UEFA Conference League 2023/24 Season

[ingiltere]

There were plenty of goals in all the matches today, all of them finished over 2.5 goals, but only the Ajax - Aston Villa match was scoreless. However, there were millions of bettors waiting for this match to go over goals. Such situations don't seem like coincidence to me anymore. I watched the match for 90 minutes and neither team made much effort to find a goal. 0-0 was enough for both sides. In fact, Ajax should have scored at home. The second game will be difficult for them.
Konsa and Gooijer got red cards in the last minutes of the game. They won't be available for the second match. I expect Aston Villa to win the second match at home and go through quarter final. I especially didn't like Ajax's game today. Aston Villa was okay with draw at away game.

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[Dzigie]

My picks for next round:

Union Saint-Gilloise - Fenerbahçe
Belgian team is doing pretty good in European competition. They are the leader in their respective league as well. Fenerbahçe has bigger budget and star players but I like how USG play.

Amoura has a very impressive performance. He is like Cengiz Ünder in his prime. I was expecting this performance from Cengiz Ünder but I saw it from him in the first half. Also, when they get the ball, they counterattack very fast. This is definitely one of the most difficult games for us this season. Union Saint-Gilloise will probably be more dangerous in Istanbul because they are very prone to counter-attacks. I liked Çağlar's performance for Fenerbahçe. He will have a big role in defense in this match. I hope our strikers will be more prominent in the rest of the game.

[snipie]

Union Saint-Gilloise is a difficult opponent. Belgium's best team this year, the last time they lost in their league was 6 months ago.
Union Saint-Gilloise is a strong opponent for Fenerbahçe, I hope Fenerbahçe plays well and wins the game.

I am a bit surprised with the result of that game and I find it large comparing the ability of the two teams. I have nothing to say about Fenerbahçe but we expected more from Union Saint-Gilloise than being defeated by 3 goals to 0.
The other Belgian team, Club Brugge, lost their game too but with only one goal difference so their chances are bigger to catch-up in the second leg than Union Saint-Gilloise...

[MK-74]

Fenerbahçe beat Union Saint-Gilloise 3-0 last night, I'm happy for Fenerbahçe. It's a very good score for the next round.
Fenerbahçe played really well, I think it was a comfortable win. I wish they would play as enjoyable in the league.

[karabiber]

Fenerbahçe beat Union Saint-Gilloise 3-0 last night, I'm happy for Fenerbahçe. It's a very good score for the next round.
Fenerbahçe played really well, I think it was a comfortable win. I wish they would play as enjoyable in the league.

I was afraid of Union SG, but I saw in the Fenerbahçe match that this is a well trained team with normal physical capacity, but they don't have players with high technical capacity. They are just an athletic team. Fenerbahçe's top players with high technical level unlocked the game against Union SG. In fact, the total value of Union SG is 66 million euros and the estimated value of Fenerbahçe is 360 million euros. This means that it is normal for Fenerbahçe to beat a team with whom they will play a friendly match. The Fenerbahçe defense performed very well in this match, but the problems persist. The attacking players made smart moves and led Fenerbahçe to victory.

[Distraction]

First of all, you can easily see the huge value difference between these 2 teams. This can also give you some good information about the quality difference here.

But on the other hand there was a really solid data regarding Union Saint-Gilloise in their domestic league. They have done incredible things in Jupiler Pro League in only 3 years after going up there. They even eliminated a team like Frankfurt in the Europa League also. After seeing this data in front of me I thought they would be really dangerous competitor for Fenerbahçe. However Fenerbahçe had a huge performance last night. I think a 3-0 win is more than enough to seal the deal. 

[Strongkored]

Sometimes the club's market value is not a guarantee of the results that will be obtained as proven by Bayer Leverkusen in the European league being held to a draw by the Qarabag team whose market value is far below Bayer, so the results obtained by Fenerbahçe are still impressive because even though Fenerbahçe is a team that has a bigger market value, USG is favorites in this first meeting and winning 3-0 will be a big asset for Fenerbahçe in the second match to ensure they qualify for the quarter-finals.

Ajax actually got a bad result and playing without a goal against Aston Villa will make the chances of getting to the next round even tougher and Aston Villa should be able to make good use of the next match by performing better by winning the match even with a narrow score.

[Palakka]

Fenerbahçe beat Union Saint-Gilloise 3-0 last night, I'm happy for Fenerbahçe. It's a very good score for the next round.
Fenerbahçe played really well, I think it was a comfortable win. I wish they would play as enjoyable in the league.

The difference in the quality of the team was very visible in the match, although Union is currently a great team in the Belgian League but apparently they have to admit the quality of the squad owned by Fenerbache, the 3-0 defeat at home is a sign that the quality of players owned by Union is currently not able to compete in Europe, although throughout the match they continue to dominate but honestly they have a bad finish in my opinion,  Throughout the game, Union was able to continue shooting, but somehow their players didn't seem to know where the goal was and made the Fenerbache goalkeeper not have to
work hard in the match.

I think winning 3-0 on aggregate at home to Union is certain that now Fenerbache has stepped one foot into the last 8 of the Conference League this season, although indeed Union still has a second leg match, it seems I am quite doubtful if they can win at home Fenerbache which is known to be quite haunted for the opposing team, besides that for Turkish League lovers will certainly understand how the response and also the pressure exerted by Fenerbache supporters can make players Opponents lose focus and are often even intimidated.

[Gencecikmen]

Fenerbahce seal comfortable win over Union Saint-Gilloise. Fenerbahce a comfortable 3-0 win. Goals by Michy Batshuayi, Jayden Oosterwolde, Dusan Tadic bring away victory to Fenerbahçe in Belgium. The second leg will be played at Fenerbahce Sukru Saracoglu Sports Complex on March 14.

In another Conference League match, Ajax were held to a goalless draw with Aston Villa at Johan Cruijff ArenA. Both teams were down to 10 men as Ajax's Tristan Gooijer and Aston Villa's Ezri Konsa received red cards.

[ingiltere]

Amoura has a very impressive performance. He is like Cengiz Ünder in his prime. I was expecting this performance from Cengiz Ünder but I saw it from him in the first half. Also, when they get the ball, they counterattack very fast. This is definitely one of the most difficult games for us this season. Union Saint-Gilloise will probably be more dangerous in Istanbul because they are very prone to counter-attacks. I liked Çağlar's performance for Fenerbahçe. He will have a big role in defense in this match. I hope our strikers will be more prominent in the rest of the game.

Honestly Fenerbahçe surprised me. Sometimes they play very well and sometimes they are unrecognizable. I would have been able to speak more clearly if they had been a stable run. I expected Union Saint-Gilloise to be more resilient. This round is now Fenerbahçe's, that's for sure.
There was talk in the media that too much money was paid for Oosterwolde, but now it seems that the player could have been sold for a much higher price. Batshuayi played efficiently again. By the way, corner stats were pretty interesting, but the score is the most important.

[Sunderland]

Ajax actually got a bad result and playing without a goal against Aston Villa will make the chances of getting to the next round even tougher and Aston Villa should be able to make good use of the next match by performing better by winning the match even with a narrow score.

Yep, I can say almost impossible for Ajax to beat Aston in the 2nd leg later.
I dont think they will be able to repeat the same victory scenario against Bodo in the play-off round.

Ajax performance in Eredivisie probably the same as Chelsea in the Premier league.
They are fifth in the league now and have lost their last 2 away games.

[bering]

Ajax actually got a bad result and playing without a goal against Aston Villa will make the chances of getting to the next round even tougher and Aston Villa should be able to make good use of the next match by performing better by winning the match even with a narrow score.

I can see Aston Villa was targetting draw result from this match because since the beginning of this match Aston Villa let Ajax to dominate the game and sometimes Aston Villa can threaten Ajax defensive lines but basically Aston Villa was playing carefully because seems they don't want to conceded goal early and for Ajax actually since they were taking initiative to playing more attacking Ajax got several opportunities to scores but unfortunately their players were unable to utilized those opportunities to scores goals and for Aston Villa their target were accomplished because they can return to home without lost but for Ajax this result is very unfavourable

Second leg will be more easy for Aston Villa because they will playing at Villa Park and we all know Aston Villa was very strong in all competitions especially Aston Villa only required to win with at least 1-0 if they want to advances to the quarterfinal and for Aston Villa it is very possible to achieved especially they have Unai Emery and we all know he is very experience manager and previously Emery can able to gets several European trophies with his former clubs just like Villarreal or Sevilla so i am sure second leg will belongs to Aston Villa and recently i have checked the odds for this match and Aston Villa win has low odds @1.45

[redsun114]

Ajax actually got a bad result and playing without a goal against Aston Villa will make the chances of getting to the next round even tougher and Aston Villa should be able to make good use of the next match by performing better by winning the match even with a narrow score.

Yep, I can say almost impossible for Ajax to beat Aston in the 2nd leg later.
I dont think they will be able to repeat the same victory scenario against Bodo in the play-off round.

Ajax performance in Eredivisie probably the same as Chelsea in the Premier league.
They are fifth in the league now and have lost their last 2 away games.

Ajax which is suffering badly throughout in this season have another poor performance even playing against high-flying English club Aston Villa was not good but still they fail to do anything with this result now their hopes for having any trophy in this season almost ended and for the next season most chances we will have them here again because their performance in Eredivisie is also not good, and they are having problems to win games which are creating good difference of points as well.

After having goalless draw most chances Aston Villa will be brought them down in second leg game because their performance at home is impressive, and they will be happy with this result after having bored draw at Amsterdam Ajax needs to be had some changes in coming season otherwise surely they are going to have results like Chelsea again in next season.

[Volgastallion]

Not a bad result for Aston Villa against Ajax, i think they can win easily on Birmingham so not bad.

The surprise of the round for me was the horrible match made by Olimpiacos, totally destroyed by Macabbi Tel Aviv, i dont know if they can recover this gap in the away game.

Fiorentina game was also strange, so much goals in it.

[barbara44]

Fenerbahce seal comfortable win over Union Saint-Gilloise. Fenerbahce a comfortable 3-0 win. Goals by Michy Batshuayi, Jayden Oosterwolde, Dusan Tadic bring away victory to Fenerbahçe in Belgium. The second leg will be played at Fenerbahce Sukru Saracoglu Sports Complex on March 14.

In another Conference League match, Ajax were held to a goalless draw with Aston Villa at Johan Cruijff ArenA. Both teams were down to 10 men as Ajax's Tristan Gooijer and Aston Villa's Ezri Konsa received red cards.

We have good games in this round with few teams done impressive job like Fenerbahçe and Lille both won their away games with good score Maccabi Tel Aviv also won which is having coach like Robbie Kean against the Olympiacos Piraeus this was shocking result for me because I was expecting good win for the home team, but they fail to give any resistance and gone down with 3 first half goals bring them badly down, and they were not able to have anything positive in second half.

Next round could be more entertaining as Aston Villa will be host Ajax and D Zagreb which won home game against POAK will be defended their 2 goals Fiorentina having good fight back against Maccabi Haifa as at the end of first half home team were leading but Italian side done good fight back and bring themselves into limelight which provide them good win and advantage for the second leg match.

[Webetcoins]

First of all, you can easily see the huge value difference between these 2 teams. This can also give you some good information about the quality difference here.

But on the other hand there was a really solid data regarding Union Saint-Gilloise in their domestic league. They have done incredible things in Jupiler Pro League in only 3 years after going up there. They even eliminated a team like Frankfurt in the Europa League also. After seeing this data in front of me I thought they would be really dangerous competitor for Fenerbahçe. However Fenerbahçe had a huge performance last night. I think a 3-0 win is more than enough to seal the deal. 

That type of change usually do not matter all that much when it's a European competition. We have seen many many many teams that had less value in the club than the teams they beat. Look at all three competitions, from qualifying stage to right now, and you will see plenty of teams that beat 2x value teams without a doubt.

This time, it wasn't like that and it did have some changes, but it doesn't mean that we are going to end up with something that will change all that much neither, second game is still not played, so they should be careful. There is really not that easy way back from 3-0 losing, but I think it is not that bad to bet on them to win the game at least, even if the game ends like 2-1, it would still be a win, and we would get the profit.

[Sunderland]

Not a bad result for Aston Villa against Ajax, i think they can win easily on Birmingham so not bad.

The surprise of the round for me was the horrible match made by Olimpiacos, totally destroyed by Macabbi Tel Aviv, i dont know if they can recover this gap in the away game.

Fiorentina game was also strange, so much goals in it.

Israeli teams efficiently use of their limited chances to score, Olympiacos dominating the game but M.Tel Aviv also scores 4 times from 6 shots on target.
Fiorentina also dominating the possession and they score 4 goals from 8 shots on target, while M.Haifa manages to score 3 times with only 4 shots on target.
Also M.Haifa has gone Under 2.5 total goals in 7 of their last 8 games, Fiorentina definitely have problem with their defensive strategy for that match.
Without a red card for M.Haifa at minute 80' , I dont think Fiorentina will win that match.

[Distraction]

That type of change usually do not matter all that much when it's a European competition. We have seen many many many teams that had less value in the club than the teams they beat. Look at all three competitions, from qualifying stage to right now, and you will see plenty of teams that beat 2x value teams without a doubt.

This time, it wasn't like that and it did have some changes, but it doesn't mean that we are going to end up with something that will change all that much neither, second game is still not played, so they should be careful. There is really not that easy way back from 3-0 losing, but I think it is not that bad to bet on them to win the game at least, even if the game ends like 2-1, it would still be a win, and we would get the profit.

It is also the truth yeah. There are so many examples of much bigger teams being eliminated in such competitions. Even in the Champions League, but it is more commonly seen in lower tournaments like the Europa League and Conference League.    This is why I don't bet on these tournaments often except the Champions League. 

İsmail Kartal will probably rotate the usual lineup in the second leg. Because they have a Super League match in only a couple of days. They are fighting for the championship there. But I still expect them to reach next round safely in the Conference League.

[MK-74]

Fenerbahçe will play against Union Saint-Gilloise tonight. Fenerbahçe won the first game 3-0 and took the advantage.
It will be an easy game for them tonight, if they play like last week they can get a comfortable win.

[Velvet78]

Aston Villa - Ajax game is going to be one of the most attracting games today. Because technically Aston Villa are the biggest favourite to win this tournament this season.    I can't say I was satisfied with the performance they showed in the first leg though. The general look of the game was actually poor as the number of goal attempts was quite low.

Tonight we should be able to watch a stronger Aston Villa in England. The only and important thing I'm curious about is if Emery will make changes in the usual lineup. Because they have a game in the Premier League after this one three days later. Considering that the score of the first game was 0-0 I guess Emery wouldn't make big changes.