Feyenoord vs. Como - prediction, team news, lineups

Weeks aft making contrasting starts to their Champions League campaigns, Feyenoord and debutants Como look disconnected astatine De Kuip successful Wednesday's matchday 2 encounter.

Cesc Fabregas's men thrashed RB Leipzig 4-1 successful their maiden quality successful the competition, portion the Rotterdam broadside were annihilated 5-1 astatine Camp Nou by Barcelona.

Match preview

Something appears to person clicked for Feyenoord since they were handed a 5-1 thrashing successful Catalonia a period agone successful their Champions League opener.

Giovanni van Bronckhorst's men were outclassed by the defending La Liga champions and 1 of the competition's favourites, but they person since been flawless.

Three consecutive league victories person propelled them to the apical of the embryonic Eredivisie table, with Feyenoord scoring 7 against PEC Zwolle, 5 successful their occurrence implicit FC Utrecht and 2 to extremity AZ Alkmaar's seven-month top-flight unbeaten streak without conceding successful immoderate of those matches.

Returning to continental enactment this week, the caller Eredivisie leaders volition question to widen their winning streak against 1 of the competition's astir tactically astute teams and bounce backmost from their matchday-one defeat.

That outcome, however, is contingent connected improving a miserable grounds of 1 triumph successful 7 meetings with Italian sides, having astir precocious mislaid 2-0 and 2-1 to Inter Milan successful the circular of 16 during the 2024-25 season.

The lack of immoderate guarantees for De Stadionclub, who presently beryllium 33rd successful the 36-team standings, adds further intrigue earlier they look the debuting Serie A side.

Como were deserved 4-1 winners successful their first-ever European lucifer past month, but an inconsistent series of home results has near the Lariani with mixed emotions since.

Having entered the Leipzig lucifer aft collecting 7 points from their opening 3 Italian top-flight fixtures, Fabregas's men person since beaten Parma 2-1, mislaid 2-0 to promoted Frosinone and failed to people against a Roma broadside that played the last 44 minutes with 10 men pursuing Donyell Malen's dismissal.

Sunday's gully astatine the Sinigaglia was Serie A's archetypal goalless brushwood of the season, ending a 53-match tally without a 0-0 effect astatine the commencement of the campaign.

Interestingly, that means the Lombardy outfit person failed to find the nett successful consecutive league matches for the archetypal clip since December 2025, erstwhile they mislaid to Inter (4-0) and Roma (1-0), and they present caput into Wednesday looking to debar going 3 consecutive games without scoring successful each competitions for the archetypal clip nether Fabregas.

Indeed, the Biancoblu volition purpose to debar that result arsenic the fifth-placed broadside successful the league signifier question to clasp their coveted top-eight berth aft matchday 2 concludes.

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Team News

After a dilatory commencement to beingness successful Rotterdam, Nacho Ferri has benefitted from Ayase Ueda's determination to Lille; helium has scored successful 3 consecutive appearances, netting a hat-trick against Zwolle and 1 extremity apiece successful victories implicit Utrecht and AZ.

The Rotterdam outfit are acold from a one-man attacking force, though, with Gjivai Zechiel, Anis Hadj Moussa and Luciano Valente each susceptible of producing match-winning contributions.

Despite their attacking threat, the Stadium Club are without Thomas Beelen (broken leg), Jordan Bos (knee), Bart Nieuwkoop (knee), Reiss Nelson (muscle), Gijs Smal (ankle) and Shaqueel van Persie, portion Goncalo Borges (knock), Tsuyoshi Watanabe (leg) and Jakub Moder (knee) are doubtful.

Apart from Moise Kean, who sustained a limb wounded during the planetary break, the Serie A broadside person a steadfast squad for their travel to Rotterdam.

However, Maxence Caqueret, Jayden Addai, Mauro Vigorito, Adrian Lahdo, Willy Kambwala and Edoardo Goldaniga are not included successful the squad and volition truthful beryllium unavailable connected Wednesday.

Martin Baturina — scorer of Como's first-ever Champions League extremity and supplier of different — is apt to diagnostic alongside prima playmaker Nico Paz, who registered 2 assists against Leipzig, portion Assane Diao and Anastasios Douvikas could implicit a threatening beforehand four.

Feyenoord imaginable starting lineup:

Ernst; Read, St Juste, Marmol, Lopez; Zechiel, Vanhoutte, Targhalline; Hadj Moussa, Ferri, Valente

Como imaginable starting lineup:

Butez; Couto, Ramon, Chalobah, Valle; Milla, Da Cunha; Diao, Paz, Baturina; Douvikas

We say: Feyenoord 2-2 Como

Both teams person capable attacking prime to exploit the other's antiaircraft vulnerabilities, pointing to an entertaining brushwood astatine De Kuip.

Feyenoord's home resurgence makes them hard to oppose, but Como's quality successful possession and unsafe supporting formed could gain the debutants different invaluable Champions League result.

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