The last group matches saw 8 groups advance to the Europa League’s last 16, and another 8 head to the playoffs.
Published On 4 Nov 2022
UEFA Europa League
Results of Match 6 of the Group Stage:
- Midtjylland 2– 0 Sturm Graz
- Feyenoord 1– 0 Lazio
- Real Sociedad 0– 1 Manchester United
- Sheriff 1– 0 Omonia
- Olympiacos 0– 2 Nantes
- Qarabag 1– 1 Freiburg
- Trabzonspor 1– 0 Ferencvaros
- Monaco 4– 1 Crvena zvezda
- Arsenal 1– 0 Zurich
- Bodo/Glimt 1– 2 PSV
- Real Betis 3– 0 HJK
- Roma 3– 1 Ludogorets
- Dynamo Kyiv 0– 2 Fenerbahce
- Rennes 1– 1 Larnaca
- Union SG 0– 1 Union Berlin
- Braga 2– 1 Malmo
With Argentina’s Alejandro Garnacho scoring the video game’s only objective in the 17 th minute, Manchester United’s win versus Real Sociedad on Thursday night verified their location in the knock-out round of the UEFA Europa League.
Despite their away win at the Reale Arena in San Sebastian, nevertheless, United stopped working to surpass Sociedad and ended up second in Group E, with the Spanish group topping the group on objective distinction.
Both sides had 15 points after all 6 matches of the group phase of Europe’s second-tier club competition.
The 8 group winners have actually immediately reserved an area amongst the competitors’s last 16 groups, however the 8 runners-up from each group, consisting of United, need to now deal with the 8 third-placed groups from the top-tier Champions League group phases in order to advance.
In the group’s other match-up on Thursday night, Sheriff Tiraspol’s 1-0 win over Omonia sufficed to see them end up the group in 3rd to get approved for the third-tier UEFA Europa Conference League.
Disappointing Champions League runs for Ajax, Bayer Leverkusen, Barcelona, Sporting, Salzburg, Shakhtar Donetsk, Sevilla and Juventus have actually left a few of Europe’s leading groups contending for the last areas in the Europa League. A make use of November 7 will choose which groups relegated from the Champions League will play which Europa League group runner-up.
F is for Feyenoord
Elsewhere in Europe on Thursday, Holland’s Feyenoord and Denmark’s Midtjylland were the very best 2 sides in Group F on objective distinction, after all 4 groups– consisting of Italy’s Lazio and Sturm Graz of Austria– completed the group phase with 8 points each.
A 64 th-minute objective by Feyenoord’s Santiago Gimenez sealed the Dutch group’s win, while a brace for Anders Dreyer, Denmark’s lightning right-winger, saw off any obstacle to Midtjylland by Sturm Graz.
Midtjylland will head for the play-offs, while Lazio will be loading their bags for the Europa Conference League.
Win insufficient for Trabzonspor
Turkey’s Trabzonspor beat Hungary’s Ferencvaros 1-0 in the house, however might not leave a third-place surface in Group H, bagging 9 indicate reach the Europa Conference League.
Ferencvaros ended another extremely tight group phase with 10 points, directly beating Monaco to the leading area after the French side beat Serbia’s Crvena Zvezda 4-1.
Over in Group G, Egypt’s Mostafa Mohamed guaranteed a win for Nantes, offering an objective and a help in their 2-0 takedown of the group’s bottom-ranked side Olympiacos.
Nantes, on the other hand, protected a second-place surface in the group, to reach the playoff round, while Freiburg’s 1-1 draw versus Qarabag– a match brimming with the drama of a red card for Qarabag’s Valgeirsdottir and a 91 st-minute equaliser for the Azeri group– saw the Germans cruise through to win the group and book their location in the Europa League’s last 16.
Arsenal leading Group A
In Group A, Kieran Tierney’s 17 th-minute objective for Arsenal saw the London club into the last 16 with a 1-0 win over Zurich. PSV Eindhoven, in spite of resting numerous essential gamers ahead of a video game versus Ajax at the weekend, were hardly bothered in their 2-1 win over Norway’s Bodo/Glimt. PSV take the group’s 2nd area, while Bodo/Glimt head for the Conference.
Nabil Fekir’s 92 nd-minute objective contributed to the set scored by Aitor Ruibal in Real Betis’ 3-0 success over HJK Helsinki in Group C, leaving Betis top of the group and Helsinki at the bottom. And Roma’s 3-1 triumph over Ludogorets ended up with upsetting scenes as the Bulgarian group’s Olivier Verdon marked on Nicola Zalewski’s neck. Roma’s midfielder was really fortunate to prevent severe injury, while Verdon got a red card.
A 68 th-minute red for Dynamo Kyiv’s Ilya Zabarnyi did little for the Ukrainian group’s possibilities at capturing Fenerbahce after 2 very first half objectives left the Turkish club in Group B’s leading area. Rennes 1-1 draw with Larnaca was likewise enough to see the French side development to the playoff round.
And in Group D, the clash of the Unions– Saint Gilloise of Belgium versus Germany’s Union Berlin– was all over by the seventh minute after Michel scored an early winner for Berlin. Regardless of the outcome, Union SG top the group, with Berlin 2nd. Braga’s 2-1 win over Malmo left Braga in 3rd, with Sweden’s most effective football club now out of European competitors.
Group winners through to last 16:
- Arsenal
- Betis
- Fenerbahçe
- Ferencváros
- Feyenoord
- Freiburg
- Real Sociedad
- Union Saint-Gilloise
Playoffs vs Champions League 3rd-place finishers:
- Manchester United
- Midtjylland
- Monaco
- Nantes
- PSV
- Rennes
- Roma
- Union Berlin
Europa Conference League:
- AEK Larnaca
- Bodø/ Glimt
- Braga
- Lazio
- Ludogorets
- Qarabağ
- Sheriff
- Trabzonspor
Out:
- Crvena Zvezda
- Dynamo Kyiv
- HJK
- Malmö
- Olympiacos
- Omonia
- Sturm
- Zurich
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