After successfully eliminating teams like Ajax and Lille from the Conference League, of course we don't have a better option than Aston Villa for us to make favorites, but that's the beauty of football when Aston Villa, who are favorites to win the Conference League this season, actually have to lose to teams that are actually struggling to reach the final this season, Olympiacos were not favourites to reach the final and many of us even thought that their victory over fenerbache in the quarter-finals was just a stroke of luck after a mistake made by fenerbache at that time, but all of that is disputable when we can see how Olympiacos destroyed Aston Villa in the two leg match they played.
Looking at everything that is happening now, of course we are starting to find it difficult to guess who will win the championship trophy this season, Fiorentina has considerable experience in the Conference League so far and even they can repeat last season achievements by successfully playing in the final this season, besides that if we compare, of course, the performance and quality of players owned by Fiorentina are much better than those owned by Olympiakos, But when Olympiacos manages to beat a strong candidate for the championship this season, of course it will give us a very big dilemma to choose who will be the championsip in the final match later.
Well it’s the UEFA Conference League and it’s an European competition and as such, you should expect competition from all teams in the tournament. In as much as we will have favorites, it doesn’t mean we should overlook the underdogs as they’re tagged as that because of what they can do to the big teams in the tournament. Well Aston Villa who have improved greatly this season and after they were able to thrash out teams like Ajax and Lile, one would be so. Confident that they will be able to get to the final at least.
Even if not for anything but when looking at how Olympiacos struggled against Fernabache, you will understand that Aston Villa are favorites for the final. Well Olympiacos were the underdogs and they dished out the surprise to Aston Villa by handing them a heavy defeat at the Villa Park which helped boost their confidence level heading to the 2nd leg and they were finally able to get the victory.Now they have gotten to the final and they will be facing Fiorentina who were the other favorites and are now favorites for the trophy.
The main issue now is with the display of Olympiacos against Villa, would we be able to stand our ground on Fiorentina winning the trophy because sincerely that display against Villa is a big one that can have. So I think getting the favorites for this game put us in a tight corner because the underdogs can be surprising and get massive wins while the main favorites can just play so sluggish.