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The draw for the round of 16 of the Europa League<\/strong> held this Friday meant that Betis will face the Greek Panathinaikos led by the Spanish Rafa Ben\u00edtez with the home field factor in their favor, while Celta, with the first leg at home, will have as a rival Olympique de Lyon Endrick, the Brazilian forward on loan from Real Madrid.<\/p>\n If they advance to the quarterfinals, Betis would face the winner of the Hungarian Ferencvaros and the Portuguese Braga and Celta, the Belgian Genk and the German Freiburg.<\/p>\n On the other side of the table, the duels are Stuttgart-Porto, Nottingham Forest-Midtjylland, Bologna-Rome and Lille-Aston Villa.<\/p>\n As in the Champions League, the second continental competition defined the crossings towards the final in Istanbul with the pairings that will be played on March 12 and 19 <\/strong>after the draw held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon (Switzerland).<\/p>\n Due to the weight of the teams, Betis and Celta were placed on the ‘easy’ path, although the Galicians will not have it easy against the third-placed team in the French league, which did not play in the previous round as it was one of the top eight.<\/p>\n Gir\u00e1ldez’s men, who have just eliminated PAOK from Thessaloniki, knew that their opponent would be a tough nut to crack, being Lyon or Aston Villa, third in the Premier, with the aggravating factor that the first game will be in Bala\u00eddos.<\/p>\n The duel between Celta and Olympique will be the rival against the winner of Genk-Friburg, two teams that, in theory, are not among the favorites to win the cup.<\/p>\n In the case of Betis, they had the option of pairing with Nottingham Forest, but finally the hype linked them with Panathinaikos, a historic Greek football team that is fifth in its league and that eliminated Czech Viktoria Plzen on penalties in the previous round. <\/p>\n The winner of this match will face Ferencvaros-Braga, with the first match in Hungarian territory and the return match in Portugal.<\/p>\n On the other side of the table, apparently more complicated, whoever wins Stuttgart-Porto will play in the quarterfinals against Nottingham Forest and the Danish Midtjylland, one of the revelations of the tournament.<\/p>\n The Germans are fourth in the Bundesliga, while Porto leads the domestic competition in Portugal, which will be one of the high-voltage confrontations.<\/p>\n Lille-Aston Villa will be the opponent against whom they overcome the Italian derby between Roma, fourth in Serie A, and Bologna, eighth. <\/p>\n Rayo Vallecano will face the Turkish Samsunspor in the round of 16 of the Conference League, according to the draw held this Friday at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon (Switzerland).<\/p>\n The first leg will be played on March 12 at the New Samsun 19 Mayis Stadium and the return on the 18th at the Vallecas Stadium<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The draw for the round of 16 of the Europa League held this Friday meant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Turkish Samsunspor, rival of Rayo Vallecano in the Conference<\/h2>\n