Our prediction for this Europa Conference League match:
Basaksehir will look to stay atop of Group A when they take on Fiorentina at Basaksehir Fatih Terim Stadium on Thursday evening. The Turkish outfit impressed in a 4-0 crushing of Hearts, with experienced striker Okaka once again proving his worth. Emre Belozoglu’s men are high on spirits ahead of their second group game, but this will be anything but a walk in the park for the home side.
The Viola, on the other hand, suffered a dip in form, with the team losing to Bologna in the Serie A, while dropping two points in their Conference League opener with RFS. Igor is back from a domestic ban, while Dodo has joined Nikola Milenkovic and Gateano Castrovilli in the recovery room. Milenkovic’s absence is probably the main reason why we are going to put our money on Basaksehir this time out.
Highlighted Player (Nacer Chadli):
Nacer Chadli is an Belgian football with Moroccan roots born on 2nd of August 1989 in Liege. Chadli started his youth career at Standard Luik and went to the youth academy of MVV Maastricht in 2005. After playing for AGOVV Apeldoorn and FC Twente in the Netherlands he got transferred to Tottenham Hotspur for approximately 7 million euro.
Nacer Chadli got selected for both the Belgian and the Moroccan national football team. Eventually Chadli decided to play for the Belgian team where he made his debut in March 2011.Chadli is a offensive midfieldier which prefers to play on the right side of the pitch. With 187cm he is physically very strong and despite his length Chadli is known for his agility as well.
Chadli played for over 30 games for the national team of Belgium and was active on the World Cup 2014 as well. The biggest achievement of Chadli was in season 2010/2011 where he managed to win the national cup with FC Twente. Chadli is a hard working player that showed it’s possible to start from the bottom and end at the top.
Highlighted Team (Fiorentina):
AC Fiorentina was founded on 29th of August in 1926 after a fusion between Libertas and CS Firenze. Currently Fiorentina is playing his home games in the Stadio Artemio Franchi in Florence which can accommodate 47282 supporters. The stadium was build in 1931 by Pier Luigi Nervi. De first prize ever won by Fiorentina was the CoppaItalia in the season of 1939/1940. The first Scudetto (name for the Serie A title) was in 1955/1956. One of the most important players in that season was the Brazilian Juninho. In 1996 he was rewarded as the best player in club history.
One year later Fiorentina lost the semi finals in the European Cup 1 against Real Madrid. During that period of time Fiorentina won the Europan Cup 2 against Glasgow Rangers and the Coppa Italia as well. In total Fiorentina won the league title twice.
Important football players that played for Fiorentina are: Batistuta, Baggio, Effenberg, Laudrup, Mijatovic and Rui Costa.