5 Europa League Tips - 23/2/23

The first tip on this list comes from Manchester United against Barcelona with the aggregate score being tied at 2-2 following their clash at the Nou Camp last week.

Marcus Rashford has scored 24 goals across all competitions this campaign while Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski has also found the back of the net 24 times across 29 matches.

United midfielder Casemiro has been shown a total of seven yellow cards and one red card. Meanwhile, experienced Barca man Sergio Busquets has received eight yellow cards and one red card.

There were a total of 13 corners in this fixture last week, with Barca shading this stat, having eight to United’s five.

Nantes faces Juventus with the Serie A side coming in as favourites despite a disappointing result in Turin last week.

In just 968 minutes of football at Juve, Angel Di Maria has scored four goals and created six assists while Dusan Vlahovic has scored ten times in 21 appearances across all competitions, including the opener in last week’s first leg.

AS Roma goes up against Red Bull Salzburg with Jose Mourinho’s men looking to overturn a first-leg deficit.

A player to look out for here is Stephan El Shaarawy, as the 30-year-old was a dangerman for Roma in their 1-0 win over Hellas Verona, managing two shots on target. The ex-AC Milan winger is priced at 7/4 to achieve this feat once again on Thursday night.

FC Midtjylland goes head to head with Sporting Lisbon at MCH Arena on Thursday night with everything to play for.

The first leg resulted in a 1-1 draw at the José Alvalade Stadium as Sebastian Coates scored a 94th-minute equaliser for Sporting after Emam Ashour had put the Danish Superliga outfit ahead.

Pedro Goncalves enters this match in decent form, having scored a brace in Sporting’s 3-2 win over Chaves at the weekend. This means that the 24-year-old has now racked up a total of 21 goal contributions during the 2022/23 campaign.

Union Berlin and Ajax look set to have a tense encounter at Stadion An der Alten Försterei following their 0-0 draw in Amsterdam last week.

It looks like it will take something special to break this deadlock, could Ghanaian attacking midfielder Mohamed Kudus be the man to do so?

The 22-year-old is priced at 10/1 to score first in this tie having scored 15 goals and created three assists in 30 appearances across all competitions.

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