Brest vs Sturm Graz Prediction & Betting Tips (19 September)

Brest will participate in its first Champions League in its history but was not lucky in the draw since it will play against PSV, Real Madrid or even FC Barcelona among others. It will therefore be difficult to finish among the play-offs but everything is possible in football. We have to take it game by game, and it is clear that the Bretons must take this one. The start of the season in Ligue 1 for Brest is not the one dreamed of with two defeats in the first two days against OM 1-5, and at Lens immediately 2-0. Fortunately, the residents of Francis-Le-Blé defeated AS Saint-Étienne with a clear score 4-0. Last weekend, Brest tested itself in the best possible way, on the pitch of the semi-finalist of the last edition of the Champions League, PSG to follow. Sturm Graz should not be neglected very clearly since apart from its failed entry into the league against SK Rapid, a 1-0 defeat, the Austrian club has not lost a match in all competitions, i.

e. a series of 5 matches for a record of... 5 friendly wins won during the truce is not taken into account! last weekend. , the Sturm, reigning national champion, tried to achieve a 5th successive victory in the championship on the pitch of Austria Vienna to follow. Before the break, the Blackies won against Tirol at home 4-2 following their qualification for the 1/8 finals of the OFB Cup by taking Ried out of the competition 1-3. 

Seriously injured before the start of the new season, the promising Locko (silver medalist at the Paris Games) will not return anytime soon and will be missing for this first day of the Champions League. This is ultimately the only major absence to report for Éric Roy's team, which will be able to count on its flagship player, Romain Del Castillo (8 goals, 8 assists last season), author of a goal and an assist. decisive this season or even on a returner in L1, Ajorque (ex-Strasbourg), scorer before the break against Sainté. The main strong men will probably be established like Kenny Lala, Mahdi Camara (2 goals in 3 L1 matches this season) without forgetting Chardonnet, Le Cardinal and the other full-back, Amavi. Opposite, the Sturm should a priori evolve without the defensive Borkovic (injured for months).

The bad news for Brest is that the Austrians have clearly learned to play without him, and this is the only major absence to report. The men in form at the start of the season for the visitors will be traveling to Roudourou with at the head of the competition, the Austrian international hopeful Grgic (18 years old, 2 goals in the league), the Georgian international Kiteishvili (9 goals, 5 assists from last year in the league, 2 goals this season), or the Danish international hopeful Biereth (3 goals in the elite). Slovenian international Horvat and Belgian Lavalee have also scored at least once in the league.