Picks, tips for betting in Europe League

Sporting vs Lille – Europe League 

Game for the 5th round of group C between two teams almost qualified, Lille going in 2nd place in the group will play against leader Sporting.

Sporting is the leader with nine points (three wins and one defeat), still needs one point to secure qualification for the next round of the Europa League. The Portuguese Coach Paulo Sergio knows that sporting team need be strong and make a good exhibition in the game against Lille because in case of defeat they can stay in complicate position in the group and with more responsibilities for the last game at Levski Sofia Read More

Juventus vs Salzburg – Europe League 

Face to face will be the 2 bottom sides in group A. Juventus has 3 points (3 ties) and Salzburg has 1 point.

This match is extremely important to Juventus, which in case of not winning this match will see their pass to the next round compromised. Veccia Signora comes with high moral after an away win against rival Milan in the last Calcio game, in San Siro. The spolights goes to Alexandro Del Piero, who keeps showing class on the field and Fabio Quagliarella Read More

Gent vs Sporting – Europe League 

Gent surely plays better at home than when playing away, since in the last 10 games at home they won 5 times and tied one, but in the last 10 games away, they lost all.

Besides being 3rd in the belgium league, in 13 plays they have one of the worst conceded goals ranking, with 20 goals by now, with 26 goals scored making a positive goal average. This afternoon they will have a very important game for the Europa League since they are at the bottom of the group and they need to get points as soon as possible. Even not being favorites Read More

Dortmund vs Sevilha – Europe League 

Interesting game in Dortmund with the home team making a great start of the season and the Spanish are going through a less good moment and will debut their new coach Mazano.

Starting with Dortmund they are in a great shape with a second place in Bundesliga and 9 wins in 10 official games. They only have one loss. In Europe League play-offs they won against Karabakh and at the group stages they suffer to get a win over Karpaty. Tomorrow they will have their first big challenge against Sevilha. The strong side of the Germans is the attack with the Paraguayan international Lucas Barrios, the German Mario Gotze and the Japanese Kagawa who is having excellent performances with only 21 years old. The defense Read More

Liverpool vs Steaua – Europe League 

In order to be in the group stage, Liverpool has beaten Trabzonspor in both legs by one goal difference, respectively, 1-0 and 1-2.

Hogdson team is facing some problems right now. Liverpool hasn’t really shown a big quality yet and they had some problems to win theoretically easy games. Against Birmingham (last game), The Reds had huge difficulties to survive and Reina did very well but attacking was really poor.

This season, every Liverpool victory wasn’t over 1 goal difference and today, Reds have a nice chance to show their fans that they can do much better than they are actually doing. By the way, they only lost one game this season on a clearly unfair result (3-0 for City). With only one victory in the English Premier League against WBA, Liverpool is actually placed 13th. Torres, Gerrard and company have not been doing well so far and Read More

Lille vs Sporting – Europe League 

Lille is a well-known team in European competitions and this season they have beaten the Romanians from Vaslui in the previous fixture of Euro League. In the French championship, they got an interesting 4th place last season. This season, they are actually placed on the eighth place after five games (with only one victory). Their most well-known weapons are Landreau, Rozehnal and Mavuba but Hazard, an young and talented player, and Gervinho, a very fast player, are the main threat this evening. They have got a solid defense and a very dangerous attack that hasn’t been as active as expected this season.

Sporting is not in a great shape and they couldn’t beat Olhanense at home (draw 0-0) last fixture. Despite their bad results, I still believe they can have a very solid season. Their midfield is quite strong, Read More

Porto vs Rapid Wien – Europe League 

Porto is in great shape and they certainly want to get into the Europe League with the right foot.

Since they begin the official games this season, they won it all. Porto is a strong team and the leading contender for the title in the Portuguese League and certainly they want to try out a good run in the Europe League starting with this game. To European Competitions they beat Genk 3-0, in Netherlands, and 4-2 in Oporto. They are in a very difficult group with Besiktas and CSKA Sofia. Looking at their form, they are a very strong team attacking, with excellent soccer quality and hunger for goals. There are some players with injuries as Guarin and Mariano.

Rapid Vienna starts the championship with good quality exhibitions; however they lost in the last two games. At home against Austria Vienna, one of their rivals, they have a quite demoralizing defeat. At Read More

Maritimo vs Sporting Fingal – Europe League 

Marítimo will start tonight its 7th participation in European competitions and will play against the Irish team of Sporting Fingal.

The team coached by Mitchell Van der Gaag will try to get a result that will allow them to look at the rematch, one week from now, with some tranquility.

Europa League not being Marítimo’s prime objective, since the Portuguese league is always the team’s priority, the red-greens get clearly the favoritism against a team that is not used to these Read More

Atl.Madrid vs Fulham – Europe League Final 

The game will be played in the city of Hamburg, it’s the return of a big European final to a city that has received over the years big international games.
It will be in the Hamburg Arena that Atlético Madrid and Fulham will fight for the first Europe League. Atlético will play his fourth final and Fulham plays his first final.

Fulham it’s the surprise team, without stars in the squad the team achieves the first European final. For Fulham, everything started in 30 July 2009 against Vétra of Lithuania where they won both games by 3 – 0. In the playoffs for the group stage they beat Amkar Perm. In the group stage they were in group E with AS Roma, Basileia and CSKA Sofia. They end the group stage with 11 points, with 3 victories, 2 draws and Read More

Liverpool vs Atl.Madrid – Europe League 

Another big match between Liverpool and Atlético Madrid on 2nd leg of Semi-final, this time in England. Atlético bring a advantage of 1-0 from Madrid.

Liverpool is on good performance. After reach playoff of Europe League, already defeated great teams, like Lille and Benfica. On both situations, Liverpool score 3 or more goals, and playing at home, they Read More

Fulham vs Hamburg – Europe League 

Game of the Europe League semi-final between Fulham and Hamburgo. Both teams don’t fight for anything on their championships, and they see in this Europe League a possible salvation for the season.

Fulham: Has been doing a bad season this year. They are in 12th place with 11 victories, 10 draws and 14 losses and a goal average of –3. The last games of the team have been very instable; in the last Read More

Atl.Madrid vs Liverpool – Europe League 

Big game on this Euro League semi-final, where the Atlético Madrid receives the powerful Liverpool. I think that is going to be a very tough match where both teams will give everything to get into the final. It will be very interesting to see this games because both teams are doing awful seasons at national level and this competition is the only way to save the season. For this reasons, this won’t be just a semi-final, it will be an entire season and a very intense match. Last year this teams faced each other in the Champions League group stage and the result was the same on both games, 1 – 1.

The team of Atl. Madrid is managed by former Benfica manager Quique Flores that is doing a terrible Spanish championship and has betted everything on this competition. On the last round they beat Read More

Hamburg vs Fulham – Europe League 

This game of the Europe League semi finals promises a lot, we have the experience team of Hamburgo already use to this final stages of European Competitions, on the other side there is the surprise, the English team of Fulham that is making their first appearance on a European Competition semifinal.

The team of Hamburg is making an excellent European campaign that has started on the third pre-eliminatory and now they are just 180 minutes (or 210) away from being on the final. Curiously that final is Read More