AZ Alkmaar-Elfsborg and Bodo/Glimt-Porto are two matches from the first day of the Europa League and are played on Wednesday at 18:45: TV, streaming, likely lineups, predictions.
Doing well in the Europa League and trying to get through the new league phase, qualifying without any problems among the top 24, is part of the goals of AZ Alkmaar, which in the Eredivisie got off to the best possible start. Only defending champions PSV Eindhoven have collected more points (16) than the Maarten Martens-coached team, which is still undefeated (five wins and only one draw) and almost on a full score sheet.
Also in terms of offensive numbers, AZ is second only to PSV (16 goals compared to 23 for Peter Bosz’s team) but in their own half they have done even better, barely conceding two goals. In the last league match the red and white bent PEC Zwolle (1-2) thanks to a brace from Sadiq, who arrived last year from a Swedish club, Hacken. And Swedish is also the first opponent AZ Alkmaar will face in the Europa League: Elfsborg, led by former Palermo midfielder Oscar Hiljemark. The yellow-and-whites advanced to the league stage after passing no less than four preliminaries and will have the chance to play a European cup for the first time since the 2013-14 season. In the Allsvenskan, Sweden’s top league, they are sixth with six days to go: Europe is still possible.
The prediction
AZ Alkmaar is qualitatively superior to the Swedes and should not miss the appointment with the three points in this challenge. The total goals could be more than two.
The probable lineups of AZ Alkmaar-Elfsborg
AZ ALKMAAR (4-3-3): Owusu-Oduro; Maikuma, Goes, Penetra, Wolfe; Clasie, Koopmeiners, Mijnans; Sadiq, Parrott, Van Bommel.
ELFSBORG (3-4-3): Pettersson; Holmen, Buhari, Yegbe; Hedlund, B. Zeneli, Ouma, Hult; A. Zeneli, Baidoo, Qasem.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 3-1
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Transfer “polar” for Vitor Bruno’s Porto
Bodo/Glimt in the summer cherished the dream of taking part, for the first time in its history, in the final phase of the Champions League but it vanished at the most beautiful moment. The yellow-and-whites came up short in their last preliminary match with Red Star, getting a comeback in Belgrade after winning 2-1 in the first leg.
The Norwegian club, which made headlines in 2021 because of a 6-1 thrashing of Roma in the Conference League, is thus “relegated” to the Europa League, where it will debut with one of the teams that bookmakers say could go a long way: Porto. The Lusitanians changed a lot in the summer – starting with the bench, where Vitor Bruno, Sergio Conceiçao’s former deputy, sits – but the season did not start badly, on the contrary. The Dragoes have collected five wins in six days, losing only to Sporting CP (beaten, however, in the match that awarded the Super Cup last August). The coach is enjoying the goals of Omorodion, a center forward who arrived in the last weeks of the market from Atletico Madrid and has already scored 3 league goals. Bodo, on the other hand, is firmly in the lead of the Eliteserien, but on the last day was swept 4-1 by Brann.
The Prediction
Porto favored but, mainly for logistical reasons, the trip to Bodo is not easy for anyone. And the synthetic pitch of the Aspmyra Stadion may be a factor: it cannot be ruled out that the hosts will manage to score at least one goal.
The probable lineups of Bodo/Glimt-Porto
BODO/GLIMT (4-3-3): Haikin; Sjovold, Gundersen, Bjortuft, Bjorkan; Berg, Evjen, Fet; Zinckernagel, Hogh, Hauge.
PORT (4-3-3): Diogo Costa; Joao Mario, Perez, Jose Pedro, Francisco Moura; Eustaquio, Varela, Nico; Ivan Jaime, Omorodion, Galeno.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-2
