On Thursday, starting with 19:30, the FC Basel – Anorthosis match will be played, within the Europa League preliminaries.
First of all, we must mention that the duel that will take place on “St. Jakob-Park ”will be refereed by the novelist Radu Petrescu. The difference between the two bands is really huge. On the one hand, the Swiss are a team with pretensions to the European spring of the Europa League, while for the Cypriots a potential qualification in the competition groups would be a real blow, both image and financial. However, the chances for the Famagusta team to produce a surprise are extremely small, especially in the context in which the qualified team will decide after a single round, which they will play away.
With only 7 points won in the first 4 stages of the First Division, the first value division in Cyprus, the team prepared by the Georgian Ketsabia looks like a “weak” team. With no less than 4 Georgian footballers in the first 11 matches, Anorthosis is a team that could hardly catch the play-off in Romania. We really can’t find any argument for them to come as a surprise in Switzerland. Exactly starting from these ideas, we will also outline our predictions.
-FC Basel, 2-2 with Vaduz in the first round in Switzerland;
-Anorthosis has scored 4 goals in the last 2 stages in Cyprus;
-The Cypriots have conceded a goal in 3 of the previous 4 games.
PREDICTION: Over 2,5 goals @ 1,58
