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Europa League Draw: Liverpool And Man City In Good Shape According To Odds

Following the last couple of weeks of qualifiers we have had the draw for the first round proper for the Europa League, all of the teams have now joined the competition to play a two-legged affair for the right to move into the group stages of the tournament. There are a number of British teams in the competition and most of them will be reasonably pleased with their draws, Liverpool have potentially the toughest draw as they head to Turkey to play Trabzonspor but nevertheless they should have too much for their opponents.

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Liverpool are of course starting afresh under Roy Hodgson this year and he will know that a good run in the Europa League will be essential, the bookmakers belive they can go all the way and the Reds are currently priced at 10/1 with Boylesports to lift the trophy next may. The favourites for the competition though are big spending Man City who will also need to place big importance on the Europa League, they have drawn unknown Romanians FC Timisoara which is a tie they should be able to coast through. The board at City will want to start seeing some return on their investment at Eastlands and what better way for Mancini to prove that by winning the Europa League. City are currently the favourites to lift the Europa League and can be backed at a skinny 13/2 with Boylesports.com to go all the way this season.

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As for Aston Villa they face a tricky tie against Rapid Vienna as they look to progress to the knock-out stages, it is one they should win though and it will be interesting to see their approach to the tournament. In recent years they have fielded weakened teams in the tournament but with no sign of Champions League football, surely they will be going all out to win the Europa League this season. Villa can backed at a price of 18/1 with Boylesports.com to win the tournament which may offer some nice value for punters.

The Scottish charge will be led by Celtic who after being knocked out of the Champions League will be hoping for a good run in the Europa League, Celtic will be meeting Utrecht of Holland in the first round and they will be hoping to move forward. Motherwell are also in the main draw and will be facing Odense BK of Denmark while Dundee United have a tough tie against AEK Athens of Greece.

Europa League First Round Draw Involving British Teams

Liverpool v Trabzonspor
Celtic v Utrecht
Dundee Utd v AEK Athens
FC Timisoara v Man City
Rapid Vienna v Aston Villa
Odense v Motherwell
CSKA Sofia v TNS

Latest Europa League Outright Odds

Man City - 13/2
Liverpool - 10/1
Juventus - 12/1
Ateltico Madrid - 14/1
Aston Villa - 18/1
Porto - 20/1
Dinamo Zagreb - 20/1
Bayer Leverkusen - 22/1
Borussia Dortmund - 22/1
Stuttgart - 25/1
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All betting markets are supplied by Boylesports.com

Posted: Friday, 6th August 2010
Author: Steve Raymond
Tags: europa league, draw, liverpool, man city, boylesports,

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