Breidablik vs UE Santa Coloma Preview 14/07/2022

Breidablik vs UE Santa Coloma – 14/07/2022

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UE Santa Coloma will make the journey to Iceland this Thursday night as they meet with Breiðablik Kópavogur within the second leg of the Europa Convention League first spherical qualifiers with a one-goal deficit to overturn.

Barely something separated the 2 within the first leg of this qualifier but it surely was Ísak Þorvaldsson, previously of Norwich Metropolis, that broke the impasse to provide the Icelandic aspect a 1-0 lead after 14 minutes.

Some defensive resilience and tactical excellence adopted for Breiðablik, and finally, it was a incredible end result for them in a sport that noticed the stats go in opposition to them with much less of the ball and few photographs on the right track.

The victory for the Icelandic giants has now continued their sensational run of kind this season that has seen the membership lose only one sport all marketing campaign lengthy throughout all competitions.

This sees them with an amazing report of 10 wins from 12 video games within the high flight of Iceland, whereas additionally dropping simply as soon as and drawing the opposite.

What’s extra, Breiðablik now have a six-point lead already on second place within the division, and this additionally sees them have a shocking targets distinction report of 35 targets scored and 12 conceded within the division – that is each the most effective targets scored report and fewest conceded within the league.

Breiðablik at the moment are on a five-game unbeaten run since dropping to Valur again in mid-June, with them beating KA 4-1, Reykjavik 4-0, IA 3-2 within the Icelandic Cup, earlier than a draw with IBV after which the primary leg victory over Santa Coloma.

As for Santa Coloma, their home season has been completed for 2 months now and their first leg encounter with Breiðablik was truly their first sport in nearly two months having final performed in a 1-1 draw within the Primera Divisio play-off with Atletic Escaldes.

It was additionally a formidable season for them in 2021/22, and though they completed three factors behind Inter d’Escaldes within the race for the title, with simply 26 targets conceded all through 27 video games and one much less win than the league winners with 13, they nonetheless come into this one off the again of some promising kind.

The membership’s final victory got here again on Could 15 the place they beat Inter d’Escaldes 3-1 within the play-offs, and the Andorran aspect may have hope of getting a end result right here.

Nonetheless, the one-goal deficit is in itself so much to overturn in opposition to such an in-form aspect, and Forebet predicts a win right here for Breiðablik and for the sport to see over 2.5 targets.