UEFA Europa League 2026/27 Season

[meser#]

The media line up prediction was a nonsense after all because how can you consider Djalo over Agbadou after how solid he was in the last game. Italiano knows what he's doing, he prioritised physical presence at back. Heavy rotation is not needed now. It's ideal to start with your best squad to kill the game as early as possible.

Besiktas won 4-1 eventually. A strong start like this can change the whole narrative. Marseille equalised to make the score even before first half break but Besiktas sealed their victory in the second half. Next is a travel to Germany to face Hoffenheim in the second week of next month.

It's so obvious you're commenting without having watched the game. Agbadou started the match but made some critical mistakes and we conceded a goal. Djalo played in the second half and we didn't even face a shot until the 85th minute. The defense really pulled itself together. Overall, Agbadou could be a better center back, but he should have been subbed out of this game. Italiano made the right call at half time. It was very risky for him to play with a yellow card.

As long as Beşiktaş plays like this, no team can stand up to them. The goal in the group stage should be to finish in the top 8, or if that's not possible, to secure a good spot between 9th and 16th places. Just winning the home games alone will already make us achieve that.

I didn't like our defensive line at all yesterday. If Emirhan plays like this, we’re in for a tough time. I feel uneasy whenever the ball comes to his feet. Agbadou wasn't good either. Italiano needs to overhaul the defense.
The match against Hoffenheim won't be easy. I expect a high-scoring game, and I hope we come out on top.
Right now, the important thing is our match this weekend.
I’m worried about losing to Amedspor.
The level of concentration needed for the Amed match is different from the Marseille game. Italiano has a big job ahead of him; I hope he can really motivate the team.
It would be great to beat Amed and head into the international break with high morale.

[Tonimez]

Marseille has been on a downward spiral recently, losing their matches, and they were hoping this game would be a turning point. However, they failed to achieve this and suffered a heavy defeat against Beşiktaş. Looking at the team's name, you'd expect Marseille to be much more resilient and play better, but Beşiktaş gave them no chance and easily beat them. Starting the Europa League with a 4-1 win was crucial, and any negative result in this tough draw would have greatly affected Beşiktaş. This performance satisfied me greatly, and I believe Beşiktaş will qualify for the last 24 teams.

Another loss to Besiktas extends their losing streak to four consecutive games. When you hear the name Marseille, losing four games in a row sounds like an impossibility.
After Marseille’s loss to Besiktas, the coach’s future is in doubt, and he faces the possibility of being let go by Marseille. Perhaps Marseille’s management has already decided it’s better to make a decision sooner to save the team rather than wait and watch as Marseille continues to produce undesirable results.

Marseille is seriously going down by day and needs urgent attention. However, I will blame it on the exit of their two best attackers Mason Greenwood and Aubameyang during the summer window who could have helped record more goals in the midst of their bad defence. It is good to blame the coach but his available players now doesn't seem very fit to play this Besiktas team and win comfortably since even defence is also not strong. Besiktas dominated the game yesterday and showed class in their game with 7 shots on target compared to Marseille's 2. What I like most is that the 4 goals were scored by 4 different players from the back and front. January transfer window will be a busy one for Marseille if they must keep up with the season even in their League to be able to finish anywhere close to up.

[yenerbatmaz]

I followed Beşiktaş's match yesterday since it is a team from my country.
Beşiktaş played wonderful football.
Even though they faltered a bit at one point during the first half, I liked the football they played.
After the score became 3–1 in the second half, Marseille gave up on the game and started launching uncontrolled attacks. Beşiktaş may have finished with a 4–1 victory, but the match could have ended with an even wider margin.

I also follow Ferencváros. Yesterday, I was going to place a bet on Celtic to win against Ferencváros, but I didn't have enough confidence in Celtic, so I just watched the match instead. It’s a good thing I didn't place that bet; Ferencváros defeated Celtic 3–1 away from home.
I think Ferencváros will reach the quarter-finals or go even further in this competition. They play good football as a team.

Bamidele Yusuf will likely transfer to a team in one of Europe's top five leagues next year. He is a tremendous player; I was very impressed by him during the match against Trabzonspor. I wonder how much Ferencváros pays him. If he were to come to one of our "Big Three" clubs, his annual salary would be at least 3 million euros—perhaps even more.

[Frankolala]

Those who smiled to the bank today are bettors that bet on totals because there were goals everywhere you look. I was surprised to see all the mathces that played this night give 3+ with Juventus, Besiktas and other few matches provide as much as 4+. I was only confident of Juventus match and that of Celtic and everything worked as I wanted. My only regrest was not taking some big risk which would have made me secure some nice

You don't need to regret it, be happy and appreciate your little profit. Don't be greedy because it leads to big losses. Who knows if you have added to your games, you would have lost your bet. Of course, it was crystal clear that Juventus, Palace and Celtic would win their matches and betting on them is like getting free money. Besiktas game surprised a lof of people.

[Barcode_]

It was such a wild starting week for the new season of Uefa Europa League, as a number of favorites teams had failed to beat their underdog opponents and to make matter worse, they even lost the match at the final whistle. OFI Crete is not even a well known team and yet they managed to score two goals past Hoffenheim while maintaining a clean sheet. Torreense are just a football club playing in Liga Portugal 2 and yet Lillestrom could not even avoid a defeat for the match, I guess maybe staking some bets on underdog teams in the Uefa Europa League might seems to be a good choice as the odds payout are great and there might be more surprising results coming in week 2.

[New Judgement]

Those who smiled to the bank today are bettors that bet on totals because there were goals everywhere you look. I was surprised to see all the mathces that played this night give 3+ with Juventus, Besiktas and other few matches provide as much as 4+. I was only confident of Juventus match and that of Celtic and everything worked as I wanted. My only regrest was not taking some big risk which would have made me secure some nice

You don’t have to get any regrets on the amount you won. If you had lost the bet you would’ve been saying you regretted not taking bigger risk, by now you would be saying you are glad you didn’t take bigger risk, such feelings are common among gamblers. Thoughts like this are what makes gamblers stake high in their next bet. Now you saying you regret not taking bigger risk. Be careful this weekend on how much you stake on bets, because you might not be this lucky.

[Bitcoin_Budha]

It was such a wild starting week for the new season of Uefa Europa League, as a number of favorites teams had failed to beat their underdog opponents and to make matter worse, they even lost the match at the final whistle. OFI Crete is not even a well known team and yet they managed to score two goals past Hoffenheim while maintaining a clean sheet. Torreense are just a football club playing in Liga Portugal 2 and yet Lillestrom could not even avoid a defeat for the match, I guess maybe staking some bets on underdog teams in the Uefa Europa League might seems to be a good choice as the odds payout are great and there might be more surprising results coming in week 2.

UEFA clubs events are always have surprises just because of this keeping favorites in betting slips always give loses recently I change my tactics and having one or two matches of underdogs with single slips this strategy working good because any team specially playing on road can face unusual result as happen last night enough games gone on opposite sides.
Yesterday one things was interesting all games were ended with over2.5 its good encouragemnet because here things are balanced and punters can do much better instead of betting only on clubs ML which are never been easily predictable but over/under are having much better option in these games.
Week 2 has enough interesting games; with them, betting is going to be more challenging. Lyon is hosting Crystal Palace, and Hoffenheim is going to entertain Besiktas.

[Sally9256]

It was such a wild starting week for the new season of Uefa Europa League, as a number of favorites teams had failed to beat their underdog opponents and to make matter worse, they even lost the match at the final whistle. OFI Crete is not even a well known team and yet they managed to score two goals past Hoffenheim while maintaining a clean sheet. Torreense are just a football club playing in Liga Portugal 2 and yet Lillestrom could not even avoid a defeat for the match, I guess maybe staking some bets on underdog teams in the Uefa Europa League might seems to be a good choice as the odds payout are great and there might be more surprising results coming in week 2.

It's quite surprising how this match day went in favor of some underdogs, sometimes the start can be like this. Some teams probably haven't settled in the league yet.

It would be a joke if I said I wasn't surprised in the results of this week's Europa league. The way Lillestrom and Celtic lost their first game in front of their supporters at home was more dissapointing. Hoffenheim struggled as well but how did Besiktas manage to humiliate Marseille in that manner? I never expected that at all, I expected a more competitive game.

There's definitely going to be more surprising results in upcoming games so staking some bet on underdogs will definitely pay out more but the problem is identifying which team can pull it off.

[trendcoin]

I followed Beşiktaş's match yesterday since it is a team from my country.
Beşiktaş played wonderful football.
Even though they faltered a bit at one point during the first half, I liked the football they played.
After the score became 3–1 in the second half, Marseille gave up on the game and started launching uncontrolled attacks. Beşiktaş may have finished with a 4–1 victory, but the match could have ended with an even wider margin.
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Beşiktaş was the better team against Marseille, but Marseille was banned from signing players in the UEFA Europa League for failing to comply with Financial Fair Play rules. That’s why there were so many young players on Marseille’s squad...

Beşiktaş won the game 4-0. In my opinion, Olaitan was the standout player of the match. He was the one who broke the deadlock in yesterday’s game. With his performance this season, he could suddenly find himself on the radar of Europe’s top clubs. He’s a very strong, fast, and technically skilled player. I recommend that our fellow football fans on the forum keep an eye on him. The Beninese national team player of Nigerian descent is only 24 years old...

[len01]

Hoffenheim were really strange for a team that was favored to win. They had such good possession that they seemed to forget how to score. They had several good chances to score, but their finishing was really poor. I am honestly very disappointed with their performance, as it caused my parlay bet to lose. 

I am convinced that Hoffenheim will ultimately not succeed in this competition.

[blomen]

some of the teams that secured a spot in the top 8 in the europa league after the first week were juventus, crystal palace, beşiktaş, benfica, and bayer leverkusen. everyone in my country is praising beşiktaş’s play. although it’s difficult to maintain momentum and win back-to-back matches both in the league and in europe, beşiktaş seems to be pulling it off.

winning the europa league is quite difficult because some teams we’d normally expect to see in the champions league are also here. but if you can finish in the top 8, advancing to the next rounds might be easier. best of luck to beşiktaş.

from what i can see, all four of the other matches on your 5-leg parlay won, but this one was the only one that didn’t. and at such low odds, too. i wouldn’t have expected hoffenheim to slip up in a match that looked so certain. it’s usually the most painful when you come so close and still lose. i wish you better luck next time.

[MK-74]

First of all, I would like to congratulate Beşiktaş and thank them for giving us such a great win tonight.
Second half of the Beşiktaş vs Marseille match was much more enjoyable. Beşiktaş scored back to back goals to make it 3-1 and after that we saw Marseille’s performance drop off.
It became 4-1 towards the end of the match and that’s how it finished.
We also have to congratulate Beşiktaş’s coach. Italiano is a really good coach and right now he’s showing us how to play as a team.

When the match started, I saw how Beşiktaş started the match. I knew they were stronger than Marseille, even though before the match, I was expecting the French side Marseille to defeat the home team Beşiktaş due to the experience in the European competition, but from the moment Beşiktaş was able to score their first goal in the 15th minute of the match, I changed my mind because they were playing better than Marseille in the match. A 4-1 score is a very big difference; the Turkish side looks very serious, and they won the match.

I thought Beşiktaş would win from the very beginning and they did.
Reason I thought this was because I knew Beşiktaş had started the league very well this season, while Marseille had started the season very badly.
If Marseille had been playing as well as they did last season then I could have called them the favorites but they are definitely not a favorite team this season.

[Agathamay]

I'm not going to pull any strings here because some teams have barely know their stands in the competition and defeats have started coming in. If you're supporting a team and they're not just having the best performance you expect, just know one thing, it's either they're not prepared enough or they're just not good enough with poor performance displayed. The Europa League is going to be extremely challenging and only the best team will be able to duck in points in the tournament this season.

[Daniel91]

This is actually my first time of seeing UEFA Europa going according to expectations and odds, I was amazed based on how the games were playing. regardless the fact that I didn't win today but at least I have something to write home about. Among all the teams that was given the opportunity to win it was only Celtic and few other teams that didn't work to my expectations, I didn't pay attention to other teams reaosn been they were not included in  my bet slip, if not for the lost that Celtic had today I would have won 300k. Hoffenheim in the other hand also contributed to the lost I had today in my other slip, I regret ever using them in my slip today.

I wouldn't exactly agree that all the matches ended according to predictions.
For me, the defeats of Celta, Milan, Anderlecht, and Real Sociedad were major surprises, as I had expected much more from those clubs.
Judging by the way they started this competition, they won't be competitive in this European competition.
Dinamo's result didn't surprise me, as I've been following them for a long time and it's obvious they are in crisis regarding both their performance and results.
I have a feeling that an English club will win this competition again. What do you think?

[EarnOnVictor]

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Those who smiled to the bank today are bettors that bet on totals because there were goals everywhere you look. I was surprised to see all the mathces that played this night give 3+ with Juventus, Besiktas and other few matches provide as much as 4+. I was only confident of Juventus match and that of Celtic and everything worked as I wanted. My only regrest was not taking some big risk which would have made me secure some nice

Have you also thought of taking a big risk and losing everything? That is the balance you should be making in gambling. It feels as if you cheated yourself now, but what happens the next time that you are actually in for all the risks but things went south? This is why you should have a bankroll with plan. If that is the case, I am certain that you would not be talking like this. And I am sure that some people would bet on total score on Levski Sofia vs. Red Bull Salzburg which ended in 0–1.

[Lucius]

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Dinamo's result didn't surprise me, as I've been following them for a long time and it's obvious they are in crisis regarding both their performance and results.
I have a feeling that an English club will win this competition again. What do you think?

Illusions are beginning to burst like soap bubbles, just as they do every season when it comes to Dinamo Zagreb or any other Croatian club. Zvonimir Boban was a good player, but as a manager, he clearly hasn't got a clue—just like many others before him. The moves he makes do not reflect a serious man with a plan.

There is already widespread speculation about a new coach, but none of those mentioned are any better than the current one. A good coach costs a lot of money, and one like that won't be appearing at any club in the Balkans anytime soon.

[nelson4lov]

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Have you also thought of taking a big risk and losing everything? That is the balance you should be making in gambling. It feels as if you cheated yourself now, but what happens the next time that you are actually in for all the risks but things went south? This is why you should have a bankroll with plan. If that is the case, I am certain that you would not be talking like this. And I am sure that some people would bet on total score on Levski Sofia vs. Red Bull Salzburg which ended in 0–1.

This happens, and very often. Earlier this month I got a free bet and went to go all in on Bundesliga (Germany) and Eredivisie weekend matches for the over 1.5 option. This was during the time when no match in Eredivisie had gone under 1.5 this season. If I had followed through on that plan, I would have lost. What I did was that I cherry-picked the best games with strong stats and went with those instead and I would 4+ odds on my bet.

I'm not forgetting the need for good bankroll management because that is important too since not every day can be a winning day.

[Donneski]

I'm not going to pull any strings here because some teams have barely know their stands in the competition and defeats have started coming in. If you're supporting a team and they're not just having the best performance you expect, just know one thing, it's either they're not prepared enough or they're just not good enough with poor performance displayed. The Europa League is going to be extremely challenging and only the best team will be able to duck in points in the tournament this season.

At this stage of the UEFA Europa League competition, it's always difficult to spot the team that actually mean business or are going to win the trophy. Looking at the teams participating in this season's UEL campaign, it's difficult to predict who among them can actually go all the way. It'll be a very challenging battle for the teams like you rightly said but I'm of the opinion that it might be won by yet another English team.

[paco92x]

At this stage of the UEFA Europa League competition, it's always difficult to spot the team that actually mean business or are going to win the trophy. Looking at the teams participating in this season's UEL campaign, it's difficult to predict who among them can actually go all the way. It'll be a very challenging battle for the teams like you rightly said but I'm of the opinion that it might be won by yet another English team.

It's that kind of competition where you have more than one or two teams that mean business—Juve, Benfica, Bayer, Bournemouth and so on. It's really hard to pinpoint who showed the best MD1 performance, but one thing is clear: I think Ararat, Celje and Lech would have rather played in the Conference League than the Europa League. It would have ended better for them.

[Daniel91]

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Dinamo's result didn't surprise me, as I've been following them for a long time and it's obvious they are in crisis regarding both their performance and results.
I have a feeling that an English club will win this competition again. What do you think?

Illusions are beginning to burst like soap bubbles, just as they do every season when it comes to Dinamo Zagreb or any other Croatian club. Zvonimir Boban was a good player, but as a manager, he clearly hasn't got a clue—just like many others before him. The moves he makes do not reflect a serious man with a plan.

There is already widespread speculation about a new coach, but none of those mentioned are any better than the current one. A good coach costs a lot of money, and one like that won't be appearing at any club in the Balkans anytime soon.

Yes, I can agree with you.
Boban is a Croatian football legend, but after the end of his magnificent football career he never managed a football club, except for a short and unsuccessful period in Milan 6 years ago.
In my opinion, Boban should have found an older and more experienced football coach to lead Dinamo, especially in important European club matches where it is obvious that Kovačević does not have enough experience.
Perhaps the return of Bjelica, who is currently free and available and knows the situation at the club well, could help as a shock therapy.
The lost points against H. Beer-Sheva could prove crucial for Dinamo until the end of the group stage of this competition.
The remaining opponents are mostly better teams than the Israeli club and the current level of play and results does not give optimism that Dinamo can win points in matches against much stronger opponents such as Leverkusen, Alkmaar, Anderlecht, Rennes, Sturm, Sunderland, etc. and collect enough points to qualify for the knockout stage of the competition, which would be a huge failure for Dinamo and a major blow to the club's finances.