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Rijeka (Cro) vs TNS (Wal) Prediction & Betting tips
At Stadion HNK Rijeka in Rijeka, Croatia’s home side HNK Rijeka is out for a win that will allow him to remain in the UEFA Champions League qualifying round when he receives a visit from The New Saints of Wales.
Rijeka (Cro) :
Rijeka’s squad are entering the UEFA Champions League qualifying round for the first time since their appearance in 1999/2000 where they were eliminated by neighbors FK Partizan Belgrade with a 6-1 aggregate.
During the last decade the Croatian squad made two appearances in the Europa League group stage which were in the 2013/14 and 2014/15 season and where Rijeka could not qualify to the next stage although they kept the undefeated at home in 12 Matches with 8 wins and 4 draws. However, they were eliminated from the second stage of the Europa League qualifying in the last two seasons.
Rijeka has shown a good level in their friendly games where they added three victories and a tie in four parties, being the victories before important equipment like are Lokomotiv Moscow and Astra Giurgiu.
For his part the Welsh cadres of The New Saints made a brilliant comeback in the return leg against Europa FC of Gibraltar in the previous stage and thus with a goal in extra time of Scott Quigley could get to reach this instance.
TNS (Wal) :
TNS has never reached the group stage of a UEFA competition with their best participation being a third appearance in the 2010/11 qualifying round before being eliminated by Anderlecht.
In addition, the CSKA Sofia of Bulgaria have been eliminated from the Europa League play-offs and since then the New Saints have reached the second qualifying round of the Champions League in 7 consecutive seasons.
Despite not having participated in the UEFA Champions League group stage, the Rijeka squad is a candidate to qualify in this edition and knows that the first step is to win this series against The New Saints, in the role the Croats are the Candidates and so make clear the bookmakers, but beware that the Welsh cast has shown that he also wants to make his story and is looking for a good result that allows him to reach his home game with a marker that allows him to achieve The feat of advancement; So the best thing we see for this match is the least 4 Asian goals, to say that with this alternative in case of scoring four goals we are returned the bet and from our humble point of view we do not see that this line of goals is passed.