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01.10.2020, 18:29
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European League: CFR Cluj – KuPS Kuopio, Thursday, now 18:30, Digi Sport 1
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The league: Celtic vigo – Barcelona, Thursday, now 22:30, Digi Sport 1
LIVE VIDEO | Stuff CFR Cluj – KuPS, from the playoffs UEFA Europa League, can be seen live from 18:30 Digi Sport 1 and on site digisport.ro.
Dan Petrescu is one step away from qualifying CFR Cluj in the Europa League groups for the second year in a row. Until the duel with the Finnish champions in the play-off, from the Gruia stadium, Cluj overtook Floriana, in the first preliminary round of the UEFA Champions League and followed the defeat against Dinamo Zagreb, which sent them to the third round of the European preliminaries. League. There, a week ago, CFR defeated Djurgården, scoring 1-0.
On the other hand, KuPS started the new European season in a disastrous way, with a drastic defeat, 5-0, in the first preliminary round of the UEFA Champions League, against Norwegian champions Molde. On reaching the Europa League, the Finns beat Slovan Bratislava, in the second preliminary round, and Suduva, from Lithuania, in the previous round.
LIVE VIDEO | CFR Cluj – KuPS, 6:30 pm Dan Petrescu: “There is no favorite in this match”
Although he initially said that his team is the favorite, Dan Petrescu (52 years old) he changed his mind, after studying the north formation more closely.
“Now that I’ve seen the last six KuPS games, I’ve changed my mind. It is a very, very good team and there is no favorite in this game. They bought six new players this season, all starters“said the coach of the Romanian champion.
KuPS, defending champion and current leader in Finland, defeated Mariehamn in the final match of the championship, scored 2-0 and achieved eight consecutive victories in all competitions: six in the championship and two in the Europa League preliminaries. .
LIVE VIDEO | CFR Cluj – KuPS, 6:30 pm Arne Erlandsen, Finnish coach: “It would be amazing for us if we qualified”
“A very difficult game for us, CFR has experience and plays in their own field. We know it, so it has to be at the highest level. They have a good team, with very good players, so they can’t pick just one player. We know CFR Cluj, other clubs in Romania, we know your football.
They probably think that our team is easy to eliminate, but I hope they are wrong. It would be incredible for us to qualify, it’s a very big game for us“, said the KuPS coach, At the press conference.
The Brazilian Rangel is the best scorer of the Finnish team this season. The forward managed to score 8 goals for KuPS in all competitions. The Nordics traded him two seasons ago from Austrian team SV Kapfenberg.
LIVE VIDEO | CFR Cluj – KuPS, 6:30 pm Probable teams
- CFR Cluj: Bălgrădean – Susic, Vinicius, Burcă, Camora – Bordeianu, Djokovic – Deac, Păun, Rondon – Omrani
- KuPS: Virtanen – Savolainen, Tarasovs, Tomas, Pikk – Sail, Boateng, Nissila – Sale, Rangel, Pennanen
