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Steffen Schmidt - August 24, 2022
Fenerbahce vs Austria Wien
UEFA Europa League Qualification
Date: 25 August 2022, Thursday
Kick-off at 18:00 UK / 19:00 CET
Venue: Ulker Stadyumu Fenerbahce Sukru Saracoglu Spor Kompleksi (Istanbul).
Fenerbahce gained a big advantage ahead of the reverse fixture of the UEFA Europa League playoffs by beating Austria Wien 0-2 seven days ago on the Austrian soil.
The Turkish heavyweights controlled the happenings on the pitch throughout the vast majority of the affair allowing their counterparts no more than two attempts on target in the 90 minutes of play.
Fener continued their strong form at the start of the season with a 4-2 victory in the Turkish Super Lig derby against unbeaten Adana Demirspor on Monday afternoon.
Portuguese manager Jorge Jesus has immense talent all over the pitch, including the like of Enner Valencia who has six goals to his name in just three Super Lig appearances at the beginning of the season.
The Ecuadorian forward has bagged a brace three days ago against Adana Demirspor and he is our top contender for the anytime goalscorer pick here against Austria Vienna.
We would say the tie is all but over since it is very hard to expect the Austrians bouncing back in Istanbul.
The visitors have far more modest experience in European competition and they have regularly exited these in the early qualifying stages over the last several years.
On the positive note for the visitors, they did manage back-to-back wins over Tirol and Wolfsberger after a slow start to the 2022/23 Bundesliga campaign.
Fenerbahce showed the difference in quality between them and Austria Wien last week and we expect them to have an even easier job in the return tie on the home soil. Since Austria Wien registered just two shots on target in total in the first leg, we like Fenerbahce to win to nil at the odds of 2.20.
Fener won each of the last three games in all competitions by two or more goals difference. We will back them to do so once again against Austria Wien at the odds of 2.05.
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