The Conference League qualifier brings together FK Žalgiris and HNK Hajduk Split in round three, with a place in the next qualifying round at stake. CheckLive rates no team as favourite, which makes this a genuinely open contest; a draw is a real possibility.
Žalgiris have won four of their last five, including a 7-2 win over Dinamo Tbilisi and a 2-1 success against OFK Petrovac, but they also lost 0-3 to Dinamo Tbilisi in between. Hajduk Split have lost three of their last five, most recently a 1-2 league defeat to Varaždin; their European results show defeats to Pafos and Žilina followed by 2-0 wins against the same sides.
The two clubs have never met, so there is no previous head-to-head record to go on. The key thing to watch is whether Žalgiris can avoid the defensive lapses that cost them against Dinamo Tbilisi, and whether Hajduk can reproduce the bounce-back that has followed their recent European losses.
