PAOK vs Club Brugge prediction and betting tips on April 18, 2024
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Game Prediction
The entire list of participants in the Champions League semi-finals will be determined on Wednesday. Other European tournaments will usually cope with this during one day. This time, all return matches are scheduled for the same date – Thursday evening. Then PAOK and Brugge will compete with each other in the Conference League. The website contains a prediction for this football match on April 18, 2024.
PAOK is trying to achieve simultaneous success in different tournaments
“The Double-Headed Eagle of the North” made their fans happy in 2019 when they won the championship for the first time since 1985. They don’t want to wait another quarter of a century for a new title in Thessaloniki, but there was only a maximum of 2nd place after that, and the previous season brought 4th position. Now Razvan Lucescu’s wards are fighting for leadership in the championship. At the same time, they are not merging the Conference League. For instance, it is worth highlighting the confrontation in the 1/8 finals with Dinamo Zagreb: a 0-2 score on the away field was followed by defeat of the Croatian giants on the native field with a final 5-1 score. This time, the task is simpler: the team conceded 1 unanswered goal in Belgium.
Brugge will not be the strongest at the inner arena again
“The Black and Blues” are one of the most successful clubs in Belgium. For instance, it was the national champion 3 times in 2020-2022. Still, everything went wrong in the previous season, and the titleholder finished in 4th place. At the same time, it reached the play-offs of the Champions League. Even now the club failed to improve the performance in the Jupiler League, which recently led to the resignation of Ronny Deila. Nevertheless, the representative of Belgium looked good in the Europa League: it qualified, including the confrontation with Osasuna, and won 5 out of 6 matches at the group stage. It goes without saying that Molde surprised the opponent in the 1/8 finals, winning at the home arena – one way or another, the Norwegian grandee was beaten in the return match. The team quickly scored a goal in the battle against the rival from Greece, and then recorded this advantage until the final whistle.
Previous head-to-head matches
The teams crossed their “paths” in 2010, at the group stage of the newly created Europa League. Then both matches brought the draws with the same score – 1-1.
Free prediction for the match PAOK vs Brugge on April 18:
The Greek club is the favourite of the home battle according to the odds. Still, the experienced Belgian grandee will try to play a defensive game, so it is pretty logical to bet on “total: under 3.0” (odd: 1.6).