Dinamo Zagreb or Astana will be on her way AEK in the third qualifying round of the Champions League.
THE Dinamo Zagreb founded in 1911, has blue and white colors and competes in the 35,000-seat “Maximir” in the capital of Croatia. He counts 24 Croatian championships, including the last six in a row, while he has also won 16 Cups.
Her coach is the Croatian former international defensive midfielder Igor Bischan, who had competed from 2005 to 2007 at Panathinaikos. The biggest name on its roster is the main goalkeeper with the Croatian national team Dominic Livakovic, but it is not excluded that it will be sold this summer. The international stopper also stands out Josip Soutalo and the fast-rising 20-year-old attacking midfielder Martin Baturina.
In 1961, Dinamo reached the semi-finals of the Cup Winners’ Cup losing to Fiorentina, while in 2021 they reached the quarter-finals of the Europa League losing to Villarreal. In Europe has faced Olympiakos in three different seasonsin 1977 in the first round of the UEFA Cup where they advanced 5-1 and 1-3 (6-4), in 1998 in the Champions League groups, where they lost 2-0 in OAKA and drew 1-1 in Croatia, but also in 2015 in the Champions League groups knowing two defeats with 0-1 and 2-1. In 2010 he played with PAOK in the Europa League groups knowing two 1-0 defeats.
THE Astana was founded only in 2009, has the colors yellow and blue and is based in the “Astana Arena”, 30 thousand spectators. He has won the championship in Kazakhstan seven times and the Cup three more times, while this year he already won the Super Cup by beating Ordabasi 2-1 in February. In the current championship, which is in full swing, after 17 matches they are second and at -3 from the leader Ordabasi with 12 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses.
Her coach is Kazakh Grigory Bambarian. Its roster consists mostly of homegrown players. Gambian forward Debo Darboe, who is on loan from Al Nasr, Cameroonian-born Belarusian midfielder Max Empong, Armenian international stopper Varazdat Haroyan and Skopje defender Aleksa Amanovic stand out.
In Europe had faced Olympiakos in the Europa League groups in 2016 losing 4-1 in Faliro and drawing 1-1 in Kazakhstan, while in 2021 he faced Aris in the second qualifying round of the Conference League and eliminated him, winning 2-0 in the first leg and losing 2-1 in extra time in the second leg. He has taken part in the Champions League groups once, in 2015, and three times in the Europa League (2016, 2018, 2019). The last two years he played in the Conference League but was eliminated in the qualifiers.
Source: Sport Fm
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