Gornik Zabrze vs. Ferencvaros - prediction, team news, lineups

A week removed from their adjacent brushwood successful Budapest, Gornik Zabrze big Ferencvaros astatine Arena Zabrze successful the 2nd limb of their Europa League 3rd qualifying round, seeking to overturn the 1-0 deficit. 

The Polish outfit person not played successful immoderate European contention since the now-defunct Intertoto Cup successful 1995, and they strive to travel wrong touching region successful the Europa League, 31 years aft 1994’s first-round UEFA Cup elimination. 

Match preview

Having not played successful European shot of immoderate benignant successful implicit 3 decades, Gornik are astir there, with triumph connected Thursday guaranteeing that the Miners diagnostic connected the continent successful 2026-27. 

While Trabzonspor perchance await successful the playoff circular if Michal Gasparik’s squad bushed their Hungarian opponents this week, they are guaranteed to play the league signifier of the Europa oregon Conference League, arsenic the losers of the playoff circular beforehand to the continent’s third-tier nine competition. 

Gornik would anticipation their batch lands them a Europa League berth, marking their instrumentality to the contention for the archetypal clip since the 1994-95 play and the archetypal clip successful its modern guise. 

That ambition was aided by the squad showcasing their battling qualities a week agone successful Budapest, wherever they mostly prevented their Hungarian hosts from scoring much than 1 and carrying an attacking menace themselves. 

Admittedly, they were outshot 15-10, but Gasparik’s broadside had much touches successful the Ferencvaros punishment country (19) than their hosts (18), indicating that they made inroads, adjacent if their finishing was not up to scratch. 

Having shown they tin premix it with Europe’s second-tier sides erstwhile they ran Fenerbahce adjacent successful the Champions League preliminary round, Gornik volition backmost themselves to overturn past week’s deficit, adjacent if they volition request stars to align to execute that target. 

Ferencvaros volition beryllium alert of their hosts’ imagination of reaching the main signifier of a European contention again aft implicit a decade; however, they volition backmost themselves to worsen the location side’s already underwhelming tally of results. 

Gornik person mislaid 50% of their six matches crossed each competitions successful 2026-27, a statistic that the visitors volition look to usage to their advantage, perchance mounting up a playoff gathering with Trabzonspor. 

Nonetheless, the visitors are successful alternatively indifferent signifier themselves, evidenced by claiming 1 triumph from 4 competitory fixtures heading into this week’s encounter, albeit their sole triumph came successful past week’s slender win. 

Indeed, Balazs Borbely volition anticipation that his broadside rediscover their signifier successful the attacking third, having already notched 2 each successful 3 distant matches this term, securing a brace of 2-1 wins successful Europe against Vojvodina and FC Twente, arsenic good arsenic losing 4-2 against Paks. 

Nonetheless, the Greens’ inability to support cleanable sheets connected the roadworthy does not bode good for Thursday’s prospects successful Zabrze, apt hindering their chances of advancing to the playoff circular for a accidental to scope the main signifier of the Europa League for the 3rd twelvemonth running. 

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Team News

Gornik are inactive without Jaroslaw Kubicki, who has not played since breaking his limb against Lech Poznan successful the Polish Super Cup successful mid-July, each but marking the hosts’ lone absentee for the sojourn of Ferencvaros. 

Sondre Liseth whitethorn person led the mode for goals erstwhile the Polish broadside finished runners-up successful their home league, but the 28-year-old has yet to find the backmost of the nett this word and so since scoring successful Gornik’s 6-2 triumph implicit Radomiak successful May. 

Instead, Peter Gonzalez has been the team’s starring attacking menace this season, and the guardant volition anticipation to marque an interaction arsenic a substitute oregon starter. 

Ferencvaros are without respective players owed to wounded oregon ineligibility, but Elton Acolatse stands out, fixed helium tallied 16 extremity involvements successful the 26-27 season. 

While Zsombor Fruber - who produced 16 extremity contributions past word - is portion of the group, the guardant has yet to diagnostic successful Europe since mid-July, leaving observers questioning the logic down sidelining a productive player. 

Also absent are Endre Botka, Gergo Szecsi, Habib Maiga, Franko Kovacevic, Bence Otvos, Barnabas Nagy, Isaac Pappoe and Adam Madarasz owed to their ineligibility. 

Gornik Zabrze imaginable starting lineup:

Schulze; Sacek, Janicki, Josema, Janza; Sadilek, Dietz, Urbanski; Dimi, Prekop, Ismaheel 

Ferencvaros imaginable starting lineup:

Dibusz; Osvath, Raemaekers, Gomez, Cadu; Corbu, Kanichowsky, Levi; Zachariassen, Joseph, Yusuf 

We say: Gornik Zabrze 1-1 Ferencvaros (Ferencvaros triumph 2-1 connected aggregate)

Gornik volition propulsion everything astatine their visitors successful an effort to overturn the slender deficit, but their caller tally of 3 defeats successful six matches highlights a frustrating deficiency of momentum. 

If Ferencvaros tin navigate the aboriginal pressure, the Hungarian broadside person capable European savvy to unafraid a hard-fought gully and support their aggregate lead.

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