Match Preview

Macedonian minnows FK Vardar welcome Spanish big hitters Real Sociedad to the Phillip II Arena on Thursday night looking to avoid their third UEFA Europa League, Group L loss in a row. Čedomir Janevski ‘s team were beaten 0-5 at home to Zenit in an eye-opening first Group match before being swatted aside 3-1 in Norway against Rosenborg. In Macedonia, they have won six of eight league fixtures ahead of this week’s OddsDigger FK Vardar vs Real Sociedad preview, but they are clearly finding the step up in quality in the Europa League tough to handle.

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The away team’s 2-0 win at Alaves at the weekend prior to our FK Vardar vs Real Sociedad betting tips, was their first victory in six attempts. The Txuri-urdinak moved up to 7^th spot in La Liga, but Coach Eusebio Sacristán will be livid with his side’s defending over the past month. Real have conceded sixteen times in their last six matches.

The Basque club trounced Rosenborg 4-0 in San Sebastian in their first Group match but suffered a setback in Russia when they were turned over 3-1 by Zenit. Again it was their sub-standard defending that let them down that night and that same defence has only kept three clean sheets in ten games overall in 2017/18.

FK Vardar vs Real Sociedad Prediction and Betting Advice

Spanish under 21 international Mikey Oyarzabal is the star man in the first of our free FK Vardar vs Real Sociedad bets today. Touted as one of the world’s most promising young players when he burst on the scene a couple of years ago, Oyarzabal suffered under the weight of expectation last season in particular. He looks to have found his confidence again in 2017/18 however and the twenty-year-old has scored four times in his last five appearances for club and country.

The Macedonians go into Thursday’s match having conceded an average of four goals per Group L ninety minutes. They are the worst team in the section by quite a distance and Oyarzabal has a great chance of opening his Europa League account against such a disorganised backline. Today’s football odds are provided by 10Bet who have unbeatable value in the goal scorers markets.

The away team featured in this week’s FK Vardar vs Real Sociedad predictions and football betting tips have scored first-half goals in all their victories this season bar their most recent win over Alaves. The home participants conceded first-half goals in both their Europa League games to date. In fact, they were losing at half time and full time in each of those encounters.

Eusebio Sacristán will know his squad surpasses his counterparts in almost every metric of quality you can think of. An early goal will settle the nerves and make for an easier evening in Skopje. The odds we found at William Hill are brilliant value for what should be a very one-sided clash between two clubs operating on very different levels of the European football pyramid. Vardar have won just two of their seventeen Europa League fixtures historically since 2001.