The Swiss are banking on the coach effect!
The penultimate round of the Europa League qualifying is here, and we present a Servette Geneva vs. Utrecht tip! The hosts started as Swiss runners-up in the qualifiers for the Champions League, but were immediately eliminated from the competition due to a defeat on aggregate against Pilsen.
The visitors, on the other hand, entered the current competition in the previous round and easily defeated the Moldovans from Tiraspol with two wins. The offense was particularly impressive, scoring seven goals. Given the strong early form of coach Ron Jans’ visiting team and the home side’s recent defensive shakiness, with ten goals conceded in three games, the Servette Geneva vs. Utrecht betting odds for more than one goal by the Dutch side look promising.
Although, as described, two wins were recorded against Tiraspol, neither of these victories came with a clean sheet. The two previous friendly matches against their compatriots from Waalwijk and the Walloons from Charleroi were also not exactly impressive from a defensive point of view, with two goals conceded in each game, and it is clear that Utrecht are still working on a stable back line.
Servette Geneva – Utrecht Head-to-head record / H2H record
The fourth-placed team in the last edition of the Eredivisie and the Swiss side have only faced each other once, in 2022. Geneva won that friendly 1-0. The odds for the upcoming match between Servette Geneva and Utrecht are now very even.
Servette Geneva – Utrecht Tip
From a playing perspective, the teams from Switzerland and the Netherlands can be described as evenly matched. However, the home side have been very weak defensively recently: Servette have conceded at least three goals in each of their last three competitive games at national and international level!
This is an enormous number, which led to Servette coach Thomas Häberli losing his job after only four games of the season! However, we doubt that his two interim successors, Alexandre Alphonse and Bojan Dimic, will be able to get the badly shaken defense back into shape so quickly. In view of this, we predict that Servette Geneva will concede at least two goals against Utrecht.
