We take a look at the Europa League quarter-finals as eight teams battle for a place in the final four.
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Juventus vs Sporting
After a 2-1 defeat against Lazio over the weekend, Juventus’ route into the UEFA Champions League must be via a win in this tournament. They did it back in 1993 and on that occasion, they also beat Portuguese opposition in the quarter-finals.
Juve have never lost a home match in the UEL (W6, D7) and they’ve won their last three European outings without conceding.
Sporting booked their spot in the quarter-finals in impressive fashion, knocking out one of the Europa League’s biggest hitters as they dispatched Arsenal on penalties in the last-16.
This promises to be another stern test though and Sporting travel to Turin carrying the burden of failing to win any of their 15 European away games against Italian opposition (D4, L11).
Feyenoord vs Roma – BET NOW
Roma boss José Mourinho his seen his side already knock out two solid sides in RB Salzburg and Real Sociedad. Plus Romas have back to back wins in the Serie A.
Their away form is terrible though. The visitors failing to score in their last two European visits. They also lost the first away leg of last season’s Europa League quarter-final 2-1 to Bodø/Glimt.
Feyenoord are unbeaten in each of their last 13 European home games (W11, D2).
Bayer Leverkusen vs Royale Union
This will not be a sitter for the Germans. Leverkusen are looking transfer winning momentum in the Bundesliga into Europe as they bid to advance to the semi-finals of a UEFA tournament for the first time since 2001/02.
Royale have already taken three positive results against a German club higher in the Bundesliga standings than Leverkusen. A 1-0 group stage win against Union Berlin and a 6-3 aggregate triumph over the same club in the last round got them deeper into a UEFA competition than ever before, which is especially impressive as they are now the only remaining side out of four UEL group stage debutants in this edition.
Three wins from three group stage away trips propelled them to the top of Group D prior to that pair of three-goal hauls against Union Berlin in the Round of 16. That ensured the Belgian side have now scored 2+ goals in seven of their ten UEFA outings this season, so expect them to come out firing in an attempt to secure a first-leg advantage.