Topic: ⚽UEFA Europa League Discussion Thread -- 2022/23 | Group Stages - page 21. (Read 15141 times)

We can say that there were no surprises in the Europa League. The matches were generally predictable. Ajax defeated Ludogorets 4-1 away and we can say that they passed the round. Olympiacos won the match 3-1 with goals in the first half. Only the Hacken - Aberdeen match could have been won by Hacken.  After going 2-0 up, they conceded 2 goals in a row which led to a draw.
Sheriff, on the other hand, will most probably go through in the rematch at home after the away draw.

yesterday's games didn't have results that caused me any surprise, as most of the favorite teams managed to win in their game, perhaps because they were playing against not very strong opponents. slavia praha wins the game against zorya, in this game slavia praha managed to score 2 goals and did not concede any goals, with that slavia praha will be able to play with some comfort in the second leg, they just needed to strengthen their defense and score 1 goal in the second leg, while for zorya, who will play at home in the second leg, things will be very difficult for them, they will need to score 3 goals and not concede a goal if they want to pass to another stage

ajax had a very comfortable victory in the game against lundogorets, in my opinion with these 4 goals that ajax scored in this game and only conceded 1 goal, it will guarantee that ajax in the second leg will focus on defense and move to another phase, I don't see Ludogorets managing to score 5 goals in the second round game without conceding a single goal, I believe that the entire Ludogorets squad must have already realized that, so it's possible that in the second round they won't try too hard and focus on the league game from them. Lask won in their game, but it is not a comfortable victory, which means that in the second leg everything is open, either team still has many chances to pass to another stage

olimpiacos won comfortably, I see that they will win again in the second round and move on to another phase. the sheriff could not win in their game, they were already losing but they managed to score 1 goal and with that they tied the game, but I see that in the second leg there are chances of them losing and not passing to another phase, union won comfortably, I see them also come out with victory in the second round game and move on to another phase. looking at all these teams, the only team I see with the potential to win the Europa League and Ajax, I'm only talking about those teams that played yesterday

Yeah this is a good moment for Fenerbahce they should have taken advantage against 10 players especially playing at home and there's still plenty of time left, my bet is safe on this match because I bet on both teams to score on my parlay. In another match I was monitoring the match between Ludogorets vs Ajax it seems that Ajax was very aggressive in the first half having scored 2 goals but I need 1-2 more goals to secure one of my bets over 3 goals I know both teams are very active in scoring in every match.

Lol I just realized Fenerbahce already scored another 2 goals in 3 minutes    now Fenerbahce is in a safe position.

Fenerbahce was losing 0-1 but was able to draw by halftime. Also Twente got a red card so this makes things easier for them. But in second half they still cannot score a goal. They were able to score but offside denied them a goal but i think they will win in the end for sure

My fault, partially. Been meaning to post here but I didn't find the time to bet so don't know much about odds or even potential setups but I would blindly go against Ajax if the odds are (and should be) 6/1 at least.

Fancy both Prague teams through, and at least a couple of favourites with second legs to fight for? Haecken up as expected already...

First leg of UEFA Europe League play-off round will play tomorrow and several teams already for fighting to qualify final phase and get chance participants in Europe League season 2023/24. I am interested with qualifier play-off round match Bulgarian team Ludogorets against with Eredivisie team Ajax Amsterdam. Usually, Europe League is not placed for Ajax Amsterdam but last season finished on 3rd standings place make them have to play in Europe League trough play-off round. A

Ajax Amsterdam is favorable for qualifying to next round due inconsistent performance from Ludogorets in domestic league and failure in UEFA Champion League qualifier and have to play in Europe League. Ludogorets won aggregate 6-3 on third round qualifying from Astana and they have good capital against Ajax Amsterdam, although not really favorable but qualifying to Europe League can forget their failure for qualifying to Champion League.

A bit strange that there is no posts about Europa league qualifiers today, while Conference league is getting some attention. There is some interesting games like Ludogorets - Ajax or Dinamo Zagreb - Sparta Prague. I'm going with ML of some favorite - Ajax, Hacken, Union Roayale, and LASK.
Klaksvik - Sheriff is game of two small underdogs who surprised Europe in recent years. I go with under 2.5 goals there as we already saw how difficult to score at Klaksvik pitch, While I think that we can expect high scoring games between Slavia - Dnipro-1 and Olympiacos - Zrinjski. Home teams is heavy favorites and their easy wins is quite likely.

Fenerbahçe is in the conference league, not the European league. Of course, they formed a good squad and passed Maribor easily. The current opponent is more difficult, of course. They were paired with Twente. If they can eliminate Twente, we will watch them in the group stages. Although they have a quality squad on paper, I think the Twente match will be difficult because they did not play a more difficult match.

There are top clubs that tends to keep the pressure but failed along the line, they got good signings to improve their league. Fenerbahçe will make to the group after stellar performance from them ove their opponents. Fenerbahçe triumphed over Maribor in UEFA Europa Conference League. Fenerbahçe headcoach, Ismail Kartal, his game strategy is basically worth we should smbr amazing and exciting to watched.  Fenerbahçe is one of the outstanding clubs out there, although there league is not competitive as others but these clubs means business. They don't relent but always provide the best options.

there were results in this round that left me surprised, like the case of the ludogoretes game, they lost in the first leg by a small difference in goals, but even so it didn't change the fact that they lost, I was even surprised to see them lose and I thought that in this second leg they would lose again, but I was surprised with this turnaround that they had in this second leg, ludogoretes won the game and managed to score 5 goals, it was something very impressive and I was wondering what changed so much in their team and in the opponent that made them score 5 goals and only conceded 1 goal in this second leg game, with this result ludogoretes moved to another phase

in other games sheriff beat his opponent and with that he went to another stage, meanwhile the olympiacos also went to another stage, hacken won again and this time they scored 5 goals, in the first leg they had scored 3 goals, so combined were 8 goals scored against only 1 goal conceded, slavia praha also moved on to another stage even though they managed a draw in this game. I would say that in a way the best known teams passed, that is the big teams, we will see how many of these teams go far

this competition when you are in the group stage it is difficult for these teams that are playing in the qualifiers to pass today, it is difficult for the teams in the qualifiers to be champions, will we see this scenario being inverted to the point that some of these teams that are playing in the qualifiers become champions ? well, time will tell if that will be possible or not. but for one of these teams to become champions it will not be easy, because they have to play against strong teams, which have a large squad

Fenerbahçe, Beşiktaş and Adana Demirspor advanced to the next round.

All three teams played well. Fenerbahçe played the best tonight.
I hope they make it to the groups and represent us.

HJK is shown an early red card. While leading the match 1-0, this card demoralized all the players. Moreover, at the end of the first half, Qarabağ won a penalty and they tied the match. HJK needs miracles now. Hacken, on the other hand, will want to protect the advantage he gained in the first match and I think he will skip the round.

To be fair Sherrif was at UCL just a year or two ago, and they did alrigtht, even managed to beat Real Madrid on the year they became champions, think about how good you have to be in order to beat UCL champions. Obviously they are not solid enough to win it themselves, but they are way too good for europa and could go very far if they do not face a big club before then. They are capable of beating teams like BATE without a trouble and should be considered as a good thing.

I believe that we need to give them the benefit of the doubt whenever they play someone, even if they are playing against a big club then we are going to end up seeing them have a chance to beat anyone they face, they are that good of a club.

Probably most interesting game today is Gent - Olympiacos. In first game OLY won 0:1, but today I'm going with Gent win. I think it's very likely that game will go to extra time and maybe penalties. Slavia and Sheriff already in the next round, but I think that they should win today again - they're head above their opponents. I don't believe in Zalgirs chances to make comeback, well, mybe only if they will score fast goal. My bet for this game is BTTS @1.80
HJK - Qarabag game looks difficult to predict. I'm leaning towards Qarabg, but this season they don't look confident, so, I will skip this game.

It's safe to say that Sheriff is already in next round after win 5:1 against BATE. I didn't expected that it will be so easy. Same thing about Zrinjski after 6:2 win. Impressive performance in 1st half with 5 goals scored. Breidabik scored 2 in 2nd half, but it doesn't change anything.
As expected, Slavia didn't had much problem against Dnipro-1 and won 3:0. They even scored 3rd goal having 10 men on pitch.
Hacken achieved confident win against Zalgiris away 1:3. It was poor game of Zalgiris, but even without playing well they had enough good chances that they wasted, as usual. Late goal that Zalgiris scored keeps them some hope.

today there were many games with many goals, Qarabag won in their game against HJK, Qarabag was playing at home so they had to win and score a lot of goals so that in the second leg they would play at HJK's home more comfortably, but the result of this game despite being a victory for Qarabag, they scored 2 goals and conceded 1 goal, that puts everything open in the second leg. so Qarabag will play with pressure in the second leg away from home. already in the other games it seems to me that everything is resolved even though it is the first leg game. for example in the Zalgiris game against hacken, it was a game in which hacken won and scored 3 goals even though they were playing away from home, they conceded only 1 goal

but they were winning 3 - 0, zalgiris only scored a goal in the final minutes of the game, I doubt very much that in the second leg game at hacken's home they will be able to win. another game that had a lot of goals and I think that everything is resolved in that first leg and the sheriff's game against BATE, in this game the sheriff scored 5 goals and conceded only 1 goal, I very much doubt that in the second leg BATE has any chance of reversing In this scenario, it's clear to me that the sheriff has already moved on to another phase. another game that also ended and I don't see that anything will change in the second leg is slavia praha's game against dinipro, in this game slavia praha scored 3 goals and dinipro couldn't score any goals

With this result, I highly doubt that dinipro will be able to reverse this scenario in the second leg. now 2 games are being played, but it's unbelievable that the 1st half hasn't ended yet and Zrinjski Mostar has already scored 5 goals while their opponent Breidablik hasn't scored a single goal and one of their players has had a red card, it seems to me that they've also already everything is decided in this first leg. in the game of Olympiacos Piraeus against Genk, they are being a game in which Olympiacos Piraeus is winning until the first half. I don't know how it will be in the second half, but I think Olympiacos Piraeus can win this game

I am sure that an interesting match will be Olympiacos v Genk... The Greeks seem to be favourites in this game, but in the last five matches they managed to win only twice and in each game they conceded goals... So my bet for this match both teams will score...

There is 6 Europa league qualifiers games played today. 3 games were played on Tuesday and Wednesday. Results of it - Astana 2:1 Ludogorets, AEK Larnaca 1:1 Maccabi Tel Aviv and Gent 5:0 Pogon.
Probably most interesting game is Olympiacos - Genk. I go with BTTS here. Also, going with Sheriff and Qarabag ML's. Slavia is quite heavy favoriteagainst Dnipro-1. Over 2.5 goals looks like safe option, though odds isn't high.

I saw the game and I wasn't sure who might be better off during the penalty kicks. Sevilla seemed to be physically superior and maybe that played a role as it also has an impact on your mental state. When you are totally exhausted and have to sit down and write a letter, well everyone knows how that feels. There is a lot of adrenaline pushing the mind in that moment, but Sevilla was very strong with their first three shots. Then came the moment when I didn't know whether this could still turn around in Roma's favor. To get a second chance for that penalty was a golden opportunity. He then decided to not be too precise, but with power. But it is still a mental game because both the goalkeeper and Montiel were thinking whether to take the same corner or not. After that game Mourinho was in quite a bad mood as expected. 

A very disappointing night for Roma because they just lost an opportunity to play in the Champions League next season. When Dybala got the goal in the 35th minute I knew it will be difficult for Sevilla to score because Roma have one of the best defenses and they lived up to expectations until the own goal by Mancini. Roma's performance in the penalty shootout was too poor as if they were not prepared for it.

I don't think Mourinho threw the silver medal to the spectators in a disrespectful manner. He actually gave it to a young Roma fan and it was emotional. And he received a commendation from the fans. The medal belongs to him and he has the right to give it to anybody he feels. That gift will remain indelible in the life of the young fan. And there are also rumors that it was a sign that he will be leaving Roma. Others are jokingly saying that Mourinho doesn't do silver.