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Sporting (Por) vs Aberdeen (Sco) Prediction & Betting tips
In the third qualifying round of the Champions League, the first teams from the major competitions enter. This is also the case for Sporting, which can compete against Aberdeen in-house.
Sporting CP:
Sporting Lisbon has not become champions of Portugal since 2002 and has actually had to tolerate Benfica and FC Porto for the last decade. Os Leões (de Leeuwen) managed to reach a European group stage for six years in a row and is going for number seven this season. Last season, Sporting spent the winter together with LASK Linz at the expense of PSV in the Europa League. In the sixteenth final, the European champion Istanbul Basaksehirspor was then too strong.
The fact that Sporting has to survive two preliminary rounds is due to an unlikely final day of the competition. Sporting was firmly third with a three-point lead over number four Braga. Sporting went to visit arch-rival Benfica, who no longer played for anything and still had the cup final on the program. Braga had to play against champions FC Porto at the same time. What the Sporting fans secretly feared came out: Sporting lost to the arch-rival and Braga stunted against the champion, which meant that Sporting lost third place (and therefore participation in the group stage of the Europa League) on the final day of play and two instead. must survive preliminaries.
It was immediately Sporting’s last official match, as the Portuguese competition has not yet started. This also makes it guesswork about the new composition of the team. Strong holders such as Jérémy Mathieu, Marcos Acuna and Matheus Pereira have left the Alvalade and as new faces were Pedro Goncalves (for 6.5 million from Famalicao), Zouhair Feddal (3 million, Betis) and Nuno Santos (3 million, Rio Ave).
Aberdeen:
Where for Sporting the previous season ended in July and the new season has yet to start, Aberdeen has been going on for a while in the 20/21 season. In the league, The Dons completed their sixth game last weekend and it resulted in their second loss. At home, Motherwell lost no less than 0-3. This score was already reached after 23 minutes.
Also in Europe, Aberdeen has already had two games. In the first qualifying round, the Scots had little trouble with NSI Runavik from the Faroe Islands and won 6-0. In the following round that was played last week, the Norwegian cup winner Viking Stavanger offered a little more resistance, but Aberdeen nevertheless managed to win a 0-2 victory. The goals came in the name of central defender Ross McCrorie and midfielder Ryan Hedges, who was also good for a hat-trick against Runavik.