AEK Larnaca vs Spartak Moscow Betting Preview

Betting Preview: It's quite risky to back Spartak Moscow away from home in the Europa League being given their miserable failures in 2011 and 2013 but I think they will be more responsible this time. Fernando and Romula did not make the trip and it looks like young Timofeev will play as a defensive midfielder, but the Russians have got plenty of classy players in their team to win this game. AEK have got a new manager this summer in the person of Imanol Idiákez and even though I don't know much about him, I can see that he's been training only Segunda Division teams so far and his experience in Europe cannot be so great. It's never easy to play in Larnaca at 33° and even though AEK is a good local team, Cypriot football is just well below compared to the Russian one and if Spartrak really wants to (and I have hopes they do) they can dominate this clash and secure their qualification right from the first leg.