Europa League draw LIVE: Liverpool get Atalanta, while Europe’s most-wanted manager Xabi Alonso is headed to West Ham with Leverkusen… plus Conference League draw to come
Observe Mail Sport’s reside weblog for the quarter and semi-final draw of the 2023-24 Europa League and Convention League. Liverpool, West Ham, Aston Villa, Rangers and Bayer Leverkusen will all study their quarter-final destiny this morning.
Liverpool can be the ‘residence facet’ within the last
Not that it will influence the sport all an excessive amount of, but when Liverpool and West Ham do each get to the ultimate, the Reds can be named because the hosts.
Only a formality, after all.
West Ham might tackle AC Milan in SF 2
the victor of Milan or Roma would be the residence facet towards Bayer Leverkusen or West Ham, which means.
And yep, no shocks from the balls, and that is affirmation of that one.
SF might see Liverpool in motion
Now it is timew for the semi-final match ups…
First up in semi-final No 1 would be the winner of Benfica vs Marseille towards the victor of Liverpool towards Atalanta!
Benfica vs Marseille
And that after all us leaves us with Benfica, who come out first, and the Portuguese facet will face Marseille!
Leverkusen vs West Ham!
Quarter-final No 3 now, and it is Leverkusen up first.
Who will the unbeaten facet be taking up?
West Ham are the subsequent identify out!
Mark Noble would not look too fussed by that one…
Liverpool vs Atalanta!
And subsequent up is, oh, three-time winners Liverpool.
Jurgen Klopp and Co will face… Atalanta!
AC Milan vs Roma!
First identify out is… AC Milan!
And the Italian giants will face Roma!
No nation safety
reminder, there isn’t a nation safety for this draw, which means two sides from the identical nation can face each other.
Proper then, let’s get some names out, we could?
It is Fernando Llorente!
The Spanish striker who gained the Europa League with Sevilla in 2015-16, however can even be fondly reminded for his objectives for Swansea within the Premier League not too way back.
Llorente is a veteran of two Europa League finals, successful simply the one in every of them, and speaks of his love for the match.
He has 18 objectives to his identify within the competitors, and shock shock, has tipped Liverpool or Leverkusen to go all the best way this yr.
Time for our particular visitor…
The ultimate this yr can be performed in Dublin, on the approriately named Dublin Area.
That is after all the ultimate Europa League earlier than the change in format throughout the three competitions, as we’re reminded nearly ominously earlier than the announcement of the particular visitor…
Underway in Switzerland
Effectively we’re underway in Nyon, Switzerland as we’re handled to a rundown of all the very best motion from the earlier spherical from the Europa League, which can be drawn first off.
A number of well-known faces within the crowd, too, and we have nonetheless acquired the particular visitor to fulfill!
Excellent news Liverpool followers
I am positive that is precisely the information that each different workforce within the draw hoped to learn.
Klopp has claimed that Salah ‘is not going to cease’ scoring objectives.
A kind of that form of would not actually should be stated, that.
Salah has scored 20 in 31 video games this time period in all competitions to take his Liverpool tally to a staggering 206 in 336, plus one other 92 assists.
Learn extra on that one beneath…
FIVE MINUTES TO GO!
All you draw lovers on the market will know there’s not significantly better than a match theme tune.
This is a pleasant little clip from the Europa League to get yourselves within the temper with simply 5 minutes to go till we begin the ceremonies…
This is an fascinating one.
There’s been a battle to safe a fifth Champions League spot subsequent season by advantage of coefficient scores throughout the highest leagues.
Primarily, leagues with golf equipment that carry out effectively in Europe can earn extra coefficient factors which are ranked towards different divisions, with England and Germany trailling Italy for that fifth spot, with the UCL increasing to 36 groups subsequent season.
Nevertheless, with Villa, Liverpool and West Ham all making it deep into the Europa and Convention Leagues – in addition to Arsenal and Man Metropolis within the UCL – the Premier League is choosing up extra factors and has since pulled forward of germany.
As such, West Ham’s success might imply a lift to their close to rivals Tottenham, who’re presently in fifth spot…
Learn extra on the hyperlink beneath for extra on that one…
Loads of objectives within the Europa League final evening
Leverkusen managed the one actually notable comeback of the spherical within the Europa League final evening, however there have been nonetheless loads of objectives on supply.
West Ham got here into their conflict with Freiburg 1-0 down however 5 objectives – together with that Kudus stunner – rapidly put away the Bundesliga outfit with a dominant 5-1 win in east London.
Equally, Liverpool beat Sparta Prague 6-1 at residence to win 11-2 on mixture, whereas Brighton beat Roma 1-0 however have been unable to overturn the 4-0 deficit, because the Seagulls got here crashing right down to earth.
A grand complete of 30 objectives throughout the eight video games final evening!
One of many nice European comebacks
At first look this simply appears to be like like a traditional run of outcomes from the earlier spherical, would not it?
Check out that one down the underside between Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Oympiacos – the guests had been overwhelmed 4-1 on residence turf however managed to show it round, making it 4-1 on the evening earlier than forcing further time and sealing an impressive 6-1 win – 7-5 on mixture!
Actually makes that 0-0 mixture draw between Viktoria Plzen and Servette look that little bit extra drab, would not it?
We have nonetheless acquired about half an hour to go till we get just a few names on the board in these competitions so…
Be at liberty to get your heads around the draw from the Champions League, the much less spectacular, much less prestigious older brother of the mighty Europa and Convention Leagues, which has solely simply come to an finish!
There are some scintillating ties on supply, to not point out Arsenal vs Bayern Munich and Man Metropolis vs Actual Madrid – and who might overlook a replay of the icnoic La Remontada sport beetween Barcelona and PSG?!
Verify all of it out beneath…
All able to go
We’re all prepared for the draw to get going as evidenced by two almost similar movies…
Who’s within the hat?
So which 16 groups are going into the hats?
Check out these two handily put collectively graphics which present you the contenders, and there are some enormous names in there.
Liverpool and West Ham bear the Premier League flag for the Europa League, whereas Aston Villa are doing the identical within the Convention League.
Some large names although to attempt to get previous within the Europa League, with AC Milan, Atalanta, Benfica, Marseille, Roma and unbeaten Leverkusen all within the combine.
Two staggering objectives this week
But it surely was additionally a spherical of gorgeous objectives within the Europa League and Convention League this week.
Check out these two choices from each competitions and see in the event you can decide a winner.
That Kudus one is fairly particular for my cash.
One of many nice moments in European soccer
It is a nice one to kick us off.
Bayer Leverkusen scraped by way of to the last-eight of the Europa League and preserved their treasured unbeaten file within the course of, nevertheless it was a sport that noticed one of many biggest moments in European membership soccer historical past.
In an extremely, skin-crawlingly awkward passage, Qarabag defender Elvin Cafarguliyev was left hanging by Anthony Taylor earlier than being despatched off in a double whammy – compounded additional by the very fact his facet have been knocked out of the competitors in added time.
Learn the story beneath for extra on that one!
Good morning!
Welcome everybody to this morning’s Europa League and Convention League draw protection, which we can be bringing to you reside as names come out of balls.
Stick round as we construct as much as the ceremony and convey you all the newest information from UEFA’s second and third tier competitions!
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Europa League draw LIVE: Liverpool get Atalanta, whereas Europe’s most-wanted supervisor Xabi Alonso is headed to West Ham with Leverkusen… plus Convention League draw to come back