Europa League 2018-2019: OK Chelsea and Arsenal! Milan and Lazio struggle!

El Pipita Gonzalo Higuain (Picture taken from SempreMilan.com)

It has been a nice debut for the Europa League Groups stage! All fine for the Italians and the English teams even if the first ones found it not as easy as it was supposed to. Milan won only 0-1 against an EL beginner team in Luxembourg thanks to El Pipita. Gattuso will not be happy about this result despite the very large turn-over (practically on Higuain and Romagnoli were players from the first team). Lazio won as well but they definitely suffered much more than Milan thanks to a very solid Apoel Limassol which put in great difficulty the Simone Inzaghi team saved AS ALWAYS by his two top players Luis Alberto and Ciro Immobile(Penalty kick). Much easier for Chelsea and Arsenal that proved to be much more solid and confident. Sarri claimed to be happy for the 3 points even if not for the result.He said the team must improve soon to kill the match when needed. The Gunners were strolling all over the Vorskla and only had a sort of 15 minutes black out in the end getting 2 goals. It happens when you are winning 4-0 to switch off for a while so we understand that.Well done to all!

PAOK-CHELSEA=0-1  Willian 7'.

AKHISAR-FC KRASNODAR=0-1 Victor Claesson 26'.

MARSEILLE-EINTRACHT=1-2 Lucas Ocampos 3',Lucas Torro' 52',Luka Jovic 89'.

DYNAMO KYIV-ASTANA=2-2 Viktor Tsyhankov 11',Marin Anicic 21',Denys Harmash 45'+2',Roman Murtazayev 90'+5'.

VIDEOTON-BATE=0-2  Jasse Tuominen 27',Egor Filipenko 85'.

SEVILLA-STANDARD LIEGE=5-1 Ever Banega 8' and 74'(PEN),Moussa Djenepo 39',Franco Vazquez 41',Wissam Ben Yedder 49'and 70'.

BESIKTAS-SARPSBORG=3-1 Ryan Babel 51',Enzo Roco 69',Jeremain Lens 82',Kristoffer Zachariassen 90'+4'.

GENK-MALMO=2-0  Leandro Trossard 37',Mbwana Samatta 71'.

VILLAREAL-RANGERS=2-2 Carlos Bacca 1',Scott Arfield 67',Gerard Moreno 69',Kyle Lafferty 76'

RAPID WIEN=2-0 Artem Timofeev 50'(OwnGoal),Thomas Murg 68'.

RENNES-JABLONEC=2-1 Ismaila Sarr 31',Michal Travnik 54',Hatem Ben Arfa 90'+1'(PEN) 

LAZIO-APOLLON LIMASSOL=2-1 Luis ALberto 14',Ciro Immobile 84'(PEN), Emilio Zelaya 87'.

SPORTING-QARABAG FK=2-0  Raphael Dias Belloli 54',Jovan Cabral 88'.

CELTIC-ROSENBORG=1-0  Leigh Griffiths 87'.

SLAVIA PRAHA-BORDEAUX=1-0  Jaromir Zmrhal 35'.

ARSENAL-VORSKLA=4-2  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 32' and 56',Danny Welbeck 46',Mesut Ozil 74',Volodymyr Chesnakov 76',Vyacheslav Sharpar 90'+4'.

SPARTAK TRNAVA-ANDERLECHT=1-0  Matej Oravec 79'.

DUDELANGE-MILAN=0-1  Gonzalo Higuain 59'.

COPENAGHEN-ZENIT=1-1  Robert Mak 43',Pieros Sotitiou 63'.

AEK LARNACA-FC ZURICH=0-1  Benjamin Kololli 61'.

DINAMO ZAGREB-FENERBAHCE=4-1  Ivan Sunijc 16',Izet Hajrovic 27' and 57',Roman Neustadter 47',Dani Olmo 60'.

LUDOGORETS-BAYERN LEVERKUSEN=2-3 Claudiu Keseru 8',Marcelo Nascimento da Costa 31',Kai Havertz 38' and 69',Isaac Kiese Thelin 63'.

RB LEIPZIG-RED BULL SALZBURG=2-3 Moanes Dabour 20',Amadou Haidara 22',Konrad Laimer 70',Yussuf Poulsen 82',Fredrik Guilbrandsen 89'.

OLYMPIACOS-REAL BETIS=0-0