On Thursday, August 11, at 8:30 p.m., the University of Craiova and Luhanska Zorya will meet in the return match of the third preliminary round of the Conference League live on Digi Sport 1 and Prima Sport 1.

Craiova University returns to Luhansk “Zorya” with a new coach, Mirel Redoi, who signed a two-year contract with the Oltei group after the dismissal of Laszlo Balint.

Oltenz are suffering in the championship, where they have only one win in four stages, and in Europe they lost their first match against Zorya Lugansk in Lublin (Poland) with a score of 0:1 to a team that has not played an official match since December 2021!

The University of Craiova has a difficult mission, especially since in the first match the team was far below expectations, which worries both the fans and the management of the club from Bany.

Mirel Redoi will make his debut on the technical bench of the “Lions” in the return match against Luhansk “Zorya” of the third preliminary round of the Conference League.

“First of all, we have to identify problems with the match of the tour. We have to have a different attitude and a different game. We will see if we can win the game after 90 minutes or 120 minutes. I know that “Zorya” Luhansk plays 4-3-3. Whatever we did, the tour game didn’t give us high hopes, to be honest. But this is a team that has its weaknesses, and we have to take advantage of them,” said Mirel Redoi, the new coach of the white and blue team.

Luhansk “Zorya” was in 4th place at the time of the break in the championship of Ukraine, and the match against “University of Craiova” in the tour became the first official one after more than six months of break (December 12, 2021, 1st 1 with Kyiv “Dynamo”, the domestic match will resume at the end August).

The coach is the Dutchman Patrick van Leeuwen (52 years old), and after the departure of foreign footballers due to the war, the team consists only of Ukrainian footballers, with two exceptions – the Brazilian Christian and the Ghanaian Raymond Owusu.

If Zorya Luhansk passes, the University of Craiova will face the winner of the Lugano double – Hapoel Beer Sheva in the playoffs (the Israelis won 2:0 in the first match in Switzerland).

Superbet offers odds of 2.35 for the exit of Universitat Craiova (including extra time or penalties) after the second leg with Zorya Lugansk.

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