This week, the European competition has begun a new season of competition, the Champions League has begun the first round of the group stage, and the Europa League and the European Cup are about to start the group stage competition. Compared to the Champions League's multi-game showdown between the giants, the Europa League seems to be much inferior, but there are also strong dialogues in the first round. Manchester United, which has recently improved, will face Real Sociedad in La Liga at Old Trafford. Arsenal and Roma, which are more vocal about winning the title, meet weaker opponents, but both teams need to be careful to guard against the occurrence of unpopularity.
This is because in the eight games on the first day of the Champions League group stage, three cold results have been born, the Bundesliga's Leipzig has swallowed four goals at home, and Chelsea, who has been unable to win consecutive games in the Premier League, has lost a goal on the road, both of which have suffered the Champions League "opening black". AC Milan in the same group could not win either, with a draw away to Salzburg, with the Austrian powerhouse beating Sevilla and Wolfsburg last season and qualifying from the group, as if to repeat the story. Therefore, there is still a certain truth in the statement that there is no weak brigade in Europe, especially in the group stage, for the giant team, there is still a certain room for fault, and losing one game does not mean being eliminated.
Arsenal, which have just been broken by Manchester United in the Premier League, will head to Switzerland to challenge Zurich. Zurich was last season's Swiss Super League champion, but in the new season, seven games, two draws and five losses, one win is difficult to find, the gap is quite large, may be able to give the league defeated Arsenal, bring confidence to regain victory. Roma, who won the first European Cup last season, Mourinho led the team up one level to the Europa League, and there is a strong opponent in the same group, real Bettes, the first game against the Bulgarian team, as long as it is not careless, I believe that Mourinho wants to win the game, it is not too difficult, and at the same time can calm the frustration of the defeat that has just lost four goals in Serie A.
Although the strength of the teams participating in the Europa League is not too strong, on the first day of the game, there are also games that can attract attention such as Manchester United against Real Sociedad. The two teams are actually not strangers, Manchester United, who fell from the Champions League to the Europa League the previous season, met Real Sociedad directly in the knockout rounds, and with a big away win, Manchester United got the opportunity to qualify. Now in the Premier League four consecutive wins, successively beating Liverpool and Arsenal's Manchester United, Tenghag may make adjustments to the squad, the "hidden" captain Maguire, and the departed C Ronaldo, may get the opportunity to start, Casemiro and Fred, the Brazilian midfielder, may also be selected. The Dutch coach decisively removed Maguire and Ronaldo, which was well received by the fans, and everyone wanted to see how Tenhag performed in the lineup rotation.
Although the Europa League is a second-level cup competition, the champion can "pass through" the Champions League, which is a big attraction for some strong teams. Teams such as Arsenal, Manchester United and Roma have also added a path to the Champions League. According to the format, the first place in the group stage directly advances to the round of 16 knockout round, and the second place in the group stage needs to compete with the third place in the Champions League group stage for a home-and-away play-off knockout match to compete for another eight places in the round of 16. Perhaps, until the champions league eliminated teams are determined, especially Bayern, Barca and Inter, who will come down, wait until the round of 16, it can be seen which team is the favorite of this Europa League champion, and the group stage is more just a performance of the "warm-up" of strong teams.