The draws for the group stage of the Europa League, the second European football competition in which AC Milan, Lazio and Atalanta will participate, took place today in Montecarlo. Milan, fresh from a sumptuous transfer market and from the passage to the two preliminary phases that allowed access to the competition, ends up directly in the first band and this keeps them safe from unpleasant surprises.The polls are in fact particularly benevolent with the Rossoneri, in the whose group will face Austria Vienna, the Croats of Rijeka and Aek Athens. Lazio was also part of the first bracket, but compared to the Milanese, they draw a little worse since they will have to contend with Nice of Super Mario Balotelli and Wesley Sneijder, beaten in the Champions League playoffs by Napoli, Zulte Waregem (Belgium) and Vitesse , winner of the Dutch Cup last season. Atalanta, on the other hand, placed in the third bracket, will find themselves fighting in an iron group composed not only by the Nerazzurri but also by the hosts of the final on 16 May 2018, Olympique Lyon, but above all Rooney's Everton. Fourth team the Cypriot Apollon Limassol.
While waiting for the third-placed third in the first round of the Champions League, "Europa League" is the complete table of all the drawings today:
Group A): Villarreal (Spa), Maccabi Tel Aviv (Isr), Astana (Kaz), Slavia Prague (R.Ceca);
Group B): Dinamo Kiev (Ucr), Young Boys (All), Partizan Belgrado (Srb), Skenderbeu (Alb);
Group C): Sporting Braga (POR), Ludogorets (Bul), Hoffenheim (Ger), Basaksehir Istanbul (Tur);
Group D): Milan, Austria Vienna (Aut), Rijeka (Cro), Aek Athens (Gre);
Group E): Lyon (Fra), Everton (Ing), Atalanta, Apollon Limassol (Cyprus);
Group F): Copenhagen (Dan), Lokomotiv Moscow (Russian), Sheriff (Mol), Zlin (R.Ceca);
Group G): Viktoria Pilsen (R.Ceca); Steaua Bucharest (Roma), Hapoel Ber-Sheva (Isr), Lugano (All);
Group H): Arsenal (Ing), Bate Borissov (Bie), Cologne (Ger), Red Star (Srb);
Group I): Salzburg (Aut), Marseille (Fra), Vitoria Guimaraes (Por), Konyaspor (Tur);
Group J): Athletic Bilbao (Spa), Hertha Berlino (Ger), Zorya (Ucr), Ostersund (All);
Group K): Lazio; Nice (Fra), Waregem (Bel), Vitesse (Ola);
Group L): Zenit (Rus), Real Sociedad (Spa), Rosenborg (Nor), Vardar (Mac).
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