Prediction: Club Brugge vs Dynamo Kiev – preview and betting tips

It’s all to play between Club Brugge and Dynamo Kiev since the sides are locked 1-1 in the direction of Thursday Europa League second leg draw in the last 32nd leg.

Brandon Mechele tapped to cancel Vitaliy BuyalskiyThe first goal was in Kiev, with that away goal that gave Brugge a slight advantage by going to the reverse game at Jan Breydel Stadium.

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Match analysis

Dinamo have not won any of the last eight European games, suffering at least twice in each of the last four, although the draw may be sufficient on Thursday.

Mircea LucescuThe team side may be lucky not to be a goal behind entering this competition, however, as Bas Dost missed a good chance for Brugge at the end of last week.

Brugge continued their draw in Ukraine with a 3-0 win over Leuven in the Belgian First Division on Monday, with a 15-point lead.

Philippe ClementThe team’s men have been unbeaten for 12 games in all competitions, winning 11 of them – with the exception of the tie with Kiev.

Dynamo himself has been in good shape, drawing two and winning one of his three official games in 2021.

Ukrainians have also won this season in Belgium, defeating Gent in qualifying for the Champions League – Vladyslav Supriaha and Carlos de Pena on the target that day.

However, they face a team from Brugge who lost just one of their previous seven qualifiers at home in the Europa League, most recently drawing 1-1 with Manchester United in the last 32 games of last season.

Brugge, who like Kiev fell to the Europa League after finishing third in the Champions League group, will enter this round as a favorite to protect what they have and move forward.

If that is the case, however, the hosts will have to keep Buyalskiy and Viktor Tsygankov the pair having been directly involved in 14 of Dynamo’s last 16 Europa League goals.

Club Brugge Europa League form: Ç
Club Brugge form (all competitions): WWWWDW

Dynamo Kiev form (all competitions): WWDWDD

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All news from the teams

Brugge Quartet Mats Rits, Stefano Denswil, Matej Mitrovic and Hans Vanaken recently tested positive for coronavirus and is not expected to return in time for this match.

Noa Lang, who has 17 league goals and assists this season, has also missed the Belgian team’s last two games and their availability at this time is unknown.

In more positive news for the home team, however, Eduard Sobol is back from suspension after missing the first leg.

As for Dynamo, Lucescu may be tempted to remember Artem Besedin for your initial lineup after your run last week.

Other changes are unlikely, however, with the likes of Mykyta Burda, Volodymyr Kostevych and Tudor Baluta everything discarded because of injury.

Possible initial lineup for Club Brugge:
Mignolet; Mata, Kossounou, Mechele, Sobol; Dirar, Vormer, Balanta; Ketelaere, Okereke; Dost

Possible initial lineup of Dynamo Kiev:
Bushchan; Kedziora, Popov, Zabarnyi, Mykolenko; Shaparenko, Sydorchuk; Tsyhankov, Buyalskiy, Pena; Besedin

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Probability: Club Brugge 2-1 Dynamo Kiev (3-2 in total)

The draw specialists from Kiev know that they don’t necessarily need to win this game to advance, as long as it doesn’t end in 0-0.

However, Bruges have a good record at home in Europe and have won 11 of the last 12 games in all competitions, so we can see the home team progressing in normal time.

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