It's Champions League time and the hopeful contenders are Raków Częstochowa and Aris Limassol

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Competition: Europe Champions League
Competition: Tue 08.Aug
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Raków (8000 seats)

Raków Częstochowa and Aris Limassol will play at least 180 minutes of football to decide who advances from this Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round battle. Get ready for the first 90 minutes!

It's quite the trip for Aris Limassol when visiting Raków Częstochowa as the cities are 3000 kilometers apart.

These are hustling days for the hometeam, as they were in action only three days ago in the Ekstraklasa. Thankfully the previous game, versus Warta Poznan, was also a home game here at Stadion Raków. The away team is better rested.

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Raków Częstochowa form and stats

This is not the first game this season in the Champions League for Raków Częstochowa, as the manager Szwarga led his troops to eliminate Flora and Qarabag, and reach the 3rd Qualifying Round.

OK but not perfect. That could be the conclusion for Raków Częstochowa's two home games in the Ekstraklasa so far this season, having collected 4 points here at Stadion Raków. On the other hand, in the Champions League, Raków Częstochowa has performed like this (both home and away): 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses.

The home supporters saw a 2-2 draw versus Warta Poznan last time out and are looking for a victory here. Carlos was able to secure the draw 2-2 in the game against Warta Poznan after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today? Svarnas, defender, was given a rating of 7.8/10 in that game, top of the team. Svarnas won 6 of 6 duels.

In the game before, 1-1 away to Qarabag (Champions League).

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Raków Częstochowa as they are travelling to their away game against Piast Gliwice in the Ekstraklasa. That match is three days after this one.

Raków Częstochowa has scored {5 goals} so far and conceded {2 goals} from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Aris Limassol form and stats

The traveling awayteam has defeated BATE in order to reach 3rd qualifying round of Champions League.

Two away matches in a row for Limassol, whose coach Shpilevskiy could celebrate last time after the Champions League win against BATE. Midfield player Babicka was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.63/10. Babicka scored one goal, signed up for two assists, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.

Before that game, the victory at home against BATE in the Champions League (6-2).

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

Raków CzęstochowaŁ. Zwoliński
Ł. Zwoliński
3 goals
Raków CzęstochowaJ. Silva Rocha
J. Silva Rocha
1 goals
Raków CzęstochowaB. Nowak
B. Nowak
1 goals

Raków Częstochowa missing players

Aris Limassol missing players

Raków Częstochowa Aris Limassol
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 13   Played P   12 25
15 9   Won W   5 15
6 3   Drew D   4 5
4 1   Lost L   3 5
46 30   Scored S   22 49
18 10   Conceded C   19 30
88% 92%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 96%
76% 85%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   83% 84%
52% 62%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   50% 52%
28% 46%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   33% 32%
12% 23%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   25% 16%
40% 46%   BTTS BTTS   67% 48%
52% 46%   Clean Sheets C S   25% 40%
20% 15%   Failed to Score F T   8% 16%
 
6 6.4   Corners for (avg) C F   4.1 4.4
3.2 3.4   Corners against (avg) C A   4 4.1
1.5 0.9   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.6 2.2
1 0   Red cards R C   1 1
 
12.3 11.6   Shots (avg) S (   10.5 12.1
4.5 4   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.5 5.8
41% 58%   Goal Efficiency G E   41% 34%
 
8.4 8.6   Shots against (avg) S A   9.8 8.5
2.6 2.6   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.4 3.6

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Lech Poznan 2 2 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 6
2 Zagebie Lubin 2 2 0 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 6
3 Pogon Szczecin 2 2 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 6
4 Jagiellonia Biaystok 3 2 0 1 6 5 2 2 0 0 6 2 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 6
5 Raków Częstochowa 2 1 1 0 5 2 2 1 1 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4
6 Warta Poznan 3 1 1 1 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 4
7 Cracovia Krakow 2 1 1 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 4
8 Legia Warszawa 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
9 Ruch Chorzow 2 1 0 1 3 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 3
10 Widzew Lodz 3 1 0 2 5 6 1 1 0 0 3 2 2 0 0 2 2 4 -1 3
11 Radomiak Radom 3 1 0 2 2 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 2 -1 3
12 KS odz 3 1 0 2 2 6 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 2 0 5 -4 3
13 Stal Mielec 2 0 2 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
14 Piast Gliwice 3 0 2 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 -1 2
15 Slask Wrocaw 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 -1 1
16 Korona Kielce 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 1
17 Gornik Zabrze 3 0 1 2 0 4 2 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 -4 1
18 Puszcza Niepoomice 2 0 0 2 3 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 3 7 -4 0

Read more about Champions League

The UEFA Champions League is the major international club football tournament in Europe. The competition begins already in late June and lasts for almost a year, ending with the final played in late May or early June. After several qualifying rounds the group stage is where the “true” Champions League begins for many viewers. Eight groups with four teams each battle through six rounds to qualify for the knock-out phase. Then a round of 16, quarterfinals and then semifinals needs to be won before a place in the final is secured.