Fenerbahce vs Stuttgart Prediction: Talisca to star in open contest

Fenerbahce will be hoping to make home advantage count when they welcome Stuttgart to the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium on Thursday in the league phase of the Europa League. These two sides head into matchday three having each registered a win and a defeat in the league phase, Fener following up an opening loss to Dinamo Zagreb with a home win over Nice, while Stuttgart lost at Basel off the back of defeating Celta Vigo.

Below are my Fenerbahce vs Stuttgart predictions, supported by all the latest team news and match odds, ahead of this Europa League contest in Istanbul.

Team News

Fenerbahce will be without several key players for this match, including former Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson and ex-Aston Villa forward Jhon Duran, who are both sidelined through injury.

Mert Hakan Yandas is also unavailable to head coach Domenico Tedesco, while Irfan Kahveci and Cenk Tosun will not be involved due to internal disciplinary issues.

Stuttgart's absentee list is also lengthy, with Florian Hellstern, Stefan Drljaca, Justin Diehl, Jamie Leweling, Ermedin Demirovic and Deniz Undav all still unavailable.

Fenerbahce vs Stuttgart Odds

With home advantage Fener are the 13/10 favourites to record their second win of the league phase, with Stuttgart priced at 15/8 to leave Istanbul with the victory. The draw is available at 13/5.

Fener forward Youssef En-Nesyri is the favourite to open the scoring at 9/2, while after having a hand in all three of Stuttgart's goals against Wolfsburg at the weekend, Angelo Stiller is 11/1 to notch at any time.

Today's Football Fixtures

Both teams to score & over 2.5 goals @ 4/5

Fenerbahce are unbeaten at home this season, winning six of their eight games at Sukru Saracoglu Stadium, and they look worthy favourites for this match, but Stuttgart are also in form, registering five victories in six across all competitions.

Picking a winner in this match, therefore, looks difficult, but there should be plenty of entertainment at both ends.

Fener have scored exactly two goals in each of their last four home fixtures, while earlier in the season they put five past Feyenoord in Champions League qualifying.

For their part, Stuttgart are fresh from scoring three against Wolfsburg in their last Bundesliga fixture and have only failed to net once in 11 matches across all competitions this season.

Football Odds

Talisca to score at any time @ 6/4

Fenerbahce playmaker Talisca is an experienced European campaigner and since joining the club in January, he has scored 16 goals across all competitions.

The 31-year-old was on target from the penalty spot in Fener's weekend win over Fatih Karagumruk in the Turkish Super Lig, while he has six goal involvements across his last five Europa League starts.

The most recent of those was his assist for Fener's opening goal in the win over Nice on matchday two. He could easily go one better and get on the scoresheet himself against Stuttgart.

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