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Group A
B Group
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Group I
Group J.
Group K
Group L
12:12 pm.- Ciro Ferrara, former Juventus player, will collaborate in the draw, in a ceremony that is in charge of the Portuguese Pedro Pinto.
12:07 pm – Inter forward Romelu Lukaku was voted Europa League Player of the Year. Banega and Bruno Fernandes were the other nominees.
12h04 – Before the draw, UEFA will show images from last season’s competition, with special emphasis on Sevilla, the competition’s winner.
11:51 am – The draw will start in a few minutes.
– Regarding the format, no changes. The group stage consists of 12 groups of four teams, the first two will advance to the round of 32, along with the third classified from the eight groups of the Champions League.
– Due to the covid-19 pandemic, the group stage of the second UEFA competition will only start on October 22, and everything will be decided in eight weeks: three consecutive, two interregnum and three more ‘streak’. The dates are October 22 (first day), October 29 (Monday), November 5 (third), November 26 (Wednesday), December 3 (Thursday) and December 10 (Friday and last).
– In Pot 4 are Cluj, Lille, Nice, Rijeka, Dundalk, Slovan Liberec, Antwerp, Lech Poznan, Sivasspor, Wolfsberger, Omonia and CSKA Sofia.
– In addition to these two sets, Granada, AZ Alkmaar, Feyenoord, AEK Athens, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Rangers, Molde, Hoffenheim, Hapoel Beer Sheva and Zorya are also in the third ‘echelon’.
– In Pot 3, there are the ‘executioners’ of Sporting and Rio Ave in the ‘play-off’, respectively LASK, who beat Alvalade by expressive 4-1, and AC Milan, winner in Vila do Conde by 9-8 on penalties, after 2-2 at the end of extra time.
– The other teams are Dinamo Zagreb, Sparta Prague, Slavia Prague, Ludogorets, Young Boys, Red Star, Rapid Vienna, Leicester, Qarabag, Standard Liège and Real Sociedad.
– Regarding Pot 2, there are 12 possible opponents, including PAOK, the team that eliminated the red in the third qualifying round of the Champions League (2-1 in Thessaloniki), and then fell in the play-off against Krasnodar .
– The players of Red and Arsenal are the main favorites and cannot find Arsenal, Tottenham by José Mourinho, Roma, Paulo Fonseca, Napoli, Bayer Leverkusen, Villarreal, CSKA Moscow, Gent, PSV and Celtic.
-In terms of results, the Reds reached two finals, which they lost to Chelsea (2012/13) and Seville (2013/14), in the first ‘era’ of Jesus, and the ‘Arsenalists’ to 100% Portuguese. , lost (0-1) against FC Porto (2010/11).
– Benfica, which had been in the last 10 editions of the Champions League, has only the second presence in the group stage, 11 years later, repeating the first season (2009/10) under the command of Jorge Jesús, and Sp Braga to sixth and second in a row.
– Benfica and Sp. Braga, the only Portuguese representatives in the Europa League, after the elimination of Sporting and Rio Ave, today face their rivals in the group stage, in a draw scheduled for Nyon, in Switzerland, starting at 12 noon.
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