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Inaugural Europa League starts today, some good teams like Valencia, Roma, Villarreal, Gala, Werder, Shaktar etc featuring.

Groups

Group A
Anderlecht
Ajax
Timişoara
Dinamo Zagreb

Group C
Hamburg
H. Tel-Aviv
Celtic
Rapid Wien

Group E
Roma
CSKA Sofia
Fulham
Basel

Group G
Levski
Lazio
Salzburg
Villarreal

Group I
AEK
Benfica
BATE
Everton

Group K
København
Sparta Praha
PSV
CFR Cluj

Group B
Slavia Praha
Lille
Valencia
Genoa

Group D
Sporting
Hertha
Ventspils
Heerenveen

Group F
Dinamo Bucureşti
Panathinaikos
Galatasaray
Sturm

Group H
Twente
Steaua
Sheriff
Fenerbahçe

Group J
Toulouse
Brugge
Shakhtar
Partizan

Group L
Werder
Athletic
Austria Wien
Nacional


notable matchups of Day 1

LOSC Lille Métropole-Valencia CF
Basel-AS Roma
Panathinaikos FC - Galatasaray
Sparta Praha-PSV Eindhoven
Club Brugge KV-FC Shakhtar Donetsk

Damn I hate you for making this! Did you know FK Sarajevo should be in this shite but Cluj don't deserve to be in the groups. It was 3+2 Sarajevo dominated the whole match both matches and we didn't make it

no shame losing to Cluj they had pretty good cl campaign last year. but hop on Gala bandwagon, we are going all the way this season

Still rooting for Galatasaray.

wow, such an easy win in Athens. Galatasaray has a habit of demolishing Greeks; Panionios two years ago, Olympiacos last year and Panathinaikos now

Roma continues to suck, 2-0 for Basel.

Israeli teams look decent this year, draw yesterday at Atletico and now Tel Aviv beats Celtic. Haifa got a beating by Bayern but that is not something to be ashamed about.

Smoove wrote:Damn I hate you for making this! Did you know FK Sarajevo should be in this **** but Cluj don't deserve to be in the groups. It was 3+2 Sarajevo dominated the whole match both matches and we didn't make it

I only saw the away game and I agree, FK missed on a couple of huge scoring chances. They played better in that game.

PAO and AEK got brutally raped, vaseline sales had to have gone up.

Wow, Fenerbahçe lost 2-1 to Twente at home. Should be disappointing.

retards. not that Twente is a bad team but this is a game they should have won.

Twente has been a VERY pesky team these past few years.

im rooting for PSV Eindhoven. Go PSV!!!!!

Zabriskie wrote:

Smoove wrote:Damn I hate you for making this! Did you know FK Sarajevo should be in this **** but Cluj don't deserve to be in the groups. It was 3+2 Sarajevo dominated the whole match both matches and we didn't make it

I only saw the away game and I agree, FK missed on a couple of huge scoring chances. They played better in that game.

Indeed mate, very disappointing. I hope Sarajevo makes it back to here once again.

Istanbul teams dominate Bucharest teams and both teams are in first place right now. imo there is a good chance one Istanbul team will be in this years final especially if Besiktas joins the two in later stages.

Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe lack the defense, and Beşiktaş lacks the attack at this point. But all can change in the January transfer window, so there is a possibility.

it is Europa league, every team lacks something unless one of the heavy hitters fall from CL-even they tend to lay an egg like Milan and Munich did last couple years.

Galatasaray guarantees to qualify after a 3-0 win against Dinamo Buc.

yup, Galatasaray is looking great in Europa league with the exception of the Sturm game. Fenerbahce all but qualified as well, another Bucharest sweep.


didn't realize how many good teams are in this season; Gala, Fener, Benfica, Valencia, Shaktar, Werder all could give fits to any CL team, not to mention likes of Liverpool, Bayern, Atletico possibly will fall from CL.

Liverpool is in, Bayern or Juve(and possibly Sevilla) will also be in, we'll find out next week.

it is going to be pretty interesting, Turkish and Portuguese teams dominated group stages but those giants have something to play for now that Europa league gives substantial financial boost to the teams.

for Gala's sake, i want Olympiacos to fall from groups, now that we have 5 wins-1 loss record against greeks