Preview: Red Star Belgrade vs Stuttgart – forecast, team news, lineups

Both sit outside Champions League Playoff places, middle of the new league phase, Red Star Belgrade And Stuttgart will fight for victory at Marakana on Wednesday.

While the hosts are still on the way to their first point, Stuttgart are aiming to get the season back on track after their last game at home.

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Red Star is one of five clubs that have not yet picked up a point this Champions League season. Red Star have already lost twice in Belgrade – against Benfica and Barcelona – and have conceded four goals each away to Inter Milan and Monaco.

At the beginning of the month, the Serbian champions were heading towards the half-time break with Barca, but Robert Lewandowski They scored the first goal with a brace in the 43rd minute, and they ultimately succeeded lost to their Catalan colleagues 2:5.

Their record of 16 goals conceded is the worst of any team this season and with a goal difference of minus 12, it is obvious that Crvena Zvezda has struggled to keep up with Europe’s elite since qualifying.

Two defeats have dented their proud record on home soil – which still stands at just six defeats from their last 23 continental competitions at the Marakana Stadium – but Red Star remain untouchable at domestic level.

The 1991 European champions won their seventh league title in a row last season and have since won 13 of 14 league games in the current season, scoring 44 goals and conceding just eight goals.

In his second term at the club he was head coach Vladan Milojevic has helped his side remain unbeaten in their last 36 home games, winning 33 of them, but translating that form to the main stage has so far proven too much to handle.

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Stuttgart last became German champions in 2007, but the clubs will be playing their first ever game against Red Star after recently re-establishing themselves in the top flight of the Bundesliga.

Taking part in UEFA competition for the first time in 11 years, an ambitious squad led by a much-admired coach Sebastian Hoeness Last season they snatched second place from the mighty FC Bayern Munich and are now fighting for another top-four finish.

However, the Swabians are sitting outside the Champions League playoff places are entering the second half of their comeback season after losing their last game 2-0 at home to Atalanta BC.

With four points to their name – thanks to a 1-1 draw against Sparta Prague and a dramatic 1-0 win over Juventus – Stuttgart have only scored three goals so far, including one in their opening defeat to Real Madrid at the Bernabeu.

After beating Juventus in Turin, they now want to record consecutive away wins in the European Cup or Champions League for the first time before the league phase ends with games against Young Boys, Slovan Bratislava and Paris Saint-Germain.

With Saturday’s 2-0 home win against Bochum, Die Roten are only just behind the European places a tightly packed Bundesliga tablebut to extend this year’s Champions League adventure they may need to pick up at least six more points.

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Team news

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Red Star coach Vladan Milojevic recently welcomed an injured trio Ognjen Mimovic, Bruno Duarte And Mirko Ivanic back to training, but it remains to be seen whether they will be ready by Wednesday.

However, since Saturday’s league game against Jedinstva was postponed due to heavy snowfall, the hosts should be well rested after the international break Peter Olayinka is expected to be sidelined due to an Achilles tendon problem.

Senegalese striker Cherif Ndiaye – Top scorer in the league with nine goals – leads the hosts’ attack as a winger Felicio Milson has scored in both Champions League games this season.

These goals came as a substitute, as Stuttgart’s owner Silas was generally preferred; The striker from the Democratic Republic of Congo was named Bundesliga rookie of the 2020/21 season after scoring 11 goals in 25 games. However, he is now on loan at Belgrade.

Meanwhile, the guests are struggling with several failures, especially in attack. The match winner against Juventus, El Bilal Toure returned from international play with a broken foot and underwent surgery while also being top scorer Deniz Undav will be out of action until 2025 due to a hamstring injury.

Ermedin Demirovic has scored six goals this season and most recently scored for Bosnia-Herzegovina in the UEFA Nations League, so he should represent the latter. French playmaker Enzo Millot – who has created more chances from play (nine) and completed more dribbles (eight) than any of his teammates this Champions League season – will support him.

Jamie Leweling (paralyze), Luca Raimund (muscular) and Dan Axel Zagadou (Knees) are still out, but Leonidas Stergiou made his first appearance of the season on Saturday after finally recovering from a back injury.

Possible starting lineup for Red Star Belgrade:
M. Ilic; Seol, Spajic, Djiga, Rodic; Kanga, Krunic, Elsnik; Maksimovic, Silas; Ndiaye

Stuttgart possible starting lineup:
Nubel; Stergiou, Rouault, Chabot, Mittelstadt; Karazor, Stiller; Rieder, Millot, Fuhrich; Demirovic

We say: Red Star Belgrade – Stuttgart 1:1

Neither team has scored many goals so far – an average of less than one per game – so it’s set to be an exciting, hard-fought encounter.

Red Star have shown promising hopes and should belatedly claim their first point, but Stuttgart will surely break through the hosts’ leaky defense at least once.

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