Tuesday night’s opening leg of Ludogorets Razgrad’s match against Sutjeska Niksic in the Champions League first qualifying round will be played with the goal of securing a first-leg advantage.

The host team, who participated in the Europa League group stage last season, is the current Bulgarian champion, while Sutjeska won Montenegro’s first division for the fifth time last year.

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By winning Bulgaria’s first division for the 11^th time in their history last season, Ludogorets guaranteed their place in the first qualifying round of the Champions League.

The Eagles competed in the Champions League group stage in 2014–15, going up against Real Madrid, Basel, and Liverpool. They also qualified for the groups of the 2016–17 competition.

In order to advance to the European Cup group stage last season, Ludogorets advanced all the way to the playoff round before losing to Malmo 3-2 on aggregate, which caused them to drop into the Europa League. They finished fourth in a group that also included Braga, Red Star Belgrade, and FC Midtjylland.

If Sutjeska loses, Ante Simundza’s team will be hopeful that they can advance from this two-leg match and will play either Shamrock Rovers or Hibernians in the subsequent qualifying round.

In order to get ready for the return of competitive play, Ludogorets has played four friendlies this summer, the last of which was a 3-0 victory over Nurnberg on June 26. However, the day before, they were defeated 3-0 by Ferencvaros.

Sutjeska, on the other hand, have never participated in the Champions League group stage, thus it would come as a great surprise if they were able to make it through all of the qualifying stages.

The Blue and Whites were defeated by Maccabi Tel Aviv 3-1 on aggregate in the second qualifying round of the Europa Conference League last season.

Sutjeska lost in the opening round of the Europa League qualifying in 2020–21 as well, but they were able to qualify for this level of the Champions League by winning the Montenegrin First League in 2021–22 with a record-setting 75 points from 36 games.

Milija Savovic’s team is undoubtedly the underdog going into the two-game series with Ludogorets, but a successful outcome in the first leg of the match would give them confidence going into the second game on July 12.

The Bulgarian team should ultimately have too much quality over the two games. Sutjeska are certainly capable of making this a difficult 90 minutes for Ludogorets, but we are finding it difficult to back anything other than a home victory in the first leg.