It was clear to see during last week’s first leg that gamesmanship and the dark arts are part of Kairt Almaty's repertoire. I’m fully expecting to see more of that from the host this midweek, given that they are now just one win away from qualifying for the Champions League for the first time in their history.

As such, I’m prepared to back Kairat to collect a minimum of three cards on Tuesday evening. The Kazakh outfit were shown exactly three yellow cards during last week’s first leg and I would expect a repeat - if not more - during this week’s make-or-break return match. Kairat clocked up three yellow cards during the first leg of their 3rd round qualifier with Slovan Bratislava while they racked up no fewer than five cautions when hosting Finish outfit KuPS in the previous round.

What’s more, Urazbakhtin’s hosts also covered the 3+ cards line during their first round qualifier with Slovenian minnows Olimpija Ljubljana.

Pafos showed in the first leg that they will be able to carry an attacking threat in this second leg. They had 14 shots, with three of these attempts finding the target and two of these efforts ending up in the back of the net. They more than held their own as the away side, with 42% of the ball and an xG of 1.85.

They also resisted the immense pressure from Red Star Belgrade, who had 26 shots but only managed to score once. Pafos scored 38 goals across their 18 home games in the Cypriot First Division last season (2.1 per game), which is further evidence to suggest that they can breach the Red Star backline again here.

Red Star’s performance in the first leg also would suggest that they can score here, they registered an xG of 2.38 in defeat to Pafos and they have also scored 16 goals across their opening games of the Super Liga season (4.0 per game).

Bodo Glimt were completely dominant in the first leg in having more shots (17-8), shots on target (6-1) and possession (58%-42%) than their opponents. They also won the xG battle with an expected goals tally of 2.03, one that they overachieved to score five goals.

We can expect more of an attacking threat from Sturm Graz in this game seeing as they netted 43 goals across their 16 home games in the Austrian Bundesliga last season (2.68 per game).

This should be quite an open game with Sturm Graz knowing the goal tally they will have to reach to have a chance of qualification here.