Celje vs Ararat-Armenia - prediction, team news, lineups

Trailing by a extremity from the archetypal leg, NK Celje look an uphill conflict to support their UEFA Champions League imagination live erstwhile Ararat-Armenia sojourn the Stadion Z’dezele connected Tuesday successful the 2nd limb of the 3rd qualifying round.

Vitor Campelos’s broadside indispensable overturn a 2-1 shortage connected location soil, portion the visitors get knowing a gully would beryllium capable to nonstop them into the play-off circular for the archetypal clip successful the club’s history.

Match preview

Celje headed to Armenia past week with genuine ambition, taking the pb done Svit Seslar’s punishment successful the 22nd minute, lone to beryllium pegged backmost by goals from Artur Serobyan and Franca arsenic Ararat-Armenia came from down to win 2-1 astatine the Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium.

That decision leaves the Slovenian broadside requiring astatine slightest a two-goal winning borderline connected Tuesday to advancement without other time.

Celje earned their spot successful this season’s Champions League qualifiers by winning the Slovenian PrvaLiga rubric past play - their 3rd home title and progressed from the 2nd qualifying circular dramatically, drafting 3-3 with Egnatia successful the archetypal limb earlier a 2-2 gully successful the return forced a punishment shootout, which they won 4-1.

Now backmost connected acquainted turf, Campelos’s broadside volition gully encouragement from their location enactment and from a home run that has started reasonably well, with 2 draws and a triumph from their opening 3 Prva Liga fixtures. 

Their astir caller outing was a 1-0 location league win astatine the weekend, which volition person provided a timely assurance boost up of Tuesday.

Ararat-Armenia get having besides won their astir caller home fixture - a 2-1 location triumph implicit Urartu connected Friday and Tulipa’s broadside are level connected six points with first-placed Sardarapat aft 2 games of the caller Armenian Premier League season.

The visitors’ way to this signifier represents a historical accomplishment for the nine - having beaten Latvian side Riga 4-3 connected aggregate in the archetypal qualifying round, they past eliminated Irish nine Shamrock Rovers 3-2 implicit 2 legs to scope the 3rd circular for the archetypal clip successful their history.

One signifier that volition interest Tulipa up of Tuesday, however, is that portion Ararat-Armenia person won each archetypal limb crossed this qualifying campaign, they person mislaid each distant fixture successful the process - a grounds that gives Celje genuine crushed to judge the necktie is not yet beyond them.

These 2 clubs person met doubly successful European competition, with Ararat-Armenia winning connected some occasions, though the aggregate people heading into Tuesday means the necktie remains precise overmuch live for the hosts.

Neither nine has ever reached the UEFA Champions League league stage, meaning whichever broadside progresses volition beryllium continuing their pursuit of genuine past arsenic the qualifying rounds advance.

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Team News

Celje person nary wounded concerns up of Tuesday’s 2nd leg, and Campelos is expected to sanction his strongest disposable broadside fixed the value of the occasion.

Zan-Luk Leban is acceptable to commencement successful goal, with Artemijus Tutyskinias, Darko Hrka and Pijus Sirvys forming the antiaircraft operation down him.

Armandas Kucys and Seslar are expected to lend successful attack, with Milot Avdyli providing width from the helping arsenic Celje look to use aboriginal unit and unit the necktie open.

Ararat-Armenia besides study nary wounded concerns, and Tulipa is apt to sanction a beardown lineup with the play-off circular wrong touching distance.

Joao Bravim is expected to instrumentality successful extremity having been rested for Friday’s league fixture, with Bruno Wilson, Edgar Grigoryan, Alexandros Malis and Junior Bueno forming the antiaircraft unit.

Karen Muradyan, Hugo Oliveira and Maxence Carlier are acceptable to run successful midfield, portion the attacking trio of Serobyan, Sandro Lima and Zidane Banjaqui volition transportation Ararat’s superior extremity menace connected Tuesday.

Celje imaginable starting lineup:

Leban; Sirvys, Hrka, Tutyskinias; Tusha, Daniel, Zabukovnik, Kvesic; Seslar, Kucys, Avdyli

Ararat-Armenia imaginable starting lineup:

Bravim; Grigoryan, Malis, Wilson, Bueno; Carlier, Muradyan, Oliveira; Banjaqui, Lima, Serobyan

We say: Celje 2-1 Ararat-Armenia (Ararat-Armenia advancement connected penalties)

Ararat-Armenia’s grounds of losing each distant fixture successful this qualifying run is the astir important thread for Celje to propulsion connected Tuesday, and the location assemblage astatine the Stadion Z’dezele should make an uncomfortable ambiance for the visitors.

Tulipa’s broadside person shown the composure and prime to triumph erstwhile it matters most, and with Ararat-Armenia needing lone to debar decision to advance, the visitors are backed to bash capable to unit other clip and yet prevail successful a punishment shootout to support their historical European pursuit alive.

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