I really believe that we are going to see these teams play a lot better than expected, that's an important thing and we should be careful about it as much as we can.

There is a Fenerbahçe - Olympiacos game tomorrow, I hope Fenerbahçe does not fail us tomorrow and they win the game.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow and I want Fenerbahçe to win. Fenerbahçe has the quality squad to reach the semi-finals, and even has the squad to win this cup. I hope they don't make mistakes tomorrow and get to the semi-finals.

I don't know why the bookmakers are placing such low odds in favor of Fenerbahce, in my opinion in this game the odds value for Fenerbahce should be around 2.50 and for Olimpiacos it should be around 2.80 because I consider Olympiacos a good team that can come out of this game with victory, which is why if I were to place my bet on this game, I would choose the option "Both Teams to Score: Yes" which has 1.60 odds, it seems to me to be the best choice. It's true that Fenerbahce is a very strong team when they play at home, in the last 14 games they played at home, they only lost in 2 games, but Fenerbahce doesn't have a very solid defense capable of not conceding a goal in that game.

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LOSC Lille  -  Aston villa

the most unpredictable game tomorrow will be the LOSC Lille game against Aston villa, this is a game that the bookmakers are giving LOSC Lille as the favorite, but the odds value of each team makes it a balanced value in my opinion, LOSC Lille has 2.36 odds while Aston Villa has 2.95 odds, but in the first leg game it seemed to me that Aston Villa was a team that was more effective in attack and Aston Villa comes to this with a victory over Arsenal, which is a strong team in the premier league, while LOSC Lille has not played since playing in the first leg, so probably LOSC Lille's players may be a little disorganized and out of shape

Aston Villa has the following players injured: Boubacar Kamara, Emi Buendia, Tyrone Mings and Jacob Ramsey.

LOSC Lille has the following players injured: Andrej Ilic and Tiago Morais

The chances of Fiorentina victory over Plzen are of course very big at the moment, but I think it doesn't hurt for us to try to risk a little money by going against the grain, I mean, at the moment the bookie only gives odds of 1.40 to Fiorentina who are indeed favorites to win, while the odds for a draw like the first leg only get odds of 4.50, while for plazen wins the bookie gives odds of 9.00 of course if lucky, we will get refund the money is quite large with the odds of 9.00 given by the bookie, it is indeed too risky to bet on a plzen win or draw, but it never hurts to take that risk if we look at the results of the first leg match between fiorentina vs plzen.

Honestly I would bet on An Olympiacos win or a draw in the next match, because I think Olympiacos are not a weak team even if they are not favourites by the Bookmakers, in my opinion, Olympiacos will have high motivation in that match to maintain their chance, so I think Olympiacos have a great chance to repeat their victory in the first leg in the second leg.  So there is no harm in betting on Olympiacos at odds of 5.00 in the match.

I was checking the odds for tomorow games and Fiorentina with a 1.4 seems quite good to make some bet on it. I dont think they are gonna have another tie against a weak team like Pilzen, and less playing in Florence.

Also i take a look on Olimpiacos with a 5.00 odd...... i think is a very good one for those who catch underdogs.

But it not easy because Aston Villa is not stable team and they always play with small wins, this is not an easy competition considering that several other opposing team in front of them could give surprise and make Aston Villa suffer defeat.
LOSC always perform quite well for home games and even if Aston Villa is really focused on tomorrow second leg it still won't guarantee win for Aston Villa, I sure it will end in penalty shootout because of the same aggregate or big defeat for Aston Villa.
However, I don't think I know what they are preparing for tomorrow match and what is clear is that for the away match I really doubt Aston Villa can win easily.

For the Premier League, I admit that Aston Villa have just shown an unexpected surprise by successfully beating Arsenal without scoring goal, but this is only surprise because if they repeat it again it is not certain that they will be able to win.
Moreover, even though qualifying for the UCL next season is unlikely to last long because they will definitely be eliminated as soon as possible, it would be much better to focus on the Premier League rather than hoping for the UCL title.