Vitoria Guimaraes vs Mlada Boleslav prediction: EUROPE: Conference League – League phase betting tips on match 2024-11-06 20:00.
[p]Now amongst the most favoured of the challengers to Chelsea for the UEFA Conference League title this season, Vitória de Guimarães are one of nine clubs to win both of their first two league phase fixtures. They’ll have been further buoyed by a 1-0 league victory at home to mid-table Moreirense at the weekend that kept them within striking distance of the top four, and it could also serve as a good omen given that they took points from the league games immediately preceding their first two Conference League league phase fixtures. [/p]
[p]They’ve been a force to be reckoned with up front in particular, notching 2+ goals in seven of their eight Conference League games this season including qualifiers. Manager Rui Borges confessed that the current playing squad are beginning to run out of steam after their weekend win though, telling the media that they “are worn out after playing 20 official games” and forecasting that “dips in form” are inevitable. [/p]
[p]Czech club Mladá Boleslav will therefore be hoping that this is their opportunity to break their long awaited European drought. They’re now 17 years without a win in the group/league stage of any continental competition, winning just one of ten such matches across their entire history (D3, L6), with their latest defeat to Armenia’s Noah (L 2-0) proving to be extremely disappointing.[/p]
[p]They too come into this midweek round in winning domestic form, though a meagre 1-0 victory away to newly promoted Dukla Prague left a lot to be desired as the match stats suggested it was an evenly-matched affair. That’s perhaps partly why they’ve been graded as the underdogs for this contest, which is a worry given the fact that Mladá Boleslav have won only one of ten (D3, L6) competitive matches as outsiders across 2024/25. [/p]
[p]Players to watch: Nuno Santos has been in tremendous goalscoring form for Guimarães, netting in his last three competitive matches of October, including in the win over Djurgården. Mladá Boleslav’s veteran defender Marek Suchý has returned the best Flashscore player rating in both of his last two club appearances courtesy of recording a goal contribution in each (G1, A1). [/p]
[p]Hot stat: Seven of Mladá Boleslav’s last eight matches against top-flight opposition were either drawn or decided by a one-goal margin. [/p]
[p][i]Written by Aaron Murphy[/i][/p]