ZURICH - Villarreal
ZURICH - VillarrealOn Thursday night / 24 November 2016. / 20: 00. Swiss Zurich confronts the Spanish Villarreal in a meeting from 5 - th round in Group L of the Europa League. This group has become one of the most - interesting and unpredictable, the four teams in it have real chances to continue the phase of direct elimination. Opponents in this match are level on points 5 and split second place. Turkish leader here is Osmanlispor with 7 points in the asset, and the last place was the team of Romanian giants Steaua Bucharest with three points. World bookmakers determined Spanish team as the favorite in this duel by a factor of 1.91 for their success. Forecast for equality can perform at a rate of 3.60, and a victory for Zurich is estimated at 4.50.
Zurich started with a loss in the group that is against this rival - 1: 2 on Spanish soil. Merged it came their only success so far over Osmanlispor with the same result, then the Swiss team made two crosses with Steaua Bucharest - 1: 1 and 0: 0. Zurich presents fairly stable so far in the Europa League and has real chances to continue in the next stage of the tournament. As this is not bad for a team who perform in the second league of Swiss football. In the previous 18 meetings team in all competitions, only their current rival beat them this season, but do not forget that Zurich play in the second league of Switzerland. The only trauma in their camp is midfielder Gilles Yapi Yapo.
As already mentioned, Villarreal went with success in the Europa League against this rival, then followed draws as guests of Steaua - 1: 1 and Osmanlispor 2: 2, and in the last round gave the Turks in the middle of Spain with 1: 2. So the team of Fran Escribano will seek their first success in the Europa League three meetings since. Villarreal definitely not found in most - strong performance for the last four matches - winning once and losing three times. As a guest composition does not win since mid-September and since then record six times without success away from home. Outside the group will once again remain permanently injured Roberto Soldado and Bojan Djokic.
Villarreal is far - class - value of both teams it and win this match to seal their ranking for the direct eliminations. Zurich presents a stable level so far in the group, but a second-division Swiss team can not have potential for the next stage of the tournament by UEFA.