Europa League Qarabag vs Arsenal
Azerbaijan’s four-time champion, Qarabag has also shown its quality at European level in recent times with their debut in the Champions League group stage last season, the Azerbaijan club has been garnering some respect in European football, despite not being one of the theoretical favorites to move forward in Group E, above all by the presence of Sporting and Arsenal in the group.
Indeed, against the lions, Qarabag made their debut on Matchday 1, having left Lisbon 2-0 in a game where they even put some difficulties to the formation of José Peseiro, which he eventually managed to win, as a result of the greater number of opportunities he created, therefore, fair.
Qurban Qurbanov’s side reacted well to their return to the local races, following a series of three consecutive wins for Azerbaijan’s main championship against Qabala (4-1), Zira (3-2) and Sabah (2 -0).
In the standings, they lead with the same 16 points as Neftçi, the only team to have scored points for Qarabag in the six previous matches (they have drawn 1-1 for the second round).
Arsenal is absorbing the new ideas of Unai Emery and progressively notices improvements not only in exhibition terms (mainly defensive), but also in the results.
The truth is that despite the criticisms that the Gunners were subjected at the beginning of this season, they only lost in the first two rounds of the Premier League, against Man City and Chelsea, with seven victories in a row, the last of which against teams like Everton (2-0) and Watford (2-0) for the league and Brentford (3-1) for the League Cup.
In the Europa League, they debuted with a quiet victory at home, against Vorksla Poltava, 4-2.
The English dominated the game at their pleasure, came to be winning by 4-0 but in the final part of the meeting they took the foot off the accelerator and ended up suffering two goals from the Ukrainians.
Best Bet of the Day Qarabag vs Arsenal
Despite being a distant move for Arsenal, which will play in a stadium where some top European clubs have stumbled in recent times, I believe the Emery set out of Azerbaijan with three points.
Qarabag at home will bet on a less restrained strategy, in the image of what he did in Alvalade, where he tried to leave with discretion for the counterattack, but also trying to divide the game and press higher in moments.
Encouraged by the local support of its supporters, I believe Qarabag will try to use the home factor to win the game, something that can favor the Arsenal, strong in the transitions and with sufficient technical quality in his men more forward to undo a defense that already knew better days, internally they have already conceded 4 goals and against teams qualitatively far below what they will find in this Europa League.
Bet Tip: Arsenal
Odds: 1.48
