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Peter Green - August 8, 2023
Club Brugge vs Akureyri Predictions and Free Tips from our expert tipsters when the teams go head-to-head in the Europa Conference League Qualification on Thursday, 10 August 2023.
The quarter finals of qualification for this Europa Conference League season have ended in a decent way for Club Brugge. The team faced Aarhus and had scored a strong lead of 3 unanswered goals in the first leg itself. Aarhus failed to score past Bruges and conceded a 3-1 defeat in aggregate.
They will be facing Akureyri in the semifinals of the ECL qualification match-ups on Thursday. Akureyri had a strong quarterfinals display as the team defeated Dundalk 5-3 aggregate.
Do also note that Akureyri defeated Connah’s in both the legs of the round of 16 match-ups. However, the opponents they faced in the previous matches is not that strong as Club Brugge.
This will be marked as the first head to head meetings between these two teams.
Club Brugge’s recent home fixtures include a 3-0 win over Aarhus in and ECL fixture and a 1-1 Jupiler League draw against KV Mechelen.
Meanwhile, Akureyri follows an unimpressive form on the road of late. They were winless in five of their last seven road trips across all competitions.
When looking at the overall display, Club Brugge have the edge as the team faced stronger outfits in their recent outings. We expect them to seal a win on Thursday with the home advantage.
Three of the last four home matches of Club Brugge was high-scoring. Their offensive line looks to have the potential of netting in goals at a huge rate. Since the last two road trips Akureyri had goals over 2.5 ft, we expect this match to be a high-scoring one.
Knowing that Bruges have allowed a total of 7 goals in the past six home matches, we expect this match to have goals from both ends. On top of that, Akureyri have scored a total of 8 goals in the last four road trips.
Club Brugge’s current form with good exposure to the qualifications matches inclines us to back them here. We like to place Club Brugge to win Ht/ft as the main betting tip for this match.
For the second tip, we like to place the over 2.5 goals option considering the goal numbers of both at respective patches.
