The ‘Super’ Europa League is coming!?

It’s already known that a number of Europe’s top clubs will miss out on the Champions League knockout stage and, at best, will have to settle for the Europa League. So, the second Old Continent club competition will probably get a beautiful table with a lot of interesting crossings, some of which may be even better than those in Champions.

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Who is getting down from the CL?

The noisiest cases are those of Barcelona, ​​Atlético Madrid, and Juventus, who a match before the end ran out of chances of advancing to the second round in the Champions League. In the cases of Atleti and Juve, they did not even secure third place and could also be left out of the Europa League if they do not show their faces on the last day.

Another team to fear will be Sampaoli’s Sevilla, who have won a record six titles in the competition. Let’s not forget about Ajax, the largest Dutch club and a four-time winner of the Champions League. Both, unless miracles happen, will be playing in the Europa League early next year.

How are things looking on the EL?

The top team from each group advances to the round of 16, while the second-place team from each group advances to the round of 32 to face one of the eight relegated teams from the Champions League.

Manchester United and Arsenal are two of the strongest teams waiting in the next round.

Betis, Freiburg, Union Saint-Gilloise, and Ferencváros have already guaranteed themselves first place and a spot in the next round. Arsenal, PSV, Manchester United, Fenerbahce, Rennes, and Real Sociedad are the other teams that will qualify. All of them will decide if they will move on as group leaders or if they will move on as second place and play the third place team in the Champions League.

Roma deserves special attention because on Thursday, they will be in a hand-to-hand battle with Ludogorets for second place.

The competition will restart its activities some weeks after the World Cup, on the 16th of February.