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

[bct_ail]

@bct_ail indeed you’re right as Ronaldo and Bolt can’t be compared, but I have to admit those are insane stats for Ronaldo.

yes of course. This speed is insane. Even if he doesn't use that speed in the game, it is still a disadvantage for the opposing team. They know that he could run fast and they have to be prepared for that. 

I recall that years ago, Ronaldo hired Usain Bolt to teach him to run as best as possible.

Thanks for this info. This shows that Ronaldo is working on himself to get better.

[LTU_btc]

Time to bump this topic. We have 3rd qualifying round second leg games today. I made some bets for today.
Zalgiris - Mura - home win @2.40. Yes, I'm biased, but I see big value there. Zalgiris play at home and they are slightly better team IMO.
HJK - Neftci - home win @1.87
St. Johnstone - Galatasaray - away win @2.07. This one looks kinda risky, but I'm still going with it.

[ingiltere]

Time to bump this topic. We have 3rd qualifying round second leg games today. I made some bets for today.
Zalgiris - Mura - home win @2.40. Yes, I'm biased, but I see big value there. Zalgiris play at home and they are slightly better team IMO.
HJK - Neftci - home win @1.87
St. Johnstone - Galatasaray - away win @2.07. This one looks kinda risky, but I'm still going with it.

Well I guess not many people follow Europa League elimination games. It's still third elimination round games and we have one more play-off round before group stage. We didn't see any surprises today except Zalgiris Vilnius game, I thought they are better side overall but they lost at home and got eliminated to Slovenian side Mura. It looks like they are new team, I haven't even heard them before. They founded only nine years ago and started from third league of Slovenia to became a champion, now they are playing in Europa League elimination games. That's pretty exciting, very fast development for them. Usually we see Maribor from Slovenia but it's nice to see new teams like that. Congratulations to them for passing the third round as well.
Galatasaray odds are pretty good and I regret I didn't play for them. Even though Muslera was out I knew they can easily pass this stage because there were huge quality difference between these teams. I didn't expect that big odds in favor of Galatasaray, wish I saw it before.

[Spack17]

Time to bump this topic. We have 3rd qualifying round second leg games today. I made some bets for today.
Zalgiris - Mura - home win @2.40. Yes, I'm biased, but I see big value there. Zalgiris play at home and they are slightly better team IMO.
HJK - Neftci - home win @1.87
St. Johnstone - Galatasaray - away win @2.07. This one looks kinda risky, but I'm still going with it.

You were really close to win but it was a near miss. HJK Helsinki destroyed their opponent 3-0. Galatasaray also defeated St Johnstone with a 4-2 score. But Mura managed to beat Zalgiris away and promoted to the next round. It must be sad to lose like this. Maybe you can make up for it next time.

[LTU_btc]

You were really close to win but it was a near miss. HJK Helsinki destroyed their opponent 3-0. Galatasaray also defeated St Johnstone with a 4-2 score. But Mura managed to beat Zalgiris away and promoted to the next round. It must be sad to lose like this. Maybe you can make up for it next time.

Yeah, really disappointed about Zalgiris loss. Especially because Mura was beatable opponent and they didn't played better. Anyway, now we move to Conference League playoff round where we meet Bodo/Glimt. I think it's stronger opponent than Mura, we played against them last year and lost 1:3, but I think it's not impossible to beat them.

[Juggy777]

You were really close to win but it was a near miss. HJK Helsinki destroyed their opponent 3-0. Galatasaray also defeated St Johnstone with a 4-2 score. But Mura managed to beat Zalgiris away and promoted to the next round. It must be sad to lose like this. Maybe you can make up for it next time.

Yeah, really disappointed about Zalgiris loss. Especially because Mura was beatable opponent and they didn't played better. Anyway, now we move to Conference League playoff round where we meet Bodo/Glimt. I think it's stronger opponent than Mura, we played against them last year and lost 1:3, but I think it's not impossible to beat them.

@LTU_btc don’t stress too much as it often happens in these type of competition that the underdog wins it, but Zalgiris should study what went wrong and work on fixing the problem. Also you’re right they can win because I’m sure they’ll take lot of confidence from their recent victory, and that may help them win the fixture against Bodo/Glimt.

[Joca97]

Time to bump this topic. We have 3rd qualifying round second leg games today. I made some bets for today.
Zalgiris - Mura - home win @2.40. Yes, I'm biased, but I see big value there. Zalgiris play at home and they are slightly better team IMO.
HJK - Neftci - home win @1.87
St. Johnstone - Galatasaray - away win @2.07. This one looks kinda risky, but I'm still going with it.

You were really close to win but it was a near miss. HJK Helsinki destroyed their opponent 3-0. Galatasaray also defeated St Johnstone with a 4-2 score. But Mura managed to beat Zalgiris away and promoted to the next round. It must be sad to lose like this. Maybe you can make up for it next time.

I still dont know why the odd on Galatasaray was at one moment before game 2.10. This was really a gift from the sportsbooks honestly. HJK destroyed their opponent but will have a hard match in the play offs but at least they will have confrence this year if they lose in the playoffs

[Woodie]

You were really close to win but it was a near miss. HJK Helsinki destroyed their opponent 3-0. Galatasaray also defeated St Johnstone with a 4-2 score. But Mura managed to beat Zalgiris away and promoted to the next round. It must be sad to lose like this. Maybe you can make up for it next time.

Yeah, really disappointed about Zalgiris loss. Especially because Mura was beatable opponent and they didn't played better.

Are these stadiums still getting fan's or they are as empty as they where during this pandemic because today having the home advantage carries no  meaning or impact!
Am equally disappointed with how Zalgirls played because I thought they would carry the day but this was always going to be a difficult match because first leg was tough. One thing was predictable,  this game was going to be low scoring but winner was going to come from anywhere but favoring the home team.

[hahay]

Slightly regretted it about Celtic - Jablonec but only about the score, I predict the game will still have a lot of goals in the second leg but I chose to bet on both teams to score. Considering Celtic didn't look too good defensively on that occasion and I'm sure Jablonec would be able to score even if it was just one, but my prediction was wrong because even Celitc can win big with a clean sheet, great. About Galatasaray, even though playing away I still bet for him @2.08, it proved Galatasaray can win 2-4.

[Altryist]

Slightly regretted it about Celtic - Jablonec but only about the score, I predict the game will still have a lot of goals in the second leg but I chose to bet on both teams to score. Considering Celtic didn't look too good defensively on that occasion and I'm sure Jablonec would be able to score even if it was just one, but my prediction was wrong because even Celitc can win big with a clean sheet, great. About Galatasaray, even though playing away I still bet for him @2.08, it proved Galatasaray can win 2-4.

Galatasaray looks very controversial at the beginning of this season. The team is definitely good, but as the match with PSV showed, they can concede a lot. And after they played 1-1 with St. Johnston at home, I thought it would be difficult for them away, but they won a landslide victory. And Celtic's result was obvious, Jablonec is a weak contender for them.  I think that Jablonec playd this match without any motivation, so they could not score a single goal.

[boltz]

I only realized last night that most of the games that were last year for Europa League are now for Conference League and the top teams from Europa League are still watiing to play next phase right ? I was so skeptic about Conference League that we will see weak teams but most of them are coming from Europa League spots of last year in their championships.

It was a surprise for me to see Rapid Viena losing in the last minute of the game but to be honest Anorthosis played so well in both halfs so they deserve to win. Also Celtic gave absolute no chance to Jablonec.

[Joca97]

I only realized last night that most of the games that were last year for Europa League are now for Conference League and the top teams from Europa League are still watiing to play next phase right ? I was so skeptic about Conference League that we will see weak teams but most of them are coming from Europa League spots of last year in their championships.

It was a surprise for me to see Rapid Viena losing in the last minute of the game but to be honest Anorthosis played so well in both halfs so they deserve to win. Also Celtic gave absolute no chance to Jablonec.

All europe league matches that were played yesterday and won have gone through to the playoffs for europe league and if they lose in that match they go to the group stage for the confrence league. If they lost yesterday they will play in the playoffs of the confrence league. The league wont be weak there are a lot of good teams in it as well

[joker_josue]

I only realized last night that most of the games that were last year for Europa League are now for Conference League and the top teams from Europa League are still watiing to play next phase right ? I was so skeptic about Conference League that we will see weak teams but most of them are coming from Europa League spots of last year in their championships.

It was a surprise for me to see Rapid Viena losing in the last minute of the game but to be honest Anorthosis played so well in both halfs so they deserve to win. Also Celtic gave absolute no chance to Jablonec.

The Conference League will be a third-devision type, being the first Champions League and the second Europa League.
This means that clubs that we normally see, mainly in the Europa League, may appear in this league. Depending on your final ranking in your country's league, or your performance in the Europa League or Champions League play-offs. It will be the genre League Intertoto, that no longer exists, but larger, more clubs and that lasts one season.

[Spack17]

We are in the last phase of the qualification round now. Still, there are strong teams in this round. It must be really unfortunate for Celtic and AZ Alkmaar both that they have got a draw against each other. We will see which side will be more eager to win. Honestly, I think that Celtic are more capable of moving on to the group stage. But AZ Alkmaar won't give up on the draw easily. I'm expecting enjoyable games in the 1st and 2nd leg both.

[boltz]

Celtic - Alkmaar might end in ET or Penalties as both teams have their big ego this year but I kinda see Az Alkmaar favorites because of that fast pace of football that they have. However on the other hand , we all know that Scotland teams and British in general are having a good defensive strategy so this is why the game is balanced. Lots of games still ahead of us.

[casperBGD]

in a first match of this round, Crvena Zvezda is playing CFR Cluj tonight, and @1.65 home win seems to have value

Cluj has five wins in their league, but did not had strength to play with Young Boys, so meet Crvena Zvezda, that was out from Sheriff, which has a history of kicking-out teams from former Yugoslavia
match will be played with audience, and that is a plus for home team

[Altryist]

in a first match of this round, Crvena Zvezda is playing CFR Cluj tonight, and @1.65 home win seems to have value

Cluj has five wins in their league, but did not had strength to play with Young Boys, so meet Crvena Zvezda, that was out from Sheriff, which has a history of kicking-out teams from former Yugoslavia
match will be played with audience, and that is a plus for home team

After Crvena Zvezda lost to the Sheriff, you no longer know what to expect from them today. The difficulty of the Champions League qualifiers is that it starts even before most championships start, and it is difficult to predict what shape the clubs are in now. With Crvena Zvezda, this is exactly the situation, it is unclear, if the Sheriff is in excellent shape, or Zvezda cannot play now. I would refrain from betting on this match today.

[morvillz7z]

in a first match of this round, Crvena Zvezda is playing CFR Cluj tonight, and @1.65 home win seems to have value

I'm also leaning towards Zvezda here, the loss to Sheriff was a huge upset, and if they want to qualify for the Europa League groups, they need to bring their A-game today and capitalize on their chances before the reverse fixture in Romania next week.

Without having seen many of Zvezda's matches, they are a team that takes an absurd amount of corners per match, and since i don't have a corner handicap market available (which would have been my first option), i will go with total number of corners over 9.5 @1.88 X

Zvezda should be good for at least 7-8, just hoping Cluj doesn't ruin this for me.  Here's what both teams average through their last 5 matches (in all competitions):

Crvena Zvezda: 11, 16, 10, 7, 8   avg 10.4
CFR Cluj: 5, 2, 7, 1, 5  avg 4.0

[casperBGD]

won a nice bet on Zvezda, and it was an easy win, since everything was clear on the halftime, 4:0 is maybe too much for the match, but Group stage seems to be secured

Celtic is playing today, Alkmaar was really great in friendly matches before the season, but started season with a lose from RKC, and Celtic is getting into shape after stepping out from CL qualification from Danish squad, odds above 2 have value on this one

[hahay]

It seems that Celtic have more promise of qualifying in the Europa League than qualification in the Champions League, but considering the opponents they are facing at the moment I think they are equally strong. Even though in the previous qualifiers Celtic could win easily against Jablonec, it still can't make this result a guarantee this time will win easily too. But even so, I personally really believe Celtic will really take advantage of this first leg to be able to win big, because they are playing at home. Also, the imperfect results obtained by AZ Alkmaar in starting the Eredivisie league seems to be an obstacle for him to be able to match Celtic at home.