Qualification for the Europe League, third round, first leg.
Match will be played in Belgrade at Maracana stadium,53,000 seats. It is expected the presence of over 40,000 fans. This will be game between two teams with great traditions. Red Star,European champion from 1991st. and Slovan from Bratislava,winner of the Cup Winners' Cup in the 1969th year. Slovan is also five time champion of Slovakia and its team who has eight titles from the era of Czechoslovakia. But what is the real power of these teams at this moment. I would say that these are below average clubs at this moment. Slovan from five title of Slovakia champions,won only one in last 11 years. It was 2009th. Last season, the blue-white from the capital of Slovakia were eliminated in the playoff round of qualifying for the Europe League. In two games, Ajax Amsterdam was a better team with overall score of 7-1.
Red Star also in the past few years has been in the greatest crisis in the history of the club, as with the results as financial. Partizan Belgrade has total domination in the Serbian football League for years,and Red Star were finished last season without a general sponsor and with over 20 million of euros in deep red financial zone.
But this season it seems that they went a little better, it was signed a big sponzor contract with a large Russian company, Gazprom. In the club have returned some of the former players and reserved most players of last season. This of course is not yet enough to serious results not just in Europe but either in the Serbian league. But i still think that at home in the first game, Red Star will be able to achieve even minimal success.
stake: 10/10
picks: 1
odds: 1.55
bookmaker: sportingbet
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