UEFA Europa League 2024/25 Season

[Velvet78]

If Trabzonspor get eliminated in this round, it would be really surprising to me. I never thought they would lose to Rapid Wien home. There is normally a significant gap of quality between. But here we are.

Turkish teams are really not good at having a solid start to a season.    These are the first games for Trabzonspor and they don't look ready yet. But I hope it doesn't end up with their elimination.

Because probably I will bet on Trabzonspor to qualify anyway. You know 4.80 odds are really difficult to refuse.    It is only 1-0 advantage for Rapid Wien which makes it quite possible.

[rahmad2nd]

After seeing the game between Manchester city and Manchester United today I begin to almost nurse a doubt about their Europa performance this season if they are going to be really awesome and even brilliant enough to be lucky with the trophy, teams like Roma, and other regular Europa teams who will be participating this season and are very willing to win the trophies will definitely not give Manchester United a chance of this will be their performance.

We have not seen good performance from Manchester United players, but that does not mean they cannot improve when playing in various official competitions later. In fact, United players know very well the game plan that Ten Hag has implemented, unfortunately they have not been able to maximize it as well as possible. Moreover, the hunt for several newcomers that they are targeting has not been completed. It is possible that Ten Hag will bring in several new players to Old Trafford before the transfer window closes. I do not know what Ten Hag will plan in the future, especially since several of their players were forced to be absent due to injuries during the pre-season match. We will see when Manchester United plays after the League starts, so we will have an idea of ​​their performance.

With no much doubt, I think Roma will even be a challenge to Manchester United, I know city isn't a small team but at some point even their top players where substituted yet Manchester United failed at getting it right. At this point it becomes very necessary Manchester United works hard towards every form of improvement without hesitation.

Talking about AS Roma, they are a regular team that enters the semifinals in this competition. However, the performance of AS Roma players has not been impressive in their pre-season matches. But it is natural, after all they are only playing friendly matches. I once said in a previous post that AS Roma has the potential to target the Europa League trophy. It is possible that Roma can provide a challenge for Manchester United if they meet, but in any case United actually has a chance to defeat AS Roma. Before going too far to speculate, it would be more exciting if we just follow every development.

[AprilioMP]

We also don't know how the match will go with this new format because we are used to the old format that started with the group phase, I think the competition will be more difficult, different from before where more and more clubs participated here, even so I am still interested in the Europa League match, the second largest league after the Champions League which is no less competitive, besides the Europa League is more difficult to predict the winner compared to the Champions League where we already know who the strong candidates are.

For a new format, I also still feel or do not know so I can't guess which team has the potential to become a champion like Atalanta last season by defeating Bayer Leverkusen with a score of 3-0 made by a player named Ademola Lokman.
The European League will still be the second league after the Champions League with a decreased attraction. This is just because we still don't recognize the new format, later on the trip, we will understand well.

[Hyphen(-)]

For a new format, I also still feel or do not know so I can't guess which team has the potential to become a champion like Atalanta last season by defeating Bayer Leverkusen with a score of 3-0 made by a player named Ademola Lokman.
The European League will still be the second league after the Champions League with a decreased attraction. This is just because we still don't recognize the new format, later on the trip, we will understand well.

Just like the previous format of both Champions League and Europa League, the new format has nothing special just that grouping difference. The grouping is make made easier for all, unlike before where some teams will be favored in a group. Now all teams will play against each other in two groups, it will be like points accumulating format just like Leagues, the best sixteen teams will be drawn against each other on the round of 16. This time, I don’t we will expect any team from the Champions League to join the Europa League as it used to be in the past.

Early predictions will be hard this time unless after the group stages because there will be home and away matches like before. Only teams with squad depth can withstand the pressure because domestic League games will still be going on and othe cup matches respectively.
Going through all the teams that makes it to the Europa League, I think Manchester United is among the most famous teams and it will likely be among the favorites to win the trophy if Ten Hag uses his players well because the team now have a lot of young talented players.

[imamusma]

For a new format, I also still feel or do not know so I can't guess which team has the potential to become a champion like Atalanta last season by defeating Bayer Leverkusen with a score of 3-0 made by a player named Ademola Lokman.
The European League will still be the second league after the Champions League with a decreased attraction. This is just because we still don't recognize the new format, later on the trip, we will understand well.

Just like the previous format of both Champions League and Europa League, the new format has nothing special just that grouping difference. The grouping is make made easier for all, unlike before where some teams will be favored in a group. Now all teams will play against each other in two groups, it will be like points accumulating format just like Leagues, the best sixteen teams will be drawn against each other on the round of 16. This time, I don’t we will expect any team from the Champions League to join the Europa League as it used to be in the past.

Early predictions will be hard this time unless after the group stages because there will be home and away matches like before. Only teams with squad depth can withstand the pressure because domestic League games will still be going on and othe cup matches respectively.
Going through all the teams that makes it to the Europa League, I think Manchester United is among the most famous teams and it will likely be among the favorites to win the trophy if Ten Hag uses his players well because the team now have a lot of young talented players.

To underline, the new format implemented by UEFA in the Europa League no longer has a relegation system from the Champions League, the overall format is more or less the same as the Champions League. The only difference is in the early stages, which are now called the League phase with a composition of 36 contestants. If I'm not mistaken, the 1st-8th rankings in the standings will directly qualify for the last 16, and the 9th-24th rankings will advance to the play-off round to advance to the last 16, while the 25th-36th rankings will automatically be eliminated. Clearly the pressure will increase from previous seasons, because each contestant will face eight different teams in the early stages. Sure enough, Manchester United is one of the teams that looks dominant among a number of other contestants, but that is not a guarantee that they will succeed in winning the trophy. We have not forgotten the journey of the Europa League last season, from the group stage to the final no one expected Atalanta to act beyond expectations.

Source : https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/0287-1964b9cd3ccd-cabff8757752-1000--2024-25-uefa-europa-league-matches-final-key-dates/
             https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/0268-12157d69ce2d-9f011c70f6fa-1000--new-format-for-champions-league-post-2024-everything-you-ne/

[Docnaster]

For a new format, I also still feel or do not know so I can't guess which team has the potential to become a champion like Atalanta last season by defeating Bayer Leverkusen with a score of 3-0 made by a player named Ademola Lokman.
The European League will still be the second league after the Champions League with a decreased attraction. This is just because we still don't recognize the new format, later on the trip, we will understand well.

The UEFA Europa League is one of the hardest competitions to predict it's winner before the start of each campaign because there's every possibility that none of the teams that started the competition will win it at the end since other clubs drop from the UEFA Champions League to join the competition in knockout stages. Atalanta who are the current holders of the competition trophy after defeating Bayer Leverkusen in the final last season will be playing in the UEFA Champions League this season and so is their fellow finalists Bayer Leverkusen who German Bundesliga title last season. Manchester United if you ask me should be one of the favorite teams to win it because of their quality and star-studded squad.

[Pulsar77]

The new format is actually easy to understand. Instead of having 32 teams in 8 groups, we have a league consisting of 36 teams in it. No groups anymore. The rules are the same with the Champions League new format like @imamusma mentioned the details. I hope it'd be fun. I'm not even sure if there was any need for such format change but anyway we'll see. 

The last champion is Atalanta. It was a really unexpected ending while Leverkusen were destroying every single team ahead of them. For now I'm hopeful about Manchester United this season. 

[Jody.Drummer]

Manchester United if you ask me should be one of the favorite teams to win it because of their quality and star-studded squad.

It should be, but we know how Manchester United have played in the last few seasons, they have been so disappointing and have not shown their identity as one of the big clubs in Europe. Last season, for example, when they were in the Champions League, they were very disappointing and they had to occupy the bottom of the standings, even though in terms of status and the composition of the players they had, they were still better than the 2 clubs that were in their group at that time and at first they were also one of the favorites to be able to qualify for the knockout stages, but they failed to do so.

They are no longer a feared club in Europe, now they are even considered as one of the opponents who can provide great opportunities for their opponents. This is clearly a very bad setback experienced by Manchester United. Their identity has been lost and they cannot leave the quality of the glory days they once achieved in the past.

[Weawant]

The UEFA Europa League is one of the hardest competitions to predict it's winner before the start of each campaign because there's every possibility that none of the teams that started the competition will win it at the end since other clubs drop from the UEFA Champions League to join the competition in knockout stages. Atalanta who are the current holders of the competition trophy after defeating Bayer Leverkusen in the final last season will be playing in the UEFA Champions League this season and so is their fellow finalists Bayer Leverkusen who German Bundesliga title last season. Manchester United if you ask me should be one of the favorite teams to win it because of their quality and star-studded squad.

Probably because it's filled with too many average teams from othe leagues alongside their inconsistencies, it has now made it feel like it's such a hard league to predict as compared to others where the strong are usually clearly differentiated from weak. Another point of slight conflict especially for gamblers is that point where others relegated from the champions league at a level h e ro join in at the Europa, it brings in some confliction with strength as some teams which were supposed to be stronger turns out even the weak ones, but in all you can still carefully find a way with your picks and they will be just fine.

[Asiska02]

Early predictions will be hard this time unless after the group stages because there will be home and away matches like before. Only teams with squad depth can withstand the pressure because domestic League games will still be going on and othe cup matches respectively.
Going through all the teams that makes it to the Europa League, I think Manchester United is among the most famous teams and it will likely be among the favorites to win the trophy if Ten Hag uses his players well because the team now have a lot of young talented players.

You may be right and could also be wrong because Manchester United may not be the most favoured team if they fail to withstand the pressure from the Europa league matches during the league format stage wihich is the first round of the competition. The Europa League is a competition that has a number of good teams but with this new format that no teams will be joining from the champions league, it gives Manchester United greater hope to finish their group at the top and eventually makes it to the finals of the competition. They just need to withstand those pressures in the Europa League first round matches and also the same time be at their best in the premier league matches to make everything even for them. It won’t be easy for any team, but they should be able to find a way through.

[SUPERSAIAN]

For a new format, I also still feel or do not know so I can't guess which team has the potential to become a champion like Atalanta last season by defeating Bayer Leverkusen with a score of 3-0 made by a player named Ademola Lokman.
The European League will still be the second league after the Champions League with a decreased attraction. This is just because we still don't recognize the new format, later on the trip, we will understand well.

The UEFA Europa League is one of the hardest competitions to predict it's winner before the start of each campaign because there's every possibility that none of the teams that started the competition will win it at the end since other clubs drop from the UEFA Champions League to join the competition in knockout stages. Atalanta who are the current holders of the competition trophy after defeating Bayer Leverkusen in the final last season will be playing in the UEFA Champions League this season and so is their fellow finalists Bayer Leverkusen who German Bundesliga title last season. Manchester United if you ask me should be one of the favorite teams to win it because of their quality and star-studded squad.

When you ask people to predict the champion of the Champions League, the teams they will say are at most three or four before the season. There is more variety in who will win the Europa League, every season a team can surprise and win the Europa League, this makes this tournament more exciting for me.

While teams like Manchester United and Liverpool were talked about, Atalanta came up last season and Bayern Leverkusen were eliminated in the final.

[lixer]

The new format is actually easy to understand. Instead of having 32 teams in 8 groups, we have a league consisting of 36 teams in it. No groups anymore. The rules are the same with the Champions League new format like @imamusma mentioned the details. I hope it'd be fun. I'm not even sure if there was any need for such format change but anyway we'll see. 

The last champion is Atalanta. It was a really unexpected ending while Leverkusen were destroying every single team ahead of them. For now I'm hopeful about Manchester United this season. 

No one can stop the changes because we all understand things are going tougher after every year, and we are having more things to do so UEFA is also working on to increase their revenue so they are increasing the number of matches and teams because this will help them for having things on better way in the future.

Ending of relegation through Champions League is surely having some impact but still things will be well, and we will have too many quality clubs will be play here and fans will be also able to watch good soccer as they were having this all in last few years Atlanta done magic and having win of last season from nowhere, so things are always surprising and unpredictable because we are having results like these in history of the UEFA for years.

[dezoel]

Manchester United if you ask me should be one of the favorite teams to win it because of their quality and star-studded squad.

It should be, but we know how Manchester United have played in the last few seasons, they have been so disappointing and have not shown their identity as one of the big clubs in Europe. Last season, for example, when they were in the Champions League, they were very disappointing and they had to occupy the bottom of the standings, even though in terms of status and the composition of the players they had, they were still better than the 2 clubs that were in their group at that time and at first they were also one of the favorites to be able to qualify for the knockout stages, but they failed to do so.

They are no longer a feared club in Europe, now they are even considered as one of the opponents who can provide great opportunities for their opponents. This is clearly a very bad setback experienced by Manchester United. Their identity has been lost and they cannot leave the quality of the glory days they once achieved in the past.

To be fair it would be alright for them to be not feared in UCL anymore, we saw how they did last season and it makes sense if they are not feared there anymore, but if we are talking about just Europa? They are still better than every team there. This doesn't mean that they are going to win it, last year Liverpool was seen as the best team, and finished third in the league and yet they lost to eventual winners Atalanta, or Leverkusen looked like they have it in the bag, 51 unbeaten games in a row, and then they lost to Atalanta too.

That means, United may look like the best team, and they may still lose, those two things are not exclusive to each other, just because you are the best team, doesn't mean that you are going to win, it just means that you are going to be the best that's it.

I believe that we are going to see no other team be as good as them, it's just not going to happen, and because of that we are going to see them win a lot but maybe not win the whole thing.

[Josefjix]

Early predictions will be hard this time unless after the group stages because there will be home and away matches like before. Only teams with squad depth can withstand the pressure because domestic League games will still be going on and othe cup matches respectively.
Going through all the teams that makes it to the Europa League, I think Manchester United is among the most famous teams and it will likely be among the favorites to win the trophy if Ten Hag uses his players well because the team now have a lot of young talented players.

There are talented players for every single number of these clubs. We just have to watch the amazing performance of these players. The new format of these European leagues comes with sampling odds and it will definitely suit the standard of every clubs. Erik Ten Hag is included in the lists for the coaches that will deliver a great job for their clubs. Manchester United have spaced themselves to be always on top and they will always comes infront.

[swogerino]

If Trabzonspor get eliminated in this round, it would be really surprising to me. I never thought they would lose to Rapid Wien home. There is normally a significant gap of quality between. But here we are.

Turkish teams are really not good at having a solid start to a season.    These are the first games for Trabzonspor and they don't look ready yet. But I hope it doesn't end up with their elimination.

Because probably I will bet on Trabzonspor to qualify anyway. You know 4.80 odds are really difficult to refuse.    It is only 1-0 advantage for Rapid Wien which makes it quite possible.

I would agree as Rapid Vienna is not one of the strongest teams either in such phase of the competition,they sure can turn around the qualification thing and the bookies tend to play games with us,I don't understand that odd of 1.15 to qualify for Rapid Vienna when clearly only a goal difference is what divides these teams and as I said the players of Trabzonspor if taken individually should be a bit better if not a lot better.The fact that Trabzonspor lost at home does not mean quite a lot in my opinion,they were caught in a surprise goal in the late stages of the game and they could not respond back.I am sure they will be in Vienna with the mentality we have got nothing to lose so we go all out attacking,either we win this game and pass the round or they leave space behind and Rapid can punish them again and eliminate them from the Europa League.I don't know now with the change in formats if this means that they can still be playing in Europa Conference League after being eliminated in this round or they go directly to the group stages of Conference League.

[Juse14]

The new format is actually easy to understand. Instead of having 32 teams in 8 groups, we have a league consisting of 36 teams in it. No groups anymore. The rules are the same with the Champions League new format like @imamusma mentioned the details. I hope it'd be fun. I'm not even sure if there was any need for such format change but anyway we'll see. 

The last champion is Atalanta. It was a really unexpected ending while Leverkusen were destroying every single team ahead of them. For now I'm hopeful about Manchester United this season. 

No one can stop the changes because we all understand things are going tougher after every year, and we are having more things to do so UEFA is also working on to increase their revenue so they are increasing the number of matches and teams because this will help them for having things on better way in the future.

Ending of relegation through Champions League is surely having some impact but still things will be well, and we will have too many quality clubs will be play here and fans will be also able to watch good soccer as they were having this all in last few years Atlanta done magic and having win of last season from nowhere, so things are always surprising and unpredictable because we are having results like these in history of the UEFA for years.

There is change all the time, and UEFA change to make it better in terms of competition and revenue. More teams and matches might bring about some difficulties but it also allows room for more unexpected or exciting moments during the Champions League. While the absence of relegation may later turn out to influence the dynamics, there will be a chance for quality clubs to make strong performances, just like Atalanta has done. There are always surprises in football, and that is what makes it so interesting for fans.

A change may bring in some uncertainty as to the competitiveness between clubs but at the end of the day, football is about entertainment and uncertainty is what makes it exciting. So, no matter how the format changes, the Champions League will still be a tournament that many people look forward to.

[Jegileman]

We also don't know how the match will go with this new format because we are used to the old format that started with the group phase, I think the competition will be more difficult, different from before where more and more clubs participated here, even so I am still interested in the Europa League match, the second largest league after the Champions League which is no less competitive, besides the Europa League is more difficult to predict the winner compared to the Champions League where we already know who the strong candidates are.

For a new format, I also still feel or do not know so I can't guess which team has the potential to become a champion like Atalanta last season by defeating Bayer Leverkusen with a score of 3-0 made by a player named Ademola Lokman.
The European League will still be the second league after the Champions League with a decreased attraction. This is just because we still don't recognize the new format, later on the trip, we will understand well.

The new format won’t make the competition any different that much from the previous ones. The only difference I see here is that, all teams have to play in a league like format before they’ll know their fate in the next round of the game. The new format was just introduced to give more teams the privilege to participate in the Europa League and also makes the existing teams that usually qualify to the competition to be more serious in order to book their spot in the next round of the competition. Only those teams that makes it out of the first round that looks like the league format will be sure of how farther they can go and whom prediction can finally be settled on to be the potential winners of the Europa league title.

[Hanadawa]

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A change may bring in some uncertainty as to the competitiveness between clubs but at the end of the day, football is about entertainment and uncertainty is what makes it exciting. So, no matter how the format changes, the Champions League will still be a tournament that many people look forward to.

I think UCL will always be interesting to watch because only the best teams in Europe will play in UCL. And I think this new format has a good thing where the team that will qualify is the team with the highest points collection. When UCL still uses the group format sometimes the team that qualified has less points than the team that did not qualify because they are in different groups. And now all teams have to play seriously and collect as many points as possible to get a slot to the next round. Honestly I am interested to be a part of history that will witness the new era of UCL.

[Lidger]

After seeing the game between Manchester city and Manchester United today I begin to almost nurse a doubt about their Europa performance this season if they are going to be really awesome and even brilliant enough to be lucky with the trophy, teams like Roma, and other regular Europa teams who will be participating this season and are very willing to win the trophies will definitely not give Manchester United a chance of this will be their performance.

With no much doubt, I think Roma will even be a challenge to Manchester United, I know city isn't a small team but at some point even their top players where substituted yet Manchester United failed at getting it right. At this point it becomes very necessary Manchester United works hard towards every form of improvement without hesitation.

I like this, if Roma is the MU's challenge then it seems to me that it is something very good, I want to see a connected MU, against Man City they did not do bad, knowing that what they played was only a pre-season game, but enough to realize that things were very evident at the time of playing, but as I said, in these competitions like the Europa League, the level increases to great levels, they want to be the best, they want to earn that place in the UCL by being first, that is why this Europa League fascinates me, I want to see Roma's level at the top.

Manchester United did not perform badly in the warm-up match against Manchester City, it cannot be said how Manchester United will perform in the Europa League. There is a lot of difference between a warm-up match and a main stage match. 

In the Premier League we see that each team gets a chance to play 38 matches but in the European League there is no such system. Manchester United will have less number of matches to play in Europa League and if they do not get good points from this less number of matches they will not be able to go to the next round. Despite getting through the group stage, Manchester United could be defeated by the lesser teams in the second round if they can't maintain their offensive performance as well as their defense.

However, we have high expectations for Manchester United in this season of the European League. If this team performs as planned, they have the potential to do well.

[Catenaccio]

Manchester United did not perform badly in the warm-up match against Manchester City, it cannot be said how Manchester United will perform in the Europa League. There is a lot of difference between a warm-up match and a main stage match. 

However, we have high expectations for Manchester United in this season of the European League. If this team performs as planned, they have the potential to do well.

Perform well in a single match and perform well through a long season is very different and with latest seasons, we have enough evidence that Manchester United failed to maintain their performances well throughout a long season. They had some great weeks or months but at the end of season, they failed to achieve their target at beginning of season.

Europa League has many matches, not only one match and Manchester United can be affected by their matches in Premier League too. They can not improve and only play like previous seasons, they actually lack of ability to win Europa League even Bayer Leverkusen will no longer be there.