Nick Hennion of The Action Network shares his best bets for Thursday's Europa League quarterfinal matches.
Further, of the eight remaining Europa League sides, West Ham has notched the third-most expected goals. Plus, it arrives at Thursday’s visit to Frankfurt on a 13-match unbeaten run (W10-D3) and has created at least one expected goal in all 13 matches. With Barcelona’s defense playing as well as it is, expect an easy victory for the visitors tomorrow. I’m fairly certain West Ham will be able to score here as Lyon has conceded the fifth-most road expected goals in Ligue 1 and is due for a sizable amount of negative defensive regression (19 road goals against on 25 road xG against). In 12 fixtures against sides ranked 2-7 in last year’s Bundesliga table and Europa League knockout round participants this year, Frankfurt is conceding 1.67 xG/90 minutes, per fbref.com. Further, it has struggled defensively this season against top Bundesliga sides + top Europa League teams.
The Europa League is back with some intriguing quarterfinal matches. Among them include tournament favorites Barcelona taking on Eintracht Frankfurt.
With six of the eight teams not in a position to qualify for the Champions League domestically, the Europa League allows them a shorter route back to football’s premier club competition. I would not be surprised to see the Hammers produce more magic, but for now I have to go with the French side. Despite finishing third in their Champions League group, the Catalans have dispatched Napoli and Galatasaray en route to this round. With that said, I will go with the Portuguese side to get their revenge. Semifinalists in 2018/19, they are another side who are rather solid in the Europa League. Topping a group which featured Fenerbahce, Olympiakos and Antwerp, defeat of Real Betis presented them their hardest challenge yet. Lifting the trophy in Seville might just be Lyon’s only real chance to get back into Europe next season. Braga are an established Europa League team and are a tricky club to meet in this competition. This is the perfect time for the Germans to take the pitch in continental play. Also failing to end up atop of their Europa League group, they impressed against Borussia Dortmund and Crvena zvezda to get to this point. Consistency has been hard to come by for the Bergamaschi. With six reverses in 2022, it is quite difficult to call which Atalanta side we will see across the two ties. A more than decent chance at the semifinals is still possible for the Glaswegians. Turning things around against Sheriff in the knockout playoffs, they outdid Monaco in the previous round.
Europa League fixtures on Thursday: West Ham vs Lyon (8pm), Braga vs Rangers (8pm); Europa Conference League fixture: Leicester vs PSV (8pm); ...
Braga and Rangers' only previous meeting in Europe came at the Last 32 stage of the UEFA Europa League in 2019-20, with Rangers winning home and away. Barcelona's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has scored 24 goals in the UEFA Europa League, with none of them coming from the penalty spot. But we know what the problem is, how long he’s out, and we have to move on. The 27-year-old Portuguese striker has scored 18 this season and has netted almost 80 goals in total since joining the club from Malaga in 2016. Overall, Rangers have progressed from 6/11 quarter-finals in Europe. This will be West Ham's fifth quarter-final tie in European competition, progressing from three of the previous four. “Of course, it is a big blow to us because he is our striker and we now don’t have him any more this season. All six of Atalanta's previous matches against German teams have come in the knockout stages of European competitions - they eliminated Cologne in the last 16 of the UEFA Cup in 1990-91, were eliminated by Borussia Dortmund in the Last 32 of the UEFA Europa League in 2017-18, and eliminated Bayer Leverkusen in the previous round of this competition last time out. That’s the only thing we have to do now." At the time, they were only the second side to beat Braga home and away in the knockout rounds of the UEFA Europa League (also Shakhtar Donetsk in 2015-16). Lyon (+8.5) and West Ham (+8.2) rank first and second for total expected goals differential this season in the UEFA Europa League (16.1 xG and 7.6 xGA for Lyon, 16.2 xG and 8 xGA for West Ham) Europa League fixtures on Thursday: West Ham vs Lyon (8pm), Braga vs Rangers (8pm); Europa Conference League fixture: Leicester vs PSV (8pm); follow the matches in our dedicated live blog
A look at what's happening in European soccer on Thursday: EUROPA LEAGUE. Barcelona resumes its bid to win the one European trophy missing from its ...
Bodø/Glimt also earned a draw in the return match in Italy, and has eliminated Celtic and AZ Alkmaar in the knockout stage. Barcelona resumes its bid to win the one European trophy missing from its collection with a trip to Eintracht Frankfurt in the first leg of the Europa League quarterfinals. EUROPA CONFERENCE LEAGUE
While West Ham dreams of returning to a first European final in almost half a century, its French opponent Lyon will find strength in its recent pedigree...
Çerez ayarlarınızı daha fazla öğrenmek veya değiştirmek için ayarlar bölümünden devam edebilirsiniz. Lyon has a fantastic recent pedigree in Europe, reaching the Champions League semifinals in 2020 and the last four of the Europa League in 2017. It's fantastic." "It's very exciting. While West Ham dreams of returning to a first European final in almost half a century, its French opponent Lyon will find strength in its recent pedigree in Europe, reaching the Champions League semifinals in 2020 It has not seen a European quarterfinal in the east end of London since 1981, when second-division West Ham lost to eventual winners Dinamo Tbilisi in the last eight of the Cup Winners Cup.
Barcelona are back under Xavi Hernandez, or so it would appear, and the Europa League could well be the first piece of silverware they win under the ...
Going strong in the Premier League, the Hammers look capable of going the distance in the Europa League, and were boosted by Jarrod Bowen’s goalscoring return in the weekend’s win over Everton. To reach the semis, Leipzig must first overcome Atalanta, the surprise packages of the Champions League in 2020, who dropped down to the Europa League this season after finishing behind Manchester United and Villarreal in Group F. A 13-game unbeaten has Barcelona deemed the bookmakers' favourites for the Europa League, but they will not get it all their own way, and while they plan to overcome Eintracht Frankfurt in the quarter-finals this Thursday and next, there are other teams that look capable of troubling them if they were to advance…
BARCELONA manager Xavi is adamant that Rangers are firmly in contention to lift this season's Europa League.
Xavi told the Daily Record: “People will say Barcelona are favourites because of history and they are used to seeing us play in the Champions League – but this is not the Champions League. We are contenders, we have a big chance, but I will not sit here and say we are favourites. BARCELONA manager Xavi is adamant that Rangers are firmly in contention to lift this season's Europa League. Rangers are Europa League contenders, insists Barcelona boss Xavi
The legendary former midfielder said the quality of opposition in the last eight is "very strong"
You can enter once each week to be in with a chance of winning. For your chance to win HOME tickets to cinch SPFL matches each week across ALL FOUR divisions just enter our competition below. He said: "People will say Barcelona are favourites because of history and they are used to seeing us play in the Champions League – but this is not the Champions League.
Legendary World Cup winner and Barcelona manager Xavi has warned clubs about writing off Rangers in the Europa League.
“As somebody who has played in Glasgow, nobody is going to get an easy time against Rangers. But it is a competition we are taking seriously and want to win.” “The quarter-finals are very strong and at this stage everybody involved will feel they have a chance to win. “We are contenders, we have a big chance, but I will not sit here and say we are favourites.
We're at the quarter-final stage of the Europa League as the likes of RB Leipzig, Barcelona, Atalanta and West Ham seek to write their name into the history ...