Slavia Prague VS Rangers ( BETTING TIPS, Match Preview & Expert Analysis )™
PREVIEW & TIPS FOR Slavia Prague vs Rangers
The matches from the eighth UEFA Europa League start on Thursday evening, and the Romanians have a very interesting duel between Nicusor Stanciu and Ianis Hagi. The two midfielders of the tricolor national team will face in the match Slavia Prague – Glasgow Rangers, starting at 17:55, on the Sinobo arena in Prague.
It will be an interesting tactical duel between the two managers. Jindrich Tripsovsky has a lot of European experience on his side, and Slavia presents itself as a homogeneous and very strong team from a physical point of view. There is no lack of technical quality and speed in the white-red camp, which means that Rangers could suffer the first defeat of this European season! Well organized and disciplined, the Czechs are hard to “kill”.
Slavia Prague Team News
Slavia will approach the match without injuries to Hovorka, Sevcik, Traore, Van Buren and Beran, while Steven Gerrard does not have Balogun, Jack, Katic and Tavernier at his disposal. Both teams are in excellent shape internally and come after impressive victories in the championship. Slavia has four successes in a row in official matches, with Leicester (2-0), Slovacko (3-2), Karlovy Vary (10-3) and Ostrava (2-1), while the Rangers boast victories ahead of Antwerp (4-3 and 5-2), Dundee United (4-1), Livingston (1-0) and St. Mirren (3-0).
It will be the first direct duel in the history of the two teams and it is difficult to choose the favorite team, especially since there is no advantage of their own field in this double round. Slavia eliminated Leicester in the previous round and approaches the game with maximum morale, but Rangers has just won the 55th title in history and has great confidence in its own game (explosive in attack).
Rangers Team News
Slavia has a series of 16 consecutive matches without defeat, and in 10 of these games the Czechs have scored at least three goals! Obviously, Slavia is without fail at home in this edition of the Europa League, Nicusor Stanciu’s team has a perfect balance on its own field in the championship and hopes to “transform” these figures into a glorious qualification. But we expect to see a tactical match in the first half, when the score could be 0-0, at high odds.
It should be noted that Slavia defeated Bayer Leverkusen this season, none other than the team that eliminated Rangers from the Europa League last season. That might matter less, though, because Ianis’ team has progressed as a game in the last 12 months, being more efficient in all compartments. Rangers has only been involved in spectacular matches this European season (as it was with Antwerp), but the pattern could change now, when more caution is needed from both coaches.