As you’ve surely heard quite a few times by this point, the winners of this year’s edition of the UEFA Europa League gets a place in next year’s Champions League. And based on the way the group stage is shaping up, that team is going to earn their spot. All of the big teams are doing very well in the group stage, and the knockout bracket should feature a large handful of excellent matchups.
Europa League 2014 schedule, scores and results from Matchday 5
Everton are through to the next round, topping their group, and Napoli will progress. Spurs are also through to the knockout stages.
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Still, the tournament favorites have, for the most part, not totally clinched their places yet. There's still work to do for Sevilla, who play one of this round's best games against Dutch side Feyenoord. Inter Milan top a tight group, and will probably be through if they can grab a point against Dnipro. And Borussia Mönchengladbach top their group at the moment, but that might not last long. They go away to Villarreal on Thursday.
English sides Tottenham Hotspur and Everton are also in the top two of their groups right now, but could still use some good results. Celtic, meanwhile, will clinch a knockout stage berth with a draw.
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Group A
Villarreal 2-2 Borussia Mönchengladbach
FC Zürich 3-1 Apollon Limassol
Group B
Torino 0-0 Club Brugge
HJK Helsinki 2-1 FC Copenhagen
Group C
Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Partizan Belgrade
Asteras Tripoli 2-2 Besiktas
Group D
Celtic 1-3 Red Bull Salzburg
Astra Giurglu 1-0 Dinamo Zagreb
Group E
Dynamo Moscow 2-1 Panathinaikos
Estoril 3-2 PSV Eindhoven
Group F
Inter Milan 2-1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Saint-Etienne 1-1 Qarabag
Group G
Rijeka 2-0 Standard Liege
Feyenoord 2-0 Sevilla
Group H
Krasnodar 1-1 Lille
Wolfsburg 0-2 Everton
Group I
Slovan Bratislava 1-3 Young Boys
Sparta Prague 0-0 Napoli
Group J
Aalborg 1-0 Steaua Bucharest
Dynamo Kiev 2-0 Rio Ave
Group K
Dinamo Minsk 0-2 PAOK
Guingamp 1-2 Fiorentina
Group L
Trabzonspor 3-1 Metalist Kharkiv
Lokeren 1-0 Legia Warsaw
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