You don’t look for the first knockout round of the UEFA Europa League to have much in the way of excitement, but there’s actually a reasonably big game on the cards with Swansea City vs. Napoli. Other than that, most of the big sides have avoided each other -- Juventus vs. Trabzonspor might be interesting as the Old Lady look to take vengeance on everything Turkey-related -- but there’s every chance that we get some good games in the Round of 16.
2014-Europa League draw: Field set for next two rounds
Harold Cunningham
UEFA has drawn both rounds at once, so we’ve formatted the draw as matched pairs of games. Here you go:
- Slovan Liberec vs. AZ Alkmaar
- Anzhi Makhachkala vs. Genk
- Lazio vs. Ludogorets Razgrad Dynamo Kiev vs. Valencia
- Porto vs. Eintracht Frankfurt
- Swansea vs. Napoli
- Chornomorets Odessa vs. Lyon
- Viktoria Plzen vs. Shakhtar Donetsk
- Maribor vs. Sevilla
- Real Betis vs. Rubin Kazan
- Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk vs. Tottenham Hotspur
- PAOK vs. Benfica
- Maccabi Tel Aviv vs. Basel
- Ajax vs. Salzburg
- Juventus vs. Trabzonspor
- Esbjerg vs. Fiorentina
Anyone else looking forward to a potential Juventus-Fiorentina clash? How about Spurs-Benfica? Betis-Sevilla? Napoli-Porto? Either we get some of those, or we get some upsets. This Europa League lark might not be so bad after all.
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