Celje vs Red Bull Salzburg - prediction, team news, lineups

Red Bull Salzburg volition caput connected their travels for Thursday's Europa League clash against Celje astatine the Stadion Z'dezele.

The Austrian visitors inhabit 21st spot successful the league phase, portion the Slovenian champions are down successful 35th spot aft starting with back-to-back defeats. 

Match preview

After losing to Slovan Bratislava successful the Champions League playoff round, Celje person experienced a hard commencement to their archetypal quality successful a Europa League league phase/group stage, having failed to occupation the scorers successful their archetypal 2 matches against Bayer Leverkusen and Omonia.

A 2-0 decision successful Germany and a 3-0 location nonaccomplishment against Omonia person formed portion of Zoran Zeljkovic's underwhelming commencement to beingness arsenic Celje boss.

While helium has overseen cleanable sheets successful his archetypal 3 league games, his squad person failed to people successful 4 of his opening 5 competitory matches (W1, D2, L2), including a stalemate successful Sunday's distant clash with leaders Maribor.

That effect has near Celje successful sixth spot successful the Prva Liga and 8 points adrift of the summit, leaving them with plentifulness of enactment to bash if they are to clasp their league crown.

Rather than the rubric race, their existent absorption volition beryllium connected Thursday's Europa League fixture, wherever they volition effort to extremity their four-game winless tally successful European competition.

That volition beryllium easier said than done for a squad that has won conscionable 1 of their erstwhile 4 location matches successful each competitions (L3).

Salzburg are competing successful the Europa League main gully for a 2nd consecutive play aft settling for a third-place decorativeness successful Austrian Bundesliga past term.

They volition beryllium hopeless to amended past term's disappointing league signifier campaign, which saw them decorativeness successful 31st spot aft losing six of their 8 matches.

Danny Rohl's broadside are already 1 triumph distant from equalling past season's six-point tally aft claiming a 1-0 triumph implicit Bulgarian outfit Levski Sofia connected matchday one.

However, they were fixed a brutal world cheque successful past week's location clash against Italian giants AC Milan, arsenic they fell to a dense 4-0 decision pursuing an Alphadjo Cissa hat-trick and a Goncalo Ramos effort.

Salzburg astatine slightest managed to instrumentality to winning ways successful Sunday's league clash against Altach, with Haris Tabakovic, Jesper Lindstrom and Damir Redzic each scoring successful a 3-0 triumph to support their broadside wrong 3 points of leaders Rapid Vienna.

They volition present caput to Slovenia with hopes of maintaining their unbeaten distant record, having won 5 and drawn 4 of their 9 competitory matches connected their travels, including cleanable sheets successful 5 of their past six distant assignments.

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Team News

Celje midfielder remains sidelined with a genu wounded helium sustained during a indebtedness spell with Polish broadside Stal Mielec earlier this year. 

Right-back Pijus Sirvys is pushing for a starting spot aft returning from wounded arsenic a precocious substitute successful Sunday's gully against Maribor. 

Striker Blaz Kramer could instrumentality to pb the enactment aft dropping down to the seat astatine the weekend. 

As for the visitors, they are incapable to telephone upon Nikolas Veratschnig, Justin Omoregie and Enrique Aguilar owed to injury.

Salzburg volition besides request to measure guardant Karim Konate, who has missed the past 2 matches with illness.

Redzic is pushing for a starting spot aft coming disconnected the seat to nett successful Sunday's triumph implicit Altach, portion determination could beryllium a callback for Sota Kitano. 

Celje imaginable starting lineup:

Leban; Sirvys, Bejger, Tutyskinas, Avdyli; Kvesic, Zabukovnik; Dukuly, Seslar, Verbic; Kramer

Red Bull Salzburg imaginable starting lineup:

Zawieschitzky; Morgalla, Boma, Zabransky, Schmid; Barry, Mazurek; Redzic, Kitano, Lindstrom; Tabakovic

We say: Celje 1-2 Red Bull Salzburg

Salzburg caput to Slovenia with an unbeaten distant grounds this season, and we deliberation they volition bask much occurrence connected their travels against a Celje broadside who whitethorn beryllium debased connected content are losing their archetypal 2 matches successful the league phase. 

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