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Leagues: Europa League
/ 745 days agoUEFA completes draw for Champions League and Europa League
Monday morning saw UEFA complete the draw for the knockout stages of the Champions League and Europa League. There were a pick of excellent matchups in either competition. Fans can now see routes to a potential final. Consequently, some of the bigger teams are worried about the difficulty of their task. There was no repeat […]
Arsenal
/ 763 days agoArsenal qualify for Europa knockout stage with narrow PSV win
Arsenal managed to advance to the Europa League knockout stage after beating PSV Eindhoven on Thursday, 1-0. Arsenal still has two group stage games remaining in the competition. The Gunners dominated PSV in most areas. However, Granit Xhaka's sweet strike in the 70th minute was the only goal of the game. It leaves the Gunners […]
Argentina
/ 773 days agoPaulo Dybala injury puts World Cup spot at risk
Paulo Dybala suffered an injury as Roma defeated Lecce on Sunday, 2-1. The Argentine striker hobbled after scoring the winning goal just four minutes after the start of the second half. After slotting a penalty past Lecce goalkeeper Wladimiro Falcone, Dybala winced and grabbed his left leg. In the halted celebrations, Dybala tried to walk […]
Arsenal
/ 801 days agoArsenal's Europa League fixture with PSV postponed
Insufficient police support caused Arsenal and PSV's Europa League fixture to be postponed. Originally, UEFA scheduled the match for Thursday. This shaped up to be the Gunners' first match in a week, after The Queen's passing suspended Premier League play at the weekend. All clubs in the United Kingdom rescheduled their fixtures starting on Tuesday. […]
Atletico Madrid
/ 4033 days agoDiego Simeone And Atletico Madrid Continue To Succeed
With their 4-0 home win over Austria Wien today and Zenit St. Petersburg’s 1-1 draw with Porto, Atletico Madrid is guaranteed to win Group G and has secured qualification to the Champions League Round of 16. Atleti have won all four of their Group G matches and currently are second place in La Liga with only […]
Chelsea
/ 4235 days agoChelsea: A Period Of ‘Auditioning’ For The Club, Players and Managers
With Chelsea limping into the last four of the Europa league, becoming the only English side left in European competition this season, Chelsea fans will have their eyes trained on the future. Due to the fixture list, the Blues could amusingly be the holders of both the Champions League and the Europa League at the […]
General
/ 5320 days agoFulham's Fabulous European Dream Continues
Fulham's amazing transformation under Roy Hodgson just keeps reaching new heights and sending their fans in to raptures. I know I've written about Roy Hodgson and the fact that the British press have virtually ignored his career until he took over at Fulham, but no-one could have expected this level of improvement from the Cottagers. […]
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/ 5343 days agoWhat’s The Chances of Two All English European finals?
This mid-week is European week, which means Arsenal, Manchester United, Fulham and Liverpool will be playing for semi final spots in The Champions and Europa Leagues. Always an eternal optimist – no sooner when the draws were announced I was thinking of the possibility of two all English finals. Now I am not betting man, […]
General
/ 5454 days agoIs Roy Hodgson Playing With Scared Money?
While Fulham needs a win in Basel today to advance to the knockout stage of the Europa League, Roy Hodgson doesn't seem to think this is a must-win game for his club. He told reporters on Monday that he planned to run out the reserves for this match, saying that his club "didn't enter the […]
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/ 5473 days agoThe Europa League is Not the End of the World for Liverpool
It can't be much fun to be a football fan in the city of Liverpool these days. With Sunday's Merseyside Derby approaching, the red side has fallen out of the Champions League and is slipping from its Top Four perch, while the blue side is so decimated by injuries that it's can't even stop Hull […]
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/ 5682 days agoUEFA Europa League, A Second Rate Competition
With four games of the Premier League campaign left, Fulham are leading the 'race' for seventh place and for the Cottagers it will be a rare European adventure. This would of course be via the all singing, all dancing UEFA Europa League. This 'new' competition was created by reformatting and re-branding the ailing UEFA Cup. Normally to fans […]