Who will secure their ticket to the Champions League?
On Thursday, SKN St. Pölten and Fortuna Hjörring will face off in the Champions League qualifying round. The hosts appear to have the better chances of winning, as Celia Liese Brancao Ribeiro has a squad worth €485,000 at her disposal, while the visiting team’s squad is worth only €75,000.
In addition, the Austrians have already played in the top flight for the past three years, while the visitors have never done so before. So it’s no surprise that the odds for a St. Pölten vs. Fortuna Hjörring women’s tip favor a home win. The maximum odds for a home win are only 1.88.
In our St. Pölten vs. Fortuna Hjörring women’s prediction, we want to take a closer look at the two teams before we present you with a betting tip. First, we’ll look at the impressive home record of the Austrian representative. Celia Liese Brancao Ribeiro’s team has lost only three of its last 16 home games and emerged victorious in eleven.
In addition, all three defeats came in the Champions League, against Hammarby and the two top teams from Paris and Manchester (City). The Austrians are therefore difficult to beat in their own stadium, the NV Arena. Are the visitors capable of doing so?
On paper, yes, because Niclas Hougaard Hansen’s team has lost only two of its last 17 away games. However, in our opinion, the two defeats against Köge and Midtjylland are slightly worse than Pölten’s three home defeats. In addition, the Danes have won “only” nine of their 17 games – a significantly lower percentage than their upcoming opponents (69% vs. 53%).
The Danish team’s chances away from home are not bad, but not particularly good either. In the first section, we therefore cannot ignore the St. Pölten vs. Fortuna Hjörring women’s betting odds for a home win. However, this may change when we look at the head-to-head record.
St. Pölten – Fortuna Hjörring women Head-to-head record / H2H balance
This is not the case, as the two teams have never met before. This is primarily due to the visitors, who have “only” qualified for the Champions League four times in the past ten years and have never made it through.
Things have gone much better for the hosts recently, as the Austrians are much more experienced at international level with three consecutive appearances in the premier class.
St. Pölten – Fortuna Hjörring Women Tip
Although the facts clearly point to a home win, we have decided on a St. Pölten vs. Fortuna Hjörring Women betting tip for under 3.5 goals. This is primarily because both teams are very solid defensively. Furthermore, this is the last step on the way to the Champions League.
So we can’t expect any harakiri. In addition, the supposed underdog, especially away from home, will focus more on stable defensive work. In Hjörring, the Danish representative will probably show a different face. To do so, however, they will need to keep a clean sheet in the best-case scenario.
For those who want to take a little more risk in this match, we recommend the St. Pölten vs. Fortuna Hjörring women’s odds for “both teams to score – no.” Individually, the two teams are not so far apart that one of them will clearly dominate this game. We therefore do not consider even a goalless draw to be entirely out of the question.
