Our prediction for this Europa Conference League match:
Partizani
Match Time & Date:
31/08/2023
20:00
Prediction: 0-1
Astana
Elbasan Arena will host Thursday’s Conference League game between Partizani and Astana, who are likely to take part in yet another close encounter. Astana managed to break the deadlock in the first leg, with Stjepan Loncar scoring the only goal of the match and, no doubt, the Bosnia midfielder should be recalled to the starting XI after he was rested in a 1-0 loss to Kairat at the weekend.
Partizani, on the other hand, had no more than one shot on target in the first leg and given Eros Grezda’s struggling with injury, we predict that Astana are going to advance to the Conference League group stages. Marcelino Preka is widely expected to return to Partizani’s starting XI. You should bear in mind that under 2.5 goals have been netted in five of Partizani’s last eight games in all competitions.
Highlighted Team (Astana):
Astana are a Kazakh football club which was founded in 2009. The Blue and Yellows won their first domestic trophy in 2014, with the team finishing the regular part of the season in third place in the standings. However, thanks to their brilliant displays in the Championship round Astana won the national championship.
The big-spending Kazakh club have always been attracting high-profile footballers from Russia and Ukraine and it has to be noted that the likes of Yegor Titov, Andrey Tikhonov and Maksim Shatshikh played for the Blue and Yellows in the past. Nowadays Astana are considered the best football club in Kazakhstan and you should bear in mind that they won their third consecutive league title in 2016.
However, participating in the 2015/2016 Champions League group stages is considered the club’s biggest success. Astana faced the likes of Benfica, Atletico Madrid and Galatasaray in Group C and they collected 4 points from possible 18 in the process. It has to be noted that they shared the spoils with Diego Simeone’s men at their Astana Arena.
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