After securing 3/3 winners, Kev’s backing Spartak Moscow to comfortably progress in the Europa League.
Hosts to complete the task
Spartak Moscow v Thun
Thursday August 15, 17:45
Our perfect start to the week continued last night, as Bodo Glimt went top of the Eliteserien table with a 2-1 win at Kristiansund, despite playing the final third of the game with ten men.
We’ll head to the Russian capital now, because Spartak Moscow have a 3-2 first-leg lead to build on as they face Swiss outfit Thun in the Europa League qualifiers.
Thun have won just one of their first four games in the Swiss Super League this season, and they’ve leaked eight goals in their first five competitive matches of the campaign. This is a team that finished fourth in the top flight last season, but the club doesn’t have a strong European pedigree, and games like this represent a big step up.
Spartak have taken four points from their two home games in the Russian Premier League without conceding a goal, and they have lost just one of their last eight competitive matches at the Otkrytiye Arena.
Having secured an impressive 3-1 league win at Akhmat Grozny, Spartak are chasing a third straight victory, and I think they’ll get it against a Thun side with little European experience. The Russians have no injury concerns, and I’ll back them -1.0 on the Asian Handicap at [1.97].
Source: Betfair Europa League
