- NSI Runavík lost 2-0 at home to FC Lugano in UEFA Conference League Qualification 2026
- Lugano have won their last 5 games, including away wins over Grasshopper Club Zurich and NSI Runavík
- Lugano have won all 3 away games in UEFA Conference League Qualification 2026, averaging 4.33 goals-per-game
Lugano’s luxury line-up should see off NSI
Lugano look likely to boss the play and score plenty of goals again on Thursday when they travel to the Faroe Islands to take on NSI Runavík for the second leg of their UEFA Conference League Qualification 2026 tie. Mattia Croci-Torti's team are on a five-match winning streak and have found the recipe to maintain their cool in Europe while ripping teams to pieces.
Lugano won 2-0 in this fixture to establish a lead and, on paper at least, this should be a battle of styles between NSI's compact 4-4-2 and Lugano's sophisticated 4-2-3-1 that can transform into a 3-4-2-1 with the right conditions. While NSI like to sit deep and attempt to counter direct or from set-pieces, Lugano are all about patient possession football with inverted wingers and overlapping full-backs, creating overloads to get in behind the opposition.
Sigurdur Ragnar Eyjolfsson's men are a well-disciplined team who have managed to keep themselves in the tie after a couple of solid home displays in this competition. They have won 2 and drawn 2 of their 4 games at Torsvoellur Stadium in UEFA Conference League Qualification 2026, conceding at an average of just 0.25 goals-per-game.
Swiss superstars can run riot
But the hosts arrive in poor form after consecutive defeats to HB Torshavn and Lugano. They have lost 3 of their last 5 in all competitions while Lugano are flying with eight wins, one draw and a defeat from their most recent 10 games.
Lugano are the clear 8/25 favourites to win this game and the draw price of 223/50 is just as impossible to support. Backing over 2.5 goals at 9/25 covers Lugano's away firepower and the likelihood that, if they get a few early goals, Runavík may be forced to try to get forward and get back into the tie.
Michal Przybylski is Runavík's most dangerous player, having scored two of their five goals across the last five games and sitting top of their scoring charts in UEFA Conference League Qualification 2026 with two. But the man to watch is Lugano's sharp edge Kevin Behrens, who has netted four goals in three UEFA Conference League Qualification 2026 games and four of their 11 across their last 11 competitive games.
