Omonia – Dynamo. Forecast and announcement for the conference match

On Thursday, November 27, a match of the fourth round of the UEFA Conference League will be held in Nicosia, in which Omonia of Cyprus and Dynamo of Kyiv will play. The starting whistle of referee Radoslav Hidzhenov from Bulgaria will sound at 19:45 Kyiv time.

Omonia
In the course of their performances on the international arena, Dynamo Kyiv already crossed paths with the team from Cyprus, when they conceded to Paphos a ticket to the final round of qualification for the UEFA Champions League. As we can see, this club is currently showing quite good results among the best teams in Europe, so perhaps that failure was quite natural. As for the next opponent of Oleksandr Shovkovskyi’s team, “Omonia” managed to beat the same “Paphos” in the championship at the end of October on their field (2:1), and now they are in second place in the Cypriot league table with a lag of only two points after 11 rounds.

At the same time, Henning Berg’s team could count on a higher position if they had not lost to “Apollo” (0:2) and drawn against APOEL (2:2) in the last two rounds. These five unscored points cost the “green and white” quite dearly. By the way, the logo of Dynamo’s future rival is very similar to the logo of the Greek Panathinaikos, which was defeated by Shakhtar Donetsk in the Europa League qualification, so things are not going very well with the “green and white shamrocks” this season.

As for Omonia’s performances in the current Conference League draw, it turns out that Dynamo was also lucky with its opponents at the start. At least Bosnian Zrinski dropped down in the table after the head-to-head duel in Kyiv, while Berg’s side faced Mainz (0-1), Drita (1-1) and Lausanne (1-1), with the last two games played away from home, while the opponents remained in the play-off contenders’ zone. And once again we find ourselves in a situation where Cypriot football can “unexpectedly” find itself on the rise.

Dynamo
It is enough to look at the results of the last performances of “Dynamo” Kyiv, as the conclusion suggests itself – something went wrong with the current champion of Ukraine. In the championship, looking at the lag of 10 points from Shakhtar and the current seventh place in the tournament table is banally scary. And in the Conference League, everything started with defeats against “Crystal Palace” (0:2) and “Samsunspor” (3:0). Who knew then that both of these teams would be in the top eight at the time of passing the equator of the main round.

And now the “white and blue” will play in the international arena with three consecutive defeats in the domestic arena, which in principle has never happened to them before, as well as a crushing victory over the Bosnian “Zrinski” (6:0) in the third round of the Conference League. Then it seemed that here it was, the turning point. It turned out that it seemed – “Dynamo” continues to feel a lack of confidence in its own strength, and now it is completely unclear what kind of impetus Oleksandr Shovkovskyi’s team needs in order for it to start again.

Meanwhile, the chances of being in the European Cup spring in the next goal depend literally on each new round. And Omonia, who are currently below Dynamo in the standings, look a much better chance of picking up the precious three points than Fiorentina in two weeks’ time, whatever state the Serie A side are in now. After all, the Armenian “Noa” is still ahead, which is already ahead of “Dynamo” and, after the matches against Shakhtar’s friends, “Aberdeen” and “Legia”, may be solving more serious tasks. Thus, the absence of a win this evening could prove fatal, as would the absence of Yarmolenko, Brazek, Shaparenko and Bjelovar in the application.

Meeting history
The football paths of “Omonia” and “Dynamo” have not crossed before.

Themis
The main referee of the upcoming game will be the 34-year-old Bulgarian Radoslav Gidzenov from Plovdiv, who has 4 matches in the main round of the Conference League. Myroslav Maksymov and Petar Mitrev will be the side referees, and Volen Chinkov will serve as the reserve referee. The VAR system headed by Nikola Popov and Dimitar Dimitrov will be present at the match. Gidzhenov has experience of conducting matches with the participation of Ukrainian teams: he refereed the matches of the youth national teams under 17 and 19 years of age, which lost to peers from Germany (0:1) and Slovenia (0:1) in the qualifiers for the European Championships, while he did not cross paths with Omonia last year in the Conference League during the defeat against the Polish “Legia” (0:3).

Estimated compositions
“Omonia”: Fabiano – Kitsos, Aguzul, Panayiotou, Masouras – Kousulos, Maric – Semedu, Chatzigiovanis, Kosta – Jovetych.

“Dynamo”: Nescheret – Karavaev, Popov, Tiare, Vivcharenko – Pikhalyonok, Mykhaylenko, Buyalsky – Shola, Guerrero, Kabaev.

Bookmakers GGBET rate the chances of the teams with very decent coefficients: 2.21 for the team from Nicosia and 3.08 for Kyiv. And which forecast to choose is up to you. Play with the best odds, get instant payouts and support your favorite team with us.