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Valletta (Mlt) vs Utrecht (Ned) Prediction & Betting tips
With FC Utrecht from the Netherlands, a well-known club will take on the Europa League qualification on Thursday and have a more than just feasible task in the second round with FC Valletta from Malta. The fact that Utrecht is allowed to take part in this qualification at the end of the pre-season was a miracle. Now, of course, the club wants to reach the group stage.
Valletta (Mlt) :
FC Valletta had put the finishing touches in the last season in the Maltese Premier League and had to contend with fourth place. After the victory against the table leader and later champions, the Hibernian Paola, even the championship was still possible. But Valletta took only two draws from the remaining five games and two of fifteen points. In retrospect, the maximum yield for the master’s title would have been sufficient. And it is not that this was utopian, because on the last three game days, Valletta conceded three defeats and as many as in the thirty games before.
Be that as it may, there are no prettiest preparatory games for the new season. However, Valletta has already completed two compulsory games, as the club from Malta had to start as early as the first qualifying round. Valletta Folgore / Falciano from San Marino got a good start for the first round and went as a favorite in the race. In the end, Valletta should also be in the game with a 2-0 win at home and a 1-0 away defeat. For the game against Utrecht Valletta pulls into the stadium of Hibernian Paola. A real advantage or disadvantage for a club like the Valletta FC but not.
Utrecht (Ned) :
FC Utrecht played a good final season and took fourth place in the Dutch Eredivisie behind the three big clubs Feyenoord Rotterdam, Ajax Amsterdam and PSV Eindhoven. With fourteen points behind Eindhoven and eleven points ahead of Vitesse Arnheim, this fourth place was quite early. Utrecht went into the national qualifying matches for the Europa League. After Utrecht beat SC Heerenveen with 3-1 and 2-1, the all-important duel with the AZ Alkmaar came.
The first leg lost Utrecht away 3-0. When hardly any more the famous chanterelle on Utrecht continued, the team won the return with the same result. In the sixth minute of stoppage time, Utrecht could have even been able to pass the qualification, but the club awarded a penalty. Since nothing else happened, the penalty shootout over Europe and Utrecht finally won 4: 3. The preparation for the new season was rather sobering for Utrecht, as a 3-2 defeat by a Dutch amateur team followed Rubin Kasan as well as defeats against FK Ufa from Russia and Qabälä.