Fenerbahce Istanbul vs Austria Vienna Prediction & Betting Tips - Europa League

Prediction published on 23/08/2022, 00:53  by Daniel Ngulu in Europa League Prediction

Fenerbahce hold a 2-0 lead over Austria Vienna ahead of the two sides’ return leg clash in their Europa League play-off tie in Istanbul. The Turkish giants have been on a good run and coming into this game, they hit Adana Demirspor 4-2 in their domestic league on Monday for their third straight win. It was also the fourth time in five matches that they managed to score more than a goal and they will be fired up for this, even though conceding twice will be a concern. Both teams have scored in three of Fenerbahce’s last five matches, and three matches have yielded over 2.5 goals. In their last six matches, Fenerbahce are unbeaten.

Austria Vienna have an uphill task in this game; they wish to turn around the tie but a 2-0 deficit will be tough away from home. This is in the context of having failed to keep a clean sheet in their last six matches, at times losing heavily. They will be without Brazilian defender Lucas Galvao who was sent off in the first leg, but coming from a 2-1 win over Wolfsberger AC domestically will give them hope going into this game. That however, was only their second win of the last six and three losses in that period still indicates they have a lot to do. They’ve failed to score in just one of their last five matches but the fact that they don’t have many clean sheets works against them. Three of their last five matches have produced over 2.5 goals, with Austria Vienna scoring more than a goal in three of them.