The Champions League campaign this week would always be a difficult action to follow, but the Europa League certainly gave him a good crack.
Once again there was a lot of British representation on Thursday evening when Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and Rangers wanted to make all progress to reach the semi -finals.
This competition represents their last hope for all three clubs. Tottenham and United are stuck in the Premier League swing fire, while Rangers had difficulty putting Celtic a glove in the Scottish Premiership. It was a miserable season for the trio, but Europe could still prove to be a saving grace.
However, the hard competition remains in search of Europa League-Ruhm, and each of its respective quarterfinal bonds is in balance after the first legs. As well as Opta evaluate the chances that the remaining teams will win the competition after the results on Thursday.
Rank | team | Opportunities to achieve semi -finals (%) | Opportunities to finally achieve | Opportunities to win the Europa League (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Athletic Club | 75.1 | 41.4 | 23.9 |
2. | Man utd | 63.1 | 34.2 | 19.6 |
3. | Tottenham | 45.6 | 28.5 | 14.5 |
4. | Eintracht Frankfurt | 54.4 | 29.4 | 12.9 |
5. | Bodo/Glimt | 72.9 | 28.0 | 11.3 |
6. | Lyon | 36.9 | 18.0 | 8.8 |
7. | Lazio | 27.1 | 14.1 | 6.7 |
8. | Rangers | 24.9 | 6.4 | 3.3 |
The projection supplied by grandpa is based on 10,000 simulations that are carried out by your supercomputer. In these simulations, the La Liga Outfit Athletic Club raised the Europa League Trophy in most – 23.9% of cases. These are not good news for Rangers who visit San Mames next week after he has somehow kept Ernesto Valverdes side a targetless draw at Ibrox.
Opta evaluates Athletic’s opportunities to reach the last four with 75.1%, but the GERS have impressively removed this competition this season in this competition. Nevertheless, their chances of going all the way are lowest at 3.3%.
Tottenham was frustrated by Eintracht Frankfurt in North London, but they recovered from an early deficit. Pedro Porro canceled Hugo Ekitikes Exquisite Opener, and Spurs showed well in the second half without reward. In Germany, mammoth effort will require to advance, and Opta supports Frankfurt for progress (54.4% chance to make it).
Interestingly, Opta believes that Spurs has a better chance of winning the competition than the Bundesliga team, which went all the way in 2022. The computer clearly has no idea how the LilyWhites are on the big stage.
On the opposite side of the draw, the 2-2 draw by MAN UTD in Lyon was anything but catastrophic, but they should lead to Old Trafford with them. Nevertheless, Opta United gives a 63.1% chance of reaching the Semis and they are classified as the second favorite to win the competition. However, they will probably be suspended in the last four.
The only team that prevailed on Thursday was Bodo/Glimt, who had added more misery to Italian opposition in the Arctic circle. Lazio fell against a 2-0 defeat in Norway and is now a big outsider. The winners of the league phase only have 27.1 chances to make it, and only a chance of 6.7%to raise the trophy.