Betting tips for Alashkert vs FC Santa Coloma - 27.06.2017

The first qualifying round for the top continental competition opens in Armenia, where the local champion receives FC Santa Coloma of Andorra in the first leg of this first round. It will be the first game of the season in the Champions League.

Alashkert won his second Armenian league title last season. Founded in 1990 and refounded in 2011, the aurinegro team usually plays their matches in the neat Yerevan Nairi Stadium. Abraham Khashmanyan will return to lead the Armenian side, who will seek to overcome their performance last season, in which they entered the second qualifying round, the Armenians have several foreign players: Ukrainian defender Dmitri Khovbosha, Serbs Mladen Zeljkovic, Miljan Jablan and Danijel Stojkovic, all defenses, Trinidad and Tobago midfielder Lester Peltier and Serbian striker Uros Nenadovic.

It will be the first official match for the team since the season ended on May 31 when it achieved its third consecutive victory and the 4th in the last 5 matches of the championship. The Ararat was their last rival, falling thrashing by 1-4 in a party dominated from beginning to end by the flaming champion league.


UEFA Champions League FC Santa Coloma added their fourth consecutive league and will return to represent Andorra in the top competition of European football. Founded in 1986, the team was one of the original members of the Primera Divisió in 1995. Since 2001, the team has become the highest referent in the neighboring country, adding 10 league titles and 8 Cup titles.

The team has the honor of being the only Andorran club to have won a match in European competitions and, moreover, the only one to keep the goal to zero in a match. In addition, he did twice, against Maccabi Tel Aviv (1-0), in the 2007-08 season, and more recently in the first qualifying round for the Champions League when he defeated the then Armenian champion, The Banants, by the same marker.

Richard Imbernón continues as the team's main coach, in which aside from national and Spanish players, also plays the Portuguese defender Antonio Mercadé and the Frenchman Jeremy Lempereur.

The Andorran team has not played any official match since May 21, 2017, beating in the final playoff their great rival, Sant Julia, S.Coloma and Lusitanos. Curiously the most effective team at home (1 draw and two wins) than local (1 win and two draws).

The former Spanish international Joan Capdevila, champion of Europe and the World with the Spanish Selection, brings veteran to the Andorran team.


Both teams already saw the faces last season, with the Armenians winning clearly at home and drawing at zero in the Principality. I do not expect big differences for the result of this match, so the forecast is the Armenian victory both at the break and at the end of the match.

Alashkert vs FC Santa Coloma  Prediction: 1/1 2.00

Alashkert vs FC Santa Coloma betting tip: Over 2.5 Goals @ 1.80