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Offside.win Europa League Hapoel Be'er Sheva v OFI Crete

Hapoel Be'er Sheva v OFI Crete

Europa League, League phase, Matchday 4. Kick-off Thursday 5 November, 20:00 UK time, at Rapid-Giulesti Stadium, Bucharest.

Our call

We looked at this match and did not find a call worth making. That can change as team news comes in: calls are looked at again every fifteen minutes until kick-off, so one can change or come down, and each closes when the match starts. the bet slip stays exactly as posted.

Nothing to take on Hapoel Be'er Sheva against OFI Crete. There is a likely outcome here, but every bookmaker has it shorter than it deserves, so there is nothing to take.

Preview

This match pits two leaky defenses against each other, and goals are coming. Hapoel Be'er Sheva are giving up plenty, facing at least six shots on target in three of their last five outings while getting out-created in most of those. Yet the visitors are just as fragile, having allowed that same high shot count in five of their past six matches. Both backlines are wide open. The hosts will miss their injured midfielder who usually provides creativity, leaving them short in the middle. Expect an open game where both teams find holes at the back, and the defense that stops leaking first decides it.

Form

The table

Hapoel Be'er Sheva are 30th and OFI Crete 26th.

Expected line-ups

Hapoel Be'er Sheva: Ofir Marciano, Pedro Amador, Miguel Vítor, Matan Baltaxa, Guy Mizrahi, Forson Amankwah, Niv Yehoshua, Lucas Ventura, Zahi Ahmed, Igor Zlatanović, Mohamad Abu Rumi.

OFI Crete: Nikolaos Christogeorgos, Nikolaos Athanasiou, Krešimir Krizmanić, Achilleas Poungouras, Lorenzo Dickmann, Konstantinos Kostoulas, Andreas Bouchalakis, Athanasios Androutsos, Thiago Nuss, Kenan Kodro, Tasos Chatzigiovanis.

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