UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season

[Unsoldier]

This is the Europa League last-16 draw in full.


Union Berlin v Union Saint-Gilloise

Sevilla v Fenerbahce

Juventus v Freiburg

Bayer Leverkusen v Ferencvaros

Sporting Lisbon v Arsenal

Manchester United v Real Betis

Roma v Real Sociedad

Shakhtar Donetsk v Feyenoord

Arsenal and Manchester United will definitely progress to the next round of the competition. I don’t see Real Betis and Sporting Lisbon causing them much trouble. They’re currently in form and can beat any opponent that comes their way in Europe at the moment.

I think the favorites at this stage are Juventus, Bayer, Arsenal, Manchester United and Real Sociedad. These teams are the leaders in their respective leagues and have a lot of experience playing in cups. I expect at least two of these teams to make it to the semifinals of the Europa League.

[White pawn]

Barcelona clearly had problems with squad depth against Manchester United, and looked very different compared to the first leg.
The defeat was logical because Barcelona lacked the players who should have been on the pitch due to injury or suspension, and it meant Barcelona had to return to the same fate as last season in the Europa League.

It doesn't matter, but disappointment is always there among the fans, but Barcelona have ensured that it was a tough win for Manchester United. Maybe it would have been terrible if Manchester United lost, but they won that match at home, fortunately.

Barcelona didn’t seem to be as composed and collected as they were during the first leg of the game. And I think that had it not been four the penalty kick taken by Lewandoski, Barcelona would most likely have come out of the game without a goal.

I think Barcelona still had the right players on the pitch despite losing some to injuries and the likes. They still had capable players that could have won the game. But Ten Hag boys were superb and came out victorious, winning the game in front of their home fans too. It was a great game for the Red Devils.

[AakZaki]

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Whether it is his last year, I don't know. I think he can still be a valuable joker at any time during the game. Why not extend his contract and bring him for 20 minutes? His skill is great and he loves to assist perfectly. He enjoys goals of others as much as if he scored himself. He definitely deserves to be around for a little longer than just this season.

It's not bad, I think seeing his ability against Nates on a contract extension is enough to help Juventus out of the middle zone. He danced past several players and made three goals. It was amazing for that first goal it was really good. Next up their opponent is Freiburg. Freiburg is not bad, in the Bundesliga they performed well and are in the top four. Of course, he still hopes for Di Maria's miracle to win and advance to the next round. At least this is the hope of having one trophy, because this season's League champions are already very difficult after Juventus got a points deduction penalty.

[baeva]

This is the Europa League last-16 draw in full.


Union Berlin v Union Saint-Gilloise

Sevilla v Fenerbahce

Juventus v Freiburg

Bayer Leverkusen v Ferencvaros

Sporting Lisbon v Arsenal

Manchester United v Real Betis

Roma v Real Sociedad

Shakhtar Donetsk v Feyenoord

Arsenal and Manchester United will definitely progress to the next round of the competition. I don’t see Real Betis and Sporting Lisbon causing them much trouble. They’re currently in form and can beat any opponent that comes their way in Europe at the moment.

The two clubs from England are among the clubs in the world that are in the hottest form which means they have every liklihood to progress to the next stage. Betis cannot stop Manchester United and also Lisbon cannot stop Arsenal. Then Sevilla of Spain will.do well because they have Europa experience.

As it is, Arsenal and Manchester United are the strongest teams in the current Europa League setup. Both teams with the way they are playing this season are not Europa League teams but a mistake of last season. I know 100% both teams will be playing in the UCL next season regardless of their Europa league journey.

Only their performance in the Champions League will depend directly on them, for some reason it seems to me that it will not be super successful. Yes, this season they perform brilliantly in their championships, but what will happen next season? It will not happen that it was only once and will not happen again? In fact, in the current Europa League they are the only two interesting teams, and the match of the whole play-off we already saw, yesterday, MU against Barcelona, there is no one else to watch...

[Pokapoka124]

Roma, who previously lost in the first leg, were finally able to turn things around on aggregate with a 2-0 win over opponents Salzburg at the Olimpico stadium. In fact, I even thought that there would be difficulties in this match, considering that on average they always score 1 goal in every game. But indeed Roma's mentality as one of Europe's big clubs is not in doubt and this result has made Mourinho's squad even more excited to win in the next game.

Something I have learnt this season is that when a team make its home a fortress, it improves your game and motivates you to win game played at home. I think if Mourinho and his Roma team can do this, it will certainly improve their game and increase the number of wins they will get when they play at home which will be a plus to the team’s overall performance.

[Frankolala]

We have to admit that Ten Hague outplayed Xavi almost completely. Manchester was collected, motivated, played to the best of their abilities, which cannot be said about Barça. Barcelona players were as if "jammed" inside, they made mistakes in their passes, which was not noticed before, they made unaccustomed number of mistakes. In general, we can say the coaching victory of Ten Hag, who was able to form a working team of star players, where everyone plays the way he is required to, without tantrums and whimsy.
Xavi was not lucky with the composition, because the game was not the optimal squad, but chances to win anyway, even after the return goal Manchester, but unfortunately Xavi was unable to strengthen the team game substitutes and as a result, a logical defeat.

The opportunity they got could not be maintained, that was one of the factors they had to run aground again in the last 16 play-offs of the Europa league. Between Xavi and Erik Ten Hag they are the two best coaches and I will not blame Xavi for Barcelona's defeat in this second leg. indeed Barcelona did not go down with the perfect squad in the second leg because some of their core players were injured.

this success made the red devils qualify for the last 16 and will wait for the draw for the next opponent. Juventus also did quite well by managing to beat nantes 3-0.

Eric Hag has shown that he is better off than Xavi through the way his boys took over the match in old Trafford and played Barcelona as if they were babies. Barcelona is the giant of Spain and they are topping their local league but Manchester united is third in EPL and we saw the difference between these two clubs performance yesterday.

I have seen that there is hope for Manchester united at the end of the tunnel, they might be the one to win the league,because I don't see any club that is as strong as them in the league. Barcelona was their rival but they have been gotten rid off. Arsenal will not be able to defeat Manchester united if they clash.

[xzone]

Di Maria's first goal is really fabulous! even coach Allegri was amazed by how he cheered... and you are absolutely right, Nantes could have had a small chance of being able to play for the next round but after the expulsion the situation degenerated for them, it ended 3-0 but it could have been a much greater achievement! Juventus attacked a lot and even hit a post

Di Maria is 35 years old and scores 3 goals, so you can talk about something very special. Juventus starting line-up was defensive with only one player as a striker. Moise Kean must have felt alone until he was substituted in the 64th minute. Vlahovic prepared the 3-0, it was a good substituted by Allegri. Nantes got a red card in minute 18, the game was decided then. It's good that Juventus still in the Europa League, Thea playing against Freiburg in the next round.

Di Maria is one of my favorite names lately. I think 1-2 players become stars again every year in this way, even though they are older, they can perform much better than young players.
Juventus are in good shape right now and I think they will go to the next round. They have a style of play that can beat their opponents, I think they can stay in the game for a long time as long as they manage not to concede a goal

[CLS63]

I think the current biggest favourites for the Europa League title are Arsenal and Manchester United. After seeing how Manchester United performed against Barcelona I think they have increased their chance to make it to the title as well. They are performing completely different in Old Trafford really. Even though Barcelona got ahead first Manchester United still made an incredible comeback. This comeback reminded me of the one they did against Manchester City in the EPL.

Anyway we might even see a finale between these English teams and it would be pretty interesting one.

[Oluwa-btc]

Eric Hag has shown that he is better off than Xavi through the way his boys took over the match in old Trafford and played Barcelona as if they were babies. Barcelona is the giant of Spain and they are topping their local league but Manchester united is third in EPL and we saw the difference between these two clubs performance yesterday.

I have seen that there is hope for Manchester united at the end of the tunnel, they might be the one to win the league,because I don't see any club that is as strong as them in the league. Barcelona was their rival but they have been gotten rid off. Arsenal will not be able to defeat Manchester united if they clash.

I kinda agreed with most of the things you've written but then, the comparison between Xavi Hernandez and Erik Ten Hag is completely pointless. Honestly, I feel like there's no reason for the comparison. Barcelona at some point outplayed Manchester United in midfied yesterday. After the game yesterday night, unnecessary comments of Erik Ten Hag been a better tactician than Pep Guardiola got me paranoid honestly I was not happy seeing such though all I could do was to ignore.

Xavi Hernandez needs better players they are going to be watched when the transfer window finally opens. The FF rules should not affect them, asides that they will attract quality players.

[KTChampions]

Manchester United maintained their great look in their home games. This time they did the same against Barcelona and this win brought the next round in the Europa League as well.

Even though Barcelona got ahead first it didn't change anything for Manchester United's plans. They still made a comeback and won the game by 2-1. Barcelona's priority is the La Liga title of course but the Europa League must have been also important. Now one of the biggest favourites is gone here. Let's see how far Manchester United will go. Actually they are one of the deadliest teams right now and they can go on until the finale.

It seems to me that after last year's failures in the Champions League and Europa League and the failure in the Champions League this year, Barcelona's priorities regarding the Europa League have been quite high. By the way, this is also a financial issue - winning even the second most important competition would give a tangible addition to the club's scarce budget. But Barcelona were once again eliminated early on (they didn't even technically make it into the tournament as they were transitional games).

[snipie]

Arsenal will face Sporting and will most likely pass to the next stage. Union and Leverkusen are favourites too.
Hardest match in this draw is Roma - Sociedad then Juventus - Freiburg then ManU - Betis. The first too are unpredictable and we might see Roma and Juve leaving both or one of them. ManU is better than Betis for sure but Betis is a good team and might resist a bit.

[darewaller]

Barcelona must be going out of europa league again and again. I don't even know whether xavi was feeling tired or not to be kicked out again from europa league.

Man United being able to beat Barcelona in the second leg didn't surprise me because their ability to beat Barca was already visible in the first leg where they were able to hold Barca so the first leg more suprised, moreover Barca doesn't have a good history in this tournament, it's a little different from the UCL, it's just that Barça has been doing poorly in European competition in recent seasons, and again they get a bad end result.

United definitely came to play, and to see them make a comeback was even sweeter, it shows that they are actually a good team. Only great teams could end up losing on early minutes and then have a great comeback, because they have the trust in their talents and work hard to make it happen. They are now one of the biggest candidates to win, of course there are few other teams like Arsenal and Juventus, but United is definitely up there.

I would even go as further as saying United doesn't have a title chance, so they may want to win this, whereas Juventus is already gone and doing terribly and Arsenal needs to fight for the title so may not care. So United definitely has a great chance.

[Lillominato89]

Di Maria's first goal is really fabulous! even coach Allegri was amazed by how he cheered... and you are absolutely right, Nantes could have had a small chance of being able to play for the next round but after the expulsion the situation degenerated for them, it ended 3-0 but it could have been a much greater achievement! Juventus attacked a lot and even hit a post

Di Maria is 35 years old and scores 3 goals, so you can talk about something very special. Juventus starting line-up was defensive with only one player as a striker. Moise Kean must have felt alone until he was substituted in the 64th minute. Vlahovic prepared the 3-0, it was a good substituted by Allegri. Nantes got a red card in minute 18, the game was decided then. It's good that Juventus still in the Europa League, Thea playing against Freiburg in the next round.

Di Maria is one of my favorite names lately. I think 1-2 players become stars again every year in this way, even though they are older, they can perform much better than young players.
Juventus are in good shape right now and I think they will go to the next round. They have a style of play that can beat their opponents, I think they can stay in the game for a long time as long as they manage not to concede a goal

for me Di Maria is one of the strongest players in the world still active, perhaps in his career he has never been constant, he is not the best ever because in his generation he had to contend with other champions such as Messi Cristiano Ronaldo Ibrahimovic who have somewhat obscured Di Maria's potential. But he has a palmares of trophies to make everyone envious, and Juventus can enjoy a jewel of a footballer

[Zackgeno96]

Nice draw from the Europa League. No big names that are linked to each other, partly due to the fact that teams from the same country are not allowed to play against each other. Why was this rule introduced? I don't see any added value or benefit to that rule. In the group stage I could still imagine it because then you could help another team in the last game, but that is certainly not the case in the quarter finals. Nice to see that a team from Ukraine is also there. Man United is the big favorite for me now.

[Furious 7]

Roma, who previously lost in the first leg, were finally able to turn things around on aggregate with a 2-0 win over opponents Salzburg at the Olimpico stadium. In fact, I even thought that there would be difficulties in this match, considering that on average they always score 1 goal in every game. But indeed Roma's mentality as one of Europe's big clubs is not in doubt and this result has made Mourinho's squad even more excited to win in the next game.

Something I have learnt this season is that when a team make its home a fortress, it improves your game and motivates you to win game played at home. I think if Mourinho and his Roma team can do this, it will certainly improve their game and increase the number of wins they will get when they play at home which will be a plus to the team’s overall performance.

Things like this are still something that often happens in every season because playing at home is clearly a more strength than those who are supported by the large number of fans who are present, this is also something that is really something to be proud of.
But in this case not everything goes as well as that because there are conditions where home doesn't make much of a difference, just an example might be Liverpool in the Champions League. So with this the house also can't mean much if the performance doesn't go well.

[Rengga Jati]

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The score remains 2-1, with an aggregate of 4-3. We're only a few minutes away from the end of the game, and Barcelona isn't putting up much offensive pressure to equalize. This is going to be yet another nightmare for Xavi and his team. Losing out on both the Champions League and the Europa League.

The final score was 2 - 1 for Man United Victory leads Man United to continue to the next round with the aggregate 4 - 3
Antony's goal at 73' really makes the decisive goal that led them to win the match. I cannot deny that their performance is much better from day to days. Finally, Man United can give very good games for us, moreover for their fans from the old. It's such silly to see Barcelona, again, failed in the Europe League.

[Oneandpure]

It's not bad, I think seeing his ability against Nates on a contract extension is enough to help Juventus out of the middle zone. He danced past several players and made three goals. It was amazing for that first goal it was really good. Next up their opponent is Freiburg. Freiburg is not bad, in the Bundesliga they performed well and are in the top four. Of course, he still hopes for Di Maria's miracle to win and advance to the next round. At least this is the hope of having one trophy, because this season's League champions are already very difficult after Juventus got a points deduction penalty.

Still have chance for Juventus with champion league ticket this season trough Europe League winner and automatically will qualify to champion league next season, its seems difficult from domestic league after Juventus getting points deduction but impressive performance after defeating Nantes last day Juventus have opportunity with champion league.

Up coming 16th round SC Freiburg opponent I think little easy for Juventus can lead until quarter final, waiting with Allegri strategy more aggressive and Juventus could be scoring many goals in Europe League.

[indah rezqi]

Still have chance for Juventus with champion league ticket this season trough Europe League winner and automatically will qualify to champion league next season, its seems difficult from domestic league after Juventus getting points deduction but impressive performance after defeating Nantes last day Juventus have opportunity with champion league.

Up coming 16th round SC Freiburg opponent I think little easy for Juventus can lead until quarter final, waiting with Allegri strategy more aggressive and Juventus could be scoring many goals in Europe League.

As difficult as Juventus are in Serie A, I think they also have a chance to enter the top 4. The gap between Juventus and the top 4 teams is 12 points, but mathematically it is always possible because Serie A still has 15 match left for the rest of the season. The problem is that Milan may not let it go, and that means that Juventus only have to take advantage of opportunities in the Europa League to qualify for next season's Champions League.

[shogun47]

If I have to name the matches that will challenge each other, Arsenal-Sporting is the first one that catches my eye. Then maybe Fenerbahçe-Sevilla. Fenerbahce now want success in the European Cups. This time under Jorge Jesus it might be easier to achieve that. But the team needs some transfers for sure.
The Sociedad-Roma match could also be interesting. Both sides seem to be close to qualifying but of course I see Rome one step ahead.

Whatever the result, but Sporting Arsenal, that is an interesting draw because Sporting was about to lose it and then they showed a performance nobody expected. Now they are straight up into the game and I ask myself what their chances are?

I believe that Union Berlin is going to take the next step . Juventus has an interesting game, but as someone who loves Italy I think that Juventus is going to make it.

[lalabotax]

Union Berlin with a huge win over Ajax and they are now showing they got the quality to go all the way in the europe league. Their results in the bundesliga arent an accident and this is a huge win for them. Ajax again playing really bad and probobly having the worst season in last couple of years.

Union Berlin made great progress this season. They advanced to the next round of the European League in great style, and they will play Union-Saint Gilloise in the next round. It will be interesting and it looks like if you look at how they are doing, there is a chance they will get the upper hand in the first leg. Meanwhile, in the Bundesliga itself, Berlin also won 3rd place with the same number of points as the top position. So that they can change position again in standing.