Football. ua announces the most intriguing fights of this week.
Most of the top European championships got off to a good start, and the qualifications for the European Cup tournaments of all stripes did not even think to slow down.. That is why the new week will arouse our interest in the first matches in the playoffs for Shakhtar Donetsk and Luhansk Zarya, but we will not forget the principled game in England either..
Monaco - Shakhtar Donetsk Tuesday, 17 August, 22:00, Louis II (Monaco, France) It was naive to believe that Donetsk Shakhtar's path to the group stage of the UEFA Champions League in modern realities will run only through rivals similar to the Belgian Genk. The Ukrainian team is waiting for a hard test for the French Monaco, which, obviously, even within the framework of the national championship has much more matches against status rivals for football than the Pitmen for the entire football year, even taking into account the European cups.
Roberto De Zerby's team is approaching the upcoming game amid a 2-0 victory over Metalist 1925 Kharkiv, who played defensive football against Shakhtar - just not the way the Monegasques will play. By the way, Niko Kovacs' wards in the domestic arena lost to Lorient (0: 1), which can serve as a positive signal for their upcoming rival. However, you should not relax, since the rather strong Prague Sparta flew out from Monaco with a score of 1: 5 on the aggregate of two fights.
According to Pinnacle bookmakers, Monaco is the favorite of the meeting. Experts estimated his victory at a coefficient of 1.68. You can bet on a draw with odds of 4.03, and on Shakhtar's victory - 5.01.
Rapid - Zarya Thursday, August 19, 22:00, Allianz (Vienna, Austria) Viktor Skrypnyk's wards, after the reform of European cups, were unlucky with the fact that now the " The problem is that in the playoffs it is much easier to get a rather difficult opponent as your opponent, which happened during the draw of this stage.. The "
Simple mathematics suggests that Dietmar Kuchbauer's team is in a much better game tone than the representatives of Ukraine, just because they played more matches, and even started a week earlier than Dawn. All this will put pressure on the “men”, and their last result in the UPL - a draw against the Transcarpathian Minay (1: 1) - thus even more brings doubts about the passage of the Luhansk people to the group stage. Fortunately, there is a lifeline in the form of the UEFA Conference League, but there is no desire to use it.. Moreover, in the newly created tournament, the Ukrainian club has no luck at all.
According to Pinnacle bookmakers, Rapid is the favorite of the meeting. Experts estimated his victory at a coefficient of 1.68. You can bet on a draw with odds of 3.99, and on Zarya's victory - 4.77.
Arsenal - Chelsea Sunday, August 22, 18:30, Emirates (London, England) Mikel Arteta's team in the opening round of the new season of the Premier League was put to shame by the absolute newcomer of the " Not everyone can start a new football year with a hashtag containing your last name and the ending " The fans are annoyed, because they simply do not see the vector of development of their favorite club, and what is happening inside the management is closed from us with seven seals, but this will also not last forever..
In all these conditions, getting into rivals already in the second round of the current UEFA Champions League trophy holder, who also acquired an expensive acquisition the day before, looks like a real " It is clear that the derby against Chelsea, in terms of its intensity, is not on a par with matches against Tottenham, but no one removed the status of principled from such meetings. Tuchel's team started with an uncontested victory at Crystal Palace (3: 0), and now everyone predicts their second success in a row. But will it be so after the final whistle?
According to Pinnacle bookmakers, Chelsea is the favorite of the meeting. Experts estimated their victory at a coefficient of 1.86. You can bet on a draw with the odds of 3.80, and on a win for Arsenal - 4.36.