Europa League, group stage, Thursday, 12/12/2024 at 6:45 pm
When you’re on a roll, you’re on a roll! The Turkish record champions, undefeated nationally and in Europe, want to continue to cause a stir in our Europa League tips and secure their ticket to the knockout rounds.
The Lions can take the next step on Thursday when they travel to Sweden and live up to their role as favorites.
In my Malmö Galatasaray betting tip, I will now tell you why I am being rather cautious and therefore have the double chance X2 with a maximum of four goals in mind!
The big goal was the premier class, but then you just move up a level to the title favorites! Galatasaray has big plans for this Europa League season 2024/25 and wants to get through the group stage without any problems.
That seems to be working out, because after five rounds, they are in the top quintet together with Lazio Rome, Athletic Bilbao, Eintracht Frankfurt and Anderlecht, who have not yet suffered a defeat.
With 13 goals, Gala even has the best attack of all teams! Three times at least a triple pack, you really can’t complain about that. However, their own goals are a bit at the expense of the defense.
The Lions have not yet played a clean sheet in the Europa League, against RFS Riga (2-2) and Tottenham (3-2) they have each conceded two goals. The fact that they have scored the first goal in four of the five games is, of course, strong.
If the Turkish champions score the first goal in Sunday’s game, you can get odds of 1.63 for the corresponding tip at Interwetten. Does Galatasaray have a favorite half?
Nine of the last ten goals in the Europa League were scored by the team in the first half. In this respect, it might be worth considering saying: Two goals before half-time will also work in Malmö.
At Betano, you can really make a killing here and get odds of 4.10. If that’s too risky for you, just say: No matter how many times, the main thing is that there is scoring in half one. A rate of 1.65 is still available for this.
And THEN you can still bet on the first half being the one with more goals. Now we are at a rate of 3.05, so this tip could also pay off for you.
Gala, who were last victorious in the Süper Lig, have made it very exciting in recent weeks and only just won. Fittingly, only the 3-1 win against PAOK Salonika on the first matchday of the Europa League offered a two-goal lead.
The team would probably be in even better shape if it weren’t for the large number of injuries – and new names have even been added to the list of injured players!
Mauri Icardi will be out for months, Ismail Jakobs and Kaan Ayhan won’t be fit again until just before Christmas. Abdülkerim Bardakci had to withdraw a few days ago with an ankle injury.
But now striker Victor Osimhen has also been caught out! As if that weren’t enough, strike partner Baris Alper Yilmaz is also at risk of missing out. No, in terms of personnel, this is truly not good news.
For the first duel with Malmö ever, I have discovered odds of 1.92 at our best betting providers, while the hosts from Sweden are well served with 3.65.
Of course, Malmö has a special situation ahead of them. The national season is long over due to the harsh Swedish winter, but the team still has to manage to keep their concentration high.
Not an easy task, because in Europe, unfortunately, things are not going well at all. In the 2-1 defeat to Qarabag, only one victory was scored, the other four games were lost. Malmö is ranked 30th, so nobody is thinking about advancing at the moment.
0-2 against Glasgow Rangers, 0-1 against Piraeus, 1-2 against Besiktas and 1-4 against Ferencvaros, that doesn’t reflect well on the team in offensive terms. They have not scored at all at home yet, so the fans have not celebrated at all.
The fact that two of the last three duels against Besiktas have been won is unfortunately of little use to Malmö. But maybe the fact that their club has not lost seven out of nine games against Turkish clubs can give the players a little more self-confidence.
Admittedly, Galatasaray is favored against Malmö, but I have discovered that the Lions will be seriously weakened in terms of personnel, especially in attack, where important players are missing.
I don’t think Malmö FF will necessarily be competitive – no wonder, with four defeats in five games. So the double chance is a given. I’ll limit the scope for a spectacle to 4.5 goals.
Gala is running out of strikers, Malmö is yet to score a goal at home. Although the guests often put on a great show, I am betting on a more solid performance and saying:
Galatasaray scores under 4.5 goals!
