Pakhtakor Tashkent vs Al-Nassr - prediction, team news, lineups

Al-Nassr volition caput to Uzbekistan to face Pakhtakor Tashkent successful Monday's AFC Champions League clash astatine the Pakhtakor Central Stadium.

The Saudi Pro League broadside are sitting successful ninth spot successful the league signifier (West), portion Pakhtakor are a constituent down successful 12th position. 

Match preview

Pakhtakor entered the AFC Champions League successful the preliminary circular aft finishing successful 2nd spot successful the Uzbekistan Super League past term.

The Uzbek broadside cruised to a 3-0 triumph implicit Al-Hussein to scope the league phase, wherever they person mustered conscionable 2 points from their opening 3 matches.

They started the league signifier with back-to-back games against Saudi Pro League opposition, playing retired 1-1 draws against Al Ahli and Al Qadiash.

However, they were incapable to instrumentality thing from past week's distant clash against Iraqi outfit Al Quwa Al Jawiya, with Saad Abdulameer's effort proving the quality successful a 1-0 defeat, making it 4 consecutive matches without a triumph for Kamoliddin Tajiev's side. 

That effect extended their winless tally to 4 matches, which they ended with a much-needed 1-0 triumph implicit Xorazm Urganch successful Friday's league encounter, leaving them successful 2nd spot and 2 points adrift of leaders Neftchi Fargona, who person played a crippled more.

As they crook their absorption to Monday's Champions League fixture, Pakhtakor tin instrumentality immoderate assurance from the information they person mislaid conscionable 1 of their past 13 competitory location games, though that solitary decision took spot against Neftchi Fargona successful their astir caller outing astatine the Pakhtakor Central Stadium. 

Al-Nassr are competing successful the AFC Champions League main gully aft winning the Saudi Pro League rubric nether Jorge Jesus's ticker past season.

Jesus near astatine the extremity of the title-winning campaign, paving the mode for ex-Tottenham Hotspur brag Ange Postecoglou to instrumentality implicit the reins. 

The 61-year-old has overseen 11 wins, 1 gully and 2 defeats successful his 14 matches successful charge, with 1 of those losses coming via a 4-0 scoreline successful their Champions League opener against Al-Ain.

Al-Nassr person responded to that decision with a five-game winning run, including a 3-1 triumph implicit reigning Uzbek champions Neftchi Fergana on matchday 2 of the league phase, leaving them a constituent adrift of the apical eight. 

Cristiano Ronaldo starred successful Al-Nassr's astir caller outing against Al-Kholood successful the Saudi Pro League, netting a second-half hat-trick successful a 5-3 triumph to determination wrong 15 of his 1,000-goal target.

Having scored astatine slightest 3 goals successful 4 of their past 5 games, Al-Nassr volition beryllium looking to proceed their good signifier erstwhile they marque the travel to Uzbekistan, though their hopes of triumph whitethorn beryllium tempered by the information they won conscionable 1 of their erstwhile 4 distant competitory matches (D1, L2).

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Team News

Pakhtakor defender Khozhiabar Alizhonov is simply a uncertainty aft being forced disconnected successful the archetypal fractional against Xorazm Urganch connected Friday.

If Alizhonov misses out, the hosts could enactment up with a backmost 4 made up of Mukhammad-Bobur Karimov, Zaid Tahseen, Morteza Pouraliganji and Sherzod Nasrullaev. 

At the other extremity of the pitch, Dostonbek Khamdamov volition connection 1 of Pakhtakor's main attacking threats, having scored 13 goals successful 30 appearances this season. 

As for Al-Nassr, the header quality is that Ronaldo is among respective players who volition beryllium retired Monday's fixture arsenic Postecoglou looks to negociate his squad during the engaged period. 

Postecoglou has besides decided to question to Tashkent without defender Mohamed Simakan and attacker Kingsley Coman. 

Midfielder Samu Costa volition instrumentality to the squad aft serving a one-match prohibition connected Thursday owed to an accumulation of yellowish cards.

Pakhtakor Tashkent imaginable starting lineup:

Nazarov; Karimov, Tahseen, Pouraliganji, Nasrullaev; Sobirkhuzhaev, Buriev, Ibrokhimov; Khamdamov, Flamarion, Hussein

Al-Nassr imaginable starting lineup:

Bento; Boushal, Al-Sharari, Martinez; Aman; Al-Hamdan, Costa, Angelo, Ghareeb ; Felix, Mane

We say: Pakhtakor Tashkent 1-1 Al-Nassr

Al-Nassr's situation is made tougher by the information that they volition person decided to remainder 3 of their regulars, and considering Pakhtakor are pugnacious to bushed astatine home, we deliberation the visitors person to settee for a draw. 

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