⚽UEFA Conference League Discussion Thread -- 2023/24 | Winner: Olympiacos

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Bate Borisov - Konyaspor (21.07.2022)

Konyaspor continued most of the match with 10 players, but they managed to win the match with a clear score of 3-0. They showed everyone that they had passed the tour with this away win. Now they're going to play a formality match at home and wait for their next opponent...

Also, Konyaspor's third goal is truly a goal worthy of praise. Muric made an excellent shot with his left foot. The goalkeeper was helpless against this shot. Here is a link for those who want to see it:

https://youtu.be/T_ImS5ByWqg?t=382

[skarais]

Also, Konyaspor's third goal is truly a goal worthy of praise. Muric made an excellent shot with his left foot. The goalkeeper was helpless against this shot. Here is a link for those who want to see it:

https://youtu.be/T_ImS5ByWqg?t=382

I rarely watch the qualifiers because I don't know many players and teams. For the UEFA Conference League, I'll probably wait for the qualifying rounds to finish because there might be some good teams which will catch my attention later. For the UEFA Conference League, there are 3 qualifying rounds based on the rules and each round has 2 leg. So it looks like there are a lot of match that I have to miss for this competition.

[morvillz7z]

CFR Cluj + Aris to win @1.60, who says no?

I just checked the lineups, and despite the comfortable win in the first leg, Cluj is fielding their best 11 and not resting anyone. Now that there is no pressure, i believe they will easily score a few.

Aris is playing both games against Gomel at home in Greece. I'm not sure if the Belarusian team traveled back or spent the entire week on the beaches of Thessaloniki, either way, Aris should win even if they start most of their bench players.

Does anyone have any other plays/tips for today, AIK and Vorskla match smells like goals?

[Joca97]

CFR Cluj + Aris to win @1.60, who says no?

I just checked the lineups, and despite the comfortable win in the first leg, Cluj is fielding their best 11 and not resting anyone. Now that there is no pressure, i believe they will easily score a few.

Aris is playing both games against Gomel at home in Greece. I'm not sure if the Belarusian team traveled back or spent the entire week on the beaches of Thessaloniki, either way, Aris should win even if they start most of their bench players.

Does anyone have any other plays/tips for today, AIK and Vorskla match smells like goals?

I would better play goals then that i play favorites in this match. Both teams already have giant advantage and for them to get knocked out some serious stuff needs to happen. But they can win easily like they did in the first match. I played both teams goals instead of favorites but both teams should win if they go 100% in the match.

[buwaytress]

Moved across time zones and missed a whole round of games last night, only one game left on my calendar I thoight until I checked next date and saw haha.

No feelings either way for me. Maybe a surprise win from St Joseph but only because I have a particular feeling Slavia Prague could be a let down at home.

Dumb bets to take 101...

[Joca97]

Some really insane results happened im the Conference league. Sparta Prague was knocked out by Viking and also Radnicki Nis aswell lost to Gzira amd that is also a huge shock. PAOK one of the biggest teams in Greece was knocked out by Levski and another huge team was eliminated.

[LTU_btc]

I wouldn't say that there is many unexpected results happened. Yeah, few favorites got eliminated, but such things happens every season. What a day for Malta, all their 3 clubs reached next round. Hibernians kicked out Levadia, Gzira eliminated Serbian Radnicki after penalties and Hamrun won against Velez Mostar from Bosnia.
Sligor Rovers kicked out Motherwell quite unexpected. It again proves that level of Scottish football besides Celtic and Rangers is shit.
Osijek got eliminated by Kyzylzhar (I almost broke my keyboard spelling name of this team ). Kyzylzhar spent most of game in defense, but it was enough for them to make few dangerous attacks in 2nd half to convert it into 2 goals. One of biggest surprises.
One of fastest goals I saw recently - for Viborg it was enough 17 seconds to score goal and basically earn spot in next round: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpjdJ4L74Wo

[buwaytress]

Anyone took Crusaders at home? Basel had a huge lead and it was always liable to get a shitty result. Handicap was at least 8/1 IIRC, but on the move the whole time couldn't access any of my accounts.

But yeah man LTU_btc Malta feeling proud af.

[Daniel91]

I wouldn't say that there is many unexpected results happened. Yeah, few favorites got eliminated, but such things happens every season. What a day for Malta, all their 3 clubs reached next round. Hibernians kicked out Levadia, Gzira eliminated Serbian Radnicki after penalties and Hamrun won against Velez Mostar from Bosnia.
Sligor Rovers kicked out Motherwell quite unexpected. It again proves that level of Scottish football besides Celtic and Rangers is shit.
Osijek got eliminated by Kyzylzhar (I almost broke my keyboard spelling name of this team ). Kyzylzhar spent most of game in defense, but it was enough for them to make few dangerous attacks in 2nd half to convert it into 2 goals. One of biggest surprises.
One of fastest goals I saw recently - for Viborg it was enough 17 seconds to score goal and basically earn spot in next round: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpjdJ4L74Wo

It's a real surprise for me too that clubs from Malta and Cyprus are so good in European club competitions.
On the other hand, the clubs from the area of the former Yugoslavia, which used to be very good in European club competitions, and even won several competitions, had a disastrous night on Thursday and almost all the clubs from this area were eliminated, 11 or 12 clubs.
It is especially incredible how the clubs you mentioned, Radnicki and Osijek, were eliminated from this competition.
I watched Osijek's game in this competition and they really played a very bad game and were eliminated by an objectively much weaker team.
It is obvious that the clubs from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Macedonia and Montenegro are increasingly lagging financially and organizationally behind Europe, and this can be seen in the results of the clubs from those leagues in European competitions, with the exception of Zvezda, Partizan and Dinamo.

[casperBGD]

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Osijek got eliminated by Kyzylzhar (I almost broke my keyboard spelling name of this team ). Kyzylzhar spent most of game in defense, but it was enough for them to make few dangerous attacks in 2nd half to convert it into 2 goals. One of biggest surprises.

had to google them, to see who they are, and they are on position 12 in Kazakhstan league, where 13 and 14 position indicate relegation
and they kicked Osijek, that had some fine results in European cups in previous seasons, really big surprise

also Radnicki, that had lead at home against Gzira, and lost in the end, great results from Malta (as would be put in Serbian newspapers - everyone plays football today, isn't - that is always excuse when teams or national team lose to some teams from lower placed countries)

[Daniel91]

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Osijek got eliminated by Kyzylzhar (I almost broke my keyboard spelling name of this team ). Kyzylzhar spent most of game in defense, but it was enough for them to make few dangerous attacks in 2nd half to convert it into 2 goals. One of biggest surprises.

had to google them, to see who they are, and they are on position 12 in Kazakhstan league, where 13 and 14 position indicate relegation
and they kicked Osijek, that had some fine results in European cups in previous seasons, really big surprise

also Radnicki, that had lead at home against Gzira, and lost in the end, great results from Malta (as would be put in Serbian newspapers - everyone plays football today, isn't - that is always excuse when teams or national team lose to some teams from lower placed countries)

Isn't Gzira the club that kicked out Hajduk a few years ago? They always seem to play very well and get good results against clubs from the Ex Yu area 
It is really a big surprise to see the very good results of clubs from Malta and Cyprus and the disastrous results of clubs from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro etc.
Yes, everyone knows how to play football today, but obviously something else is happening here and the clubs from our area are no longer competitive in European competitions.
Obviously, big changes are happening on the football map of Europe right now.

[buwaytress]

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Osijek got eliminated by Kyzylzhar (I almost broke my keyboard spelling name of this team ). Kyzylzhar spent most of game in defense, but it was enough for them to make few dangerous attacks in 2nd half to convert it into 2 goals. One of biggest surprises.

had to google them, to see who they are, and they are on position 12 in Kazakhstan league, where 13 and 14 position indicate relegation
and they kicked Osijek, that had some fine results in European cups in previous seasons, really big surprise

also Radnicki, that had lead at home against Gzira, and lost in the end, great results from Malta (as would be put in Serbian newspapers - everyone plays football today, isn't - that is always excuse when teams or national team lose to some teams from lower placed countries)

I actually have been spending the last 2 seasons betting on teams from Central Asia (sorry if I'm not accurate) and the Caucascus -- Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia come to mind in all UEFA competitions. Bookies still give you shitty odds for them and I suspect it's mainly because of the money backing the actual European teams that's skewed the odds.

Similar sometimes for Israeli teams -- still get good 5/1 and above value for teams that to me are really of similar qualities to the Osijeks of Europe proper.

These micronations and Asian clubs have a lot of mercenary players... not good enough for top tier football but hungry to win.

[LTU_btc]

Some interesting results from today's games. Dundee United unexpected won against AZ 1:0 (pre game odds @6.50, Vikingur won 1:0 against Lech (@4.20), St. Patricks managed to win against CSKA Sofia away 0:1 (@6.00). But such minimal wins don't give them big advantage before 2nd leg. There is also few unexpected draws like RFS 1:1 Hibernians, Shakhtyor 0:0 Cluj, AIK 1:1 Shkendija.
Must see goal from Zrijnski - Tobol game, straight from corner kick, perfect goal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFt-bQu6q98

[morvillz7z]

<...>Vikingur won 1:0 against Lech (@4.20) <...>

This one didn't surprise me because i've seen Vikingur's stadium before, and it's not a pretty place to play. They have an artificial pitch, and it's quite windy out there. I can only imagine how challenging it must be for a team like Lech to play in such conditions. It reminds me a little of where Cluj had to play last week in Andorra, in an actual wind turbine.

Speaking of Polish teams, i'm a little disappointed that i didn't take Rakow to win, they now have 9 wins in 10 matches in all competitions to start the season (including some friendly/preseason matches)...it was decent odds also.

Anyways, i was lucky to land this little 4-team parlay on a last-minute winner. Feels good, ngl!

Must see goal from Zrijnski - Tobol game, straight from corner kick, perfect goal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFt-bQu6q98

Now that is a great goal, serious Alvaro Recoba vibes!

[buwaytress]

Some interesting results from today's games. Dundee United unexpected won against AZ 1:0 (pre game odds @6.50, Vikingur won 1:0 against Lech (@4.20), St. Patricks managed to win against CSKA Sofia away 0:1 (@6.00). But such minimal wins don't give them big advantage before 2nd leg. There is also few unexpected draws like RFS 1:1 Hibernians, Shakhtyor 0:0 Cluj, AIK 1:1 Shkendija.
Must see goal from Zrijnski - Tobol game, straight from corner kick, perfect goal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFt-bQu6q98

As said, just bet on all the games above 5/1 and you'll hit one or two, probably more, handicaps would maybe get you more wins if you're not feeling too hot on the underdogs.

Corner goals always look nice. Think Salah's done them twice with Egypt (sorry maybe not quite on topics but hey, corner goals deserve interrelated memories right?).

[buwaytress]

Only the one game tonight, but most people will be watching the Super Cup. Go Frankfurt haha.

Seems pretty good value for 2/1 for home team but almost 5/1 for Hajduk Split -- it's a coin toss for me really, best avoid for now. Tomorrow's a whole shebang of 29 games though, so let's get our tips in for that.

[swogerino]

Let me put it this way for tonight games,if you don't make money you are plain dumb  ,of course kidding.What I mean is that there are some nice games where some teams need to win at all cost tonight in order to qualify further be it in Europa League or Europa Conference league,also some games are pretty easy to find especially teams who have a good odd of over 1.55 and are playing home after winning the first leg away.

My choices for today games,the one that need absolutely the win is Partizan Belgrade and knowing the atmosphere there,I think it will happen at 1.65 odd when I placed the bet 2 days ago,today is just over 1.5 which means that most probably I am right.Then there is FSCB,Cluj from Romania and lastly Shkendija vs AIK both teams to score.It is been a long time I don't play sport betting but I have decided to quit slots in favor of these.

[buwaytress]

Let me put it this way for tonight games,if you don't make money you are plain dumb  ,of course kidding.What I mean is that there are some nice games where some teams need to win at all cost tonight in order to qualify further be it in Europa League or Europa Conference league,also some games are pretty easy to find especially teams who have a good odd of over 1.55 and are playing home after winning the first leg away.

My choices for today games,the one that need absolutely the win is Partizan Belgrade and knowing the atmosphere there,I think it will happen at 1.65 odd when I placed the bet 2 days ago,today is just over 1.5 which means that most probably I am right.Then there is FSCB,Cluj from Romania and lastly Shkendija vs AIK both teams to score.It is been a long time I don't play sport betting but I have decided to quit slots in favor of these.

Such pressure! I feel like I have to put something really dumb tonight now just because of this heh. But nah. Good picks and I'd say they'd be value closer to 18/10.

Good to quit slots and go back to sports (especially if you know football).

I took some favourites as part of a 5-leg ones, all 15/10 or more. So that means I got Basel, Cluj and Royal Antwerp at least -- and 2 of these played UCL not so long ago IIRC!

[LTU_btc]

Vaduz, team from 2nd Switzerland division kicked out Konyaspor from Turkey. And they didn't just win, but did it in style, scoring 4 goals away. Odds for their win were about 10.00
AZ Alkmaar after loss in 1st leg completely destroyed Dundee United 7:0. It again shows how poor level of Scottish football is.
Hamrun from Malta won against Levski Sofia 1:2 away @13.00 and it led game to extra time and penalties later where Hamrun won and reached play-off round.
From other results, Sligo Rovers win against Viking and Kisvarda against Molde is upsets, but on aggregate, favorites of pairs still went to next round.

[Joca97]

Vaduz, team from 2nd Switzerland division kicked out Konyaspor from Turkey. And they didn't just win, but did it in style, scoring 4 goals away. Odds for their win were about 10.00
AZ Alkmaar after loss in 1st leg completely destroyed Dundee United 7:0. It again shows how poor level of Scottish football is.
Hamrun from Malta won against Levski Sofia 1:2 away @13.00 and it led game to extra time and penalties later where Hamrun won and reached play-off round.
From other results, Sligo Rovers win against Viking and Kisvarda against Molde is upsets, but on aggregate, favorites of pairs still went to next round.

I am shocked that Konyaspor lost to Vaduz this is just a big upset. Konyaspor was an apsolute favorite and to get knocked out by a lower league team is just even more insane. Also Hamrun will play against Partizan and i think thats where their road is finished