With two goals scored by Victor Osimen, Italy’s A-series football club Napoli fought in a draw in the first round of the UEFA Europa League on Thursday, bringing together two European “big five” league clubs.
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The Naples team fought a draw 2: 2 (0: 1) with the English Premier League club Leicester City in the away team match.
The home crowd was not impressed by the fancy moves of Hārvija Bārnsa’s Ajoze Peress after 9 minutes. He converted a pass from the left for a goal, resulting in the visitors taking the 0 – 1 lead. After 59 minutes Patsona Daka had a good opportunity to reduce the scoreline for fc with a chance created through the middle, but wasn’t cool enough. Five minutes later, Barnes hit 2: 0 with a masterful shot through the defender’s feet.
With 69 minutes played, Osimens of FC fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving. Three minutes before the end of the regular time after the pass of Mateo Politāno, Osimens headed the ball into the goal and reached 2: 2.
In the group’s first game on Wednesday, Warsaw’s “Legia” defeated Moscow’s “Spartak” 1: 0.
Due to Covid-19 in group F, the match went to the former head coach of the Latvian club RFS Valdis Dambrauskas, whose currently led Bulgarian team Razgrad “Ludogorets” played a draw 1: 1 (1: 1) with the Danish team “Midtjylland”. The Lithuanian was infected with Covid-19, so he could not go to Denmark.
Meanwhile, a team of Latvian referees led by Andris Treimani went to the square in Leverkusen, defeating the Hungarian team in Budapest “Ferencvaros” 2: 1 (1: 1) in this Group G game. Treimanis showed only one yellow card in this match.
In the UEFA Europa League, 32 teams are divided into eight subgroups of four units each. The group winners will immediately enter the second round of the elimination tournament, the “play-offs” will start from the first round with the second place winners, who will compete with the third place winners in the UEFA Champions League groups, and the season will continue in the UEFA European Conference League.
Last season, the victory in the UEFA Europa League was won by Villareal, which beat Manchester United in the final in Gdańsk.
The finals of this season will take place in Seville, Spain.
