⚽UEFA Europa League Discussion Thread -- 2021/22 Winners: Eintracht Frankfurt!

[coinlocket$]

Leicester failure was a surprise too..

Didn't watch the game. Did they play with their best players or second-line players?
Maybe they are focusing only on the Premier League, saving energies and pointing with 100% of themself for the top 4 to be able of playing the Champions' League next year.

[vennali]

Leicester failure was a surprise too..

Didn't watch the game. Did they play with their best players or second-line players?
Maybe they are focusing only on the Premier League, saving energies and pointing with 100% of themself for the top 4 to be able of playing the Champions' League next year.

Leicester has a few injury concerns with James Maddison(who's been world class this season), Wes Morgan, Kelechi Iheanacho, Ayoze Perez all out due to injuries. The squad seems very think without them and which has lead to their early exit from the Europa league. They did put out the best possible squad on the field which should have been able to do the job at home. They did have 60% possession, 12 shots and 3 on target but just wasn't their day.

[arallmuus]

Didn't watch the game. Did they play with their best players or second-line players?

Their best possible squad available

Maybe they are focusing only on the Premier League, saving energies and pointing with 100% of themself for the top 4 to be able of playing the Champions' League next year.

It seems that this is not the case and why would Leicester doesnt want to win the europa league when you had close to no chance to win the EPL anymore?. Fun fact about Slavia Prague, this team hasnt lose a single match yet in Czech First League ( 20 matches so far ). This is an incredible feat even if it comes from Czech First League

[MCobian]

Leicester failure was a surprise too..

Didn't watch the game. Did they play with their best players or second-line players?
Maybe they are focusing only on the Premier League, saving energies and pointing with 100% of themself for the top 4 to be able of playing the Champions' League next year.

Leicester has a few injury concerns with James Maddison(who's been world class this season), Wes Morgan, Kelechi Iheanacho, Ayoze Perez all out due to injuries. The squad seems very think without them and which has lead to their early exit from the Europa league. They did put out the best possible squad on the field which should have been able to do the job at home. They did have 60% possession, 12 shots and 3 on target but just wasn't their day.

Leicester are indeed having problems with injuries at the moment, due to their busy schedule and lack of good squad depth. Making Leicester
players vulnerable to injury, not playing James Maddison, who is a creativity player from Leicester, makes it difficult for Leicester players
to score goals. Jamie Vardy lacked the supply of the ball, with Maddison unable to play, so it is only natural that Leicester should leave
the Europa League early. But this is a good thing for Leicester, so they can concentrate 100% in the Premier League to get into the top 4
so they can play in the Champions League next season.

[FlamingFingers]

Today was full of surprises. Luckily Arsenal qualified to last 16 round, thanks to Aubameyang's late goal.

Arsenal was so lucky to have qualified, without Bukayo Saka o don't think Arsenal would have been where they are today in this season, dude has been producing lots of assist, Aubameyang is just a good finisher he doesn't mark really hard, as compared to Lacazette. Hopefully they will win the Europa league because it seems that's the only chance they have to be able to play in next season champions league

[bazukash]

Milan looked really disappointing today, they played against Crvena Zvezda like same level team.
Probably biggest upset tonight is Molde win against Hoffenheim @10 and they move to next round.
Napoli won against Granada, but it wasn't enough to reach next round. Knowing Napoli owner, I wouldn't be surprised if he will sack Gattuso.
Young Boys won against Bayer Neverkusen again and they go to next round. It's big surprise. Can't say anything about game, I didn't watched it.
And I wouldn't call Leicester loss against Slavia as big surprise. I follow Slavia for few seasons already and it's really good team which play quality football. You shouldn't write them off.

I did watch Milan Red Star match and must admit if Red Star didn't get red card 90% that they would won the match. They play with 10 players last 30 minutes and they prove to be worthy opponent to Milan. Really bad for Milan they play horrible didn't won last two matches in Serie A and they play another derby away with Roma.

[SFR10]

Now we have Arsenal, Ajax, Milan, Roma and ManU as favorites.

I'll put Spurs in there as well.

Aubameyang is just a good finisher he doesn't mark really hard, as compared to Lacazette.

That's not always the case ^{[he's been quite inconsistent this season]}. If he took his chances in the first leg, then it didn't have to come to the very last few minutes of the game to come out as winners.

Hopefully they will win the Europa league because it seems that's the only chance they have to be able to play in next season champions league

Based on other teams that are still in the competition and also due to the fact that up to this point, Arteta has no clue who's the best eleven, I highly doubt they'll win it this season.

[dre1982]

PSV won with 2-1 against Olympiakos but too bad it wasn't enough for them to go to the next round. The first match Olympiakos won with 4-2.

Yesterday it was 2-0 for PSV for a long time. With this standing they would go to the next round. Olympiakos scored in the 88th minute. We almost had 2 Dutch teams at the last 16 teams.

[casperBGD]

Milan-FK Crvena zvezda is still continuing 1-1 and Milan will still be able to qualify for the next round like this. FK Crvena zvezda have just got a red card and it is all over for them now I think. Milan can score at least one more goal and seal the deal.

Well they went out with a second squad and bearly qualified for the next round. Milan still in terrible form,not expected from them at all. Zvezda holded well even with a red card

yeah, but this was not a surprise, like I said yesterday, maybe @1.8 or higher would consider Milan, but @1.55 was a bad deal, they are not in some form, and this was a "match of the year" for Zvezda, and they played brave, would not call it good, but it was better than expected certainly
with all said, I expected Milan to pass to through, and that happened, and something like 2:1 or 1:1 that happened

what shocked me is Leverkusen, did not expected from them to go out

[swogerino]

Hoffenheim lost my main bet yesterday but I managed to won two other multi bets both double chances and I am very happy about it.I am even more happy with Arsenal performance yesterday against Benfica which they won with a well deserved late goal.I think one of the Premier League teams is going to be the winner of this year Europa League.

[acquafredda]

AS Roma looks like a team that could win Europa League this year; their performance in Serie A is not that perfect but having seen all of their Europe games I must say they can have a say in this tournament. Dzeko, unfortunately, went KO last night and I hope is not something too serious.

[masulum]

I did watch Milan Red Star match and must admit if Red Star didn't get red card 90% that they would won the match. They play with 10 players last 30 minutes and they prove to be worthy opponent to Milan. Really bad for Milan they play horrible didn't won last two matches in Serie A and they play another derby away with Roma.

I think Milan managed to hold the draw in this match was a coincidence. Indeed, from the match statistics, Milan is still a little better than Red Star, but what I highlight is, Milan seems to hard to scoring goals recently despite the lack of defensive problems. In the transfer market last month, Milan should have brought in a better defender to maximize the potential to win in Serie A, as well as to maintain the chance at UEL.

[Slow death]

so many games and some surprises:

Leicester 0 - 2 Slavia praha

i expected leicester to win this game, this defeat was a surprise to me... leicester managed to beat liverpool and then beat aston villa, i thought they would be able to win this game

Milan 1 - 1 estrela vermelha

I also expected Milan to win

Clube Brugge 0 - 1 dinamo

I expected Dinamo to win

manchester united draw, but I expected at least to have goals in that game

Roma simply destroys Braga

young boys also had a very good victory

many games and I didn’t follow the majority, but for the results we’ll see a big dispute in the next rounds

[buwaytress]

Gerrard and his team are very strong at home. They haven't lost any home games since March 2020. I had my bet on Rangers and so they won.

So far my impression of Europa matches today : entertaining matches .. much much much better than the CL round we had yesterday..

More teams with nothing to lose and everything to play for, rescue their seasons, and of course for some like Mou, it's looking more and more like their only ticket into UCL. Kinda like it is now for Liverpool (not that I'm giving up on them finishing top four!).

Rangers have been providing me with very good returns in Europa yeah, but now bookies are adjusting their odds more and more so I am probably going to lay less money on them. Def hope it's a United-Rangers match up!

[dishku]

so many games and some surprises:

Leicester 0 - 2 Slavia praha

i expected leicester to win this game, this defeat was a surprise to me... leicester managed to beat liverpool and then beat aston villa, i thought they would be able to win this game

Milan 1 - 1 estrela vermelha

I also expected Milan to win

Clube Brugge 0 - 1 dinamo

I expected Dinamo to win

manchester united draw, but I expected at least to have goals in that game

Roma simply destroys Braga

young boys also had a very good victory

many games and I didn’t follow the majority, but for the results we’ll see a big dispute in the next rounds

Agreed with you last night was full of surprises especially Manchester United and Milan draw result both teams are into wonderful form and hard to believe on that. I lost my bets on them and again it's clear nothing sure in betting even safe sides could suffer from bad luck. In next round Manchester United will face AC Milan and it will be interesting to see the outcome.

[coinlocket$]

Source: https://twitter.com/TrollFootball/status/1365284308089327623

Not so far from the truth? 

Interesting match by the way

[cryptofrka]

Dinamo - Tottenham, fantastic draw. I sincerely hope it will be possible to attend the game.

I really wanted a tough opponent and Tottenham is among the most respectable ones still in the competition. A chance to possibly see Son and Kane live, I'd be thrilled. It will probably be played on neutral venue though.

Shame that Dinamo has practically no chance to go through.

[snipie]

Didn't watch the game. Did they play with their best players or second-line players?

Their best possible squad available

Maybe they are focusing only on the Premier League, saving energies and pointing with 100% of themself for the top 4 to be able of playing the Champions' League next year.

It seems that this is not the case and why would Leicester doesnt want to win the europa league when you had close to no chance to win the EPL anymore?. Fun fact about Slavia Prague, this team hasnt lose a single match yet in Czech First League ( 20 matches so far ). This is an incredible feat even if it comes from Czech First League

Yeah accurate. I expected more from a TOP EPL team...
Do I see ManU vs Milan? That match would be an excellent one for the final!! An early final game Ajax game is interesting too imo.

[BitcoinHunt3r]

How many did you lose in the Hoffenheim vs Molde match  a team that was very strong and predicted to win easily lost 0-2 lol
74% possesion and 27 shots but cannot change the score  I think this is what's called the covid match so you should be more careful in the next bet there will be another covid match.

[Yogee]

Source: https://twitter.com/TrollFootball/status/1365284308089327623

Not so far from the truth? 

Interesting match by the way

Hehehehe. Man United looks better defensively than Milan if we look at their recent performance but I wouldn't be surprised if it comes down to this. Both teams still have their pride not to lose to a team they had good rivalry with and so neither would want to concede until the end of extra time.