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

[Woodie]

to be honest, I did not quite understand this moment with the shaking of hands - it seems that the coach of Spartak is in no way innocent of the unsuccessful results of Napoli, Spalletti has only himself to blame. In general, his behavior looks ugly.
As for the Leicester-Legia match, I am surprised by these odds:
1.17 - 8.0 - 18.0
It's like the Brazilian national team against Liechtenstein, which does not correspond to reality at all.

Ahahahah, I certainly understand that Leicester can lose, but to give such crazy odds on his victory as stupid as possible, or bookmakers know something). I hope Leicester win. In this match, if any team wins, the winner leaves the group in first place most likely, unless he loses the last match. So the intrigue for this match is insane, and I'm already starting to think that Napoli won't make it to the 1/8, though....

Leicester proves that the odds are foolish lol. Leicester managed to jump to 1st place in Group C, passing Spartak Moscow. the hope for Legia to qualify for the next round is very small.

I thought the bookies were spot on with the odds they dished out to us! In a game that was a must win for Leicester which was suppose to move them from the elimination spot to the qualification spot....Legia stood no chance! These guys were never going to lose this game and the odds tell the story so did the final score... But if I were to be honest Legia did have several goal scoring chances which never looked like an 18 odd team which was quite unfair for the bookie to be economical on the  odds.

[LittleBitFunny]

I watched the Galatasaray v Marseille match admiringly too. In the match in France, I remember that the match ended in a 0-0 draw. I was assuming that this also would be a low-scoring match too. But it turned out to be a marvelous match for all of the supporters of both teams. Actually, Marseille supporters wouldn't be so happy about it but at least they tried and scored two goals. However, Galatasaray had a very impressive performance. They were in control in the whole match. They would have even scored more goals but Marseille should be thankful that they didn't. Galatasaray gained a very deserved 4-2 victory and we are going to see them in the next round certainly.

Yes, this is a match in which I didn't expect to see lots of goals either. But to my surprise, there were six goals in this match. But I have been thinking about the own goal that was scored by çaleta-car on 30 minutes because without that goal the scoreline could have been much more different in my opinion. But for me, I think ok Galatasaray was the better team in that match and they deserved to win.

It is marvelous to see Galatasaray doing so well when people didn't expected them to do anything at all. I wagered against them on few games at first, but then seeing how they were doing well and still getting great odds to wager, I wagered for them and they didn't let me down.
For a team that was drawn as least of the pack, finishing at the top is definitely a big overachievement. Leicester on the other hand got their way around to top from the bottom in a single game, not something common to see but when teams are so close to each other that happens. Napoli game will not be easy, Napoli have been great in Serie A this year and they could definitely bring in a shock to Leicester.

Galatasaray has achieved more than they expected in this UEFA Champions League. I mean that they have not lost even one game. They have won 3 and drawn 2 matches. But I was kind of disappointed in Leicester City as they fail to win their last match. That one match took them from top to bottom in the group. And their next match is against Napoli who are in really good form right now.

[Daniel91]

A really bad Dinamo performance in the crucial group game. They had the lead and had some chances to go 2 goals up, had some bad decisions in crucial moments and then conceded the goal in the last minute of the 1st half.
Their performance in the 2nd half was truly abysmal and they can consider themselves lucky to walk away with a draw.

West Ham was professional enough to win, but to be sure of progress Dinamo needs a point in the last round in England. With performance like this - they will not be getting it.

You know, Dinamo would have won the match if it was not for all those missed chances. Actually, they had more than enough chances to extend their lead but they just could not convert those chances to goals. And Dinamo played the first half much better than they played the second half. Their second half in my opinion was kind of a disaster.

If you want to be honest, both teams had a good chance and could win, Dinamo in the first half and Genk in the second.
What is obvious is that this Dinamo team is the weakest in the last few seasons, and this can be seen in the results in European competitions and in the domestic championship.
Personally, I think Dinamo doesn't have a great chance against West Ham because the difference in quality is too big, and I believe that Genk will beat Rapid.
This means that in the end, Genk will probably be second in the group and Dinamo only third.

[KTChampions]

I thought the bookies were spot on with the odds they dished out to us! In a game that was a must win for Leicester which was suppose to move them from the elimination spot to the qualification spot....Legia stood no chance! These guys were never going to lose this game and the odds tell the story so did the final score... But if I were to be honest Legia did have several goal scoring chances which never looked like an 18 odd team which was quite unfair for the bookie to be economical on the  odds.

As strong as Leicester looked, the final score was only 3-1. This clearly does not mean a fantastic advantage or something like that, and as you correctly noted, Legia had chances to score additional goals, and if they took advantage of these chances, the match could go in a completely different scenario. Therefore, these odds (18) still look like complete insanity.

[mrongoz_imut]

Big Victory from Galatasaray. Galatasaray managed to beat the French team Marseille 4-2. With this score, they continued their leadership in the group. According to the scores in the last matches, Lazio or Galatasaray will come out of the group as the leader. Another Turkish team Fenerbahce lost its chance to leave the group by losing 1-0 to Olympiakos.

Galatasaray is certain to advance to the next round, currently Galatasaray leads the temporary standings, I am very happy because clubs from England can play very consistently and can qualify for the round of 32 of the European League, even in the Champions League representatives from England advanced to the round of 16 Big, liferpol, man city, manchester united and chelsea, became representatives of England who could top the standings, and came out as group winners.. I am very optimistic this year representatives from England have the opportunity to advance to the final, both in Europe and the Champions League ..

[baeva]

I thought the bookies were spot on with the odds they dished out to us! In a game that was a must win for Leicester which was suppose to move them from the elimination spot to the qualification spot....Legia stood no chance! These guys were never going to lose this game and the odds tell the story so did the final score... But if I were to be honest Legia did have several goal scoring chances which never looked like an 18 odd team which was quite unfair for the bookie to be economical on the  odds.

As strong as Leicester looked, the final score was only 3-1. This clearly does not mean a fantastic advantage or something like that, and as you correctly noted, Legia had chances to score additional goals, and if they took advantage of these chances, the match could go in a completely different scenario. Therefore, these odds (18) still look like complete insanity.

Only three goals? This is not a bad result at all. Legia is not bad in this season of the Europa League, I would not say that it is a weak opponent, so the outcome of the match as a whole is very good. But if we talk in the context of the odds, yes, it's a strange match and it's not clear why such high bets were made.

[coderben]

The group C is still very delightful to follow. After the last group matches, everything has changed in the group. Spartak Moscow won a crucial match against Napoli with a 2-1 result. And Leicester destroyed Legia home with a 3-1 result. After these results, Napoli have gone down to the 3rd place and Leicester are the new leader now. And Spartak Moscow suddenly moved to the 2nd place from the last. And Legia's form dropped down at a big rate after winning the first two group matches. They lost all of the other matches and we see them at the last place as a result. But the points of the teams are still very close to each other and many things can change again after the last week.

[TopT3ns]

The group C is still very delightful to follow. After the last group matches, everything has changed in the group. Spartak Moscow won a crucial match against Napoli with a 2-1 result. And Leicester destroyed Legia home with a 3-1 result. After these results, Napoli have gone down to the 3rd place and Leicester are the new leader now. And Spartak Moscow suddenly moved to the 2nd place from the last. And Legia's form dropped down at a big rate after winning the first two group matches. They lost all of the other matches and we see them at the last place as a result. But the points of the teams are still very close to each other and many things can change again after the last week.

The last match became the deciding factor for the four teams in Group C, Leicester City will face tough opponents in the last match, namely Napoli and must win if they want to qualify for the round of 32, Napoli also have the same chance as Leicester City if they are able to win in the last match. Spartak Moscow also has the same chance if they are able to win in the last match against Legia Warsaw and the Napoli versus Leicester City match must end in a draw.

[snipie]

Galatasaray is certain to advance to the next round, currently Galatasaray leads the temporary standings, I am very happy because clubs from England can play very consistently and can qualify for the round of 32 of the European League, even in the Champions League representatives from England advanced to the round of 16 Big, liferpol, man city, manchester united and chelsea, became representatives of England who could top the standings, and came out as group winners.. I am very optimistic this year representatives from England have the opportunity to advance to the final, both in Europe and the Champions League ..

EPL teams are way better than the others in different leagues, clubs are financially better, having top teams and more stable in performance. For the other leagues, except 1-2 teams, the others aren't that top.
So far, French teams will advance in group A and B too most likely. Leverkusen in group G and West Ham in H. Otherwise the first position has to be confirmed by the next round in the other groups.

[Minecache]

Galatasaray is certain to advance to the next round, currently Galatasaray leads the temporary standings, I am very happy because clubs from England can play very consistently and can qualify for the round of 32 of the European League, even in the Champions League representatives from England advanced to the round of 16 Big, liferpol, man city, manchester united and chelsea, became representatives of England who could top the standings, and came out as group winners.. I am very optimistic this year representatives from England have the opportunity to advance to the final, both in Europe and the Champions League ..

EPL teams are way better than the others in different leagues, clubs are financially better, having top teams and more stable in performance. For the other leagues, except 1-2 teams, the others aren't that top.
So far, French teams will advance in group A and B too most likely. Leverkusen in group G and West Ham in H. Otherwise the first position has to be confirmed by the next round in the other groups.

Yes, that is true I think right now only the English Premier League has a balanced League among the others. In almost all the other leagues the teams are not as balanced. Mostly we can see one or two teams doing really well and almost half of the team in the league cannot even compete at the same level with them. But the English Premier League doesn't face this kind of problem and almost all the matches are enjoyable.

[Jackl87]

Galatasaray has achieved more than they expected in this UEFA Champions League. I mean that they have not lost even one game. They have won 3 and drawn 2 matches. But I was kind of disappointed in Leicester City as they fail to win their last match. That one match took them from top to bottom in the group. And their next match is against Napoli who are in really good form right now.

Galatasaray isn't even playing in the Champions League this year but i guess you are aware of that because you are posting in the Uefa Europa League thread. It is true that Galatasaray did very well so far in the Europa League but i also think that this is not that big of a surprise i mean, Galatasaray was a club that played in the Champions League regularly until a few years ago. I don't really know the details what happened but the turkish teams seemed to have fallen behind the other european leagues in the last few years. Only Besiktas was in the Champions League this season and they are the worst team of them all so far.

[Lordhermes]

The group C is still very delightful to follow. After the last group matches, everything has changed in the group. Spartak Moscow won a crucial match against Napoli with a 2-1 result. And Leicester destroyed Legia home with a 3-1 result. After these results, Napoli have gone down to the 3rd place and Leicester are the new leader now. And Spartak Moscow suddenly moved to the 2nd place from the last. And Legia's form dropped down at a big rate after winning the first two group matches. They lost all of the other matches and we see them at the last place as a result. But the points of the teams are still very close to each other and many things can change again after the last week.

The last match became the deciding factor for the four teams in Group C, Leicester City will face tough opponents in the last match, namely Napoli and must win if they want to qualify for the round of 32, Napoli also have the same chance as Leicester City if they are able to win in the last match. Spartak Moscow also has the same chance if they are able to win in the last match against Legia Warsaw and the Napoli versus Leicester City match must end in a draw.

The last game between Leicester City and Napoli will really be a very tough match to watch,because the both teams will be fighting to top the group.And as it stands now,Napoli are very much inform in their league,whereas Leicester City is also doing well in the Europa league and improving now in the league.So this encounter is one that is going to decide on who will be the group leader.

[perfect999]

Galatasaray isn't even playing in the Champions League this year but i guess you are aware of that because you are posting in the Uefa Europa League thread. It is true that Galatasaray did very well so far in the Europa League but i also think that this is not that big of a surprise i mean, Galatasaray was a club that played in the Champions League regularly until a few years ago. I don't really know the details what happened but the turkish teams seemed to have fallen behind the other european leagues in the last few years. Only Besiktas was in the Champions League this season and they are the worst team of them all so far.

You are right, few years back few Turkish clubs were doing very good in European League but suddenly their quality is going down very badly, and recently they have some of worst clubs in Champions League and having some better results in UEFA Europa League's main round again have not good in knock out stages which is matter of worry about them.

Currently, Besiktas is 10th in local league table and Galatasaray is 8th just Fenerbahce at 4th with some new clubs having good spots, but these all are not having some good experience of playing in big clubs with very low budget which is also one of the biggest issue for them recently.

[Velvet78]

The high competition level is still continuing in the group C now. We have only one week left to go but all of the teams in the group have a chance to continue in the Europa League now. Because there is only a gap of two points between the first and the last team of the group (Leicester - 8 pts, Legia - 6 pts). And the last games are like this:

Napoli - Leicester
Legia - Spartak Moscow

The first one is going to be really tough. And actually, both of them should be quite tough even though Legia have a 3-loss streak. Napoli - Leicester game is a candidate for a draw game. In their previous group game, Napoli barely made a comeback from 0-2 and got a 2-2 draw. Maybe we could see a similar scenario again and a draw at the end. When it comes to the other game, Spartak Moscow obtained a very valuable victory against Napoli the last time. They have a bigger morale than Legia. I would like to indicate one thing also that Legia defeated Spartak Moscow 1-0 away before. They may do it again.

[hahay]

In group C all teams got the same 2 wins, so of course the competition in this group will still be tense until the end because all teams have the opportunity to qualify. Even though at the beginning, seeing the performance of Napoli and Leicester in their respective leagues seemed promising they would easily fill the 1st and 2nd positions, but the fact is that even Legia which I think is not really considered but Legia can prove that he also has the ability to compete with top team in this group.

[jakdanyel]

In group C all teams got the same 2 wins, so of course the competition in this group will still be tense until the end because all teams have the opportunity to qualify. Even though at the beginning, seeing the performance of Napoli and Leicester in their respective leagues seemed promising they would easily fill the 1st and 2nd positions, but the fact is that even Legia which I think is not really considered but Legia can prove that he also has the ability to compete with top team in this group.

It is an awkward situation really. All of the teams have the same amount of wins. And all of the teams still have an opportunity for promoting to the next stage of the tournament. My favourites to promote are going to be Leicester and Spartak Moscow. I think that Leicester can capture at least one point against Napoli. They were nearly beating Napoli before in the end. Legia will host Spartak Moscow and they beat Spartak Moscow once before. But this time, I'm expecting Spartak Moscow to earn at least one point.

[Juggy777]

In group C all teams got the same 2 wins, so of course the competition in this group will still be tense until the end because all teams have the opportunity to qualify. Even though at the beginning, seeing the performance of Napoli and Leicester in their respective leagues seemed promising they would easily fill the 1st and 2nd positions, but the fact is that even Legia which I think is not really considered but Legia can prove that he also has the ability to compete with top team in this group.

It is an awkward situation really. All of the teams have the same amount of wins. And all of the teams still have an opportunity for promoting to the next stage of the tournament. My favourites to promote are going to be Leicester and Spartak Moscow. I think that Leicester can capture at least one point against Napoli. They were nearly beating Napoli before in the end. Legia will host Spartak Moscow and they beat Spartak Moscow once before. But this time, I'm expecting Spartak Moscow to earn at least one point.

@jackdanyel I too am expecting Leicester to qualify, but Napoli isn’t a weak team hence it’ll be a uphill task for Leicester to beat them. However I feel that the experience of Brendan Rogers who’s their head coach will help Leicester beat Napoli, but mark my words it’ll be a tense match and hence I expect the final scoreline to be 1 - 0 in Leicester City's favour.

[Swordsoffreedom]

In group C all teams got the same 2 wins, so of course the competition in this group will still be tense until the end because all teams have the opportunity to qualify. Even though at the beginning, seeing the performance of Napoli and Leicester in their respective leagues seemed promising they would easily fill the 1st and 2nd positions, but the fact is that even Legia which I think is not really considered but Legia can prove that he also has the ability to compete with top team in this group.

It is an awkward situation really. All of the teams have the same amount of wins. And all of the teams still have an opportunity for promoting to the next stage of the tournament. My favourites to promote are going to be Leicester and Spartak Moscow. I think that Leicester can capture at least one point against Napoli. They were nearly beating Napoli before in the end. Legia will host Spartak Moscow and they beat Spartak Moscow once before. But this time, I'm expecting Spartak Moscow to earn at least one point.

@jackdanyel I too am expecting Leicester to qualify, but Napoli isn’t a weak team hence it’ll be a uphill task for Leicester to beat them. However I feel that the experience of Brendan Rogers who’s their head coach will help Leicester beat Napoli, but mark my words it’ll be a tense match and hence I expect the final scoreline to be 1 - 0 in Leicester City's favour.

Even if Leicester could draw, they would still be able to qualify for the next round. Leicester's goal here is not to lose points in this match. Since Leicester are not a weak team, they can easily draw the match against Napoli if they play defensively. But my fear is that this is Napoli's home match. They will want to score full points in the home match.

[poldanmig]

In group C all teams got the same 2 wins, so of course the competition in this group will still be tense until the end because all teams have the opportunity to qualify. Even though at the beginning, seeing the performance of Napoli and Leicester in their respective leagues seemed promising they would easily fill the 1st and 2nd positions, but the fact is that even Legia which I think is not really considered but Legia can prove that he also has the ability to compete with top team in this group.

With a fairly tight point difference between teams, of course, group C will have a tight competition until the last match, I think all teams will play all out to win their last match, I think all possibilities can happen later, even though leicester and napoli is a big team but it could be one of them will fail to qualify for the next round of this season.

[Minecache]

In group C all teams got the same 2 wins, so of course the competition in this group will still be tense until the end because all teams have the opportunity to qualify. Even though at the beginning, seeing the performance of Napoli and Leicester in their respective leagues seemed promising they would easily fill the 1st and 2nd positions, but the fact is that even Legia which I think is not really considered but Legia can prove that he also has the ability to compete with top team in this group.

With a fairly tight point difference between teams, of course, group C will have a tight competition until the last match, I think all teams will play all out to win their last match, I think all possibilities can happen later, even though leicester and napoli is a big team but it could be one of them will fail to qualify for the next round of this season.

In group C, almost all of them has the same points because Leicester is in the first position and has eight points, Spartak Moscow is in the second position land has 7 points, Napoli is in the third position who also has seven points and finally, Legia is on the 4th position who has 6 points. So there is really great competition going on in this group.