The hat-trick of Emmanuel Urban, a Ghent player, against Shakhshire (Sport 1)
The return matches in the Round of 16 of the Conference League started already this evening (Sport2) with a crazy game in which Ghent's striker Emmanuel Urban scored a hat trick in three minutes in a game in which his team is already leading 0:4 over Shakhshire.
The seven more games will take place tomorrow, when Villarreal will host Anderlecht after the 1:1 draw in Belgium, Alkmaar will try to maintain its advantage from the first game in Rome against Lazio and Omari Altman is expected to start for AAK Larnaca in London against West Ham.
Three goals in three minutes and seven goals in three days.
Emmanuel Urban (Photo: GettyImages)
In Shakhshire - Ghent 4:0 (second half)
The injured Aden Kartsev was injured against Ghent in the 1:1 last week and was not available to the Turks, who have not won a game since the end of January.
But with all due respect to Kartsev, the star of tonight's match and probably a player who will be heard about a lot more was Emmanuel Urban.
Gent's only 20-year-old Nigerian striker stunned with a hat-trick in just three minutes (31, 32 and 34) and simply eliminated the Turks when he scored a quick 0:3.
Hugo Cyphers (37) made it 0:4 even before the break.
What is even more amazing about this achievement of Orban is that only three days ago he scored a fourth (!) in his team's 6:2 against Zolta and Erchem in the Belgian league.
In total, he has 12 goals for Ghent in just 9 games he has played since joining them from Norwegian Staveck.
The first game ended 1:1 so the Belgians are on the easy and safe way to the quarter finals.
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Fiorentina arrives in Turkey with tremendous momentum (Photo: GettyImages, Alessandro Sabattini)
Sivasspor - Fiorentina (Thursday, 19:45)
Antonin Barak scored the only goal in the first meeting between the two last week in Florence and therefore the Turks believe in their ability to erase the deficit and qualify for the European quarter-finals for the first time, in the first season in which they reached the knockout.
However, Sibasspor this season in home games in the conference won only once when they defeated Romanian Cluj 3:0, lost to Balkan 4:3 and ended with 1:1 against Slavia Prague.
Max Gradl will be absent due to the red card he received last week.
Fiorentina, on the other hand, is in the midst of a wonderful five-game winning streak and hasn't stumbled in over a month, since the 1:0 against Juventus on February 12.
Surprised at Olimpico.
Alkmaar players (Photo: Reuters)
Alkmaar - Lazio (Thursday, 22:00)
Lazio ended their journey in the Europa League in the group stage where they won only once and also in the Conference League playoffs they disappointed and settled for a 0:1 against Cluj in the sum of the two games, and they have a difficult task at all in the Netherlands against the team that surprised them with a 1:2 victory last week at the Olimpico .
Alkmaar, ranked third in the Netherlands and only 2 points away from the top, are on an excellent run of five wins in their last six games in all competitions, while the Eagles - who are also third in the local league - surprised by becoming the first to beat Napoli at home in the league, but then dropped the lead in a loss to Alkmaar And on Saturday they only finished 0:0 in Bologna.
If Napoli win in the Netherlands and advance to the quarter-finals, they will return to the last eight stage of a European competition for the first time since 2017/18.
Dismiss Villarreal?
Lior Rafalov (Photo: GettyImages, Isosport/MB Media)
Villarreal - Anderlecht (Thursday, 22:00, Sport4)
Villarreal last season reached the semi-finals of the Champions League and the season before won the Europa League, but will they end their journey earlier than expected in their first campaign in the Conference League?
Last week she finished 1:1 in Belgium against Lior Rafalov and his friends, a good result for her that moved the decision to a rematch, but also one that leaves room for surprise for the Belgians.
Rafalov is expected to start against the sixth-ranked team in Spain and will hope to be part of another big drama, after Anderlecht went past Ludogorets in the previous round at the end of a penalty shootout.
Antonio celebrates a double in Cyprus last week (Photo: Reuters)
West Ham - AK Larnaca (Thursday, 22:00)
Omri Altman just came back from injury and last week in Cyprus he came off the bench trailing 2:0 and was unable to help his teammates change the result.
In the 1:0 loss to Apollon Limassol at the beginning of the week in the Cypriot league, he was already in the lineup and it seems that he will keep his place in the 11 also in the match at the Olympic Stadium in London.
West Ham does not have a game this weekend in the Premier League and therefore David Moyes may start with the strongest lineup at his disposal, despite the fact that his team is above the red line in the English league only thanks to a better goal difference and that the battles in Europe are less in the forefront of the Hammers' minds.
Last week Mikael Antonio celebrated a lamb and he should continue to be sharp.
Additional matches:
Djurgarden - Lech Poznan (2:0 in the first match)
Sloven Bratislava - Basel (2:2 in the first match)
Nice - Sheriff Tirspol (0:1 in the first match)
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