UEFA Europa League will see Red Star Belgrade take on Monaco this week at Stadion Rajko Mitić. Match day schedules for September 8 at 22:00 EAT.
Having failed to qualify for the group stage of any European competition between 2008 and 2016, this season will be the sixth consecutive one in which Red Star have featured in either the Champions League or Europa League group stage. Coming into this game, Red Star Belgrade lost only one of their last five matches across all the competitions.
Red Star Belgrade comes into this game after they shared spoils 1-1 SuperLiga with TSC Bačka Topola in their previous game. Veljko Ilic (45+1’) scored for Red Star Belgrade while Saša Jovanović (42′) scored for TSC Bačka Topola.
On the other hand, Monaco has had a similar path to Red Star on the European stage in the past year, having also topped their Europa League group last season before falling to Braga on aggregate in the round-of-16. Philippe Clement’s men will feel confident that he can navigate Monaco to another European top spot having been given a fairly favorable draw alongside Red Star, Trabzonspor and Ferencvaros in Group H.
Monaco come will want another win following 0-1 Ligue 1 success to beat Nice in their last encounter. In that match, Monaco had 47% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Monaco was Breel Embolo (69′). For their opponents, Nice had 12 shots at goal with five of them on target.
Red Star Belgrade vs. Monaco head to head
Thursday’s fixture will be the first head to head encounter between Red Star Belgrade and Monaco
Here are their last five encounters:
Home
- Crvena Zvezda 1-1 TSC Backa Topola
- Partizan Belgrade 1-1 Crvena Zvezda
- Crvena Zvezda 4-1 Javor
- Crvena Zvezda 2-2 Maccabi Haifa
- Maccabi Haifa 3-2 Crvena Zvezda
Away
- Nice 0-1 Monaco
- Monaco 2-4 Troyes
- PSG 1-1 Monaco
- Monaco 1-4 Lens
- Monaco 1-1 Stade Rennes
Red Star Belgrade team news
Radovan Pankov will miss out this game for the host through injury.
Monaco team news
Miloš Milojević will be unable to call upon Radovan Pankov through injury as well.
Prediction and odds
- Draw
- Monaco Win
- Goals under 2.5
