The UEFA Champions League has already closed for the year, and today it’s the Europa League’s turn.As usual, all matches are played on Thursday, all except one: Fenerbahçe vs Athletic Club.
The match was played yesterday, Wednesday, to avoid two UEFA matches being played simultaneously in the same city, Istanbul – the other was Istanbul Basaksehir in the Conference League. Yesterday, Athletic Club Bilbao won 0-2, with two goals from Iñaki Williams, making them the temporary league leaders.
Among today’s most interesting matches, we have Viktoria Plzeň vs Manchester United, two teams with the same number of points, 9. Ruben Amorim still has chances to break into the top eight after two consecutive victories.
Two European top teams, Lyon and Eintracht Frankfurt (second in the Bundesliga), meet for the first time today, and both are among the top 8. Another matchup between two top 8 teams is Ajax vs Lazio.
at the same time, Real Sociedad has a golden chance to climb the table as they face dinamo Kiev, the only team with 0 points.
Remember that the new format of the Europa League operates in the same way as the Champions League. This means that teams ranked 1-8 gain preferential access to the round of 16 (with a home match in the return leg), teams ranked 25-36 are eliminated, and teams ranked between 9 and 24 are seeded in the same way we explained here.
All Europa league matches for Thursday, December 12
The matches are played at 18:45 CET, 1 hour before Norwegian time
- Roma vs Braga
- Viktoria Plzeň vs Manchester United
- Malmö vs Galatasaray
- Olympiakos vs Twente
- PAOK vs Ferencváros
- Ludogorets vs AZ Alkmaar
- Union SG vs Nice
- Hoffenheim vs FCSB
The matches are played at 21:00 CET, 1 hour earlier in British time
- Ajax vs Lazio
- Porto vs Midtjylland
- Bodø/Glimt vs Beşiktaş
- Elfsborg vs Qarabağ
- Maccabi Tel Aviv vs RFS
- Lyon vs Eintracht Frankfurt
- Rangers vs Tottenham Hotspur
- Real Sociedad vs Dynamo Kiev
- Slavia Praha vs Anderlecht
UEFA Europa League