Saburtalo Tbilisi vs Larne - prediction, team news, lineups

Everything is inactive to play for successful Tbilisi after a goalless archetypal leg, arsenic Saburtalo Tbilisi and Larne conscionable again astatine the Mikheil Meskhi Stadium connected Tuesday successful the 2nd limb of the Europa League 3rd qualifying round, with a spot successful the play-off circular the prize for whoever comes retired connected top.

Gary Haveron’s broadside indispensable find a mode to people distant from location to support their European run alive, but a beforehand enactment that has failed to find the nett successful 3 consecutive matches makes that task a daunting one.

Match preview

The archetypal limb astatine Inver Park produced a tense, goalless affair, with Saburtalo keeping a cleanable expanse contempt making less extremity attempts - 4 to Larne’s 11, though Andrey Demchenko’s broadside controlled ample portions of the contention with 65 per cent possession.

With the necktie perfectly poised and nary goals separating the sides, Tuesday’s 2nd limb is efficaciously a one-off match, and some clubs volition cognize that the adjacent extremity scored could beryllium decisive.

Demchenko’s broadside person drawn their past 2 matches and person taken conscionable 1 win, 3 draws and 1 decision from their past 5 outings crossed each competitions.

Domestically, Saburtalo are 2nd successful the Erovnuli Liga with 34 points from 19 matches, 1 constituent down leaders Rustavi, who person played a crippled more.

The Georgian broadside began this season’s European run successful the Champions League qualifiers earlier being dropped into the Europa League way pursuing a 2nd qualifying circular decision to Slovan Bratislava, and Demchenko volition beryllium determined to marque the astir of the 2nd accidental presented to them.

Larne, meanwhile, participate Tuesday’s 2nd limb without a extremity successful 3 consecutive matches - a tally that stretches backmost done their astir caller qualifying fixtures and represents the defining situation facing Haveron’s broadside if they are to propulsion disconnected an distant upset successful Georgia.

The Northern Irish side’s Champions League run ended heavily, with a 4-0 first-leg location defeat to Red Star Belgrade followed by a 5-0 nonaccomplishment connected the roadworthy successful the 2nd leg.

Larne won the Irish Premiership past season, though their caller NIFL Premiership run is yet to get underway, with their opening play fixture postponed.

Both clubs volition beryllium leaving thing connected the transportation astatine the Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, with progression to the Europa League play-off circular astatine stake.

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Team News

Saburtalo person nary important wounded concerns reported up of the 2nd leg, and Demchenko is expected to sanction a beardown lineup fixed the stakes.

Giorgi Makaridze is acceptable to commencement successful goal, with Aleksandre Amisulashvili, Giorgi Kobuladze, Jemali-Giorgi Jinjolava and Vahid Selimovic forming the antiaircraft portion successful beforehand of him.

Bakar Kardava, Nikoloz Dadiani and Giorgi Kutsia are expected to diagnostic successful midfield and supply the originative nexus betwixt defence and attack.

Andria Bartishvili, Nika Sikharulashvili and Zviad Nachkebia are acceptable to pb the attacking menace for the hosts, with the trio looking to interruption the deadlock that has defined some legs truthful far.

For Larne, Tomas Cosgrove, Dan Bent, Matt Ridley and Aaron Donnelly are each successful contention to commencement astatine the back, providing screen for goalkeeper Rohan Ferguson.

Ronan Doherty, Christopher Gallagher, Sean Graham and Dylan Sloan could slot into midfield, portion Montel Gibson, Jordan McEneff and Matthew Lusty are expected to pb the onslaught for the visitors.

Haveron volition request astatine slightest 1 of that guardant enactment to rediscover their scoring interaction if Larne are to widen their European escapade past Tuesday.

Saburtalo Tbilisi imaginable starting lineup:

Makaridze; Kobuladze, Amisulashvili, Selimovic, Jinjolava; Dadiani, Kutsia; Bartishvili, Sikharulashvili, Nachkebia

Larne imaginable starting lineup:

Ferguson; Cosgrove, Bent, Ridley, Donnelly; Doherty, Gallagher, Graham; Sloan; Lusty, Gibson

We say: Saburtalo Tbilisi 1-0 Larne

Saburtalo dominated possession successful the archetypal limb distant from home, and connected their ain turf astatine the Mikheil Meskhi Stadium they volition beryllium adjacent much hard to interruption down. 

With Larne yet to people successful 3 outings and facing a broadside that controlled 65 per cent of the shot successful Northern Ireland, the momentum and the location vantage some constituent firmly successful the aforesaid direction.

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