On Tuesday, July 25, starting at 19:00 at the Vetra Stadium in Vilnius, the qualifying match of the first match of the second qualifying round of the Champions League between Zalgiris and Galatasaray will take place, which will be broadcast on superbet.ro (live).

In one of the most interesting matches of this stage of the Champions League, “Zalgiris” and “Galatasaray” meet, each of which has a Romanian footballer.

Zalgiris are Lithuanian champions and edged out North Macedonian champions Struga in the first preliminary round of the competition after 0-0 home and 2-1 away draws.

Zhalgiris, coached by Kazakh Volodymyr Cheburin since January 2021, leads the A League, a championship played under the spring-autumn system (ten teams, playing two rounds and two returns), with 52 points after 23 stages, level with the team in 2nd place, Panyavezhis, who, however, have played two matches less (21).

Zalgiris have won their last five A League games, most recently at home against Sudava 4-0, and have Romanian Liviu Antala in their squad, who also played for the Vilnius side from 2017-2020 (110 appearances and 62 goals in all competitions), winning the title, the Cup and the Super Cup (in 2018 he was the top scorer in the Lithuanian Championship).

Galatasaray are the Turkish champions (88 accumulated points, eight more than second-placed Fenerbahce) and face their first official match of the new season after a win (2-0 at Kishvard), a draw (1-1 at Austria Wien) and two defeats (3-4 at Hull City and 0-2 at Sturm) in the summer friendlies.

Since last summer, the team from Istanbul has been coached by their former great Okan Buruk, who has seven titles, four cups, three super cups, a UEFA Cup and a European Super Cup, and as a coach he won two titles, one with Istanbul Basaksehir and one with Galatasaray, as well as a cup with Ahisaspor.

Olimpiu Morutsan is the only Romanian in the Galatasaray squad, where he has returned from a loan spell in Pisa, while Alexandru Cikaldeu will be sold again, either on loan or permanently, after playing for Al Ittihad Kalba in Saudi Arabia last season.

Zalgiris and Galatasaray will meet for the first time, the return match is scheduled for Tuesday, August 2, from 21:30.

Superbet offers odds of 1.47 on the PsF2 prediction: the visitors lead at half-time or prevail at the end of the match “Zalgiris” – “Galatasaray”.

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