Auda vs FCSB - prediction, team news, lineups

Latvian broadside Auda volition invited Romanian nine FCSB to Riga for Thursday's Conference League 2nd circular qualifying tie.

The hosts caput into the 2nd limb with a constrictive vantage aft claiming a 3-2 triumph successful Romania past week. 

Match preview

Auda are competing successful Conference League qualifying for the 4th consecutive play aft winning the Latvian Football Cup past term.

Their champion show successful qualifying took spot successful the 2024-25 campaign, erstwhile they navigated 2 rounds earlier they were beaten by Drita successful the 3rd qualifying round.

Entering astatine the second-round signifier this clip around, Auda cognize they request to negociate 3 ties if they are to scope the main gully of a European contention for the archetypal clip successful their history.

They surely made a affirmative commencement to their European campaign, taking the pb connected 3 abstracted occasions to seal a precious 3-2 triumph successful past Thursday's distant limb against FCSB.

Kader Kone netted a melodramatic victor successful the 4th infinitesimal of stoppage clip to springiness his broadside a slender vantage up of Thursday's 2nd leg, with the hosts knowing they simply person to debar decision to acceptable up a third-round qualifying necktie against Aluminij oregon Dinamo City.

Jurgis Kalns's broadside person managed to debar decision successful 5 of their past six competitory location games, including a 1-0 occurrence successful Sunday's league clash against BFC Daugavpils.

FCSB are a nine with important European pedigree, mostly owed to their occurrence successful the precocious 80s erstwhile they lifted the European Cup successful 1986 and finished runners-up to AC Milan conscionable 3 years later. 

In the modern day, FCSB spent the past 2 seasons competing successful the Europa League league phase, but an underwhelming 2025-26 run has sent them into the preliminary stages of the Conference League.

After finishing successful eighth spot successful the league, FCSB had to negociate one-legged ties against Botosani and rivals Dinamo Bucharest to unafraid immoderate signifier of European shot for the 2026-27 campaign.

However, the Romanian giants look a conflict to prolong their European travel pursuing past Thursday's defeat, a effect that represented Marius Baciu's archetypal decision since taking implicit the reins successful May. 

FCSB astatine slightest managed to bounce backmost with a 2-0 distant triumph successful Sunday's Superliga clash against Csikszereda.

That triumph followed a 2-0 occurrence against FC Arges connected the opening play of the season, truthful they cognize they tin support amended than they did successful the archetypal limb against Auda.

Auda Conference League form:

W 

Auda signifier (all competitions):

D L D W W W 

FCSB Conference League form:

L

FCSB signifier (all competitions):

W L W

Team News

The hosts are expected to enactment up with a backmost 4 made up of Tin Hrvoj, Moussa Ouedraogo, Ariel Arroyo and Oskars Rubenis.

At the other extremity of the pitch, Kader Kone volition pb the Auda enactment aft uncovering the nett successful his past 2 starts.

The Ivorian guardant volition beryllium joined successful the beforehand 3 by Eduards Daskevics and Barthelemy Diedhiou. 

As for FCSB, they are incapable to telephone upon Siyabonga Ngezana, Mihai Popescu, Ofri Arad and David Miculescu owed to injury.

Valentin Cretu is pushing for starting spots aft featuring arsenic a half-time substitute successful the archetypal leg.

Daniel Birligea is expected to get the motion up front, though Baciu tin besides telephone upon youngster Alexandru Stoian. 

Auda imaginable starting lineup:

Purins; Hrvoj, Ouedraogo, Arroyo, Rubenis; Ibrahim, Traore, Bongemba; Daskevics, Diedhiou, Kone

FCSB imaginable starting lineup:

Tarnovanu; Cretu, Dawa, Duarte, Padurariu; Cisotti, Radunovic; Boutoutaou, Popescu, Birligea

We say: Auda 1-1 FCSB (Auda to triumph 4-3 connected aggregate)

Auda volition consciousness they person done the hard enactment by winning successful Romania, and portion they volition beryllium wary of an FCSB response, we deliberation the hosts, who person mislaid conscionable 1 of their past six location games, volition bash capable to support their first-leg vantage with a draw. 

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