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🇳🇱 PSV Eindhoven vs Shakhtar Donetsk 🇺🇦 — Prediction

Champions League · Matchday 1 · Thu, 10 Sept 2026, 18:45 CEST · Philips Stadion, Eindhoven

Our AI call, published before kickoff
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Tipped scorers: Ricardo Pepi (PSV Eindhoven) · Luca Meirelles (Shakhtar Donetsk)
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Why we called it

PSV won the first topper of the season 3-1 at Ajax on Saturday, Pepi scoring inside five minutes, and sit second in the Eredivisie with Bosz's usual 4-2-3-1 built around Pepi, Til and Perišić. Arda Turan's Shakhtar are unbeaten in Ukraine after a 2-1 win at Karpaty, teenage Brazilians Meirelles and Alisson Santana scoring, but their squad is young and they play their home games in exile. At 1.45 PSV are a clear but not overwhelming favourite, so we trim the margin: 2-1, with Shakhtar's pace getting one goal.

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