Soccer Predictions

Schalke vs Hamburger SV is the debut match of the new football season in Germany - 2.Bundesliga. A traditional duel of german football is played after many years in the second league.

Three years have passed since the last direct confrontation between Schalke 04 and Hamburger SV, on April 7, 2018, Hamburger would win 3-2 at home against Schalke in the Bundesliga.

In 2020, Schalke and Hamburger met in a friendly match played in Hamburg, which was won by the "miners" with the score of 4-0.

Schalke won an important friendly match before the debut in the 2.Bundesliga, score 3-2 at home with the Dutch team, Vitesse. In the five friendly matches played, Schalke managed three victories and two draws with strong opponents such as Zenit and Shakhtar.

All three victories recorded by Hamburger SV in the friendly matches were 1-0 and among the defeated opponents were Basel, Silkeborg and Wacker Innsbruck.

FK Rostov and Dynamo Moscow open the new football season in Russia - Premier League, the match being scheduled to start at 18:00, Friday night.

FK Rostov have two notable absences for today's match, Dolgov A. and Normann M. being injured. In the last friendly match, FK Rostov lost surprisingly against Honved, with 1-0.

On the other side, Dynamo Moscow will not count in this match, on Grulev V. due to leg injury. Today's guests ended the series of friendly matches with a 3-0 home victory against Budafoki.

The statistics of the last ten direct confrontations are very balanced, each team has accumulated four victories and two games have ended in a draw.

The last direct duel was also the game with the most goals scored, five in number, and FK Rostov won 4-1 at home taking revenge after the defeat suffered in 2016 in the Russian Cup, where Dynamo Moscow won 4 -0.

Stage 1 of the new season of the Jupiler League - Belgium, begins with the match between Standard Liege and Genk, match that will be played on Friday night at 19:45.

The most recent confrontation between St. Liege and Genk was placed in the final of the Belgian Cup, which was played on April 24, 2021 and won by Genk, due to the 2-1 victory.

Standard Liege finished last season with four consecutive defeats, and in the play-off for qualifying for a European competition it managed to win only one match, finishing on the last position in the ranking.

Genk played in the play-offs to win the Jupiler League title and although he qualified from 4th place, he managed to climb two places in the end and finish behind the champion Club Brugge.

Three direct confrontations took place last season between Standard Liege and Genk, two in the championship, both ending in a draw and the duel in the Belgian Cup final, where Genk won, 2-1.

Argentina U23 vs Australia U23 is playing round 1 of group C, from the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The match is scheduled to start at 11:30 (UK Time) and will be hosted by Sapporo Dome.

Argentina and Australia meet for the third time at the Olympic Games, the other two clashes taking place in 2004 and 2008, also in groups, and Argentina won 1-0 each time.

At the 2016 edition in Rio, Argentina did not overcome the group stage, being eliminated from the 3rd place. In 2008 Argentina managed to win the Olympic title in a final with Nigeria, this being the first trophy won by Leo Messi with his country's national team.

Australia's best performance at the Olympics was in 1992, when it finished 4th, after losing in the final to Ghana.

Argentina and Australia will fight for group qualification with Spain and Egypt, the four making up Group C, which is considered the most difficult in this edition of the 2020 Olympic Games.

Laci KF vs Univ. Craiova will play on Thursday in the second round of the UEFA Conference League preliminaries, Elbasan Arena being the stadium that will host this confrontation.

Laci is not in the first game in this competition, being forced to play in round 1 with FK Podgorica, a team that he eliminated in the double round, after extra time.

Univ. Craiova is debuting in this competition, obtaining the qualification due to the Romanian Cup, won in front of the champion CFR Cluj.

The winning team from this double round will duel in the 3rd preliminary round of the UEFA Conference League, with the Belgian team Anderlecht, the team that is already qualified in the next round.

Univ. Craiova played two official matches this season, in the Super Cup won in the 11m shots with CFR Cluj and in the first stage of League 1, where it won 1-0 against FC Arges. Although he does not have much experience in European cups, Craiova has the first chance in this match.