Hapoel Beer-Sheva vs Viktoria Plzen
UEFA Europa League – Group-stage 2017/18
Date: Thursday, 7th December 2017
Kick-off at 20:00 UK/ 21:00 CET
Venue: Toto Turner Stadium (Be’er Sheva).

Hapoel Beer-Sheva are eliminated from the Europa League with the narow 1-0 defeat at home to Lugano on matchday 5 and they sit at the bottom of the table with 4 points.

Viktoria Plzen has everything to play for as they sit at second spot with a point behind Steaua Bucharest, who are at home against Lugano on Thursday. The equation is simple, whoever wins among them will become the group leaders. But a draw in both games favor the Romanians.

Hapoel Beer-Sheva vs Viktoria Plzen: Head-to-head

Viktoria won 3-1 when the teams met on matchday 2, which is lone competitive meeting between these two sides.

Beer-Sheva are win-less against Czech sides, 3 losses out of 3.

On the other hand, Viktoria’s overall record against teams from Israel is 4 wins and a loss from 5 games. The lone defeat happened at their home turf against Maccabi Tel-Aviv in the 2015/16 Champions League qualifiers.

Hapoel Beer-Sheva vs Viktoria Plzen: Prediction

Beer Sheva started the group phase with a 2-1 win over Lugano, but they haven’t won since. They were expected to do much better at home, but things haven’t come good for them this term.

Meantime, Viktoria’s all three wins in the campaign have come from home matches. The indeed lost both their away games conceding 3 goals each. This put them on a 9 match win-less streak in road games, carrying over from the previous Europa League seasons.

Therefore, the value is in backing Beer Sheva as we must consider Viktoria to be a poor away side in European nights. Yet, goals can be expected from either sides as both teams had scored at least once in 4 of their 5 matches in the competition.

Hapoel Beer-Sheva vs Viktoria Plzen: Bet Tips

• Beer Sheva to win @ 2.38


• Both teams to Score @ 1.67.