Crvena Zvezda vs HJK Helsinki
The UEFA Champions League continued match in the qualifying round 2 presented a very interesting match, which brought together Crvena Zvezda the defending champions of the Serbian Superliga with defending Finnish champions Helsinki HJK. Luckily Crvena Zvezda got the chance to play at the headquarters first in this leg 1, playing at the Rajko Mitić Stadium a big hope was on Crvena Zvezda’s side.
This game does not rule out the possibility that it will run very fierce and quite emotional, because the ambitions of the two teams to appear in the Champions League are very large. In the previous round Crvena Zvezda took Sūduva away with difficulty, in the 1st leg Crvena Zvezda had to be held to a 0-0 draw then in the second leg they could take advantage of the home moments with a 2-1 victory over Suduva.
Although Crvena Zvezda had to play with 10 players in the 60th minute but they could maintain a 2-0 advantage thanks to goals from R. Boakye and M. Marin on minutes 4 and 29. M. Topcagić’s goal for Suduva in the 90th minute still could not save Suduva. Then for the Helsinki HJK they removed representatives from Faroe Island, namely HB TÓRSHAVN with the superiority of goal aggressiveness despite a final aggregate 3-3.
Helsinki HJK against HB Torshavn was difficult, this was unexpected because observers believed that the Helsinki HJK could win easily. But the fact was that the Helsinki HJK could be balanced, seeing yesterday’s HJK Helsinki game compared to Crvena Zvezda who had more experience even last season could appear in the Champions League group phase. Naturally the chance for victory in this match was given to Crvena Zvezda.
Our Prediction: Over 2.5
Odds: 1.80