Topic: UEFA Europa League 2024/25 Season - page 35. (Read 6581 times)

We also don't know how the match will go with this new format because we are used to the old format that started with the group phase, I think the competition will be more difficult, different from before where more and more clubs participated here, even so I am still interested in the Europa League match, the second largest league after the Champions League which is no less competitive, besides the Europa League is more difficult to predict the winner compared to the Champions League where we already know who the strong candidates are.

Btw, today there will be a match between Panevėžys vs M. Tel-Aviv and Petrocup vs TNS, the clubs that were eliminated from the second qualifying round of the Champions League, I actually don't really know these clubs, but I tried to bet on this match to see how correct my predictions were about their matches.

Left alone with me, I would have preferred the old format. Maybe one of major reasons for this new format is to increase the number of clubs that participate in the European Leagues, and maybe give those clubs a sense of belonging as if, they are in the champions league.
Of course Europa League matches are harder because your meeting teams that are almost on equal strength with you, couple with the fact that European competitors comes with a different aura, so they should expect it to be tough.

Atalanta will certainly play well in the UCL, this was exactly how they were looked down upon until they won the Europa League for last season, the team has a lot of composure and tactical strength from what I've seen, and is certainly one of the clubs to look out for this coming champions League season.

Unfortunately Gianluca Scacca has suffered a serious injury and will most likely be out for at least 6 months, but Latalanta still has time to find a replacement in the summer transfer market, perhaps a free agent. there were rumors that they were testing the waters for Arkadius Milik who is leaving Juventus

The same as UCL, Europa league will also have more teams now. There are 36 teams to play in Europa league and there will be no group stage anymore. Europa league will have league stage that each team will have 8 different opponents. There will be more matches, I think this will make every team to be busier than usual. The players of each team must have a way to deal with their fatigue and prevent the chance of injury. When they will also struggle with domestic competitions that become more competitive, I think Europa League matches look like be harder. I don't know why there should be a new format with more teams in both UCL and UEL, this never gives an advantage to every team.

Anyway, we won't see Atalanta in Europa league again. They will join UCL in this season, but I am not sure they will play well in UCL. They could win Europa league trophy because they could defeat Leverkusen last season, but in UCL there will be stronger team. If Atalanta could reach knock-out round in UCL, it is a great achievement for them. 

That's too much injury on a person that's assumed one of Atlanta's key-man and forward .... it's even more disappointing to realize they don't even have replacements for these players - charles is young and can cover him, but on the other hand, ademola lookman switching up as a 9 is the only alternative they have..

mind you, the concept has been changed...out of 36 teams, each team will play against 8 and the final results determines their fate.

Hello guys, here we go for a new season.    As you can see in the image above, the playoff round draw is complete. As far as I know this is the last stage before league phase.

But of course we are still in third qualifying round now. The winners of the round are going to go for a one last push. I'm curiously waiting for the Panathinaikos - Ajax matchup the most for now. I hope that Ajax continue to make progress and reach playoff round. After that their job is likely to be easier. Probably Bodo/Glimt would be their next opponent. I don't think they can make bigger difficulties than Panathinaikos.

Of course, I already know that Atalanta will not go far in UCL and it will not be a surprise if they didn't retain their UCL spot because Italian league is becoming more competitive than before and we saw how Napoli who was the defending champion was unable to qualify for any European competition due to change of coach. Every season will not be the same for a club who is trying to put their shit together. Big strong clubs struggles to maintain their consistency from season to season.

It is a different format for sure,at least in the preliminary rounds where I have seen very few games compared to last season and I have seen a dozens more game in Conference League this time,for me this means that the new format should be more valuable as a cup the Europa League now.I think it was pure luck for Atalanta to win the title last season for the simple reason as Leverkussen was coming from 50 consecutive undefeated games and chances were all on their side,I think they thought that they would have won this too and maybe were not as prepared mentally as Atalanta,I think it was the merit of the coach of Atalanta that led them to this title which is a huge achievement,the best in their football history and sure will be a big motivator for them to keep pushing and doing well again.

New format is similar to Champion League because the team in the top 8 will be automatically qualified to round of 16 and the teams from 9th place to 24th place will fight on playoff stages to gets 8 last tickets for round of 16 and now at least 13 teams who already to qualified to League Phase without through an qualification stages and they were can automatically can reach to that stages because at their domestic league those teams can able to finish at 5th place or 6th place at the end of season

Taking about the favourite currently there are some of big teams from different league can be considered as the favourite to be the winner of this competition and according to the statistics Manchester United is being an the first favourite of this competition but besides this team we shouldn't be ruled out other teams such as Porto, Tottenham, Frankfurt, AS Roma, Lyon and defending champion of Conference League Olympiacos because in my opinion these teams potentially can being an the winner too

Just like we know Europa League has begin since last month because some of teams have to starting this competition since 1st qualification stages and tomorrow 3rd qualification matches will be started and there is a match between Panevėžys vs Maccabi Tel Aviv and seems this is easy match for Maccabi Tel Aviv because Panevėžys is weak team even the bookmakers provide low odds for Maccabi Tel Aviv  @1.24 but i expect Maccabi Tel Aviv can win with big scores from this match and i think this is very possible to do so considering Maccabi Tel Aviv has good quality squad compared to Panevėžys

Wouldn't be surprised if Atalanta ends up back here in 2025/26 now that Gianluca Scamacca tore his ACL MCL and meniscus.

They will probably crash out of the champions league group stages.

Welcome also to the new format that we will start to see in the upcoming season. Atalanta became the team that managed to become champions, and they were the last team to become champions in the old format. This new format that will be implemented also affects the teams that participate later, because usually we will see a play-off match between the relegated team in the Champions League and the team that is in second place in the Europa League, this season we will not see that anymore. Sevilla became the most successful team, but unfortunately this season they will not be part of the Europa League because they failed to get a ticket to go here last season in La Liga. Actually they are a team that is always awaited in the Europa League, because they have a different appearance when they are here. Indeed they can't play well in La Liga, but when they are in the Europa League they are like 2 different teams.

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• UEFA Europa League is the second cup of Europe.
• Atalanta is the last winner of this cup.
• The most successful club is Sevilla with 7 titles.

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