Flora vs Rabotnicki

Flora Tallin bounced back to positive results just when it was needed the most – just in time for Europa League qualifiers. Unlike with many other European countries, their domestic league is still playing only with a small pause for Flora – as the team didn’t have competitive matches from 5th till 27th May.

However, they used that break to play a friendly match against Norrkoping but suffered 1:0 defeat, while the team bounced back in domestic league with a victory over Sillamae Kalev away from home 2:1 last Saturday evening. Logua in first halftime and Alliku in second were the goalscorers, while the hosts only reduced the deficit in the last moment of the match. After this victory, Flora remained second at the table with a point less than first placed Levadia. Atmosphere can’t be that great in the team, as they had previous two defeats in a row in league and dropped from the first position. As for the playing roster, they have only three foreign players, striker Irakli Logua, offensive midfielder Zakaria Beglarishvili, both from Georgia and Finnish Sakari TUkiainen.



Rabotnicki, on the other side, will once again look to impress in European competitions, as they mostly did in previous years. Their season has finished more than a month ago, with the team taking the second position, just three points below the champions from Vardar. Surely that they will start the new season with ambition to get the title this time as well.

The team had some really solid preparations this time, including three victories over Croatian and Slovenian opponents. They won over Celje 1:0, Inter Zapresic 1:0 and RNK Split 2:1, showing clearly that the team is in a good shape and will be as ready as possible for the enouncter in the first round. Team is made mostly from domestic players, but they do have couple of Ex-Yugoslavian players, as well as forward Chuma Anene who came last season from Ullensaker/Kisa. Talented defender Darko Velkovski moved to Vardar, but the team managed to retain striker Baze Ilijoski who is anyway one of the strongest parts of the team.

Rabotnicki looks quite serious every year in this period and honestly, they looked once again quite impressive in friendly matches. Flora has just lost the leading position in their domestic league and probably isn’t that much focused on Europa League. In any way, Rabotnicki is a favorite for me in this qualifying pair and I believe their their chances to suffer defeat here are really minimal.
Bet: Rabotnicki X2 Double Chance @ 1.83