Kauno Zalgiris vs Apollon Limassol
The UEFA Europa League event is in the qualifying stage and one of the matches in this round is to bring together Kauno Zalgiris with Apollon Limassol FC. In this leg 1 match, Kauno Zalgiris got the advantage of playing in front of his own supporters first namely the Marijampolės sporto centro stadione. Of course playing at the headquarters a lot of hope was directed at Kauno Zalgiris to be able to take advantage of this moment.
Kauno Zalgiris itself is a representative team from the Lithuanian League competition, where the competition has been rolling and what needs to be considered is certainly the performance of Kauno Zalgiris. Unfortunately, this host is not what is expected as one of the contestants of this qualification, from 17 matches that have been done, Kauno Zalgiris is only able to get 8 wins, 2 draws and 7 defeats as a result placing themselves in 4th place standings.
Kauno Zalgiris also in the last game swallowed a 3-0 defeat to defending champions Suduva, this further doubted the appearance of Kauno Zalgiris. Whereas Apollon Limassol FC is still awaiting a new season so they need to do a number of trial matches in preparation for this fight, unfortunately as many as 4 friendlies they did only 1 match was won.
But the 3 games they failed to win were indeed against a difficult team which was defeated by Dinamo Moscow and Slovan Liberec then drew with Crvena Zvezda. But from the three matches the important match was able to compensate for the defending champions of the Serbian League, in fact the strength and quality of Apollon Limassol FC was better than Kauno Zalgiris. On the domestic side, the visitors have always been a favorite for the temporary champion Kauno Zalgiris last season and this season the score is not satisfactory. Although benefiting from a home, chances are that Kauno Zalgiris will still be defeated.
Our Prediction: 2
Odds: 1.40