AEK Larnaca vs Aberdeen
UEFA Conference League
League Stage MD 3
Aberdeen are in sun kissed Cyprus this evening as they look for to record their first league stage points of their European campaign away to Larnaca.
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TELLY & KO
This one is a 17:45 kick off with coverage on TNT Sports 3 from 17:30.
PREVIOUSLY
Larnaca started off in the very early Europa League qualifiers, beating Partizan Belgrade on pens after a 2-2 aggregate draw before then eliminating Celje with a 3-2 win over two legs. They then smashed Legia Warsaw 5-3 on aggregate setting up a play off decider against Brann of Norway which proved a step too far as they went down 6-1 on aggregate including a heavy 4-0 loss at home.
Moving into the Conference League they currently sit 2nd in the table with a 100% record from their opening 2 games having thrashed AZ Alkmaar 4-0 in Cyprus before recording a fabulous 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace in London.
LEAGUE FORM
AEK are currently 5th in the Cypriot First Division with 5 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats from their opening 9 games of the season. They are in very good form though, with just 1 loss in their last 8 in all competitions, including 6 wins.
REFEREE
The ref tonight is Dalibor Černý from the Czech Republic. He's averaging just under 4 cards per game this season and is yet to show a red this term after issuing 6 in 25 matches last term.
BOOKIES
Unsurprisingly the home side are hot favs tonight at a very skinny 1/2. Aberdeen are a huge 21/4 to leave Cyprus with the point with the draw still pretty big at 10/3.
DIVS BONKERS BET
Larnaca have scored in 14 of 16 games in all competitions this season and Aberdeen have leaked like a sieve in Europe so far this term, conceding 14 times across their 4 matches to date.
Riad Bajic has scored in both AEK's Europa games so we will chuck him in for one tonight and as a total punt we will add in centre back Hrvoje Milicevic to notch as well as he seems to be their penalty taker, scoring 4 times from the spot in the Cypriot league over the last 5 weeks.
He's a ridiculously big price so those two alone gets us an 18/1 shot.
Very best of luck to the Dandy Dons tonight!