The UEFA Europa League group stage got underway on Thursday, and it was light on big surprises. All of the big favorites to win the competition that played at home were able to pull off wins.
Europa League scores, Matchday 1: Big wins for, Everton, Inter Milan and Sevilla
Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno
Defending champions Sevilla opened their campaign at home against Feyenoord and pulled off a 2-0 win, while fellow La Liga side Villarreal got a solid result away to Borussia Mönchengladback, drawing 1-1. Gladbach's Bundesliga colleagues Wolfsburg didn't fare nearly as well, losing 4-1 away to Everton.
One of two Premier League sides in the competition, Everton certainly did much better than Tottenham Hotspur, who drew 0-0 away to Partizan Belgrade.
Serie A sides have struggled in Europe recently, but that league's four participants all did well on Thursday. Inter Milan won away to Dnipro, while Fiorentina and Napoli were both victorious at home, over Guingamp and Sparta Prague, respectively. Torino had a tough match on the road, and got a 0-0 draw against Club Brugge.
Here are all the results from the first matchday.
Scores
Qarabag Agdam 0-0 Saint-Etienne
Borussia Mönchengladbach 1-1 Villarreal
Apollon 3-2 FC Zurich
Club Brugge 0-0 Torino
FC Copenhagen 2-0 HJK
Partizan Belgrade 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur
FC Salzburg 2-2 Celtic
Dinamo Zagreb 5-1 Astra
PSV Eindhoven 1-0 Estoril
Panathinaikos 1-2 Dinamo Moscow
Dnipro 0-1 Inter Milan
Standard Liege 2-0 HNK Rijeka
Sevilla 2-0 Feyenoord Rotterdam
Lille 1-1 Krasnodar
Everton 4-1 Wolfsburg
Young Boys 5-0 Slovan Bratislava
Napoli 3-1 Sparta Prague
Steaua Bucharest 6-0 Aalborg
Rio Ave 0-3 Dynamo Kiev
PAOK 6-1 Dinamo Minsk
Fiorentina 3-0 Guingamp
Metalist Kharkiv 1-2 Trabzonspor
Legia Warsaw 1-0 Lokeren
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