Austria Vienna will welcome Hapoel Beer Sheva to Generali Arena for their opening fixture of the UEFA Europa Conference League on Thursday night.
Austria Vienna slumped to a heavy 6-1 aggregate defeat to Fenerbahce in playoffs of the UEFA Europa League and thus they dropped to Europa Conference League where they will take on Hapoel Beer Sheva, Lech Poznan and Villarreal in Group C.
It’s a pretty tough group and Vienna will know that every point shall count in this section and thus they will go into the Thursday’s clash all guns blazing for all three points. They drew 2-2 with Austria Lustenau at home in the Austrian Bundesliga last time out and will need to raise their game up a notch on Thursday.
Meanwhile Beer Sheva booked a place in this season’s Conference League campaign after seeing out Uni Craiova 4-3 on penalties in the qualification playoff.
The Israelite outfits are capable of advancing from this group but they can also easily finish at the bottom of the section. Therefore they will need to be on top of their game on every encounter in this group if there are to challenge for the top-two spots.
They are coming off back-to-back defeats to Ashdod (2-1) and Maccabi Haifa (2-1) in the domestic league, with both losses coming on the road. Therefore they have much to work on before the Thursday’s clash where they will hope to bounce back and open their European campaign positively.
Austria Vienna vs Hapoel Beer Sheva head to head
This will be the first time these two meet and we expect a closely-fought encounter. Take a look at their previous results;
Home
- Austria Vienna 2-2 Austria Lustenau
- ASV Siegendorf 0-5 Austria Vienna
- Austria Klagenfurt 3-3 Austria Vienna
- Fenerbahce 4-1 Austria Vienna
- Wolfsberg 1-2 Austria Vienna
Away
- Beer Sheva 1-2 Maccabi Haifa
- Beer Sheva 1-2 Ashdod
- Beitar Jerusalem 0-5 Beer Sheva
- Beer Sheva 4-3 Uni Craiova
- Uni Craiova 1-1 Beer Sheva
- Beer Sheva 3-1 Lugano
Austria Vienna team news
Austria will be without Armand Smrcka, Marko Raguz, Muharem Huskovic, Matan Baltaxa and Florian Wustinger through injuries.
Beer Sheva team news
Beer Sheva have no injury concerns ahead of the clash.
Prediction and odds
- Double chance (1, X)
- Both sides to score
- Goals under 2.5
