5 Europa Conference League Tips - 15/9/22

To get settled into a new club and country, David Moyes has been bedding Scamacca into the team by starting him in the UECL games and he has found some success in this, with Scamacca scoring twice in his three Europa Conference League games.

West Ham are expected to dominate their opponent, Silkeborg IF, who have lost five of their last eight matches and with West Ham having a week's rest between the games, they will be coming in fresh and won’t have to rotate as much as David Moyes would’ve thought he had to.

Against Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Villarreal are likely to dominate possession and with this being the game after their first defeat of the season to Real Betis following five wins and a draw to start their campaign, Unai Emery’s men will be determined to bounce back.

All of 21 year old’s Alex Baena’s starts this season have come in the UECL and he showed his quality in the first group game, scoring twice against Lech Poznań, whilst new signing José Luis Morales has been in great form in the UECL this season, scoring three times and assisting once in his two starts in the competition.

Wolves loanee Fabio Silva has been in great form since joining Belgian side Anderlecht, scoring seven goals in 13 appearances, which is already more goals than the four he managed in the two years he had spent in England.

Neither Anderlecht or FCSB have been in great form as of late, with Anderlecht winning only once in their last five games, losing three times while FCSB have only won one of their last six games, despite their record, Anderlecht’s quality should be beating FCSB, who currently sit 13th in the Romanian first division.

Istanbul Basaksehir have regained the form which crowned them Turkish champions two years ago, unbeaten in twenty games dating back to last season and in their five league games so far this season, they are yet to concede a goal, whilst scoring nine of their own.

Fiorentina have had some struggles to start the season, winless in their last seven games after winning their first two this season and six out of their nine games this season have seen under 2.5 goals and for Basaksehir, in six of their twelve games this season, Basaksehir games have had under 2.5 goals.

FC Koln are massive favourites over Czech side FC Slovacko in this fixture, with the German side having a decent start to the season, currently sitting seventh in the Bundesliga, whilst Slovacko have struggled this season with their fixture congestion, currently eighth in the Czech first division and are winless in their last five games.

Jan Thielmann and Steffen Tigges were the strike partnership in Koln’s first group game against Nice, with Tigges grabbing the goal. They were both on the bench for their game against Union Berlin at the weekend, likely moving them to the starting lineup for this game, where they will likely get many opportunities to grab their goals.