UEFA Europa League Dinamo Kiev vs Astana
Dynamo Kiev arrives in this Europa League after being repescado of the Champions where they did not hold out in the playoffs to Ajax’s superiority, with whom they lost in the first leg away 3-1 and drew 0-0 at home on Monday.
The truth is that this defeat in Amsterdam put the team in a complicated situation, after a great entry in the season 2018/19.
Since then, Dynamo Kyiv have not been able to win again and have already held four more games, three of them for the championship, where he is in 3rd place with 14 points, 7 points behind Shakhtar but with less than one game played.
On the final day, which took place for Dynamo on Sunday, were not beyond a 1-1 draw at the Zorya Lugansk terrain, having even begun to lose.
Still, it was better than the previous day, where they were surprised on their own ground by modest Karpaty Lviv, with whom they lost 2-0.
With Astana, Jablonec and Rennes in Group K of this Europa League, the Ukrainians have the obligation to move on and even can feed the dream of reaching the final and lift the trophy and, thus gaining direct entry into the group stage of the 2019/20 Champions League.
Astana started their European trek this very early season, still in the starting lineup of July, in the first qualifying round of the Champions League.
Having knocked out Sutjeska and Midtjylland, they fell to Dynamo Zagreb’s Croatians in the third qualifying round and were forced to play the playoffs of access to this group stage of the Europa League.
There, they faced the Cypriots of APOEL Nicosia and secured the qualification in the penalties, after the tie of 1-1 to two hands.
After that decisive game, Astana only played a match, it was last Sunday, in the reception to Kaisar, seventh place in a league with 12 teams, with which they drew 0-0.
Still, Astana remains steadfast in the Kazakh League leadership with 58 points in 24 games, 4 more than second-placed Kairat.
This formation of Kazakhstan has acquired some experience at the European level of the last times, nevertheless sees Dynamo Kyiv and Rennes starting as favorites to qualify in this group, and there is Jablonec in the middle to try to shuffle the accounts.
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I even like this Astana team, they played well in the Champions League qualifying rounds and managed to turn the tables in the playoffs for this stage with APOEL.
However, to play out of doors the team feels more difficult, has had little competition, Dynamo Kiev is from another level, will play at home and if not win will be six games without knowing the taste of victory.
It is obligatory for the Khatskevich team to qualify for this group, and to do so, it is imperative to win home matches against both Astana and Jablonec.
I believe that the Ukrainians will enter strong and manage to materialize in goals their superiority as a collective, against an Astana that makes some defensive errors and that is not expected to be very happy in his debut abroad.
Bet Tips: Dynamo Kiev
Odds: 1.54
