Champions League Betting Tips

Pyunik vs CFR Cluj betting tips: Champions League First Qualifying Round First Leg preview, predictions and odds


CFR Cluj to win and over 2.5 goals is 8/15.

CFR Cluj to win and both teams to score NO is 7/10.

Match preview

CFR Cluj are very much UEFA group stage regulars, so will see this tie as just the first of many en route to another.

Last season, the Railwaymen won their eighth Romanian league title and fifth in-a-row.

In Europe, Cluj have competed in seven group stages, all since 2008, including in each of the last three campaigns.

They have won eight of their last 12 qualification ties, including notable wins over Celtic, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Astana and Djurgårdens IF.

Given that Cluj have never lost a first qualifying round tie, Dan Petrescu's men are overwhelming favourites to come through this one.

FC Pyunik meanwhile won a record-extending 15th Armenian Premier League last season, reclaiming the trophy for the first time in seven seasons.

In Europe, their longest runs were to the third qualifying round, hammering by Wolves in 2020 having been beaten by Maccabi Tel Aviv 12 months earlier.

So, Pyunik have won just six of their last 19 two-legged ties, and are massive underdogs to improve this ratio.

The winners will advance to the Champions League second qualifying round and meet Dudelange or Tirana.

It's far from over for the losers, who drop into the Europa Conference League second qualifying round and face Inter Club d'Escaldes.

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Ben Gray

Ben Gray

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