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Group Stage: Match Day 4
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It’s match day four in the Europa League. While we’re very much in the business end of the group stage at this point, some groups are no closer to being decided than they were on match day one.
Here in the US, the major televised early game was, for some reason, Hamburg v. [...]
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Group Stage: Match Day 3
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It’s certainly been a fun week for European football; the Europa League did its part to keep things going. So, let’s get into what happened on match day 3.
There were a couple of notable thrashings in matches that we probably thought would have been closer affairs. Benfica, led by Javier Saviola and [...]
Group Stage: Match Day 2
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There was a little bit of everything on match day 2 in the group stage: redemption, surprises, and some consolidation of power already.
In the first batch of games, Red Bull Salzburg scored another surprise victory. Unlike their late smash and grab against Lazio, the caffeinated advertisements enjoyed a comfortable 2-0 victory against [...]
Crime committed, celebrities not involved.
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In case you hadn’t already heard, UEFA is investigating a rather significant number of European qualifying round matches from recent seasons for evidence of match fixing. There really isn’t a whole lot to say about match fixing that doesn’t invite a response of ‘duh, really?’. That altering the results of sporting contests for [...]
Group Stage: Match Day 1
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After two days of eminently predictable action in ‘the world’s premier club competition,’ the Europa League group stages kicked off. I have to say, given that it’s only the first match day out of six, and way too early to overreact to results, it was not bad for a day’s work.
I definitely [...]
Group Stage Draw and Thoughts
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GROUP A: Ajax Amsterdam – Anderlecht- Dinamo Zagreb- Timisoara
GROUP B: Valenica- Lille OSC – Slavia Prague- Genoa
GROUP C: Hamburg SV- Celtic- Hapoel Tel Aviv- Rapid Vienna
GROUP D: Sporting Lisbon- Heerenveen- Hertha Berlin- Ventspils
GROUP E: AS Roma- FC Basel- Fulham- CSKA Sofia [...]
Playoff Round: Second Leg Results
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After Tuesday and Wednesday we knew that Anderlecht, Celtic, FC Copenhagen, Levski Sofia, Panathinaikos, Red Bull Salzburg, Sporting Lisbon, Sheriff, Timisoara, and Ventspils would be in the Europa League group stage. Of course, today, there was the little matter of determining which of the clubs that have been trying to reach the Europa League group [...]
Playoff Round: First Leg Results
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I’m currently on vacation and very much out of the regular news loop, although I was able to watch the PSV 4 – Ajax 3 match, and a couple of the Champions League qualifiers on Fox Soccer. At any rate, I have commandeered a laptop and have had a chance to take a [...]
Playoff Round Draw
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PAOK v. Heerenveen
Dinamo Zagreb v. Hearts
Werder Bremen v. Akotbe
Everton v. Sigma Olomouc
BATE v. Litex Lovech
NAC Breda v. Villarreal
Lech Poznan v. Club Brugge
Fulham v. Akmar Perm
Galatasaray v. Levadia
FK Teplice v. Hapoel Tel Aviv
Metalurh Donetsk v. Austria Vienna
FC Twente v. Qarabag
AS Roma v. MFK Kosice
Dinamo Moscow v. CSKA Sofia
Racing Genk v. Lille OSC
PSV Eindhoven v. Bnei Yehuda
Lazio [...]
Third Qualifying Round: Second Leg Results
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We’ve certainly come a long way from Zestaponi v. Lisburn Distillery. The conclusion of the third qualifying round has, for the most part, been a mixture of the big boys starting to throw their weight around and teams with an advantage from the first leg finishing things off in a businesslike manner.
Even [...]
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