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Groningen and Heracles are playing the first playoff semis leg for the Europa League, and it won't be pretty. It'll be a tactical war with defense on the front, and the offense will patiently wait for space to open.
That's usually what the first games of the knockout phase of the competition are, especially when the stakes are high for both teams, and there are no individuals to make a difference on either side.
Both these teams are hard workers, disciplined, they rely on homogeneous game and collective hard work to find the solution. Nobody in Groningen scored over nine goals in the championship, and out of the first 13 teams, Groningen are the second least efficient. Almost the same is true for Heracles, whose best scorer Weghorst scored 12, and their second Bel Hassani eight, but he can't play today. Heracles are the fourth worst when it comes to efficiency.
So, these two teams are quite similar, they don't tend to rush, and that could be very prominent in a game as important as this one.
Even if there is a goal scored early, especially if the home team do it, that shouldn't speed things up because there's always the second leg to fix things. Heracles leadership could try to make a different scenario, but Groningen will try to avoid conceding a goal early on, and that will be their priority.
Considering the odds offered for the total goals of under three, which goes to 2.25, there could be a big value bet in that option. Since it's always wise to be careful, you can play for void if there are three goals total because those odds look good, too, and far more importantly, they're very realistic today in Groningen.