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Shakhtar Donetsk vs Hoffenheim Prediction & Betting tips
On Tuesday and Wednesday the group phase of the Champions League season 2018/19 will open with the first matchday. In Group F, Shakhtar Donetsk welcomes TSG Hoffenheim in Oblasnyy Sportywny complex Metalist in Kharkiv. In the group, the two also meet Manchester City and Olympique Lyon. The team of coach Julian Nagelsmann botched the CL dress rehearsal on Saturday with 1: 2 in the newly promoted Dusseldorf. With only three points from the first three league games, it is now the first Champions League group match in club history. How is the debut of the internationally experienced and quite home strong Ukrainians, who are playing their home games because of the conflict in the Donbass region in Kharkiv? In a detailed analysis, the betting base looks to the Champions League match Shakhtar Donetsk. Hoffenheim ahead. In our tip we inform you about all important statistics, the current form of the teams and the best odds for the game.
Shakhtar Donetsk:
While in Ukraine Dynamo Kiev is still the record champion with 15 league titles, since 2010 seven titles in the Premier League have gone to Donetsk. Coach Paulo Fonseca’s team also won the national double last year. The lead in the championship on Dynamo Kiev had amounted to six points in the end. It was the second championship in a row. On May 9, Donetsk also won the cup in the final against Kiev. This brought the Orange-Blacks the twelfth Cup success and the third title in a row. In the Cup competition, Schachtjor Dynamo has even overtaken. In the new season of the Premier League have been completed eight games. With seven wins and one defeat, Donetsk has again taken the league lead.
With a lead of five points on Oleksandriya, the “Miners” are clearly back on course for the title defense. The persecutor PFK Oleksandriya could be defeated on Saturday at the dress rehearsal for the premier class away with 2-0. At the beginning of this season, the club had to cope with the loss of top performers such as Fred, Bernard or striker Ferreyra. Thus, there was a certain change in the “miners” from Donetsk. Rivals Kiev have signed Junior Moraes, who has scored seven goals in the league. With 13 participations in the group stage Donetsk belongs almost to the permanent guests in the Champions League. Last season, Donetsk took second place in a group with Manchester City, SSC Napoli and Feyenoord Rotterdam and reached the last sixteen. At home you had won all three games. In the second round Donezk but then failed at AS Roma. Overall, Schachtjor won the last five home games in the premier class all. Donetsk has been unbeaten in five competitive games. There was only one defeat in the last eight games. In the last five league games met the Miners a total of 15 times.
Hoffenheim:
After they failed in the last season in the playoffs to the Champions League at Liverpool, the Hoffenheim may now finally ran in the group stage from Wednesday. In the subsequent European League group preseason, the nail men could then but not glaze with fame. In a group with Sporting Braga, Ludogorez Razgrad and Istanbul Basaksehir TSG was with five points last. Thus, the first European Cup participation in the club’s history was over pretty quickly. The European Cup record of the Kraichgauer reads therefore also not so well: In four away matches there were three defeats and a draw. At home there was a win, a draw and two defeats. In addition to the somewhat unsuccessful start of the season for TSG in the new season with only three points from the first three games, coach Julian Nagelsmann worries especially the large hospital.
The appearances of Florian Grillitsch and Kevin Vogt are questionable after injury in the match on Saturday against Dusseldorf. That would further weaken the defensive, which was already decimated anyway. On Saturday, the coach had to renounce players like Hübner, Adams, Bicakcic and Akpoguma. Bicakcic and Akpoguma have been able to train again since Friday and try to join the trip to Ukraine. In Düsseldorf, the Hoffenheim fleet showed combinations and pressed with high pressure. But before the opponent goal the TSG dealt with their chances quite wastefully. In addition, lost in the second round more and more the thread and conceded the goals by individual mistakes. So there was after the opening defeat at Bayern in the second away match of the season and the second defeat. Now six games in three weeks are scheduled for the Kraichgauer. Against Schachtjor Donetsk Hoffenheim is for betting on a win with odds in the high 3-range of outsiders.