Liverpool, Roma, José Mourinho, Ajax and Bayer Leverkusen are some of the teams that could appear in Sporting’s path in the Europa League group stage in the draw scheduled for Friday, announced by UEFA this Thursday.
After access to the play-off tournament was completed this Thursday, UEFA published the draw structure on its official website: Sporting CP were stripped of top seed status and placed in the second pot, with several potentially tricky badges to be placed in the pot. . the path of the “lions”, the only representatives of Portugal at this stage of the competition.
From the first pot, Liverpool accustomed to the Champions League is an opponent to be avoided, but Roma, Ajax and Bayer Leverkusen could also appear in the Sporting group, as well as Villarreal, West Ham (winner of the European Conference League), Atalanta and Bayer Leverkusen. Rangers.
There is no doubt that Slavia Prague, Rennes, Olympiacos, Betis, LASK Link, Marseille and Qarabag, also in the second pot, will not currently compete against Ruben Amorim’s team in the second European tournament.
In the third pot, another English team could have entered the Lions group – Brighton, as well as Freiburg, Sturm Graz and Molde.
In the last group, Toulouse, Panathinaikos and AEK Athens promise to be the clubs to avoid.
The Europa League group stage draw is scheduled for 12:00 (local time) at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
The composition of the four pots of the Europa League 2023/24 draw:
Pot 1: West Ham (Ing), Liverpool (Ing), Roma (Ita), Ajax (Hol), Villarreal (Esp), Bayer Leverkusen (El), Atalanta (Ita) and Rangers (Esc.).
Second Pot: SPORTING (POR), Slavia Prague (Czech Republic), Rennes (Fra), Olympiacos (Greece), Betis (Spain), LASK Linz (Austria), Marseille (Fra) and Karabakh (Aze).
Pot 3: Molde (North), Brighton (India), Sheriff (Youth), Union Saint-Gilloise (Belgium), Freiburg (El), Sparta Prague (Che), Maccabi Haifa (Isr) and Sturm Graz (Austria).
Pot 4: Toulouse (France), AEK Athens (Greece), Bačka Topola (Servia), Servette (Sui), Panathinaikos (Greece), Rakov (Poland), Aris (Kip) and Haken (Sue).