PSV Eindhoven vs Galatasaray prediction for Wednesday’s Champions League qualification clash at Philips Stadion in Eindhoven. The second round of the UEFA Champions League will witness the toughest tie between two European top clubs PSV and Galatasaray. Read on for our free prediction and betting tips.
PSV Eindhoven hoping for a good start
This is PSV Eindhoven’s fifth participation in the Champions League since the 2014-15 season. They have won the European Cup/Champions League once back in 1988 and the UEFA Cup/ Europa League also once in 1978.
PSV have won the Eredivisie 24 times and the KNVB Cup nine times. PSV finished fourth last season in the Eredivisie and thus are playing in the qualification rounds. The Dutch side have produced so many top-class players like Ronaldo and Romario of Brazil, Koeman, Van Nistelrooy, Jaap Stam, and many more.
Coach Roger Schmidt’s team had a very good preseason winning three of their four friendlies.PSV are undefeated in their last seven competitive matches and will be keen for a good start in their first leg match in the Champions League.
PSV Key Points
Galatasaray to maintain their winning form
Galatasaray is the first and only Turkish team to have won a European trophy. That was in the year 2000 when they won the UEFA Cup and followed it by winning the European Super Cup the same year. They achieved the quadruple that year by winning the Super Lig and the Cup.
In the Champions League/European Cup, Galatasaray have reached the quarter-finals five times the last one being in 2012 and once to the semi-finals in 1989. They lost last season’s league title on goal difference to Besiktas.
Fatih Terim’s side is on an eight-match winning streak. The Former national coach will hope his team can maintain that form in the first leg of the Champions League qualification clash against PSV and make it to the group stages.
Galatasaray Key Points
PSV Eindhoven vs Galatasaray Prediction
Two clubs with a very respectable history in European football will go head-to-head very early in the Champions League to secure a place in the third round of the CL Qualification round.
Both of them have been scoring regularly in recent games. The Bookies are favoring a lot of goals to be scored in this match. Vbet is paying 1.76 for over 2.5 total goals and 2.85 for under 2 goals.
It is a tough match to predict but one thing is for sure, PSV and Galatasaray want to qualify to the next round, and to do that they must score. So will see goals in this one.
PSV Eindhoven vs Galatasaray Betting Tips
Home Win or Draw and over 2.5 goals 2.20 at Vbet
Both Teams To Score No 1.94 at Vbet