Besiktas hosts Braga in round 3 of the Europa League group stage. The match will be played on Thursday, October 24th at Vodafone Park (Istanbul)
Besiktas lost both matches in the group. There was a crushing 4-2 defeat to Slovan away and a home loss to the Wolves from England. The score was more modest (0-1), but points were not gained anyway. Besiktas is not doing well in its league. After eight rounds, the team has only two victories and three losses. It takes the unusual 11th place in the standings. At the end of last season, in which Besiktas won the bronze, the Eagles parted with a very experienced coach Gunes and appointed Avci to the vacant place. As you can see, it was a mistake.
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Braga is a team located under three well-known leaders in the Portuguese championship, sometimes alternately pushing one of them off the podium. Braga is a strategically competent team, which plays for the result. In the group, it won one match against Wolverhampton away (1-0). The second one ended with a draw with Slovan at home (2-2). But the merit in the increased scoring belonged to the Slovaks. Oddly enough, this club, which cannot be attributed to the grandees of European football, plays openly and is focused on the attack, which is why it is cute. And it gets the result it needs, thanks to such a strategy. Incidentally, Slovan is the leader of the group.
Besiktas has nowhere to retreat - it needs to gain points and win. The Turks probably won’t run to score at a breakneck pace because the technical and high-speed Portuguese can easily run in a counterattack, and it will be very problematic to win then. So the match will be held cautiously, and the hosts will look for gaps in the defense of the visitors. The Portuguese, in turn, will certainly not be against a draw in Turkey, that is, they will first play attentively “at home” and not open much. As a whole, it will lead the match to a low-scoring outcome. The opponents are unlikely to score more than 2 goals. Besiktas played with such an outcome in 4 out of 5 of its last matches. Opponents met in the Europa League 7 years ago. Both matches were played with Under 2.5 goals scored.
Prediction for the match: Under 2.5 goals scored
