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

[Jasad]

It is absolutely wrong to judge a team in the Europa league by the performance of their own league. From what we have seen so far in the Europa League, we can see that Leipzig and Frankfurt both have a certain advantage over their opponent and I think they are going to utilize it very well especially when they have played really well and has shown good teamwork in the first leg. But the other teams surely have the capability of turning things around.

Maybe learned from Frankfurt success defeated Barcelona on second leg and eliminated from quarter final, Barcelona have good standing position on domestic league than Frankfurt out until 10th place different with Barcelona before eliminating by Frankfurt have good standing on 2nd position. But your opinion was true never judge with semifinal participants success so far although have bad result every week on domestic league. I think tonight interested waiting who will lead to final europe league in this season, have chance with Germany final or actually West Ham United and Ranger potential on final.

[Bloodseekers]

It is absolutely wrong to judge a team in the Europa league by the performance of their own league. From what we have seen so far in the Europa League, we can see that Leipzig and Frankfurt both have a certain advantage over their opponent and I think they are going to utilize it very well especially when they have played really well and has shown good teamwork in the first leg. But the other teams surely have the capability of turning things around.

Maybe learned from Frankfurt success defeated Barcelona on second leg and eliminated from quarter final, Barcelona have good standing position on domestic league than Frankfurt out until 10th place different with Barcelona before eliminating by Frankfurt have good standing on 2nd position. But your opinion was true never judge with semifinal participants success so far although have bad result every week on domestic league. I think tonight interested waiting who will lead to final europe league in this season, have chance with Germany final or actually West Ham United and Ranger potential on final.

Even though Frankfurt played poorly in the domestic league this season, they played very confidently when they competed in the Europa League stage. If you look at the quality of West Ham, they are better, but the first leg match really reaped results beyond expectations.
it will be a little difficult for West Ham to be able to beat Frankfurt who are in high confidence. although the opportunity is still there because they are only 1 goal behind.

[xmonkeyx]

Rangers - Leipzig is not going to be easy for any side. I'm expecting a much better Rangers in the rematch now. They play much differently in their games in their home stadium. Maybe they wouldn't dominate the game completely but they would overwhelm their opponent a little I think. Leipzig will need to get ready for a solid fight between them. They defeated Atalanta once before in a tough away game. They might look for doing the same to Rangers here as well. But I think that the normal time of this game would end in a draw the most for Leipzig but they would succeed in reaching final round.

I think, it will be difficult for Leipzig to eliminate Rangers from this semi final because Rangers are fully prepared to use their new strategy to defeat Leipzig 2-1 for the favour of Rangers. Despite, Leipzig defeated Atalanta does not mean they will win Rangers in this match because Rangers has what it takes to achieve victory from this match to alert their fans that they are well ready to stand for UEFA Europa champion league final. I don't think the match will end up draw because Leipzig cannot stop Rangers not to achieve goals from this match.

the match will be played at home to Rangers and that is a bit in their favor, and also Rangers are only 1 goal behind Leipzig in the first leg. anything is still very possible, and both teams still have a good chance of reaching the final.
but from what I saw the game of the two teams in the first leg I favored Leipzig to win again and qualify for the final.

[safari88]

It can go either way in both games. I think both home teams are slightly favorites. You can't say much about AS Roma and Leicester City, both have high peaks but also deep valleys. Rangers have to clear a 1-0 deficit but will get a lot of support from the home crowd and that could be decisive tonight.

[reagansimms]

It is absolutely wrong to judge a team in the Europa league by the performance of their own league. From what we have seen so far in the Europa League, we can see that Leipzig and Frankfurt both have a certain advantage over their opponent and I think they are going to utilize it very well especially when they have played really well and has shown good teamwork in the first leg. But the other teams surely have the capability of turning things around.

Maybe learned from Frankfurt success defeated Barcelona on second leg and eliminated from quarter final, Barcelona have good standing position on domestic league than Frankfurt out until 10th place different with Barcelona before eliminating by Frankfurt have good standing on 2nd position. But your opinion was true never judge with semifinal participants success so far although have bad result every week on domestic league. I think tonight interested waiting who will lead to final europe league in this season, have chance with Germany final or actually West Ham United and Ranger potential on final.

Even though Frankfurt played poorly in the domestic league this season, they played very confidently when they competed in the Europa League stage. If you look at the quality of West Ham, they are better, but the first leg match really reaped results beyond expectations.
it will be a little difficult for West Ham to be able to beat Frankfurt who are in high confidence. although the opportunity is still there because they are only 1 goal behind.

Playing at home will make Frankfurt even more motivated to go to the final, what Frankfurt did in the first leg was really surprising, Frankfurt will try again in the second leg to advance to the final. On paper, West Ham is superior to Frankfurt, the result of the first leg makes Frankfurt better than West Ham. Launching an attack in the early minutes will be done by West Ham in order to make a comeback, but Frankfurt will try to play discipline with a little defense to break any attacks from West Ham.

[CryptoBuds]

Leipzig is the stronger team, but 1 goal advantage is not a safe cushion to rely on, the Rangers could be a surprise indeed.
If you really think the chance for Rangers/Leipzig is 50-50 you should seriously put some money down on the Rangers. Current quotes for qualification for the final are Rangers 5.5 & Leipzig 1.12 which translates roughly to 15%/85%.

Don't hesitate, I think Leipzig will advance to the final of this competition. Leipzig is a strong team compared to Rangers, that's justified and I think the Bundesliga team are title favorites this season after Barcelona were thwarted by Frankfurt. So if this season's Champions League final belongs to the top two Premier League teams, then in the Europa League final the two Bundesliga teams may have it too. Why not.

We must also remember when entering the knockout phase, where Dortmund was defeated by Rangers and Dortmund were eliminated by Rangers. So, it looks like Rangers can't be underestimated at all though indeed, I'm also not really sure about Rangers but the fact is, in the previous match when Rangers played against Braga in fact Rangers lost 1-0 in the 1st leg. But in the second leg at that time Rangers played at home and Rangers can win, currently at least the situation is the same so any result is still very open to all teams which means they have an equal chance.

^ I think there could be anything happening in the match because in Europa League at this stage I think the possibilities are endless but I really think that the teams having an advantage from the first leg is going to have things a little easy for them because the way they have played was really admirable. I think it will be somewhat the same case in the second leg also. Unless the opponent finds a way to cause problems for the team that are already ahead in aggregates score.

[ropyu1978]

Rangers - Leipzig is not going to be easy for any side. I'm expecting a much better Rangers in the rematch now. They play much differently in their games in their home stadium. Maybe they wouldn't dominate the game completely but they would overwhelm their opponent a little I think. Leipzig will need to get ready for a solid fight between them. They defeated Atalanta once before in a tough away game. They might look for doing the same to Rangers here as well. But I think that the normal time of this game would end in a draw the most for Leipzig but they would succeed in reaching final round.

but I'm still optimistic that lepzing will make it to the final, even though in the domestic league lepzing are still struggling to get 4th place in the standings, to keep their chances of qualifying for the champions league next season, but I'm still optimistic that lepzing will be able to advance to the final, in the final maybe big leipzing will meet Westham in the final.

[bct_ail]

Three years ago, Frankfurt already had the chance to reach the final in the EuropeaLeague. But back then they lost in the second leg against Chelsea FC on penalties. The score was 1-1 in regualr time and Frankfurt had two great chances in extra time. Unfortunately, they didn't use them. I hope they do better today.

[arimamib]

Three years ago, Frankfurt already had the chance to reach the final in the EuropeaLeague. But back then they lost in the second leg against Chelsea FC on penalties. The score was 1-1 in regualr time and Frankfurt had two great chances in extra time. Unfortunately, they didn't use them. I hope they do better today.

We know that Frankfurt is a favorite today there is a possibility of those who go to the final I agree with the predictions of some people here that the European League final will be dominated by  Bundesliga teams. The best achievement for the Bundesliga after no one qualified for the Champions League final.

[$crypto$]

Three years ago, Frankfurt already had the chance to reach the final in the EuropeaLeague. But back then they lost in the second leg against Chelsea FC on penalties. The score was 1-1 in regualr time and Frankfurt had two great chances in extra time. Unfortunately, they didn't use them. I hope they do better today.

I don't remember about Frankfurt's past when they were going to reach the final but that failed, but with this time they are in the semifinals and have already won the score by 2-1 goal away from home last week but tonight they will play again Frankfurt will certainly benefit from playing at home even in front of his loyal fans, then this is a good opportunity for Frankfurt to advance to the final as long as they can get rid of West Ham, this needs to be maintained or lasts until the end.

[mia_houston]

Rangers - Leipzig is not going to be easy for any side. I'm expecting a much better Rangers in the rematch now. They play much differently in their games in their home stadium. Maybe they wouldn't dominate the game completely but they would overwhelm their opponent a little I think. Leipzig will need to get ready for a solid fight between them. They defeated Atalanta once before in a tough away game. They might look for doing the same to Rangers here as well. But I think that the normal time of this game would end in a draw the most for Leipzig but they would succeed in reaching final round.

but I'm still optimistic that lepzing will make it to the final, even though in the domestic league lepzing are still struggling to get 4th place in the standings, to keep their chances of qualifying for the champions league next season, but I'm still optimistic that lepzing will be able to advance to the final, in the final maybe big leipzing will meet Westham in the final.

Frankfurt who acts as the host in the second leg currently has the upper hand because it has a 2-1 aggregate win, but even so everything can still happen in the 90 minutes of the match, westham and frankfurt both get negative results in the domestic league , but I don't think the negative result will have an effect on the second leg match later, both teams will certainly play all out to win the second leg later because this match is a life-and-death match between the two teams in the European league this season.

[MinoRaiola]

There was a lot going on in Frankfurt last night + at night. In the evening, English fans met in the Münchner Straße in Frankfurt (800 fans) and due this, road and rail traffic had to be closed. The police prevented rioting. At around 2:00 a.m., the Münchener Straße could be reopened to vehicle traffic after cleaning measures. In total, the police arrested more than 30 people yesterday.

[hahay]

Leipzig is the stronger team, but 1 goal advantage is not a safe cushion to rely on, the Rangers could be a surprise indeed.
If you really think the chance for Rangers/Leipzig is 50-50 you should seriously put some money down on the Rangers. Current quotes for qualification for the final are Rangers 5.5 & Leipzig 1.12 which translates roughly to 15%/85%.

Don't hesitate, I think Leipzig will advance to the final of this competition. Leipzig is a strong team compared to Rangers, that's justified and I think the Bundesliga team are title favorites this season after Barcelona were thwarted by Frankfurt. So if this season's Champions League final belongs to the top two Premier League teams, then in the Europa League final the two Bundesliga teams may have it too. Why not.

We must also remember when entering the knockout phase, where Dortmund was defeated by Rangers and Dortmund were eliminated by Rangers. So, it looks like Rangers can't be underestimated at all though indeed, I'm also not really sure about Rangers but the fact is, in the previous match when Rangers played against Braga in fact Rangers lost 1-0 in the 1st leg. But in the second leg at that time Rangers played at home and Rangers can win, currently at least the situation is the same so any result is still very open to all teams which means they have an equal chance.

^ I think there could be anything happening in the match because in Europa League at this stage I think the possibilities are endless but I really think that the teams having an advantage from the first leg is going to have things a little easy for them because the way they have played was really admirable. I think it will be somewhat the same case in the second leg also. Unless the opponent finds a way to cause problems for the team that are already ahead in aggregates score.

Leading on aggregate with just one goal is still not safe at all, in this case we can assume that at this stage each team has abilities and qualities that are not much different or maybe the same. So the team that failed in the first leg still has a chance and even, sometimes the team that already leads by 2-0 or more on aggregate in the first leg, but in the second leg the unfavorite team can make a comeback. Also, sometimes a completely unseeded team can give good results and that's the case now in Frankfurt, this can also apply to Rangers although there are no guarantees but still Leipzig can't play casually and can't just play defensively here.

[Fakhrulenclix]

Rangers - Leipzig is not going to be easy for any side. I'm expecting a much better Rangers in the rematch now. They play much differently in their games in their home stadium. Maybe they wouldn't dominate the game completely but they would overwhelm their opponent a little I think. Leipzig will need to get ready for a solid fight between them. They defeated Atalanta once before in a tough away game. They might look for doing the same to Rangers here as well. But I think that the normal time of this game would end in a draw the most for Leipzig but they would succeed in reaching final round.

but I'm still optimistic that lepzing will make it to the final, even though in the domestic league lepzing are still struggling to get 4th place in the standings, to keep their chances of qualifying for the champions league next season, but I'm still optimistic that lepzing will be able to advance to the final, in the final maybe big leipzing will meet Westham in the final.

Frankfurt who acts as the host in the second leg currently has the upper hand because it has a 2-1 aggregate win, but even so everything can still happen in the 90 minutes of the match, westham and frankfurt both get negative results in the domestic league , but I don't think the negative result will have an effect on the second leg match later, both teams will certainly play all out to win the second leg later because this match is a life-and-death match between the two teams in the European league this season.

West Ham have good quality, while Frankfurt are an outstanding team, they are full of confidence after beating Barcelona. Both teams will show their best game for sure tonight and with only a 1 goal lead Agg anything is still possible. West Ham is not to be taken lightly. I think they will put in their best game in this match even though they will play at home to Frankfurt.

[Zackgeno96]

Frankfurt actually already has a tournament that can't go wrong. They have risen far above themselves, especially with that victory in barcelona. That went just fine, in the end it was 2-3. The Frankfurt supporters are no longer satisfied with a semi-final, they want to bring the cup home. And they certainly have opportunities.

[Distraction]

If I'm to talk about the second leg of the Leipzig - Rangers draw, I can start with stating that Leipzig are still highly favourite side to advance to finale. I saw that the first leg was very competitive and challenging for both of these teams. But in the end, Leipzig are advantageous as they won by 1-0. They will need to make a big effort to maintain this. And if they get ahead somehow too, I don't think that Rangers can make a comeback anymore. But I hope to see another competitive match there too. I wish the best wins this one.

I think it is necessary not to be so precise about the match to be played in Scotland. Rangers are a team that can take unexpected wins at home. I also see that he did not get exactly consistent results for Leipzig in the league. Their performance before a match and after a match can be different. So an early goal by Rangers could lower Leipzig's morale and affect their game.

And an early goal by Leipzig would also be a huge problem for Rangers. Leipzig performed just awesome against Atalanta in the previous round of the tournament. And they managed to beat Atalanta away too. They would like to achieve the same success against Rangers here. But we will see how much durable Rangers are going to be. They will need to defend them with all they have got to increase their chance to advance. But it is going to be really tough for them to move Leipzig out of the tournament.

[CryptoBuds]

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Leading on aggregate with just one goal is still not safe at all, in this case we can assume that at this stage each team has abilities and qualities that are not much different or maybe the same. So the team that failed in the first leg still has a chance and even, sometimes the team that already leads by 2-0 or more on aggregate in the first leg, but in the second leg the unfavorite team can make a comeback. Also, sometimes a completely unseeded team can give good results and that's the case now in Frankfurt, this can also apply to Rangers although there are no guarantees but still Leipzig can't play casually and can't just play defensively here.

^ I also agree that at this stage of any competition leading with only one goal in the aggregate score is absolutely not safe. after all, that we have seen in the Real Madrid vs Manchester City match I am going to say that the teams better not play defensive and hope to defend the one-goal lead that they have. They have to play aggressively otherwise they will eventually leave holes in the defense and concede goals.

[CryptocurencyKing]

Three years ago, Frankfurt already had the chance to reach the final in the EuropeaLeague. But back then they lost in the second leg against Chelsea FC on penalties. The score was 1-1 in regualr time and Frankfurt had two great chances in extra time. Unfortunately, they didn't use them. I hope they do better today.

For Frankfurt playing till the semifinals against a strong Chelsea side and lost on penalties speaks volume. The way they played Barcelona got me convinced that they can reach the finals. Now West ham will go into the away leg with Eintracht Frankfurt, 2-1 down but with high hopes of overturning that deficit and reaching the final. I don’t know if West Ham players have enough left in the tank to pull off a comeback in Germany. Because from the way Eintracht Frankfurt have been consistent in this season's Europa league competition, they look the favorites to get the win on Thursday, but they have a poor home record as they have not won in their last six matches at home. It might be a deciding factor for West ham tonight.

[fzkto]

I wonder if West Ham can repeat Liverpool's away success in the Champions League tonight? But I think Eintracht Frankfurt will win again tonight. Leipzig, on the other hand, will have a very tough match against Glasgow Rangers. They always play very well at home. They might even make it to the final.

[Iranus]

There was a lot going on in Frankfurt last night + at night. In the evening, English fans met in the Münchner Straße in Frankfurt (800 fans) and due this, road and rail traffic had to be closed. The police prevented rioting. At around 2:00 a.m., the Münchener Straße could be reopened to vehicle traffic after cleaning measures. In total, the police arrested more than 30 people yesterday.

That is just not acceptable and it doesn't matter which team you support or wherever you are from, you cannot just do that. it is understandable that the fans are passionate about the game but they cannot obviously commit any crime just because of that. I think the right actions are being taken and there should have been more people arrested in my opinion.