St. Gallen vs Trabzonspor Prediction & Betting Tips (22 August)

Last qualified last year for the Europa Conference League via 5th place, the Swiss team of Saint-Gall is a surprising favorite for this first leg. Indeed, as you will see, his start to the season is rather average. Firstly, of course she has already won the previous rounds, namely the 2nd and 3rd, but we have to see the content and the opponents she faced. A success against the Kazakhs of Tobol 4-1/0-1 and the Poles of Slask Wrocklaw 2-0/3-2. In the championship, they will all have a chance to play given the start of the Young Boys season. Saint-Gall is 3rd 9 points, on the 2nd day they beat the YBB 4-0.

 Opposite, Trabzonspor, 2022 champion in Turkey, finished 2023-24 in 3rd place in the championship allowing it to play in Europe. However, this is not the competition she was hoping to play, let's be clear. In the 2nd round of C3 qualifying, Trabzonspor beat Ruzomberok 1-0/0-2 before falling to Rapid Vienna at home 0-1 and in Austria 2-0. Traveling on Sunday August 11 for its first and only championship match, Trabzonspor obtained the point from the draw of its trip to Sivasspor 0-0. 

FC Saint-Gall 1879 lost two captains in the off-season. Leonidas Stergiou (VFB Stuttgart), and Julian Van Moos (Servette de Genève), replaced position for position by Csoboth (Ujpest FC) and Ambrosious (Hamburg). Note the loan reinforcement of Moustapha Cissé (A.Bergamo on loan). Very good news on the other hand, Akolo (14 goals in the league, top scorer for his team) is still at the club. The Congolese international with 25 caps is already untenable in this 2024-25 season with 2 goals and 1 assist in 4 matches. The little used Nuhu (defender), the solid middle of the rotation Fazliji (12 appearances last year) and Gregory Karlen (15 matches last year) are normally out. The Turks can count on players like Bardhi, a former La Liga player, who scored 7 goals and provided 4 assists last season, and Nwakaeme, 41 goals in 4 seasons in the Trabzonspor jersey.

There is no shortage of players known to the general public in this Turkish squad. So behind, it is S.Savic (ex-A.Madrid) who will provide rearguard, injured at the moment. The starting attacking trio included the tireless Visca, author of 5 goals and 10 assists last season, the Egyptian Trezeguet, with his 10 goals and 5 assists, and the Romanian Dragus (present at the Euro and scorer), who arrived this summer after scoring 14 goals with Gaziantep in the Super Lig, all benefit from an evocative surname.  Celik, Teklik and Gurpuz are not eligible in C4.