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Slavia Prague vs Genk Prediction & Betting tips
Genk seems to be heading for the title comfortably in his own country and also in the European context, there is success in celebrating winter: Thursday evening the first game in the sixteenth final against Slavia Prague is on the program.
Slavia Prague:
The sixteenth final between Slavia Praag and Racing Genk is the only poster between two front runners in their league. Slavia Prague is well on its way to crowning itself as the best team in the Czech Republic, just as in the 2016/17 season. After twenty games, the team of Jindrich Trpisovsky is at the top of the rankings with no less than 52 points, six more than close chasing Viktoria Plzen. In their own country, the team has been unbeaten since September and ten of the last eleven league games ended in a win and one in a draw.
In the Europa League, the Czechs finished with ten points from six games in second place behind Zenit St. Petersburg, but for Stade Rennes and FC Copenhagen. So there is plenty of success at Slavia, which has in recent years taken the title of best team from the capital of rival Sparta Prague.
At Slavia Prague we come across some famous names. Topscorer of the team is Miroslav Stoch, who in 2010 became champion of the Netherlands with FC Twente. The Slovakian scored eleven times so far. Mick van Buren is also under contract with Slavia. He fell into the 2-0 match against Teplice last Saturday and was immediately accurate. Also midfielder Tomas Soucek is a player to keep an eye on: the Czech international was so far good for six hits and five assists.
Genk:
Racing Genk is running a great season. The Limburgers are at the top in the First Division after 26 games with 57 points and the lead at number two Club Brugge has already risen to eleven points. However, because the Belgian league has a play-off round for which the number of points from the regular league are divided by two, the lead for the team of coach Philippe Clément does not give any certainty.
Genk qualified for the sixteenth final by winning a pool with Besiktas, the Swedish Malmö FF and the Norwegian Sarpsborg. However, this happened with the heels over the ditch, because the group remained exciting until the last round of play. The Limburgers, for example, went against the small Sarpsborg and shared the points with Malmö and Besiktas. By a 4-0 victory over Sarpsborg in the last round, Genk managed to get through the group first.
There are personnel problems at Genk in the run-up to Thursday. Stunning Leandro Trossard, who already scored seventeen hits this season in all leagues, dropped out with an ankle injury last weekend and although the injury turns out to be less serious than initially thought, it is unlikely that he will make minutes on Thursday-evening. This also applies to the Norwegian midfielder Sander Berge, who suffers a calf injury.