Europa League match preview: Skendija 79 versus Tottenham Hotspur

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Competition: Europe Europa League
Competition: Thu 24.September
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Toše Proeski Arena (35000 seats)

International cups are a highlight for most teams. Both Skendija 79 and Tottenham Hotspur are looking forward to this Europa League fight to decide who advances from the 3rd Qualifying Round.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 2100 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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Skendija 79 form and stats

Action has already taken place for Skendija in Europa League as they have defeated Botosani and Sumqayt to reach the 3rd Qualifying Round. Last season, Skendija 79's Europa League journey ended in the 2nd qualifying round.

Skendija 79 have collected seven points from their first three First League games here at Toše Proeski Arena, a promising start.

Skendija's previous game was a First League match also played at home, ending 2-1 versus Akademija Pandev. The home side are looking to build on that result. A strong away win before that one, visiting Botosani and winning 1-0.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Skendija as they are travelling to their away game against Pelister in the First League. That match is three days after this one.

A decent goal production from Skendija in their home games so far, with 5 goals from 3 league matches. Skendija are not conceding a lot of goals here at Toše Proeski Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 3 matches.

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Tottenham Hotspur form and stats

The traveling awayteam has defeated Lokomotiv Plovdiv in order to reach 3rd Qualifying Round of Europa League. Tottenham Hotspur was sent out of Champions League in the 8th finals last season, when RB Leipzig turned out to be too strong.

The story so far for the visiting team on their Premier League travels is 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats.

Spurs play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 5-2 victory visiting Southampton. Before that one, a nice away victory 2-1 at Lokomotiv Plovdiv.

As you can tell from the result, the match against Southampton was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 7 goals, will the fun continue today? Heung-Min Son certainly enjoyed Tottenham Hotspur's last game versus Southampton, appearing multiple times in the match report with four goals and the 5-2 victory.

Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Spurs given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed three matches with two wins as expected, one draw and zero surprise home wins. The favourites won one of these games by at least two goals.

5 goals so far away for Tottenham Hotspur, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 2. All from 1 league match away.

Head 2 Head

Skendija 79 missing players

Tottenham Hotspur missing players

Skendija 79 Tottenham Hotspur
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 12   Played P   12 25
14 7   Won W   4 12
8 4   Drew D   3 5
3 1   Lost L   5 8
48 27   Scored S   19 43
24 11   Conceded C   20 30
92% 92%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   92% 96%
72% 75%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   92% 80%
52% 50%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   75% 60%
36% 42%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   33% 28%
20% 33%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   17% 20%
52% 58%   BTTS BTTS   83% 64%
44% 33%   Clean Sheets C S   8% 24%
12% 17%   Failed to Score F T   17% 16%
 
0 0   Corners for (avg) C F   0 0
0 0   Corners against (avg) C A   0 0
2.4 2.6   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2 1.8
4 3   Red cards R C   0 0
 
253 96   Total Shots T S   102 239
99 42   Shots on Target S O   40 95
44% 55%   Goal Efficiency G E   42% 39%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Skendija 79 6 4 2 0 11 4 3 2 1 0 5 2 3 2 1 0 6 2 7 14
2 Shkupi 6 4 1 1 12 7 4 3 1 0 10 6 2 1 0 1 2 1 5 13
3 Borec 6 3 2 1 7 4 2 1 1 0 3 1 4 2 1 1 4 3 3 11
4 Sileks 6 3 1 2 16 7 3 1 1 1 6 5 3 2 0 1 10 2 9 10
5 Makedonija 6 3 1 2 7 7 4 3 0 1 6 4 2 0 1 1 1 3 0 10
6 Rabotnicki 6 2 3 1 6 4 3 1 2 0 4 2 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 9
7 Pelister 6 2 3 1 5 3 3 1 2 0 1 0 3 1 1 1 4 3 2 9
8 Struga 6 2 2 2 4 4 2 2 0 0 3 0 4 0 2 2 1 4 0 8
9 Vardar 6 2 1 3 4 8 3 1 0 2 1 5 3 1 1 1 3 3 -4 7
10 Renova 6 1 2 3 7 9 3 1 1 1 2 1 3 0 1 2 5 8 -2 5
11 Akademija Pandev 6 1 0 5 2 8 2 1 0 1 1 1 4 0 0 4 1 7 -6 3
12 Belasica 6 0 0 6 1 17 4 0 0 4 0 13 2 0 0 2 1 4 -16 0
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Leicester City 2 2 0 0 7 2 1 1 0 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 3 0 5 6
2 Everton 2 2 0 0 6 2 1 1 0 0 5 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 4 6
3 Arsenal 2 2 0 0 5 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 4 6
4 Liverpool 2 2 0 0 6 3 1 1 0 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 2 0 3 6
5 Crystal Palace 2 2 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 3 6
6 Tottenham Hotspur 2 1 0 1 5 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 5 2 2 3
7 Manchester City 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 3
8 Brighton & Hove Albion 2 1 0 1 4 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 3
9 Aston Villa 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
10 Leeds United 2 1 0 1 7 7 1 1 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 1 3 4 0 3
11 Chelsea 2 1 0 1 3 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 3
12 Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 1 0 1 3 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 3
13 Newcastle United 2 1 0 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 1 0 0 2 0 -1 3
14 Burnley 1 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 4 -2 0
15 Manchester United 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
16 West Ham United 2 0 0 2 1 4 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 -3 0
17 Sheffield United 2 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 -3 0
18 Fulham 2 0 0 2 3 7 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 3 4 -4 0
19 Southampton 2 0 0 2 2 6 1 0 0 1 2 5 1 0 0 1 0 1 -4 0
20 West Bromwich Albion 2 0 0 2 2 8 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 2 5 -6 0

Read more about Europa League

The UEFA Europa League, abbreviated as UEL and commonly referred to as just the Europa League, is an annual football club competition organised by UEFA. It is the second-tier competition for football clubs in Europa, beneath the UEFA Champions League in value and importance. Teams qualify through their performance in their national leagues and cup competitions. Some teams qualify from the Champions League; more precisely the teams who are knocked out in the playoff qualifying round and the third-place finishers of the group stage. The winner of the Europa League qualifies for the Champions League in their next competitive season.