Sentences with phrase «into europa league»

Five of Benfica's last six seasons in the Champions League have resulted in group stage elimination and falling into the Europa League thereafter.

A Juan Mata goal gave Manchester United a 1 - 0 win over Rostov at Old Trafford to send them into the Europa League quarterfinals.

But he was persuaded undertake a second spell as manager of AZ, following a short tenure during the 2009 - 10 season, and inherits a team two games into a Europa League group campaign.

A Juan Mata goal gave Manchester United a 1 - 0 win over Rostov at Old Trafford to send them into the Europa League quarterfinals with a 2 - 1 victory on aggregate on Thursday.

Unless that is we manage to get into the Europa League again and make it all the way through without meeting part - time Romanian opposition.

In an injury free season, he provides his team with assists and goals and lifts the club into a Europa League position.

Despite the very real threat of dropping into the Europa League in the new year,... More Gunners have hope to take to Greece

«Everton is a really strong team but they played three games in seven days and it is not easy, also because they played very tough games against Man City and then a qualification match into the Europa League, and it is very important for a club to play in Europe for the season.

The likes of Manchester United, Shakhtar Donetsk, Galatasaray, Bayer Leverkusen, Sevilla and Valencia all crashed out last week, with all of those teams dropping into the Europa League.

Man United Advanced Into Europa League Final After Eliminating Celta Manchester United are one step away from finishing their season with another trophy as Jose Mourinho's men made it into Europa League final.

Both these sides were victorious in midweek, with Chelsea beating Spartak Moscow on Wednesday night 4 - 1 to ensure they were one of the first to qualify for the knock - outs as 24 hours later Liverpool were enhancing their chances of progression into the Europa League knock - outs courtesy of a 3 - 1 comeback win over Italian improver's Napoli at Anfield.

An impressive 2 - 0 win over Bayern in the final game was not enough, as Napoli's 2 - 0 win in Spain meant that City would bow out into the Europa League, where they would lose to Sporting Lisbon on the away goals rule in the round of 16.

Liverpool take a healthy two goal lead into the Europa League second leg against Manchester United, but can be rest assured that things won't be easy at Old Trafford, as the Old Enemy will look to pull all straps to ensure that they knock the Reds out of contention for their last piece of silverware for the season.

Since Gennaro Gattuso was appointed in late November, the club has crawled back up the table with Sunday's night's 1 - 0 win over Sampdoria taking them into the Europa League zone in seventh on 41 points along with sixth placed Sampdoria.

Roma, in third, lost away 2 - 1 to Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League midweek, and host AC Milan who have hit a rich vein of form under coach Gennaro Gattuso and are into the Europa League last 16.

It is, however, highly unlikely; Roberto Mancini's will still be licking their wounds following Tuesday's 2 - 1 defeat to Napoli in Italy, a result which leaves them on the cusp of dropping into the Europa League, while Liverpool will be buoyed by their recent success over Chelsea in London.

Two goals from Danny Welbeck and one from Granit Xhaka see Arsenal into the Europa League quarterfinals.

After beginning the season in the Champions League, Donetsk were handed a tough group featuring Real Madrid and Paris Saint - Germain before dropping into the Europa League.

I hope they are already secretely talking to him because we don't need a long wait (especially if we do go into the europa league) This option has all the necesary experience and sucess rate we need.

The Blues are now tenth in the Premier League and Hiddink has given his players the task of getting into the Europa League places now.

Arsène Wenger has urged his players «not to forget» their qualities as they head into the Europa League tie that represents their last chance to salv -LRB-...)

It would put the Blues into the Europa League group stage, which isn't exactly the greatest prize, but it's still something.

As ever, the third - placed team in the group will automatically go into the Europa League round of 32, while the eight group winners and runners - up advance to the knock - out rounds of the 2014/15 Champions League.

United do not really want to be in the Europa League, but with the final played at the Friends Arena in Solna, Stockholm, Zlatan Ibrahimovic's home country, perhaps United will aim to take advantage of the automatic Champions League place for the winner of the competition and rival Sevilla, who may fall back into the Europa League themselves and try to win it for a fourth successive time?

Getting out of the group will be tough, and we will need to keep an eye on the Champions League as the third placed teams in the group fall into the Europa League, which will make the knockout stages tougher.

The Champions League is the highest level, and now we have gone into the Europa League.

Last season, United had to qualify for the UEFA Champions League from the play - off stage, beating Club Brugge 7 - 1 on aggregate to reach the group stages of the Champions League, where they did not qualify for the knockout stages, falling into the Europa League from the round of 32.

This time the Red Devils are as far back as seventh, struggling to even get into a Europa League spot, let alone compete for the title, while under the tutelage of Northern Irishman Rodgers, Liverpool have consolidated their position at the top of the table and are now in a genuinely great position to win the championship for the first time in the Premier League era.

While Benfica have lost some key players this summer, you couldn't blame their supporters for feeling the Eagles had enough in their squad to qualify ahead of both Basel and CSKA, or atleast finish third and move into the Europa League.

Drew 2 - 2 with Young Boys in the qualifying round, but lost on penalties and so went into the Europa League group stage.

United squeezed out into the Europa League final with a 1 - 1 draw against Celta Vigo.

Poor old Ronald Koeman took Everton into the Europa League positions last season, but after a summer when he had to sell his prolific striker Romelu Lukaku he failed to bring in a suitable replacement and the Dutchman was sacked after dropping into the relegation zone after being destroyed by Arsenal last weekend.

Finishing top of the fairplay league, gets you into the Europa league, qualify stage?

Inter have seen a dramatic fall from the heights of their Champions League successes of 2010 under Jose Mourinho, barely scrapping into the Europa League this season.

The performance level, the fact they are out of the Champions League and the fact they now go into the Europa League, which is going to do nothing but harm them in the Premier League.

They finished eighth in their first season, but their victory in the Svenska Cupen sent them into the Europa League.

A dream that regularly finishes at the top of mid-table, that puts together occasional cup runs, that makes it into the Europa League and occasionally threatens to break into the Champions League.

If peradventure, Arsenal fell into the Europa League and still win the title or come 2nd or 3rd in the table this season, and yet fail to win the Europa League.

On to Europe... We are on the verge of going into the Europa League if we do nt beat Olympiacos away (which we have failed to do 3 times out of 3) plus now with Koscielny and Alexis injured (plus the rest), we have a great chance even more now with them missing, don't we?!

The 60 - year - old, who took Bolton into the Europa League ten years ago, said that the fact they were in contention for the spot was a nod to the positive football that has been on show at Upton Park this season.

Let's be honest, once the owner of the club is selling your best players what normally follows is a decline into the Europa League, Wenger made sure that never happened.

Watching Sky post match analysis yesterday, they were mentioning about getting 3rd place in the group and going into Europa League.

At the same time, though, you could say that we have looked further away than ever from winning the Premier League title or getting any closer to the Champions League, so after last season saw us drop into the Europa League for the first time in two decades the frustration of many fans is understandable.

We get thumped 5 or 6 times every season and get humiliated in the Champions league last 16 every season then we drop out of the champions league into the Europa league..

I believe that Arsenal will switch from an UCL club into a europa league club.

The flip side of that, of course, is that Arsene Wenger wants his team to be able to play with freedom as we have everything to gain and most people expect us to come up short and drop into the Europa League.

A combination of the right result and useful game time for fringe players suggests that Arsenal may not be too sorry to have dropped into the Europa League after all.

The Portuguese giants go into the Europa League clash with a 1 - 0 advantage against the Eredivise side and Markovic is expected to be named in the starting line up.

Southampton have squandered a golden opportunity to get back into their Europa League clash with Inter Milan this evening.

Arsenal take their very first entry into the Europa League draw after playing in the Champions League for the last twenty years, so it will be a very unusual season for Gunners fans, especially the ones that like to go to all our European away games.