SSN BET - Match of the Day: Arsenal Tula - Neftchi. 25.07.2019.

Hello! Today starts the second qualifying round of the Europa League, which means that we are again waiting for a lot of matches. Today there will also be a lot of debuts in eurocups, and I will sort out a match with one of them. Arsenal Tula - Neftchi.

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Arsenal Tula

As for the Russian club, for it today will debut in the Europa League and it is noteworthy that it will take place at home. Last season, the club from Tula performed well in the championship, finishing in sixth place, which allowed the club to take part in eurocups. So, the Russian Premier League started a couple of weeks ago, two rounds passed, Arsenal in these two rounds played at home with Dynamo Moscow (1-1) and away with the Krylia Sovietov (2-3). Both of these clubs have recently been struggling more for survival than for high places. However, we should not forget that in both of these matches, the “Gunners” showed character by selecting points from Dynamo at the end of the match and not allowing the Krylia to even the score. Also in July, Arsenal held two friendly matches. With the Austrian Red Bull Salzburg (1-1) and Czech Příbram (0-0). In both of these matches, almost the main Arsenal squad entered the field.

Arsenal retained almost the entire core team of last season, with the possible exception of one - Resiuan Mirzov left the club a few days ago and moved to Spartak Moscow. Last season, this midfielder showed himself well in the Arsenal, which earned a call to the Russian national team.

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Neftchi Baku

Now a little about the Azerbaijani club. The Azerbaijan Championship has not started yet, and Neftchi, who took second place last season, has played three matches so far in the new season. Of these, two matches fell on a standoff in one qualifying round with Moldovan Speranza. In the first match away Neftchi defeated the Moldavian club 0-3 without allowing the opponent to break through his goalkeeper. In the second match, the rout was even bigger than 6-0. Prior to that, at the end of June, Neftchi held a friendly match with SKA-Khabarovsk in which he won with a score of 1-3.

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So, for the current season it is difficult to determine the current form of teams. Judging by the past, then at home Arsenal Tula took away points from an opponent more often than he lost them. Moscow's Lokomotiv, CSKA, Spartak and even Zenit St. Petersburg, who by the way became the champion, could not cope with the strong defense of the Gunners. All of these clubs last season were defeated in Tula. Neftchi, it seems generally scored most of the points in the away matches. In the last 15 matches of the championship last season, the team was defeated only once by Gabala. But it is worth considering the gap in the class of the championships of Russia and the championship of Azerbaijan.

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In general, I believe that in today's match we will at least see an exchange of goals. Therefore I bet Both teams score with 2.17. I also believe that the Russian club will not lose today, but the odds for 1X and Arsenal's victory (0) are very low. Therefore, maybe I will try bet Individual Total Arsenal over 1.5 with 1.86.

Good Luck!