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Thursday’s Europa League Accumulator Tips
FC Hunedoara v Rijeka
The Romanian cup winners were something of a shock in 2024. Hunedoara are a second tier team who just missed out on promotion to the top tier last season, but did manage to win their first ever domestic trophy in the cup, which qualified them for this qualifying round.
They won it on penalties over Otelul Gulati, who, themselves, are a bottom half Romanian top tier team, so there was some fortune that the top Romanian sides were knocked out of the competition early.
Rijeka are one of the better Croatian teams, finishing 2nd in the table last year to perennial Champions League group stage regulars Dinamo Zagreb. They ended up well clear of Hajduk Split in third, and though they warmed up for this match with a friendly defeat, the defeat was 0-1 to RB Salzburg, a much higher standard team to Hunedoara.
Rijeka won both of their early qualifying round away matches last season at Dukagjini and B36 Torshavn before losing in Lille.
Croatia currently rank above Romania in the UEFA coefficients, 20th to 29th, and yet Hunedoara aren’t even a top tier Romanian team. The price could be a generous one if the ratings play out somewhere close to expectation.
Panathinaikos v Botev Ploydiv
The Greek team finished in fourth in their domestic league last season, a league which has become much more competitive again in recent seasons, and in which the standard seems to have risen.
Greece are currently ranked 14th in the UEFA coefficients, and whilst this ranking may have been slightly higher when Olympiakos were at their strongest, the competition at the top of the Greek Super League is much closer these days, with more good teams to challenge with PAOK and AEK Athens taking the top two spots above Olympiakos last year.
Botev finished in the bottom half of the Bulgarian top flight last season and qualified for this competition through cup success.
They scraped through the last qualifying round against Maribor of Slovenia, who had finished 2nd in the Prva Liga. This is a decent result, but it would be fair to say that playing a top Greek team is a step up.
Botev’s last venture into UEFA competition was in 2022 but they lost 0-2 away to APOEL Nicosia of Cyprus to be knocked out in the first qualifying round.
Bulgaria are down at 27th in the UEFA coefficients compared to Greece’s 14th, and with the difference in level between where the teams finished in their respective leagues as well, there should be a clear gulf in class on display.
Ajax v Vojvodina
Ajax may not be the force that they were only a few short years ago, but they should still have the class edge in this encounter.
The Amsterdam side have just completed four friendly wins in a row, against St. Truiden, Rangers, Al-Wasl, and Olympiakos, and seem to be in decent shape in the early days under Francesco Farioli. There are definite doubts about their ultimate level, and it is unlikely that they will challenge Feyenoord or PSV in the Eredivisie, but they should still have more than enough for Vojvodina.
The Serbians lost home and away to APOEL Nicosia in the first qualifying round last season, in 2021 they lost 1-6 away to LASK of Austria as well.
They finished a distant 4th in the Serbian top division. Conceding too many goals was the main issue, they conceded 42 in the regular 30 game season. For a team with aspirations of a high finish, this is too many.
There is an obvious quality gap between the divisions here as well, with the Eredivisie currently in 6th in the UEFA coefficients whilst Serbia are 19th, two spots below Scotland.
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