UEFA Champions League Qualifying: Final Play-Off Ties To Take Place This Week
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The final ties in the play-off rounds for the UEFA Champions League – Europe’s premier club competition – are set to take place this week. This coming Tuesday evening (28 August) sees three second leg ties kick off, with a place in the Champions League last 32 just 90 minutes away.
Former Champions League winners Ajax looks a good place to start. The Dutch giants travel to Ukraine to take on Dynamo Kiev with a 3-1 advantage safely in the bank following last week’s first leg.
Dynamo have looked good in domestic competition so far this season, winning four and drawing one in five games, but Ajax are a different calibre of opponent. And the Amsterdam outfit are odds on to reach the group stages of the Champions League for the first time since the 2014/15 season.
AEK should join Ajax in group stages
Another club close to securing their place in the Champions League group stages is Greek champions AEK Athens. The side from the capital welcome Hungarian club MOL Vidi to town on Tuesday, with AEK looking to defend the 2-1 lead they took away from Budapest in the first leg.
The defending Greek Super League champions got their title defence off on the right foot this past weekend with a routine 2-0 win and will come into this tie brimming with confidence. The writing would look to be on the wall for MOL.
Dinamo and Young Boys neck and neck
Without doubt the closest of Tuesday’s ties comes from Croatia, as Dinamo Zagreb host Swiss outfit Young Boys. The first leg ended 1-1 in Zurich and it is all to play for at the Stadion Maksimir in Zagreb.
Dinamo will however fancy their chances of getting the result they need on their own patch. They have won their last five matches in a row on home soil and confidence must be high in the Dinamo camp – those five home games have seen them concede just two goals, and this could well be a low scoring affair.
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