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Rosenborg won all four games v Crusaders
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Both sides earned 1-0 wins in last competitive outings
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Back 14/5 Bet Builder on Norwegians winning
It's the Europa Conference League qualifiers for us on Thursday as Norwegian side Rosenborg travel to Northern Ireland for the first leg of their tie against Crusaders.
Rosenborg have been Norwegian champions a record 26 times as the dominant team in the country, but they've not won thr title not since 2018 and third last year is their highest finish for three years.
2018 was also the last time Crusaders were crowned champions and they're back in Europe after missing out the last two seasons.
The Norwegians head to Seaview having beaten Crusaders in all four previous meetings and will be confident again of getting a result.
Leg 1: Rosenborg to win
I must admit there's always a bit of trepidation about picking the match result in these types of games, but after a poor run Rosenborg have won their last two including an away win last time out.
That helps settle the nerves about backing them at 4/71.57 for another away win but against a Crusaders team that scraped a 1-0 at home against FC Haka in the last round that's fair enough.
They finished off last season losing the last two at home and although only friendlies, losing 4-1 to TNS and 3-1 to Rangers B would hardly inspire confidence for the hosts.
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Leg 2: Under 2.5 goals
There have been plenty of goals at Seaview in friendly games but in the most recent one that counted, they edged a 1-0 victory.
Now they step up in class so even at home, Crusaders will want to keep it tight as a priority - and on Rosenborg's part they also stopped their away rot with a 1-0 victory.
So caution will be the approach taken by both teams especially in a first leg so we're more than happy to get an odds-against price of 21/202.05 for under 2.5 goals here.