Israeli football has no representatives left in the European establishments, but our legionnaires continue to do honor and some of them are fighting for the third most important title – the Conference League. Lior Rafalov, Omri Altman and Aden Kartsev will participate in the round of 16 of the factory and now it’s time to sort out what awaits them.
First, the dry details. The draw for the round of 16 of the Conference League will be held today and will include 16 teams: eight of them secured their qualification with victories in the playoff stage while another eight automatically qualified for this stage because they finished at the top of their Conference League house.
Accordingly, the teams that finished first in the conference league will be ranked and will only be able to meet one of the eight teams that qualified through the playoffs. For that matter, Lior Rafalov and Anderlecht will not be able to meet Larnaca and Omari Altman, but Aden Kartsev, who joined Bashkortostan in the winter window, will be able to face one of these two teams.
The ranked teams: West Ham, Nice, Alkmaar, Slovan Bratislava, Villarreal, Djurgarden, Sivasspor, Istanbul in Shakhtar (Karcev).
The unranked teams: Sherif Tiraspol, Lazio, Fiorentina, Lech Poznan, Basel, Ghent, Larnaca (Altman), Anderlecht (Raphalov).