Archive for the ‘Europa League’ Category

Bucharest National Arena

Inaugural match for Europa League final stadium

Today’s match Romania vs. France will be the first one played on the new National Arena, the Bucharest stadium which will host Europa League’s 2012 final on May 9. The stadium was supposed to be inaugurated on August 10 with a friendly match of Romania against Messi’s Argentina, but the match was cancelled due to [...]

Europa League 2nd leg results

Sevilla, Rangers and Sparta Praha are OUT! But the biggest surprise I think is Rome, which is out too. Who bet on that happening could be a rich man. Roman rivals Lazio succeeded an 9-1 aggregate after a 3-1 away win. Schalke recovered afer losing 0-2 in the first leg and crushed HJK 6-1. Trabzonspor [...]

UEFA Super Cup: Is Porto going to make it against Barcelona?

Today in Monaco Porto will try to stop Barcelona’s domination in recent European football inthis year’s UEFA Super Cup. Considered by many (including me) the best team in the world at the moment, Barcelona got even stronger after the arrivals of Fabregas from Arsenal and Sanchez from Udinese. But Barca won’t be able to use [...]

Broken Hearts: 0-5 vs. Tottenham – Match Highlights

Tottenham is on their way to the Europa League’s groups, with nothing to worry about next week’s match.

Europa League play-offs 1st leg

While Lazio, PSG, Tottenham and Fulham have a very easy job in next week’s game, other favourites didn’t perform just as well. It is the case of Sparta Praha (which lost 2-0 to Vaslui), Roma (lost 1-0 against Slovan) and maybe Panathinaikos (lost 3-0 to Maccabi Tel-Aviv). Sevilla and Rosenborg were also expectd to do [...]