Omonia host Flora in the first leg of the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round on Thursday afternoon in Nicosia.
Omonia are looking for the second consecutive appearance in the group stage of the UEFA Europa League.
They made it there by falling to Olympiacos in the UEFA Champions League playoffs last time out.
The Cypriot heavyweights showed strength by eliminating the likes of Legia Warsaw and Red Star Belgrade, conceding only one goal in the process against such two heavyweights.
They did not have much luck with the draw at the beginning of this season’s short adventure in the elite competition qualifications.
The team led by Norwegian manager Henning Berg fell 0-3 on aggregate to Croatian giants Dinamo Zagreb.
On a positive note, they will be massive favorites here against Flora Tallinn who ended their Champions League journey with two losses to Legia Warsaw.
Flora have generally been struggling to produce goals against stronger rivals in the European competitions.
They could find it hard to produce in the final third here against defensive-minded Omonia who have kept much stronger opponents at bay in the last several years.
The head coach Jurgen Henn does have an elite scorer in his ranks in the like of Rauno Sappinen (12 goals in 16 appearances in this term of Estonian Meistriliiga). However, if Omonia can keep hold of him, we can hardly see anyone else finding the back on the net for the visitors on Thursday.



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欧莫尼亚将在周四下午尼科西亚举行的欧联杯第三轮预选赛第一回合比赛中主场迎战弗洛拉。
奥莫尼亚正在寻找连续第二次出现在欧联杯小组赛阶段。
在上次欧冠决赛中，他们输给了奥林匹亚科斯队。
塞浦路斯的重量级选手通过淘汰华沙军团和贝尔格莱德红星队展现了实力，在对这两个重量级选手的比赛中，他们只丢了一个球。
他们在本赛季开始的精英比赛资格抽签中运气不佳。
由挪威主教练亨宁·伯格率领的这支球队以3 - 0输给了克罗地亚巨人萨格勒布迪纳摩。
从积极的方面来看，他们将在这里对阵弗洛拉·塔林，后者在欧冠之旅中两次输给华沙军团。
在欧洲赛场上，弗洛拉在面对更强的对手时，一直难以进球。
在最后三分之一的比赛中，他们可能会发现很难对付防守意识很强的奥莫尼亚，他在过去几年里一直牵制着更强大的对手。
主教练于尔根·亨在他的队伍中确实有一个像萨皮宁这样的精英射手(在爱沙尼亚梅斯特里利加的这个赛季，他出场16次攻入12球)。然而，如果Omonia能控制住他，我们几乎看不到其他人在周四的网络上为访客找到回来。