Here we take a look at Smart Acca Picks for Thursday’s action, with this one being a long shot at 431/1 chosen by Smart Acca via the Free FA Betting Hub App.
This is a five-fold Match Result and Both Teams to Score accumulator, with fixtures coming from UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League qualifying.
The first tip on this list comes from the Europa Conference League, with Rapid Vienna playing host to Fiorentina at Allianz Stadion.
Rapid have played one qualifying round to get to this stage, of which they won 5-0 on aggregate against Debrecen via a 5-0 away win in the second leg. In terms of domestic form, the Austrian Bundesliga outfit have managed 4-0 and 5-0 victories over Altach and Blau-Weiss Linz on either side of a shock 1-0 defeat to Hartberg.
Fiorentina will be hoping to qualify for a competition that they came perilously close to winning last time out, having been beaten 2-1 by West Ham United in the final. La Viola managed to win on the opening weekend of the Serie A season via a 4-1 scoreline away at Genoa thanks to goals by Cristiano Biraghi, Giacomo Bonaventura, Nicolas Gonzalez and Ronaldo Mandragora.
AZ Alkmaar will be looking to requalify for the Europa Conference League when they take on Brann at AFAS Stadium.
Pascal Jansen’s men have had a superb start to the season, having won all of their first four matches, beating Santa Coloma 1-0 and 2-0 in the previous qualifying round, while thrashing Go Ahead Eagles 5-1 and RKC Waalwijk 3-1 in the Dutch Eredivisie.
Brann’s last five matches have been a mixed bag of results, as following a 2-0 home defeat to Viking, they managed a 2-0 away victory over HamKam. After the aforementioned results, Brann then lost 2-1 in the first leg of their last qualifier against Arouca before beating the Portuguese outfit 3-1 at home. Last time out, Brann thrashed Aalesund 5-1 at home.
Ludogorets and Ajax face off in Europa League qualifying, with the visitors coming in as firm favourites to progress to the group stages.
This is the fourth qualifying round that Ludogorets will have had to play through, having managed to beat Ballkani 4-2 on aggregate in the Champions League, before being knocked down to the Europa League qualifiers after suffering a shock 3-2 defeat to Olimpija. In their last qualifying round, the Bulgarian outfit progressed past Astana by a 6-3 aggregate scoreline despite losing the first leg in Kazakhstan 2-1.
Ajax have had a slightly mediocre start to their season, as having thrashed Heracles on the opening weekend thanks to goals by Jakov Medic, Mohammed Kudus and Steven Bergwijn (2) they were held to a 2-2 draw at Excelsior.
Romanian SuperLiga side Sepsi goes up against Bodo/Glimt in Europa Conference League qualifying on Thursday.
The home side have drawn both of their last two domestic matches, doing so by 1-1 scorelines against Hermannstadt and Otelul Galati. In terms of qualifying matches, Sepsi managed to scrape past Aktobe 2-1 on aggregate after thrashing CSKA Sofia 6-0 on aggregate.
Bodo/Glimt have won four of their last five matches, as following their 4-2 win away at Bohemians 1905, they were beaten 3-2 by Viking. Since then, Kjetil Knutsen’s men have beaten Pyunik 3-0 in back-to-back games, while also managing a 3-1 win over Haugesund.
The final tip on this Smart Acca sees Lille go head to head with Rijeka in Europa Conference League qualifying.
Lille have had a solid start to their 2023/24 season, having managed a 1-1 draw away at Nice on the opening weekend before beating Nantes 2-0 at home last time out as Jonathan David and Adam Ounas both got on the scoresheet.
Rijeka managed to reach this qualifying round by thrashing Dukagjini and B36 by aggregate scorelines of 7-1 and 5-1. In the HNL, Rijeka have been in decent form of late, beating Istra 1961 6-0 and Lokomotiva Zagreb 2-1.
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