Southend will have some serious squad issues due various reasons, they will be without: goalkeeper Oxley(6/0), defenders Kiernan(0/0), Lennon(1/0), Dimitriou(6/1), Kyprianou(0/0), midfielders Yearwood(0/0), Barratt(1/0) and attacker Kightly(5/0).
Wigry Suwalki raised up in form and table standings (5. position, 11 points) by winning recent two matches, both at home. During the summer, Suwalki is strengthened by a couple of solid players from the Jagelonia and Legia.
Real Madrid B has made a big investment this season in this team and has signed 20+ new players spending 13 million € which is abnormal figure for this league. Vinicius Junior, who was signed by Real Madrid for 45 million will be added to the squad today and most likely will start.
Vorskla had a mixed start to the season (2-0-3) and are usually weak when playing away. The club is in big financial problems and players have not been paid salaries for over a year.
FC Eindhoven has the problems with the roster since they have only 10 fully fit outfield players (+ 3 goalkeepers). Therefore, a manager has called a few players from the youth team to fill up the places.
Alianza Lima need to win last 2 rounds of the Apertura to have a chance to take championship. Cajamarca has had a tough schedule with travels to Melgar on Friday (3600km round trip) and then on Monday to Lima vs. Union Comercio (1600km round trip).
Real Oviedo has kept their manager from last season, they have brought in new players and seem much stronger then last year. Extremadura just got promoted to this league from Segunda B and have big squad issues for this due combination of salaries problems, suspensions and injuries.
Las Palmas was relegated from Primera but the team is boosted with new signings and is one of the favorites to regain promotion and get back to Primera next season. Reus is having small financial worries at the moment so they did not manage to fully complete their squad.
AFC is a third-placed team and needs to continue pushing if they are interested in reaching the top tier of Swedish football. The situation gets better with three important players backing in the squad.
Videoton has played against Malmo on Tuesday in Champions League qualifiers and they have a super important against AEK next Wednesday so manager has decided to rotate the team for this game.
Macara had 5 days to prepare for this home game while Aucas had an exhausting match in Quito 3 days ago (1:1 vs. LDU Quito). Aucas is having a dry period, won only once in the last 5 matches.
