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

[GbitG]

In the first games today, Fenerbahce are going to play a home game against Olympiacos Piraeus. Considering their lineups and recent forms, Fenerbahce seem like much better than their opponent. They have made really good transfers for their attacking line and they are harvesting the benefit of it recently. They are more effective at scoring and this is very crucial for them. They must perform really good to be able to get a decent win against Olympiacos here. Their competitor is not a very tough one actually. But they should still be very careful. I believe that Fenerbahce will win here by one or two goals.

Fenerbahçe is good team, but you are underrating Olympiacos Piraeus because they are also very good team and can beat them at their home. Start is not good for Fenerbahçe because Olympiacos Piraeus takes lead through very beautiful even ball possession is still favouring home team still very long way to go, but my feeling is visitors can go through for win recently we have not good quality from Turkish soccer teams on other hand Olympiacos Piraeus is very experienced team with very good record in European games.

In other few matches Napoli is also in early lead against Spartak Moscow and Monaco is also in good against Real Sociedad on Road with very early lead this is going to be very good competition right now.

[buwaytress]

@morvillz7z I love your picks, I'd put that all in an acca if I didn't already overextend myself today. As long as one of my underdog bets hit, I'll be in the black though, so I don't mind having all those bets sloshing around for the next few hours. I definitely want Celtic to bang in a few, and Leverkusen should oblige but not without taking a few themselves.

@toma I mean no disrespect at all to Sociedad and Monaco this season are not yet (and may never be) the force that won me a lot last season, but you won't see any book give Monaco 4/1 in Ligue 1, unless it's away to PSG! I know I'm a numbers guy, but good luck to all either way! Still, they're leading already, so may this match go the wire!

Go Rangers! They disappointed me in UCL qualifications but can't blame a team who's been away for so long.

[Maidak]

In the first games today, Fenerbahce are going to play a home game against Olympiacos Piraeus. Considering their lineups and recent forms, Fenerbahce seem like much better than their opponent. They have made really good transfers for their attacking line and they are harvesting the benefit of it recently. They are more effective at scoring and this is very crucial for them. They must perform really good to be able to get a decent win against Olympiacos here. Their competitor is not a very tough one actually. But they should still be very careful. I believe that Fenerbahce will win here by one or two goals.

Although Fenerbahce seems to be the favorite in this match, Olympiakos is not the weakest team. I checked the statistics of the last few matches of the Olympiakos team. I have seen the results of the last several matches, I have not seen the Olympiakos team lose in any match. I hope to be able to enjoy a competitive match. I would be happy if the result of this match will be draw.

You are right. Olympiakos is not a weak team. And they seemed to prove it. They scored a goal just 6 minutes into the match. And so far Fenerbahce has not scored a goal. Fenerbahce's players have to try to score very quickly. My guess is, the Olympiakos team will play defensively in the second half. And will try to win the match 1-0.

[DU18]

I turned on the TV to enjoy the match of Napoli vs Spartak Moscow. And immediately I saw a goal by Napoli. Napoli took a 1-0 lead just 1 minute into the match. Napoli is a very strong team this season. The top spot in Seria A is still in their possession. It is easy to assume that they will win this match.

Napoli really surprised spartak moscow today, they managed to score a goal in the first minute of the match and obviously the goal made the spartak players down a bit, i think Elmas' goal today was the fastest goal created in the european league, but unfortunately now napoli have to play with 10 men, because Mario Rui got a red card in the 29th minute, by losing one of the Napoli defenders, Spartak should be able to take advantage of this to get the score even.

[jakdanyel]

Fenerbahce are the losing side in their match against Olympiacos now. They conceded a very early goal and this could cause them to have problems on making a comeback. Olympiacos are not a very tough opponent for them so Fenerbahce can still manage to make it somehow. After drawing with Frankfurt, they would really make use of a win. I'm still sure that they won't lose this match.

[BITCOIN4X]

I turned on the TV to enjoy the match of Napoli vs Spartak Moscow. And immediately I saw a goal by Napoli. Napoli took a 1-0 lead just 1 minute into the match. Napoli is a very strong team this season. The top spot in Seria A is still in their possession. It is easy to assume that they will win this match.

But unfortunately Mario Rui had to be expelled by the referee from the match with a red card. Currently Napoli are leading with a 1 goal advantage, but I think the situation will be more difficult because Spartak Moscow will try to play better in the second half. There is a possibility that this match will end in a draw, but it looks like Napoli will not let that happen considering they have only 1 point from a draw. It will be an important match for Napoli to collect full points.

[Swordsoffreedom]

I thought the Leicester City team was a strong team. But now looking at their performance against Legia Warszawa, they seem weak. This is the first time I have heard the name of the Leiga team. And their boys are playing excellent against Leicester. At the end of the first half, they are leading 1-0. If they can win this match then it will be a huge achievement for them.

[swogerino]

Leicester screwing up again so far against Legia Warsaw as it is losing 1-0 although there is a lot of time left to play and things can be turned around but I wonder what is wrong with Premier League teams in Europa League,I think it is time again for one of them to win this League,we had enough of Sevilla winning it almost every year in a consecutive way.The stats are similar between the two teams but Legia has more goal attempts than Leicester which says a lot,the odd of 1.53 of Leicester probably will destroy many tickets if the game ends like this or even a draw.

[Kusman]

Real Sociedad - Monaco match has been really enjoyable so far. Because the first scoring side was Monaco and this triggered Real Sociedad to fight really hard to equalize the score. And they have just scored the goal now. Now there is a 1-1 tie and I wonder whether any of these sides will manage to win the match. Real Sociedad got more chances so far but it must be related to Monaco as they started trying to secure the 1-0 score after scoring. This would still be an ideal result for Monaco so Real Sociedad must make a bigger effort here.

[Trofo]

Leicester screwing up again so far against Legia Warsaw as it is losing 1-0 although there is a lot of time left to play and things can be turned around but I wonder what is wrong with Premier League teams in Europa League,I think it is time again for one of them to win this League,we had enough of Sevilla winning it almost every year in a consecutive way.The stats are similar between the two teams but Legia has more goal attempts than Leicester which says a lot,the odd of 1.53 of Leicester probably will destroy many tickets if the game ends like this or even a draw.

Premier League teams are generally looking at Europa League as second tier competition. They will often play lots of fringe players and use these games almost as a training. This goes double for big names in PL but even teams like Leicester which take it a bit more seriously will rest their top players. You can check first 11 today and you will see that about half of the first team was rested and now at 67th they subbed in Vardy and Maddison to see if they can turn the game around.

Sevilla takes Europa league seriously and it shows.

[savetheFORUM]

Leicester screwing up again so far against Legia Warsaw as it is losing 1-0 although there is a lot of time left to play and things can be turned around but I wonder what is wrong with Premier League teams in Europa League,I think it is time again for one of them to win this League,we had enough of Sevilla winning it almost every year in a consecutive way.The stats are similar between the two teams but Legia has more goal attempts than Leicester which says a lot,the odd of 1.53 of Leicester probably will destroy many tickets if the game ends like this or even a draw.

European matches never been without any big surprise today right now we have some good and exciting matches all reaching nearly 70th minute, and we have some good competitions on different grounds I am feeling today we are going to have some surprising results as well because Napoli is playing with 10 men at home and score is 1 - 1 Leicester is down on road against Legia in one another match Olympiacos Piraeus is also leading against Turkish giant Fenerbahçe 0 - 3 Ranger is also down against Sparta Prague so not good day for big clubs even they are playing at home.

[Spack17]

It looks like Leicester are not caring about their Legia match now too much as they have a Premier League match in three days. Their many starting eleven players aren't in the lineup now. As a result, Legia found a chance to get one point at least. But they are even leading the match now. In the second half, Leicester are trying their best to score the equalizer but let's see if they will succeed.

[cryptofrka]

I have been watching a bit of the Leicester game, they have been the better team so far. Still, doesn't really mean anything, if they lose today they will have only 1 point from their opening 2 games. The only good thing for them so far is that Spartak and Napoli are drawing - so nobody is too far away. Still, if Legia wins, they will have a huge 6 points and will have 1 leg to the knockouts in a group from which nobody expected them to progress.

Dinamo is starting soon, we really need a win tonight. On paper Genk is a really beatable team, but this Dinamo is far from the best ones as well.

[ingiltere]

Fenerbahçe is having a pretty bad game right now, I didn't expect them to perform poorly that much at home game. I guess their chance is pretty low in that group after that big loss. Legia Warszawa is too close to finish their fairytale. It's not easy to beat Premier League teams for Eastern Europe teams. I think Leicester City didn't focus on this tournament much. Napoli is also in trouble but PSV Eindhoven and Lyon take their games serious.

[Slow death]

I turned on the TV to enjoy the match of Napoli vs Spartak Moscow. And immediately I saw a goal by Napoli. Napoli took a 1-0 lead just 1 minute into the match. Napoli is a very strong team this season. The top spot in Seria A is still in their possession. It is easy to assume that they will win this match.

The sad part is that they draw and Napoli is playing with only 10 players, this means that Napoli will only be playing on defense to avoid losing in this game, it was a great bad luck Napoli had to have only 10 players.


Sturm 1 - 4 PSV

PSV already won even before the game ends

[snipie]

Premier League teams are generally looking at Europa League as second tier competition. They will often play lots of fringe players and use these games almost as a training. This goes double for big names in PL but even teams like Leicester which take it a bit more seriously will rest their top players. You can check first 11 today and you will see that about half of the first team was rested and now at 67th they subbed in Vardy and Maddison to see if they can turn the game around.

Sevilla takes Europa league seriously and it shows.

Indeed, Leicester isn't taking it seriously, plus they aren't very well this season so the result right now could be understood... Few minutes left and they are behind with 1 goal..
PSV, Lyon and Olympiacos are scoring big, for PSV and Lyon their opponents aren't that hard but seeing Fenerbahce taking 3 goals vs Olympiacos isn't classic.

[add1ct3dd]

Premier League teams are generally looking at Europa League as second tier competition. They will often play lots of fringe players and use these games almost as a training. This goes double for big names in PL but even teams like Leicester which take it a bit more seriously will rest their top players. You can check first 11 today and you will see that about half of the first team was rested and now at 67th they subbed in Vardy and Maddison to see if they can turn the game around.

Sevilla takes Europa league seriously and it shows.

Indeed, Leicester isn't taking it seriously, plus they aren't very well this season so the result right now could be understood... Few minutes left and they are behind with 1 goal..
PSV, Lyon and Olympiacos are scoring big, for PSV and Lyon their opponents aren't that hard but seeing Fenerbahce taking 3 goals vs Olympiacos isn't classic.

We are heading for end of this round and as expected we have few surprises because few teams are not serious about this UEFA Europa League Rangers lost against Sparta Prague even both teams was good and have some quality Leicester was hot favourite, but they lost against Legia their season is already very poor Napoli after taking very early lead lost against Spartak Moscow by 2 - 3 at home its big upset of this night Monaco is also done very good job against Real Sociedad in away match Now just few minutes, and we are going to watch another exciting round of good matches in this league.

[swogerino]

Wow,Napoli with an odd 1.16 lost to a team from the Russian Premier League like Spartak Moscow.No one should come and tell that Napoli played with 10 men as the difference in quality between Serie A where Napoli plays and is usually a contender for the title,and Russian Premier League is enormous,they should have won this game easily,yet they lose 2-3 to a team which their odds were 14 or a bit more depending on different bookmakers.Europa League was full of surprises tonight.

[casperBGD]

interesting results in first batch, Olympiakos trashed Fenerbahce 3:0, Legia won over Leicester, Napoli lost home match with Spartak
it is a good thing that I missed this first batch for betting

second batch is more interesting from my side, and Betis already scored in Budapest, Lazio is on the lead (Napoli was on the lead early on as well), Dinamo scored in Belgium, I am watching Crvena Zvezda and Ludogorets, could go in any direction

[snipie]

Wow,Napoli with an odd 1.16 lost to a team from the Russian Premier League like Spartak Moscow.No one should come and tell that Napoli played with 10 men as the difference in quality between Serie A where Napoli plays and is usually a contender for the title,and Russian Premier League is enormous,they should have won this game easily,yet they lose 2-3 to a team which their odds were 14 or a bit more depending on different bookmakers.Europa League was full of surprises tonight.

That was the biggest surprise for today tho! Napoli was leading with 10 players for 55 minutes then received 3 goals with 1 of them scored after Spartak Moscow got a red card.. I had to check the score twice in disbelief as I left them leading
The remaining games started half hour ago and Leverkusen, Zagreb, Lazio and Betis are leading with 1 goal.