Topic: UEFA Europa League 2024/25 Season - page 251. (Read 40169 times)

When you ask people to predict the champion of the Champions League, the teams they will say are at most three or four before the season. There is more variety in who will win the Europa League, every season a team can surprise and win the Europa League, this makes this tournament more exciting for me.

While teams like Manchester United and Liverpool were talked about, Atalanta came up last season and Bayern Leverkusen were eliminated in the final.

You may be right and could also be wrong because Manchester United may not be the most favoured team if they fail to withstand the pressure from the Europa league matches during the league format stage wihich is the first round of the competition. The Europa League is a competition that has a number of good teams but with this new format that no teams will be joining from the champions league, it gives Manchester United greater hope to finish their group at the top and eventually makes it to the finals of the competition. They just need to withstand those pressures in the Europa League first round matches and also the same time be at their best in the premier league matches to make everything even for them. It won’t be easy for any team, but they should be able to find a way through.

Probably because it's filled with too many average teams from othe leagues alongside their inconsistencies, it has now made it feel like it's such a hard league to predict as compared to others where the strong are usually clearly differentiated from weak. Another point of slight conflict especially for gamblers is that point where others relegated from the champions league at a level h e ro join in at the Europa, it brings in some confliction with strength as some teams which were supposed to be stronger turns out even the weak ones, but in all you can still carefully find a way with your picks and they will be just fine.

It should be, but we know how Manchester United have played in the last few seasons, they have been so disappointing and have not shown their identity as one of the big clubs in Europe. Last season, for example, when they were in the Champions League, they were very disappointing and they had to occupy the bottom of the standings, even though in terms of status and the composition of the players they had, they were still better than the 2 clubs that were in their group at that time and at first they were also one of the favorites to be able to qualify for the knockout stages, but they failed to do so.

They are no longer a feared club in Europe, now they are even considered as one of the opponents who can provide great opportunities for their opponents. This is clearly a very bad setback experienced by Manchester United. Their identity has been lost and they cannot leave the quality of the glory days they once achieved in the past.

The new format is actually easy to understand. Instead of having 32 teams in 8 groups, we have a league consisting of 36 teams in it. No groups anymore. The rules are the same with the Champions League new format like @imamusma mentioned the details. I hope it'd be fun. I'm not even sure if there was any need for such format change but anyway we'll see. 

The last champion is Atalanta. It was a really unexpected ending while Leverkusen were destroying every single team ahead of them. For now I'm hopeful about Manchester United this season. 

The UEFA Europa League is one of the hardest competitions to predict it's winner before the start of each campaign because there's every possibility that none of the teams that started the competition will win it at the end since other clubs drop from the UEFA Champions League to join the competition in knockout stages. Atalanta who are the current holders of the competition trophy after defeating Bayer Leverkusen in the final last season will be playing in the UEFA Champions League this season and so is their fellow finalists Bayer Leverkusen who German Bundesliga title last season. Manchester United if you ask me should be one of the favorite teams to win it because of their quality and star-studded squad.

To underline, the new format implemented by UEFA in the Europa League no longer has a relegation system from the Champions League, the overall format is more or less the same as the Champions League. The only difference is in the early stages, which are now called the League phase with a composition of 36 contestants. If I'm not mistaken, the 1st-8th rankings in the standings will directly qualify for the last 16, and the 9th-24th rankings will advance to the play-off round to advance to the last 16, while the 25th-36th rankings will automatically be eliminated. Clearly the pressure will increase from previous seasons, because each contestant will face eight different teams in the early stages. Sure enough, Manchester United is one of the teams that looks dominant among a number of other contestants, but that is not a guarantee that they will succeed in winning the trophy. We have not forgotten the journey of the Europa League last season, from the group stage to the final no one expected Atalanta to act beyond expectations.

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Just like the previous format of both Champions League and Europa League, the new format has nothing special just that grouping difference. The grouping is make made easier for all, unlike before where some teams will be favored in a group. Now all teams will play against each other in two groups, it will be like points accumulating format just like Leagues, the best sixteen teams will be drawn against each other on the round of 16. This time, I don’t we will expect any team from the Champions League to join the Europa League as it used to be in the past.

Early predictions will be hard this time unless after the group stages because there will be home and away matches like before. Only teams with squad depth can withstand the pressure because domestic League games will still be going on and othe cup matches respectively.
Going through all the teams that makes it to the Europa League, I think Manchester United is among the most famous teams and it will likely be among the favorites to win the trophy if Ten Hag uses his players well because the team now have a lot of young talented players.

For a new format, I also still feel or do not know so I can't guess which team has the potential to become a champion like Atalanta last season by defeating Bayer Leverkusen with a score of 3-0 made by a player named Ademola Lokman.
The European League will still be the second league after the Champions League with a decreased attraction. This is just because we still don't recognize the new format, later on the trip, we will understand well.

We have not seen good performance from Manchester United players, but that does not mean they cannot improve when playing in various official competitions later. In fact, United players know very well the game plan that Ten Hag has implemented, unfortunately they have not been able to maximize it as well as possible. Moreover, the hunt for several newcomers that they are targeting has not been completed. It is possible that Ten Hag will bring in several new players to Old Trafford before the transfer window closes. I do not know what Ten Hag will plan in the future, especially since several of their players were forced to be absent due to injuries during the pre-season match. We will see when Manchester United plays after the League starts, so we will have an idea of ​​their performance.


Talking about AS Roma, they are a regular team that enters the semifinals in this competition. However, the performance of AS Roma players has not been impressive in their pre-season matches. But it is natural, after all they are only playing friendly matches. I once said in a previous post that AS Roma has the potential to target the Europa League trophy. It is possible that Roma can provide a challenge for Manchester United if they meet, but in any case United actually has a chance to defeat AS Roma. Before going too far to speculate, it would be more exciting if we just follow every development.

If Trabzonspor get eliminated in this round, it would be really surprising to me. I never thought they would lose to Rapid Wien home. There is normally a significant gap of quality between. But here we are.

Turkish teams are really not good at having a solid start to a season.    These are the first games for Trabzonspor and they don't look ready yet. But I hope it doesn't end up with their elimination.

Because probably I will bet on Trabzonspor to qualify anyway. You know 4.80 odds are really difficult to refuse.    It is only 1-0 advantage for Rapid Wien which makes it quite possible.

What happened to Sevilla was quite surprising, last season they were really down and almost relegated and fortunately at the end of the season they rose so they were able to finish in 14th position. Even though Sevilla was the winner of the Europa League trophy the previous season, the next season (last season) should have been better after getting the Europa League trophy, but what happened was the opposite. There were many problems internally in Sevilla, especially financial problems, which caused them to slump last season.

In other words, it can be said that the King can rest, and Sevilla will not win the UEL League trophy again in the next few years from now on. Because to rise from the slump in my opinion it takes time. Sevilla must completely overhaul in order to return to being the king of the Europa League.

I like this, if Roma is the MU's challenge then it seems to me that it is something very good, I want to see a connected MU, against Man City they did not do bad, knowing that what they played was only a pre-season game, but enough to realize that things were very evident at the time of playing, but as I said, in these competitions like the Europa League, the level increases to great levels, they want to be the best, they want to earn that place in the UCL by being first, that is why this Europa League fascinates me, I want to see Roma's level at the top.

A teams strength has got a good relativity with their management but most times people push the blame around on the coach, it's good to see sevila showing off as a typical example to what poor management can cause to a team, before now they were in a very outstanding form of which they still maintain a record second to non in the Europa League as one of the most successful in the Europa but I doubt if they can contend now to add to the records if they get a chance to participate in the Europa. If only they are going to make the necessary adjustments and get the team back in its perfect form or better put, progressive improving form, they are very likely to gradually get back improving their performance.

When talking about overall statistics, it is undeniable that Sevilla's dominance in Serie A is very impressive and it should be remembered that to achieve this, of course, there is also a good performance in domestic competitions because after all Sevilla can be in the Europa League and Champions League because of their good performance in La Liga first.


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With 7 trophies as well as the most trophy holders in the Europa League until now it indicates that Sevilla still has a strong dominance.
It's just that that performance has not gone well in recent seasons where their dominance seems to be lost due to poor performance and mistakes in managing player transfers because Sevilla's initial mistake occurred because they spent too many core players for money which in the end their performance became chaotic.

Coaches must be able to maintain their squad's performance amidst a tight schedule, the new format will increase the number of matches played and the competition will be even fiercer. Player rotation must be done to prevent players from getting tired and risking injury. Surprises may happen again this season like Atalanta did last season. Manchester United who are very active in the transfer market have managed to bring in several quality players. It seems that Ten Hag is very serious about the Europa League this time and wants to bring Manchester United to win the UEL trophy.

Sevilla's Europa League dominance? Fantastic. But how does their La Liga fare? That is a fire in a dumpster. Exchanging Koundé, Rakitic? Boneheads walk. Navas retires, En-Nesyri's gone - that's your spine, pulled out. Sevilla has bleeding ability that is evident. This is poor management not alone bad luck. Fast rebuilding is what they need. Not only to rejoin the Europa League but also to remain current in La Liga

The lesson is rather clear: you cannot sell off your top players and hope for success. You really need a strong team even in the Europa League. Sevilla's a sobering lesson. Let's see whether they grow from their errors

They were ahead through Garnacho's goal, but the score was tied after Bernardo Silva scored a reply goal. Finally, they had to admit Manchester City's superiority in the penalty shootout. Overall, I can still consider their game not too bad in this match, but there will definitely be notes that they must improve in order to be even better. One more thing, Manchester United players must reduce unnecessary actions, such as what Onana did in this match. I think what they did will actually make the supporters feel strange, because they did it when they were not okay. Previously, it might have stuck in our memory when Antony made a move that eventually became a meme on social media. Come on, they are in a big team, so they have to get rid of silly actions like that. I understand that maybe it is a form of psychological warfare for their opponents so that the opposing players' mentality decreases, but in my opinion it is not effective when doing it, it even seems silly.

Manchester United have qualified for the Europa League and Manchester City have qualified for the Champions League, so there is nothing to match the two together. You can only discuss Manchester United and other teams that have qualified for the Europa League here.

Among the teams that have qualified for the Europa League, Manchester United is being placed ahead in all aspects because Manchester United has always qualified for the Champions League and their performance is much better than all the other teams. However, statistically speaking, nothing happens in this type of tournament so Manchester United will have to change their performance and show surprise. If Manchester United can win the Europa League title this season, the fans will surely appreciate it and the management will be very happy. Let's see how well the players do under the manager and how much success they can bring to the team.

After seeing the game between Manchester city and Manchester United today I begin to almost nurse a doubt about their Europa performance this season if they are going to be really awesome and even brilliant enough to be lucky with the trophy, teams like Roma, and other regular Europa teams who will be participating this season and are very willing to win the trophies will definitely not give Manchester United a chance of this will be their performance.

With no much doubt, I think Roma will even be a challenge to Manchester United, I know city isn't a small team but at some point even their top players where substituted yet Manchester United failed at getting it right. At this point it becomes very necessary Manchester United works hard towards every form of improvement without hesitation.