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Leicester
Europa League
Group Stage
Thu , Oct 22 , 2020 21:00
3 - 0
Zorya
Leicester
Zorya
3 - 0
Leicest City host Zorya Luhansk in the first round Group G tie in the Europa League at the King Power Stadium (Leicester) on Thursday, October 22 and the match kicks-off at 8pm (UK).
MATCH PREVIEW
Leicester start their European campaign on Thursday after qualifying directly to the group stage of the europa league through the league. They are yet to record win in the UEFA Cup/Europa League (P4 D1 L3). It is their first appearance in the competition since season 2000-01 and the Foxes are one of seventy-seven sides to have played 4+ games in the competition without ever winning.
As for the visitors, the Ukrainian side, they have also qualified directly to the group stage by being 3rd in their national championship, behind the winners Shakhtar Donetsk and 2nd placed Dynamo Kiev, the two giants of Ukrainian football. Zorya are also former representatives of Ukraine in the Europa League, playing in the tournament and reaching the group stages twice before, and back in 2016/17 they played Manchester United, losing both games and finishing last in their group.
MATCH ANALYSIS
Leicester meekly sacrificed a top-four spot in a final-day defeat to Manchester United. Now The Foxes must pick themselves up for their first appearance in Europe’s secondary competition in 19 years.Brendan Rodgers lost Ben Chilwell to Chelsea this summer but in Timothy Castagne, a player with Champions League experience, looks to have purchased a ready-made replacement.
Last season’s Premier League Golden Boot winner Jamie Vardy has started the season on fire and the likes of Youri Tielemans, Ricardo Pereira, Caglar Soyuncu and James Maddison are a class above most of what the Europa League has to offer. The only question is how much Leicester’s stars will feature as Rodgers looks to balance his squad across the Premier League and FA Cup too.
Their coach is an ex-Werden Bremen player and manager Viktor Skrypnyk, who won the Bundesliga as a player with Werder and guided Riga FC in Latvia to the double winning both the league and cup in 2018, before moving to Zorya and ending third last season. The start of the season has not been as positive as they probably would have liked, in 9th place at the moment with 4 points after 4 games played.
Their team have a few stand-out players, with 33-years-old Olaksandr Hladkyy a new addition from Turkish club Adana Demirspor and previously an international with 11 caps for Ukraine.A reason for their soft start of the league season might have to do with their transition of a squad, and not yet played their team fully together. Zyroa sold higly rated midfielder Bohdan Mykhaylichenko to Anderlecht and central defender Yevgen Cheberko to LASK Linz.
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These two side have never before faced each other in a competitive match. The Foxes have also never met any Ukrainian side in Europe and no English team have ever lost to Ukrainian team at home. Zorya Luhansk have lost 5 of their 6 away Europa League games (W1), failing to score in each of those defeats.
As for the match on Thursday, the Foxes are definitely huge favourites to win and register their first triumph ever in the Europa League. Anything else would be a spectacular upset.
My prediction is: Leicester win
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