Salzburg vs G.A. Eagles prediction: EUROPE: Europa League – League phase betting tips on match 2025-11-05 17:45.
[p]Salzburg’s quest for their first points of the 2025/26 UEFA Europa League (UEL) league phase sees them host high-flying Go Ahead Eagles, who are looking for a third consecutive win in this competition.[/p]
[p]Match News and Current Form[/p]
[p]Salzburg failed to make their lead count on matchday three, losing 3-2 to Ferencváros, extending their sequence of defeats in Europe to five games. Four of those results have come by a single-goal margin, but ten losses in their last 11 league phase matches – including last season’s UEFA Champions League (W1) – suggests that reaching the knockout stage will be a tall order for the Red Bulls. Three successive domestic wins coming into this fixture certainly serve as a ray of hope, but a nine-game run without a victory (D2, L7) at home in UEFA encounters indicates that the task will be far from straightforward here.[/p]
[p]Go Ahead Eagles upset Aston Villa 2-1 on matchday three for a second consecutive win in the league phase, coming from a goal down in both games. The Dutch visitors are impressing in their debut appearance in a major UEFA competition group/league phase (W2, L1) and find themselves just a point off the top four ahead of this round of fixtures, although their form in the Eredivisie (W3, D4, L4) means that they are firmly in mid-table domestically. Ominously ahead of Thursday, Melvin Boel’s men have found things difficult away from home recently, with three defeats on their last four trips (W1), even if that sole victory was against Panathinaikos in the UEL.[/p]
[p]Head-to-Head History[/p]
[p]Salzburg have a positive record in 13 previous competitive games against teams from the Netherlands (W6, D4, L3), while this is a first-ever match against Austrian opposition for Go Ahead Eagles.[/p]
[p]Hot Stats and Streaks[/p]
[p]Salzburg have scored 2+ goals in each of their last six matches.[/p]
[p]Only four of Salzburg’s 11 UEFA league phase games have seen both teams score.[/p]
[p]Thirteen of the last 17 competitive goals in Go Ahead Eagles matches have arrived after half-time.[/p]
[p]Eight of Go Ahead Eagles’ last nine goals have been scored in the second half.[/p]
[p]Key Players to Watch and Missing Players[/p]
[p]Petar Ratkov rounded off the scoring in Salzburg’s 4-1 win at the weekend, meaning that four of his last five goals have arrived on or beyond the 70th minute. Mathis Suray has seen his last four goals come in three victories for Go Ahead Eagles, including against Villa on matchday three, but all those goals have come at home.[/p]
[p]Salzburg have a lengthy list of potential absentees including captain Mads Bidstrup and Karim Onisiwo, while Go Ahead Eagles could be without creative midfielder Jakob Breum among others.[/p]
[p]For all the latest team news, please check the Flashscore match centre.[/p]
[p]Betting Analysis[/p]
[p]Backing over 2.5 goals and both teams to score could prove to be a winning pick on account of these sides being involved in plenty of high-scoring affairs.[/p]
[p][i]Author: Sridhar Bhamidi[/i][/p]