Trabzonspor host Hearts at Papara Park tonight

Trabzonspor host Scottish side Hearts today in Matchday 2 of the UEFA Conference League. The match will start at Papara Park at 19:45 Turkey time on Thursday, 22 October. Lawrence Visser will referee the match, which will be broadcast live on TRT 1.

The Bordeaux-Blues are playing their fourth European match of the season. In the Europa League play-off round, the team lost 1-0 at home and 4-0 away to Hungarian side Ferencvaros. In their first Conference League match, they beat Finland's KuPS Kuopio 4-2 away.

Trabzonspor will play in the Conference League for the 10th time. The team first faced Norway's Molde in this competition in the 2021-22 season. In the 9 matches played so far, they have 2 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats, scoring 11 goals and conceding 14. The Black Sea club will play their 159th match in European cups and will be paired with a Scottish team for the first time in 29 years.

Trabzonspor's announced squad is as follows: Onana, Pina, Savic, Nwaiwu, Cabral, Melih, Fabinho, Salah, Muçi, Aral Şimşir, Dju. Hearts' squad includes Reus, Altena, Fagan Walcott, Findlay, Milne, Mendy, Magnusson, Miller, Braga and McPake Wilson.

Malinovskyi, Onuralp Çevikkan, Batagov, Okay Yokuşlu and Onuachu did not take part in the Bordeaux-Blues' final training session. Stefan Savic trained individually in the gym. Mustafa Eskihellaç came out for training, but the technical staff will not risk him.