In short, Basel are not quite as good as they have been on previous seasons, and the fact they are not the title holder of the Swiss league emphazies that point. They also lost their season opener which has only happened 3 times in previous 10 seasons, but the good news is that they have now started their season, and despite having injuries for Jonas Adjetey, Leon Avdullahu and Jonathan Dubasin they can bring in the players who were suspended in the league match, Thierno Barry and Taulant Xhaka.

The suspended players who are now coming back are in a bigger role, the centre-forward Barry and holding midfielder Xhaka.

The preseason did not go too well, but it has to be remembered that now they face a team who would stay up in the Swiss Super league, who are currently 5th in their own mediocre Kazakh league, and who are lucky to be at this stage as they faced attackingly extremely weak FC Honka side.

I saw Tobol at the venue last week in Finland, they were defending their one-goal lead from the home game, but created very little threat and it is no wonder the match v Honka ended in a 0-0. The midfield seemed vulnerable and slow, and it was only the lack of quality attacking players at Honka that helped Tobol to qualify.

Basel coach Schultz takes this competition seriously, but also the loss v St Gallen on the first round seriously and he said that there will be no experiments, the best will play and they will everything to secure progress to next round already today so that they can concentrate fully on the next league match v Winterthur on Sunday.

Tobol have their next league game postponed and all eyes are in this fixture, too bad that there is no quality in the team to match Basel, and to me this looks like an easy home win with some 60% chance to cover the -1.5 asian handicap needed. 195 cm tall striker Barry is very likely to score inside the box tonight!

简而言之，巴塞尔并不像前几个赛季那样出色，而他们不是瑞士联赛冠军的事实也强调了这一点。他们也输掉了赛季揭幕战，这在过去的10个赛季中只发生过3次，但好消息是他们现在已经开始了他们的赛季，尽管有乔纳斯·阿杰特、莱昂·阿夫杜拉胡和乔纳森·杜巴辛受伤，他们可以引进在联赛中被禁赛的球员，蒂耶诺·巴里和托伦特·扎卡。

停赛归来的球员扮演着更重要的角色，他们是中锋巴里和后腰扎卡。

季前赛进行得不太顺利，但必须记住，现在他们面对的是一支能够留在瑞士超级联赛的球队，他们目前在自己平庸的哈萨克联赛中排名第五，他们很幸运能够进入这个阶段，因为他们面对的是攻击力极其弱的洪卡队。

我上周在芬兰的比赛场地看到了托博尔，他们正在捍卫主场一球的领先优势，但几乎没有造成任何威胁，难怪与洪卡的比赛以0比0结束。中场似乎脆弱而缓慢，而正是在洪卡缺乏高质量的进攻球员才帮助托博尔晋级。

巴塞尔主教练舒尔茨对这场比赛很认真，但对第一轮输给圣加仑的比赛也很认真，他说不会有任何实验，最好的球员会参加比赛，他们会尽一切努力确保今天进入下一轮，这样他们就可以集中精力在下周日对阵温特图尔的比赛中。

托博尔的下一场联赛被推迟了，所有的目光都集中在这场比赛上，可惜球队没有实力对抗巴塞尔，对我来说，这看起来是一场轻松的主场胜利，有60%的机会可以弥补亚洲-1.5的障碍。身高195厘米的前锋巴里今晚很有可能在禁区内得分!