5 Europa Conference League Tips - 13/10/22

The last meeting between Fiorentina and Hearts was very one-sided, even before going down to ten men just after half time, with Fiorentina claiming a very dominant 3-0 victory, limiting Hearts to only four shots on goal, while having twenty-five themselves.

Both Christian Kouame and Luka Jovic both started in Scotland last week with both getting themselves on the scoresheet, despite a disappointing result at the weekend, where Jovic missed four big chances. But, against a Hearts defence which has conceded nine goals in their last three games, they will be confident the chances they create will end up in the back of the net.

Since arriving to east London in the summer, Gianluca Scamacca has really found his feet for his new club, especially in the Europa Conference League, where in his five appearances, he has scored four goals, including coming off the bench in Belgium to win the game for his side.

Scamacca is in great form entering this game, scoring in each of his last three appearances, with all goals putting his side ahead in the game, which could make him undroppable to David Moyes with all the important goals he has come up with to make up for their poor start to the season.

After their disappointing draw in Latvia last week, Istanbul Basaksehir will be looking to secure their place in the knockout stages with a win and will have extra motivation for this game after losing their first game since March at the weekend, ending a 24-game unbeaten streak.

Their game in Latvia was dominated by Basaksehir, having 78% of the ball, 17 shots and limiting Rigas Futbola Skola to only six shots and now with the reverse fixture at their home ground, Basaksehir will likely have more of the ball and have the quality over their opponents to really rack up the score.

The game between these two sides saw a lot of action, with both teams creating enough big chances to win the game, but it was Partizan who took their chance to win the game, despite only having 27% of the ball.

Koln will probably dominate the ball again and have much higher quality players than Partizan which will always give them the edge in the game, but their defence can be vulnerable, only keeping two clean sheets this season in 15 matches and are coming off conceding five goals at the weekend to Borussia Monchengladbach.

Villarreal made pretty easy work of Austria Wien in their fixture last week, coming out with a 5-0 win to make it three wins out of three in the group and will likely go back to Baena and Jackson in the starting line-up after they both missed out in their defeat to Real Sociedad at the weekend.

Despite being 21 years old, Alex Baena has been ripping apart the Conference League group stages, starting every game and scoring four goals and whilst Nicholas Jackson has struggled this season, only netting once, he will get many opportunities to add to this tally with Villereal expected to dominate the fixture again.