⚽UEFA Europa Conference League Discussion Thread -- 2021/22 Winner: Roma!

[Juggy777]

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For me its unrealistic that some amature teams play other amature teams and that teams like Partizan play really hard opponents and they earned a lot of points in the previous years in europe

yeah, we got two teams from top leagues that have no previous Europe experience, so ranked low, but could not get to Europe from Russia or Portugal league, if not strong
on the other hand, there are some pairs between Flora and Shamrock, Riga and Lincoln, Fola and Almaty

seems that draw was in direction to have some smaller teams in group stage, since Roma is playing Trabzon, Tottenham is playing Ferreira, PAOK is playing Rijeka, all teams that have better coefficient comparing to above mentioned

nevertheless, I believe that we will kick-out Santa Clara

@Joca97 I’m yet putting my head around this league and trying to figure how they have ranked the teams, but after reading @CasperBGD post I’m now starting to understand how they’re ranked. Also I feel that Roma will want to win this trophy, because I doubt they’ll qualify in top 4 hence winning this trophy is their best shot at winning something in this season.

[boltz]

What a crazy day it was in Conference League as I had so many games with Both teams to score and guess what ? We barely had a few games with both teams to score and as a statistic I think we had 30 total games and around 13 with both to score and most of them came in the last phase of the schedule day. Did anyone caught something ? Live odds were great tho.

[Joca97]

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For me its unrealistic that some amature teams play other amature teams and that teams like Partizan play really hard opponents and they earned a lot of points in the previous years in europe

yeah, we got two teams from top leagues that have no previous Europe experience, so ranked low, but could not get to Europe from Russia or Portugal league, if not strong
on the other hand, there are some pairs between Flora and Shamrock, Riga and Lincoln, Fola and Almaty

seems that draw was in direction to have some smaller teams in group stage, since Roma is playing Trabzon, Tottenham is playing Ferreira, PAOK is playing Rijeka, all teams that have better coefficient comparing to above mentioned

nevertheless, I believe that we will kick-out Santa Clara

@Joca97 I’m yet putting my head around this league and trying to figure how they have ranked the teams, but after reading @CasperBGD post I’m now starting to understand how they’re ranked. Also I feel that Roma will want to win this trophy, because I doubt they’ll qualify in top 4 hence winning this trophy is their best shot at winning something in this season.

This competition isnt weak at all. When the group stage starts from 4 teams in the group 1 team will probobly be weak. Other 3 teams will be strong,not as strong as the champions league but strong for this league. This is the first time this competition is being played so everyone will want to win it for the first time

[jostorres]

we got two teams from top leagues that have no previous Europe experience, so ranked low, but could not get to Europe from Russia or Portugal league, if not strong
on the other hand, there are some pairs between Flora and Shamrock, Riga and Lincoln, Fola and Almaty

seems that draw was in direction to have some smaller teams in group stage, since Roma is playing Trabzon, Tottenham is playing Ferreira, PAOK is playing Rijeka, all teams that have better coefficient comparing to above mentioned

nevertheless, I believe that we will kick-out Santa Clara

I guess there will be some teams that will get eliminated from the europa one and come here as well, so all in all, whatever happened until right now is just a small way of it, after that it will actually become something in the group stages. People are judging the play at the elimination stage right now, but the reality is that we are going to end up seeing some real football soon at group stages, but even if you do not like that, during the last 16, quarters, semi and finals will definitely be great football for sure, I do not think that you will see any "bad" teams at those stages, all the ones left will be great teams.

I understand that if you like to watch the top 5 leagues, this may not be good football for you, or your team may be at a higher level, but people like me, this is definitely good because my team could one day be here.

[LTU_btc]

with Rubin also out, and Spartak easily loss from Benfica, it is interesting what is happening to Russian club football?

Good question. Just some time ago they were Top 6th in UEFA League ranking and this year they are going to drop out of Top 10. Last season was disaster for the, from all clubs which played in Champions and Europa League they achieved just 1 win cobined, this season is going isn't much better. Some people say it's just their level, others blame limit of foreign players in Russian Premier League.

This competition isnt weak at all. When the group stage starts from 4 teams in the group 1 team will probobly be weak. Other 3 teams will be strong,not as strong as the champions league but strong for this league. This is the first time this competition is being played so everyone will want to win it for the first time

I'm still quite sceptical about this tournament. Europa League group stage usually isn't most exciting thing to watch, this tournament obviously won't be better. Probably only fans of teams which play there is going to watch it, especially because Europa League will be played on the same time.
I doubt that big clubs will give priority to Conference League and they aren't going to play with main players there. Probably they will only start paying more attention in final stages on tournament.

[cygan]

https://twitter.com/SweeperPod/status/1426480201677033473

raków will now face the belgian club gent and santa clara will meet partizan belgrade ... here a progress of the two teams would be a very big surprise

[Joca97]

https://twitter.com/SweeperPod/status/1426480201677033473

raków will now face the belgian club gent and santa clara will meet partizan belgrade ... here a progress of the two teams would be a very big surprise

Santa Clara is going against my team Partizan in the playoffs. But i think they have several players under covid from a week ago. I dont think they will be ready for the match against Partizan that is in a few days. While Partizan is in amazing form currently

[joker_josue]

Santa Clara is going against my team Partizan in the playoffs. But i think they have several players under covid from a week ago. I dont think they will be ready for the match against Partizan that is in a few days. While Partizan is in amazing form currently

Santa Clara is one of the weakest teams in the Portuguese league, with a winning percentage of 28~38% per season. Usually he struggles not to go down from the division or at least try to stay in the middle of the table. Last year, they performed well and finished the championship better than expected. And it has no international experience.

The same cannot be said for Partizan, besides being one of the main clubs in Serbia, it has experience in international competitions.
I believe that Partizan will beat Santa Clara, but there may be suppressions - I doubt it.

[W Jr.]

2 Turkish teams of my country also passed the qualifying round. Sivasspor eliminated Dinamo Batum with a goal in extra time. Trabzonspor, on the other hand, defeated Molde on penalties in the match in which he had great difficulty. The teams they matched for the next round are: Sivasspor - Copenhagen, Trabzonspor - AS Roma. I wish success to all teams.

[LTU_btc]

raków will now face the belgian club gent and santa clara will meet partizan belgrade ... here a progress of the two teams would be a very big surprise

Surprise, but not impossible. Gent struggled against RFS Riga. Rakow is better team than Riga, so I expect that it won't be easy for Gent. One interesting thing about Rakow - they scored just 1 goal in 4 qualifying games. They failed to score against Suduva in both games and scored against Rubin only in extra time.

[LTU_btc]

So, last qualifying round for Conference league and plenty of games today. Some my bets for today's games.
Rakow - Gent - under 2.5 @1.72
Zalgiris - Bodo/Glimt - over 2.5 @1.58
KuPS - Union Berlin - over 2.5 @1.72
Hapeol - Anarthosis - home win @1.82
Riga - Red Imps - over 2.5 @1.75
Fola - Kairat - away win @1.97
Trabzonspor - Roma - away win @1.67
Jablonec - Zilina - home win @1.82
Pacos De Ferreira - Tottenham - away win @1.67
It will be interesting to follow Mourinho debut in Roma, Spurs game also shouldf be interesting. And I only now realized that there is team from Gibraltar in final round of qualification - impressive achievemnt for them.

[leea-1334]

So, last qualifying round for Conference league and plenty of games today. Some my bets for today's games.
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It will be interesting to follow Mourinho debut in Roma, Spurs game also shouldf be interesting. And I only now realized that there is team from Gibraltar in final round of qualification - impressive achievemnt for them.

I like your picks, instead of picking a winner, go for over unders. I think better unders than overs though,,, these games are going to be very tight and even we saw only in the higher quality leagues we can see goalscorers.

Kane is not playing confirmed already,,, but should still win also but the away odds 1.6x reflects the low confidence of bookies. Which team is from Gibraltar?

[DU18]

2 Turkish teams of my country also passed the qualifying round. Sivasspor eliminated Dinamo Batum with a goal in extra time. Trabzonspor, on the other hand, defeated Molde on penalties in the match in which he had great difficulty. The teams they matched for the next round are: Sivasspor - Copenhagen, Trabzonspor - AS Roma. I wish success to all teams.

The match between Sivasspor against FC Copenhagen will be a difficult match for Sivasspor, because in my opinion FC Copenhagen currently has a pretty good performance in the danish league, especially in the last 5 matches they are unbeaten and this is different from what happened in the last match of Sivasspor which played bad enough that they lost 0-1 to konyaspor.
Actually the match between Trabzonspor vs Roma is what I'm waiting for the most, especially now Trabzonspor is reinforced by several players who have experience in various European competitions such as Hamsik and Gervinho who have played for Roma.
My prediction:
Trabzonspor 1 Vs 1 Roma
Sivasspor 0 Vs 3 Copenhagen

[ILuckyGuyI]

One of the interesting games today is Trabzonspor - Roma. As we all know, Roma are going to play their first official game of the season and it will be Mourinho's first game with the team also. Many people are wondering about how good they will start the season with their new manager. And I think that Trabzonspor are not a team to be underestimated by Roma. I'm expecting Trabzonspor to play really good in their home match in the first leg. Getting even a draw would be enough for Roma to be able to eliminate them I think. But if they lose, then things can be harder for them.

[casperBGD]

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Which team is from Gibraltar?

Lincoln Red Imps are from Gibraltar and playing Riga this afternoon

Partizan is playing in Portugal later tonight (22:30) with Santa Clara, and match should be interesting, Partizan is in good form, kicking-out Sochi, and Santa Clara does not have European experience, with low start draw with Moreirense in Portugal first round
I would add handicap on Feyenoord as well, it is a good value, thinking about Anderlecht home win as well

[Harkorede]

There are quite a number of enticing fixtures in the Europa Conference League today, Tottenham playing away at Ferreira offered @ 1.68 seem like the best bet today imo, Olympiacos against Slovan Bratislava in the Europa League qualifiers is another pick for me.

Tottenham ML @ 1.68
Olympiacos ML @ 1.42

[ingiltere]

There are quite a number of enticing fixtures in the Europa Conference League today, Tottenham playing away at Ferreira offered @ 1.68 seem like the best bet today imo, Olympiacos against Slovan Bratislava in the Europa League qualifiers is another pick for me.

Tottenham ML @ 1.68
Olympiacos ML @ 1.42

Tottenham odds looks odd -pun intended- to me. It's pretty high, I prefer to wait until official starting elevens are announced. Paços De Ferreira is a small club in Portugal but I don't know why they give Spurs win so much odds. Harry Kane will probably not play but if Heung-Min Son is also unavailable then it might be harder for them to win.
From what I've heard Harry Kane, Delle Ali, Lucas Moura, Hugo Lloris, Heung-Min Son, Eric Dier and Davinson Sanchez are unavailable but I couldn't confirm it yet. If that's the case then Spurs win may not be that easy, they are still favorite though and you can take the risk for 1.68 odds.

[Joca97]

A really juicy odd today is Partizan away win.3.00 odd currently i think this a realistic win due to Santa Clara still having lots of players under covid. Last game in the portugal league they had a total of 14 players i think it will be the same result for tonight as well. Due to Partizan playing really good i can see them easily winning tonight

[morvillz7z]

I was wondering why the odds for U2.5 on Qarabag/Aberdeen were so low (around 1.50x), given that the Scots play very attacking football (8 total goals in two matches last round with Breidablik)...and then i saw the pitch Qarabag play their home matches on 👀:

     
source: https://twitter.com/CormackDavie/status/1428050178754420738 (click on images for high-res)

Didn't Azerbaijan host a few matches from the Euro earlier this summer? I mean c'mon look at this pitch, why can't they just play in Baku (use Baku's Olympic Stadium) instead.

[tomahawk9]

Tottenham playing away at Ferreira offered @ 1.68 seem like the best bet today imo

Odds may look a bit generous, but Ferreira are actually a decent team, finished in top 5 in the local league last season...they shouldn't be underestimated

i actually like Roma ml at 1.9. First big game under Mou, the squad in high spirit and ready to show the new boss what they're capable of...i'm considering a single ticket 🤔
 
but i took a special earlier today on SB, "Basel, Roma, Feyenoord, Anderlecht & Tottenham All To Win @12". Looks good on paper, eh? pretty much all the big teams to win, but you just know an underdog is gonna rekt this special lol i reckon is gonna be Feyenoord, wouldnt be the first time they mess up one of my tickets