Betting tips for CSKA Moscow vs FK Crvena zvezda - 21.02.2018

After the scoreless draw in Belgrade, the Red Foxes team received the Red Star at the VEB Arena in Moscow, in the second leg of the 1/16 final of the Europa League. CSKA Moscow fell in the group stage of the top European competition, finishing third in Group A behind Manchester United and Basel. The Russian team had to eliminate AEK Athens and Young Boys in the previous Champions League qualifiers. In their debut, CSKA won SL Benfica in Lisbon (1-2), before falling consecutively at home against Manchester United (1-4) and Basel (0-2). The victory in Basel puts them squarely in the fight for second place, tied with 6 points with the Swiss two games to go.

After seeing how his great rival in the Russian capital, the Lokomotiv, took the title in the Premier League last season, the team grabs this competition to look to return to the Champions League next season to win this title, and that at the moment, the team is 5th in the Russian league after scoring 35 points in 20 games.

With more than 78 million euros of budget, the team of the Russian army will have Viktor Goncharenko as the head. The sale of playmaker Kirill Panchenko to Dinamo Moscow in exchange for 1.8 million euros, along with the departure of goalkeeper Sergey Chepchugov to Enisey have been the two main movements of the team, which let go to Serbian right-winger Zoran Tosic and the offensive midfielder Roman Eremenko, who has lent midfielder Sergey Tkachev to Arsenal Tula and center forward Konstantin Bazelyuk to Anzhi.
The Red Star of Vladan Milojevic dreams of playing a great role in this Europa League. The Serbian team, outstanding leader of the Superliga of his country, with 9 points of advantage over his great rival, Partizan, adding 60 points in the 23 games played in the Serbian national championship.

The team has been in competition since last June, forced to play 4 rounds until reaching the group stage. Having no problems eliminating Floriana FC Maltese (6-3 aggregate), Irtysh Pavlodar Kazakh (3-1) and Sparta Prague Czech (3-0), the team had to overcome before the Russian Krasnodar, passing through the double the goals in the opposite field (3-2 in Russia, 2-1 in Belgrade). In the group stage, the team finished in second place, adding 2 wins and three draws in six games, 4 points behind Arsenal.

CSKA Moscow vs FK Crvena zvezda   Prediction: X/X 5.00

CSKA Moscow vs FK Crvena zvezda   Betting tip: Under 2.5 Goals @ 1.80

CSKA Moscow vs FK Crvena zvezda score recommendations: 0-0 10.00