Sheriff should be able to get their qualifying campaign off to a strong start with a home victory over Kosovo based side, KF Prishtina. Not much is known about the travelling side here other than that they have competed in the Europa League on one previous occasion back in the 17/18 season.

Sheriff have a decent history of featuring in major European competitions, having played in the Europa League on a handful of occasions, as well as qualifying for the Champions League once. They topped the Moldovan Super Liga during the regular campaign but were unable to top the Championship group that the league splits off into at the end of the season, costing them a spot in Champions League qualifying.

Sheriff are more than experienced at this level and should really be in the hat for Champions League qualification. They’ve started this domestic season strongly with three wins from their three matches, so they also have match sharpness to aid them in their quest of reaching the Europa League. 

Shakhtar have a strong history of featuring in European competitions having competed in the Champions League for each of the last eight seasons. They’ll have to settle for a spot in the Europa League this time around, having finished third in the Ukrainian Premier League last season, losing out on a Champions League spot to Dynamo Kyiv.

Shakhtar should be able to navigate this tie quite comfortably. IIlves have never featured at any level in European competition before and may find their best avenue to it is through the Conference League, seeing as they’ve been drawn against one of the tougher sides in the first stage of qualifying.

Shakhtar scored 69 goals in the Ukrainian Premier League during the 24/25 campaign, which was more than any other side in the division and works out as an average of 2.3 goals per game. Expect the hosts to be too strong here, they are 1.10 to win the match and look good value to score in both halves at 1.70.

Legia Warsaw are strong favourites to get their Europa League Qualifying campaign underway with a victory here. They actually faced off against Aktobe in Europa League qualifying last season and managed to come away 3-0 winners across the two legs, with Legia winning both halves in the home meeting.

Legia Warsaw competed in the Conference League last season, but this is a club that has competed in the Europa League and even the Champions League within the last 10 years, so they’ll be hoping to make that step up again to Europe’s more prestigious competition.

Aktobe hail from Kazakhstan and currently sit third in their domestic league, one advantage the away side will have here is match fitness and sharpness, seeing as they are halfway though their campaign. They finished third in the Kazakhstan Premier League last year but have never competed in any European competition before. There is plenty of value in Legia to win both halves at 2.88.