Topic: ⚽UEFA Conference League Discussion Thread -- 2022/23 | Round of 16 - page 19. (Read 7315 times)

Today our 2 representatives Fenerbahce and Besiktas will play their last matches in their groups. Besiktas lost their chances to the cup, but Fenerbahce still has a chance. I hope both teams will end the night with a win, at least Fenerbahce must do it.

Dinamo is indeed a favorite vs Balkanni, but since I am watching them week after week in Croatian league, I simply can't put any money on them, no matter the opponent. Especially not the one that clearly dominated them in the first game, like tonight's opponent did.
On top of that, for Dinamo even a draw is enough so they don't really have to go for a win.

Indeed! along with Europa League but more random than it for sure

The fight for the first place in most groups is Intense apart from PAOK, Victoria Plzen and most likely Aston Villa and Brugge, the other teams have to pick the first place.
Lille for example should win vs Ki since Bratislava will most likely win against Olimpija. Dinamo Zagreb is way more favourite to win comparing to Balkani. Fiorentina double odds are quite good in my opinion.

Both teams to score between Fiorentina and Ferencvaros is safer idea. For PAOK they guaranteed the first place so they might not play seriously, so under 3.5 goals might be logical too.

Ferencvaros, Fiorentina, Legia and AZ are the teams who only failed to score once on their last 6 games.
Both teams to score is a good bet on these matches.

PAOK vs HJK, must hope HJK defense plays well today.
Ludogorets vs Nordjs, on their last games Nordjs slaughtered Ludo 7-1. Payback time with 2-0?

Good luck with these bets!

not sure about Legia vs Alkmaar, should be an intense match, Alkmaar needs a win to go through, and Legia will probably play defensively
interesting round, few spots are open, and there is a lot of fight for first spot, to be free in first kick-out round

Fenerbahce should be a good pick to have goals today, they need a win over Trnava, and I presume they will have it easily and with a lot of goals, so it is just which handicap to pick there

Lottery league is back once again! This time we finally have games with important stakes on the line and I might even trow a bet on this games and maybe even watch a game or two as some of them do have huge potential for games with a lot of goals.

So far , I like the following games : Ferencvaros - Fiorentina both to score , Legia - Alkmaar both to score , Paok - HJK under 3.5 goals , Ludogorets - Nordjs under 3.5 goals.

If this games are all green , I will comeback with 2nd round of games that will begin 2 hours later than the previous series. 

There could be bad games of every team, I do not think that there is need to overreact right away, there needs to be something that needs to change all the time and I think it needs to be something that could change on the long run, it has to be something that will be a bit regarding the bench players, because as it can be seen here, the moment the team had some injuries they became terrible.

I mean I do not really know their "main" squad, but it's written on twitter that they had plenty of players missing, so it's understandable to have one or two bad games, it's normal. Plus, the yare one of the leading candidates to win the cup, so it's not really that shocking that they would just rest players, they know they will go up the group anyway.

Yep, pretty lucky considering the fact that Astana was quite good in the end half and even missed the penalty. If they scored, I think that match would end up very differently as Dinamo was just horrendous in the first half and was ready to conceed few more goals.

I have to say that as a Dinamo fan since 1980s, it pains me to see them looking like this, where they are not favorites even against 4th tier teams and its been quite a lot of time since they were so bad. Worst of all, future doesn't look any better too as their youth team isn't what it was few years ago.

Fenerbahce lose of yesterday cant pass unpunished, they need to really punish the player in some way, you cant lose so much prestige. I see some parts of the game and man, that was one of the worst performance i ever seen in my whole life, the nordic team attacks and scores without so much opposition.

Fenerbahçe lost away with a disgraceful football. The manager Ismail Kartal is definitely responsible for this match. After this heavy defeat, he should either resign or the president should look for a new manager as long as the same football continues in the next match. I don't think it will go any further with Ismail Kartal because for the last 3-4 matches there has been a low form especially due to the absence of becao, djiku and fred. There shouldn't be reasons for losing games despite the absence of these three players and not finding a solution to this. There is no explanation for losing points in these matches when Fenerbahçe has a wide rotation.

What happened to Besiktas? How they can lose 5:0 at home? Ok, they're last in group, playing against group leaders, but still it's shameful. Show some respect to fans who come to support you.
Olimpija - Lille, I haven't seen worse pitch in UEFA competition for a while
https://twitter.com/GFFN/status/1730286283329528024
I don't understand how referee allowed to play there.

I must admit that it was a good bet for you mate but you were unlucky. Because I really liked their effort in the first half. Their goal expectation was around 1.20 but there was still no goal. If they scored first things could have been easier for you. But they couldn't. The red card they got after a goal conceded was the end of the hopes for Astana.

Astana literally couldn't do anything in the second half. It must have been really annoying for you to watch them in the second half.

I think the Europa League is harder to predict so I try to keep away from it for betting. 

Very interesting round in Lottery League today as we have  A LOT of teams what depend on a positive result today or at least a draw so that's why I don't expect to see a lot of goals because teams simply won't risk to lose the game just because they prefer to play super offensive and so far it seems I'm right because so far we barely got goals. However , the 2nd series of games of the day might bring a bit of spectacle and some goals but after what I saw yesterday in UCL , I think some red cards are on the way...

The next match between Lokomotiv Astana vs Dinamo Zagreb Group C is one of the most competitive groups because 3 teams will fight for points I mean they still have the same opportunity because the points are very close, only Viktoria Plzen certainly gets one place in the next stage who got perfect results with 4 wins. I don't know why Dinamo Zagreb seems to be favored today with the odds that is offered by the bookies but I know that Lokomotiv Astana certainly doesn't let it be easy because this is an important match I mean Lokomotiv Astana is likely to score goals so in my opinion Both Team to Score YES is an ideal bet, what do you think?


Besides that the match in Group F is also paying attention because 2 teams have the same points (6) and Fiorentina leads with 8 points, Fiorentina may collect 3 more points today playing at home against KRC Genk does not seem difficult I'm sure Fiorentina will not waste this opportunity because they are actually not safe,  while Ferencvarosi must take advantage because their competitors KRC Genk will not get points and Ferencvarosi has a great chance to win.

Group F most exciting here I think, but it is the same thing happening at every level actually. Milan having problems, PSG also and United all in UCL.

Go down one step and you see Ajax bottom of their group, Roma and Villareal in danger of playoff.

Not enjoyable to be fans of those clubs but nice for us neutrals of course

After I lost my bets, I forgot to comment on this thread, there were many surprises in the results, Besikitas lost, Aston Villa won, Fenerbahce also lost. They were losses that left me surprised. and looking at the positions of the teams in their groups makes everything more shocking, besikitas was a disappointment, they couldn't at least stay in second place, they are currently in last place with just 1 point. In 4 games they failed to have at least one victory. This is something very bad. Fenerbahce, despite having lost, is still in first place, but it still does not guarantee them passage to another stage, with the defeat putting Fenerbahce in a very delicate situation

If they lose in the next 2 games it could jeopardize their passage to another stage, so I hope they can win in the next game if they want to guarantee their passage to another stage. In the case of Aston Villa, they only need one more victory to guarantee passage to another stage and with that they would relax in the last game. Fiorentina are in a delicate situation, they need a victory to guarantee their passage, but a defeat would put them in trouble and with a high risk of not progressing to another phase. Honestly, at the beginning of the games at this stage I thought that all the big teams would go through without difficulties, but I'm seeing a completely different scenario

Ludogorets isn't a weak team also so I am not surprised to see them winning. Fenerbahce players are kind of sure of their qualification after the nice start they made in the group stage. They could win vs Spartak Trnava to qualify regardless of the result of Nordsjaelland games. Fenerbahce will end first for sure in my opinion.

The second half was indeed better for Fenerbahçe. They were able to create dangerous goal opportunities more than the first half. But wasting all of them was like the turning point of the match. Fenerbahçe couldn't get any proper contribution from either starting eleven players or the bench. 

Ferdi Kadıoğlu was the only player I can talk more positive about. He is a really consistent Turkish left-back which isn't a thing we see very often in Turkish football. He would probably get offers from bigger teams next summer.

Unfortunately, despite having a better second half than the first, Fenerbahçe left the field with a 2-0 defeat. Especially in the first minutes of the second half they had some good positions and attacks but they couldn't make the finishing touch as needed. Fortunately, they got good results in the first games and they didn't get into trouble.

Fenerbahçe have left a really problematic first half behind. They are 1-0 behind against Ludogorets away now. Piotrowski's goal was really unlucky for us as his shot was really hard to save for Livakovic.    I wonder whether the reason why we are playing this ineffective is our being in a comfortable situation in the group.

But the fans will still expect to see a better performance in the second half. They were like a ghost in the first half. Especially to compensate the unexpected loss against Trabzonspor it would be nice to get a good result here.