Aktobe vs Sepsi, the second leg of the third preliminary round of the Conference League, is scheduled for Thursday, August 17, from 19:00 at Ortalik Stadium, live on Digi Sport 1 and Prima. Sports 1.

Sepsi have a difficult mission at home to Aktobe, who must win to qualify, after the two teams drew in the first leg at Sf. Gheorghe with the score 1-1 (R. Varga, 89, respectively, Elder Santana 65).

Kazakhstan Championship-2022 “Aktobe” finished in 2nd place, behind the champion “Astana” by one point, and in the current, 2023, after 19 stages, it is in second place, behind the leader “Ordabasa”, who also has a game the distribution is less competitive (the spring-autumn system is played).

The team is coached by Andrii Karpovych, a former defensive midfielder who has played 55 games for the Kazakhstan national team and has played most of his career in his home country, with the exception of two seasons spent in Russia, one with Rostov and one with Dynamo. Moscow.

Aktobe started their European adventure in the second preliminary round of the Conference League, where they got past Georgia’s Torpedo Kutaisi (4-1 away and 1-2 at home), and in the last stage of the championship they drew at the last-placed Aksu Stadium with a score of 1 -1 in a match in which he handled almost all players.

Sepsi is still unbeaten this season, regardless of the competition: they won the Romanian Super Cup after 1-0 with Farul in Ploiesti, they have two wins and two draws in the league, and in the Conference League they got past CSKA Sofia of Bulgaria, in the previous round after 2 -0 away and 4-0 at home.

However, the team coached by Liviu Chobotariou comes after two extreme draws, both at home, 1-1 with Ocellul in the Super League and 1-1 with Aktobe in the Conference League (Kovesne’s players moved their match from the 5th stage of the championship, from the trip, from CFR Cluj).

“We must go with great confidence! Our dream must go on, but we must be much more careful. We are facing a strong and solid formation,” Liviu Chobotariu said.

The winner of the “double” between Aktobe and Sepsi will play in the playoffs of the Conference League with the winner of the Bodo/Glimt duel – Pyunik Yerevan (the Norwegians won the round at home 3:0, the return game will also be played on Thursday, August 17, from 19:00 in Armenia ).

Superbet offers odds of 1.95 on the GG prediction: both teams will score in the regular time of 90 minutes in the match Aktobe – Sepsi.

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