FC Twente vs Pafos FC - prediction, team news, lineups

FC Twente and Pafos FC conscionable successful matchday 3 of the UEFA Conference League league signifier astatine De Grolsch Veste successful Enschede connected Thursday and the location squad looks to marque it 3 wins from three.

The Tukkers person won some of their matches and beryllium 5th with six points, portion the Paphites are 27th with 1 constituent aft a 3-1 decision astatine Atalanta and a 1-1 location gully with Riga FC.

Match preview

John van den Brom's broadside person started their league-phase run with a 1-0 location triumph implicit Thun and a 4-1 triumph astatine Lincoln Red Imps, their archetypal 2 successive wins successful a large European run since 2001-02.

Ramiz Zerrouki scored the lone extremity against Thun 5 minutes aft the Swiss champions were reduced to 10 men by a debatable reddish card, and Thomas van den Belt past scored doubly successful Gibraltar, wherever Wout Weghorst and Daouda Weidmann besides recovered the net.

The Tukkers followed that by beating AZ 2-0 successful Alkmaar connected October 25, with Sondre Orjasaeter scoring successful the 84th infinitesimal and substitute Lucas Vennegoor of Hesselink adding his archetypal Eredivisie extremity successful stoppage time.

Sunday’s 9-0 triumph astatine Excelsior was the biggest successful the club’s Eredivisie history, with Weghorst scoring 4 times for the archetypal clip successful his vocation and Orjasaeter becoming the archetypal subordinate to registry 5 assists successful an Eredivisie lucifer since the statistic has been recorded.

The scoreline needs context, due to the fact that Excelsior played 85 minutes with 10 men aft Nesto Groen was sent disconnected successful the sixth infinitesimal for a precocious situation connected Robin Propper.

The wins astatine Lincoln, AZ and Excelsior came by a combined 15-1 and followed a 2-1 location decision by Utrecht connected October 18, which remains the Tukkers’ astir caller nonaccomplishment successful immoderate competition.

Weghorst joined connected a escaped transportation from Ajax successful June, reuniting with method manager Erik 10 Hag, and aft a stuttering commencement that drew jeers from location supporters helium has go the focal point, though a hamstring occupation picked up astatine AZ meant helium was taken disconnected aft 62 minutes astatine Excelsior.

Pafos are successful the main gully of a European contention for a 3rd consecutive season, having reached the Conference League past 16 successful 2024-25 and the Champions League league signifier successful 2025-26.

This play they bushed Hajduk Split 4-2 connected aggregate successful Europa League qualifying and past mislaid a third-round necktie to Salzburg 4-3 connected aggregate, aft a 1-0 decision successful Austria and a 3-3 location gully successful which they led 2-0 astatine half-time and conceded 3 aft the break.

They past went done against Dinamo City of Albania 5-3 connected aggregate successful the Conference League play-off round, drafting 1-1 distant and winning 4-2 astatine location connected August 27.

In the league phase, Atalanta led 3-0 astatine half-time done Elmas, Raspadori and Scamacca connected the mode to a 3-1 triumph connected October 15, and Biel’s 76th-minute left-footed decorativeness earned a 1-1 gully with Riga FC connected October 22 aft Caio Ferreira had fixed the visitors the pb successful the 67th minute.

Pafos person conceded successful each of their past six European matches, 11 goals successful total, a tally that includes 3 against Atalanta and 3 successful the 2nd fractional of the instrumentality limb against Salzburg.

Pafos drew 2-2 astatine Apollon Limassol connected October 31, with Lele giving them the pb aft fractional an hr and substitute Anderson Silva equalising late, which near them winless successful 4 matches successful each competitions aft the Atalanta decision and goalless and 1-1 draws with APOEL Nicosia and Riga.

Director Haris Theocharous told Cypriot outlet Goal that the nine is not scoring from immoderate country of the transportation and wants a restart, though helium said caput manager Ricardo Sa Pinto’s presumption is not nether pressure.

Sa Pinto, who succeeded Albert Celades, leads a squad that finished 4th successful the Cypriot First Division past play connected 62 points and won the Cypriot Cup, with Anderson Silva scoring 14 goals successful each competitions and Joao Correia 10 successful the league.

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Team News

Twente are without goalkeeper Lars Unnerstall, defenders Max Bruns and Stav Lemkin, and winger Filip Thorvaldsen, who has a genu injury, and nary of the 4 is expected backmost earlier the planetary break.

Ruud Nijstad and Propper person formed the centre-back pairing successful the lack of Bruns and Lemkin, with 18-year-old Jip Meilink making his debut astatine Lincoln, portion Joel Drommel has kept extremity successful the league phase.

Weidmann served his Eredivisie suspension astatine Excelsior aft a 2nd yellowish paper astatine AZ and is expected to beryllium disposable again, though Van den Belt, who has 3 goals crossed the Lincoln and Excelsior games, has done capable to support his place.

Weghorst and Orjasaeter were some taken disconnected aft astir an hr astatine Excelsior arsenic portion of a program agreed astatine half-time, and with Ajax visiting Enschede connected Sunday, Van den Brom whitethorn negociate their minutes again.

Pafos person a agelong wounded list, with goalkeeper Jay Gorter and guardant Jaja retired agelong term, David Goldar, Nicolas Ngamaleu and Pepe among those who person missed caller weeks, and Jonatas Noro ruled retired successful precocious October.

David Luiz and Biel were reported to person fittingness complaints past weekend, but Luiz returned to the starting lineup astatine Apollon Limassol and Radoslaw Majecki has kept extremity successful Gorter’s absence, truthful Sa Pinto is expected to commencement from the lineup that faced Riga.

Silva came disconnected the seat astatine Apollon Limassol aft starting against Riga, which suggests Sa Pinto whitethorn rotate his onslaught again, with Lele pushing for a spot aft his goal.

FC Twente imaginable starting lineup:

Drommel; Van Rooij, Propper, Nijstad, Adelgaard; Zerrouki, Taha, Van den Belt; Rots, Orjasaeter, Weghorst

Pafos FC imaginable starting lineup:

Majecki; Bruno, Mmaee, Luiz, Ioannou; Guga, Dragomir, Brito; Correia, Biel, Anderson Silva

We say: FC Twente 3-1 Pafos FC

Pafos person conceded successful each of their past six European matches, including falling 3-0 down astatine half-time against Atalanta and surrendering a 2-0 pb against Salzburg, which represents a worrying antiaircraft grounds up of facing a Twente broadside that person scored 15 goals crossed their past 3 distant matches.

However, Twente benefited from playing against 10 men for agelong spells successful their matches against Thun and Excelsior, portion they are besides without 4 injured players, and with Pafos scoring successful 5 of their past six European fixtures, the hosts are backed to find the net, though a dense decision remains hard to regularisation out.

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