Schalke 04 vs Neftci Prediction 26 July 2017
On July 26 2017 at 17:00 in the forthcoming regular club friendly game German Schalke are going to play against Azerbaijan Neftci.
The previous season was a rather controversial one of Schalke, in fact. They actually failed in the national elite division. At the end of the season they were only on the 10th place in the standings away from the Euro Cups zone. Yet, the Royal Blue appeared to be better than expected in the Euro cups as they made it to the very quarterfinal of the Europa League.
As for Neftci, they look rather poor lately. In the latest season of the Azerbaijan championship they played 28 matches where they won 9 times, drew twice and lost 17 times with 24:45 goal difference. These results let the team gain 29 points and take the last place in the standings of the league.
Schalke and Neftci have never met before in their history. Both team played their last games on July 21. Schalke drew Inter 1:1 in that match and Neftci outplayed Zira 1:0. It seems to us that we don’t even need to say about the difference in class of the teams. Schalke had their manager replaced and that influenced their performance in a good way. It seems to us that the hosts are very likely to win in the forthcoming match.