Club Brugge and Dynamo had to accept being runners-up in their respective national championship and now will start competing in the Champions League in the third qualifying round. Dynamo has won the Ukrainian Super Cup and two league matches, just like Club Brugge which triumphed in first two rounds of the Belgian championship. This is going to be their first head-to-head ever.
The previous season wasn’t good for Club Brugge and they are determined to do something about it in the new one. They played in the group phase of the Champions League last year and won the third place in their group. This time Club Brugge faces a difficult obstacle right at the beginning. They started will the new championship where they won two times; in the first round Club Brugge faced Beveren away and en away Club Bruggern ew championship where they won two times; in the first round they recevied agnes ut they managed to catchreceived the first goal but it scored three. In the second round they outclassed St.Truiden at home by even 6-0. By halftime they scored four goals and new forward Okereke has started to payback what was invested in him as he scored three goals in first two rounds. In the meantime they sold Danjuma and brought Tau.
Probable lineups Club Brugge: Horvath – Mata, Deli, Mitrovic, Sobol – Rits, Vanaken, Vormer – Dennis, Okereke, Schrijvers
Dynamo nicely started the new season but only in domestic competitions. This is the first test in the Champions League and before the Ukrainian season started they won the Super Cup after defeating their biggest rival Shakhtar 2-1. It is always a special pleasure for Dynamo to defeat the team from Donetsk, and this time they did it after turning the result up-side down; 10 minutes before the end they were losing 1-0 but then scored two goals in just three minutes. Midfielder de Pena assisted two times after coming off the bench and he was the hero of the match. In the Ukrainian first league Dynamo firstly defeated Karapaty 0-2 and they Lviv by 0-3. In the meantime they brought forward Rodrigues.
Probable lineups Dynamo Kyiv: Boyko – Kedziora, Burda, Kadar, Mykolenko – Shepeliev – Karavaiev, Builaskyi, Harmash, de Pena – Biesiedin
This could be a very uncertain match but in the 1st leg we give a minor advantage to Club Brugge. The Belgian team is in good shape at the beginning of season and they are capable to defeat Dynamo Kyiv at home, which also started well the new season.