Omonia vs Kairat - prediction, team news, lineups

Omonia statesman their Champions League preliminaries run connected Wednesday erstwhile they invited Kairat Almaty to GSP Stadium for the archetypal limb of their 2nd qualifying circular tie.

The Queens secured their spot astatine this signifier aft winning the 2025-26 Cypriot First Division, portion the Kazakh visitors progressed, having triumphed implicit Sutjeska successful the opening qualifying round.

Match preview

Omonia person ne'er reached the main signifier of Europe’s elite nine contention and volition beryllium hoping to debar different aboriginal exit astatine this signifier aft their astir caller Champions League run ended with elimination against Dinamo Zagreb successful 2021-22.

However, the Queens person reached the league signifier of European contention successful each of the past 2 seasons, some successful the UEFA Conference League, wherever they suffered knockout playoff defeats, including past term’s nonaccomplishment to Rijeka.

Henning Berg’s broadside won the 2025-26 Cypriot First Division by an awesome 18 points up of AEK Larnaca to extremity a five-year hold for the title, but Omonia caput into Wednesday’s clash without a competitory fixture since ending past play with a 5-2 triumph implicit Apollon.

The Nicosia outfit are not abbreviated of confidence, though, having won 2 of their 4 pre-season friendlies (D2), including a 2-1 triumph implicit Panetolikos past clip out, wherever caller signing Andronikos Kakoullis scored doubly aft Kosta Aleksic had fixed the visitors a first-half lead.

Omonia person present gone 17 matches crossed competitory fixtures and friendlies without defeat, scoring aggregate goals successful 14 of those outings, though they person failed to find the nett successful their past 2 continental location games.

Kairat, meanwhile, are aiming to scope the Champions League main signifier for a 2nd successive word aft making their archetypal ever quality successful the competition’s league signifier past term, wherever they finished bottommost of the 36-team table.

The Almaty nine began this season’s qualifying run successful awesome manner by defeating Sutjeska 4-1 connected aggregate, sealing progression with a 2-0 second-leg triumph successful Montenegro done second-half goals from Ismail Bekbolat and Jorginho.

The Yellow-Blacks followed that effect with an Edmilson-inspired 3-1 triumph distant against Atyrau astatine the weekend, scoring each 3 goals earlier halftime to determination 2nd successful the Kazakh Premier League table, 1 constituent down leaders Ordabasy, who person played a crippled fewer.

Rafael Urazbakhtin’s broadside person present won 7 consecutive matches crossed each competitions, scoring astatine slightest doubly successful each game, portion their lone 4 defeats oregon draws successful their past 13 outings came erstwhile they failed to registry aggregate goals.

Kairat person besides won each of their past 4 distant matches, though they look opponents they person failed to flooded successful their erstwhile 2 meetings, with some encounters ending successful goalless draws during the 2021-22 Conference League campaign.

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Team News

Omonia person nary caller wounded concerns pursuing their affable triumph implicit Panetolikos, though defender Fotis Kitsos remains sidelined portion recovering from a superior genu wounded suffered successful January.

The Nicosia nine person strengthened their squad with the arrivals of Jaden Montnor and Kakoullis from Aris Limassol, with the second successful contention to commencement aft his brace past clip out.

Fabiano is expected to proceed successful extremity aft starting each of the erstwhile 3 pre-season matches, portion Panagiotis Andreou could marque mode for Ioannis Kousoulos successful midfield.

For Kairat, defender Aleksandr Martynovich and midfielder Jaakko Oksanen are expected to instrumentality aft missing past weekend’s league triumph astatine Atyrau done suspension.

With Oksanen apt to instrumentality successful the mediate of the park, Jorginho could determination into the fig 10 relation down Marc Gual, though Edmilson whitethorn clasp his spot up beforehand aft an awesome show astatine the weekend.

Omonia imaginable starting lineup:

Fabiano; Odubajo, Coulibaly, N Panagiotou, Balkovec; Kousoulos, Maric; Costa, Tankovic, Montnor; Kakoullis

Kairat imaginable starting lineup:

Anarbekov; Mrynskiy, Shirobokov, Lucas Africo, Machado Mata; Sadybekov, Oksanen; Bekbolat, Jorginho, Jukkola; Gual

We say: Omonia 2-2 Kairat

Omonia person shown affirmative signs during pre-season, but Kairat person been successful ruthless attacking form, making this a hard fixture to telephone with neither broadside expected to springiness overmuch away.

A high-scoring brushwood could beryllium connected the cards, with some teams regularly uncovering the nett successful caller matches and possessing capable attacking prime to occupation their opponents.

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