Hibs will head to Denmark on Thursday as underdogs given their relative current European outcomes.
The Leith aspect have failed in six makes an attempt to progress via the qualifiers within the final 15 years, though they did come closest two years in the past till Aston Villa ended their dream with an 8-0 mixture thrashing within the Convention League play-offs.
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Hosts Midtjylland, in the meantime, navigated two rounds earlier than shedding to Slovan Bratislava within the Champions League play-offs final season – then completed twentieth in Europa League, qualifying for the play-off spherical, the place they misplaced to Actual Sociedad.
That explains why the Danes are ranked 71st in Europe – 166 locations above Hibs.
Having misplaced 7-3 on mixture to Rangers in Europa League qualifying in 2019, their enchancment was such that they knocked Celtic out of the Champions League qualifying, 3-2 on mixture, two years later.
Thomas Thomasberg is in his second spell as head coach and has gathered collectively a squad with worldwide expertise from all over the world.
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Up entrance he has Poland’s Adam Buksa, South Korea’s Cho Gue-sung and Guinea-Bissau’s Franculino Dju, who’s reportedly of curiosity to a number of Premier League golf equipment.
Zambia’s Edward Chilufya is joined in midfield by Denil Castillo, who has simply made his Ecuador debut, whereas one other 21-year-old, winger Darío Osorio, performs for Chile and centre-back Lee Han-beom lately debuted for South Korea.
Though Kevin Mbabu didn’t make it even to Rangers’ bench on mortgage from Newcastle United in 2015, the 30-year-old right-back has since performed for Younger Boys, Wolfsburg and Fulham whereas incomes 25 caps for Switzerland.
Midtjylland are captained by former Brentford centre-back Mads Bech Sorensen, whereas veteran goalkeeper Jonas Lossl additionally performed for the Premier League membership, in addition to Huddersfield City and Everton.
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Like Rangers, David Grey’s Hibs have an added incentive to stay of their present competitors, with subsequent opponents Fredrikstad of Norway having restricted European pedigree.
Drop to the Convention League and they’re going to face one in every of two sides who completed runners-up of their home league – Oleksandriya of Ukraine or Pink Star Belgrade of Serbia.