Olympiacos Piraeus vs Twente prediction: EUROPE: Europa League – League phase betting tips on match 2024-12-11 17:45.
[p]Last season’s UEFA Conference League champions Olympiacos will be looking to continue their climb towards the top eight in this term’s UEFA Europa League (UEL), after recovering from an opening-day defeat to secure two wins and two draws since. Those positive results have contributed to a run of just one loss in their last 15 matches (W9, D5), the latest of which was a dominant 3-0 home victory over Volos to help them retain top spot in the Greek Super League. [/p]
[p]The Red and Whites will be confident of repeating that performance on the continental stage, since they’ve won eight of their last 11 European matches at the Karaiskakis Stadium (D1, L2). José Luis Mendilibar’s men will also be relishing the arrival of the Eredivisie’s FC Twente, as the Greeks have never lost any of their six previous home games against Dutch teams (W5, D1), four of which saw them keep a clean sheet. [/p]
[p]Twente will be looking to change that though and make their country proud in their first-ever meeting with Olympiacos, in what will be their first tussle with a Greek side since 1979! Joseph Oosting’s troops need the win for their current UEL prospects more than anything however, after some disappointing displays have seen them draw three and lose two of their five games, meaning that they currently sit outside the knockout-phase play-off places in 29th. [/p]
[p]With only three league-phase matches left to secure their spot in the knockout rounds of any European competition for first time since 2011/12, the Tukkers won’t be in the most confident of moods after they were dismantled 6-1 by PSV at the weekend. And their exploits abroad are also a cause for concern, since they’ve won just one of their last ten European away games (D5, L4).[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Ayoub Al Kaabi has scored four of Olympiacos’ five UEL league-phase goals thus far, putting him just one goal shy of becoming the club’s all-time record scorer in European competitions. Hoping to steal the headlines will be Daan Rots, who could undercut the Moroccan, seeing as seven of his last nine goalscoring outings for Twente have seen him net the match opener.  [/p]
[p]Hot stat: There have been goals in both halves in six of Twente’s seven European games this season. [/p]
[p][i]Written by Peter Stavrinou[/i][/p]