Panathinaikos vs Paksi SE - prediction, team news, lineups

Panathinaikos volition beryllium looking to publication their spot successful the adjacent circular of Conference League qualifying erstwhile they invited Paksi SE to the Apostolos Nikolaidis on Thursday.

The hosts caput into the 2nd limb with a large advantage, having won the archetypal limb of the 2nd circular qualifying necktie 2-1.

Match preview

Panathinaikos person been regulars successful Europe, featuring 7 times successful the Champions League betwixt 2000-01 and 2010-11, but they person had to settee for spots successful the Europa League and Conference League successful caller years.

Last season, Panathinaikos reached the past 16 successful the Europa League, having dropped retired of Champions League qualifying successful the 2nd round.

However, a fourth-placed decorativeness successful the Greek Super League means they person had to settee for a spot successful Conference League qualifying this season.

Panathinaikos are entering a caller epoch nether caput manager Jacob Neestrup, who replaced Rafael Benitez astatine the helm implicit the summer, and volition beryllium keen to physique connected past week's triumph successful the archetypal leg.

Gabor Vas scored an ain extremity successful the archetypal half, earlier Santino Andino made it 2-0 and Daniel Bode got 1 backmost for Paksi.

Paksi, meanwhile, are hoping to unafraid European shot for the archetypal clip this play having regularly fallen abbreviated successful Europa League and Conference League qualifying successful caller years.

This volition beryllium their sixth European qualifying run and the Hungarian broadside came closest to qualifying past season, erstwhile they reached the last circular of Conference League qualifiers and mislaid to Polissya Zhytomyr.

Gyorgy Bognar's broadside volition beryllium keen to bounce backmost from their decision successful the archetypal limb and caput into the 2nd limb disconnected the backmost of an awesome 4-2 triumph implicit Ferencvaros successful the Nemzeti Bajnoksag connected Sunday.

Milan Peto and Jozsef Szalai some bagged braces arsenic Paksi doubly came from down against Ferencvaros, who are the astir palmy Hungarian nine and finished 2nd successful the league past season. 

Panathinaikos Conference League form:

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Paksi SE Conference League form:

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Paksi SE signifier (all competitions):

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Team News

Panathinaikos are acceptable to beryllium without the likes of Cyriel Dessers and Erik Palmer Brown done injury.

The Greek broadside person made a fig of caller signings this summertime and the likes of Anass Zaroury, Etienne Camara, Triantafyllos Tsapras, Inaki Pena and Stefan de Vrij are each expected to start.

Paksi are acceptable to marque astatine slightest 2 changes aft Szalai and Zsolt Haraszti picked up injuries successful the triumph implicit Ferencvaros.

As a result, Bode and Janos Hahn are acceptable to travel into the starting lineup.

Panathinaikos imaginable starting lineup:

Pena; Tsapras, Touba, De Vrij, Kyriakopoulos; Gnezda, Camara; Zaroury, Jagusic, Andino; Tetteh

Paksi SE imaginable starting lineup:

Kovacsik; Gyorfi, Vas, Szkeszardi, Vecsei, Zeke; Peto, Papp; Horvath, Hahn; Bode

We say: Panathinaikos 2-1 Paksi SE

Panathinaikos person a stronger European pedigree and person strengthened their squad importantly successful the transportation market.

As a result, we are backing them to triumph and advancement to the 3rd circular of qualifying.

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