Celje vs Omonia Nicosia Prediction & Tips

✦ AI Analysis & Neural Breakdown

Celje host Omonia Nicosia in round 2 of the Europa League, with kick-off at 16:45 UTC on 15 October 2026. The model gives the home side the edge at 45.65% for a Celje win, 23.85% for a draw and 30.5% for an Omonia victory. The bookmakers' best prices are 2.6 on Celje, 3.5 on the draw and 2.96 on Omonia. The market therefore also sees the hosts as slight favourites, though it prices Omonia a little more generously than the model does.

The form data is uneven. Omonia have played five matches this season, with three wins, one draw and one defeat, and a goal record of 7:4. They have scored and conceded in 40% of those games, and only 20% have gone over 2.5 goals. They sit eighth in the league. Celje have played just one match, a 0:2 defeat, so the sample is very small. The league position listed for them is 63. Little can be concluded from a single result.

On goals, the model rates the match as moderately open. It puts both teams scoring at 57.44% against 42.56% for no, and over 2.5 goals at 57.35%. Over 1.5 goals is at 79.21%, while over 3.5 is at 34.97% and over 4.5 at 21.03%. Omonia's recent games have produced fewer goals than this suggests, so the model and the form data point in slightly different directions. Both sides have absentees. Omonia are without Carel Eiting, Fotis Kitsos, Mihlali Mayambela and Panagiotis Andreou through injury, and Mateo Maric through suspension. Celje are missing Jost Pisek, Łukasz Bejger and Nejc Ajhmajer through injury, and Artemijus Tutyškinas through suspension. These figures are probabilities, not certainties, and the outcome remains open.