Ομόνοια και Εθνικός έκλεισαν & # 8230; date in the cup final of May 25th. The greens will look for their 15th trophy in their No22 presence, the Achniotes for their first title in their second final, while at the same time the two teams are also claiming a European ticket.
As it is known, our cup winner will play in the Europa League and considering that the tournament starts from the third round (there are no first and second), a qualification will be enough to secure a place in a group, as in case of exclusion he will be transferred to the playoffs. Conference while if it qualifies for the Europa playoffs and is eliminated there, it will go to the Conference League groups.
It seems that there are, however, good chances that the team that will win the cup will not even need to qualify and will have a secured place in the group anyway! This, due to the exclusion of the Russian teams, which as it favors our champion, will probably also favor our cup winner, who may win a round and start from the Europa League playoffs, something that will secure him a place in the group. , at least of the Conference.
Because it is a very complex issue and in order to explain it to you as accurately as possible, we asked for the help of the Dutchman & # 8230; UEFA guru Bert Kassies. He is the owner of the website kassiesa.net/uefa , which is trusted even by international sports information giants, on issues related to the UEFA rankings, the lists of strong/weak in the draws, how to access the events etc.
As Bert Kassies explained to us, in order to favor the cup winner of Cyprus and to advance to the playoffs of the Europa League, therefore having a secured place in a European group (at least of the Conference League), there are two ways:
The first way is for the Conference League winner to secure a place in the next Europa League anyway .
In this scenario, there will be a gap in the Europa groups and due to the reshuffles that will be caused, our cup winner will be in the playoffs.
The second way is for the winner of the Europa League (who is playing in the next Champions League) to secure a place in either the next Europa League League or the next Champions League.
In the first case, there will again be a vacancy in the Europa League groups and what we wrote above will apply. In the second case, according to Kassies, due to a gap in the Champions League groups, the teams of b & # 8217; will be reduced to only two. round of the Champions League on the non-Champions path, therefore they will play each other and therefore only one team will be eliminated and transferred to the third round of the Europa League, which will therefore have only three teams (only the cup winners of Cyprus and Serbia start from # 8217; Europa Round). In order for the number of teams in this round to be even, the most probable, as the Dutch “guru” says, is for the Cypriot cup winner to advance to the playoffs.
THE DATA ON THE SEMI-FINAL TEAMS
For the first way we mentioned, the Conference semi-final teams that can to secure a place in the Champions League or Europa League, are Roma, Marseille and Feyenoord, while Leicester has no chance.
Roma: With three games left, they are in fifth place, at -10 from fourth (so there is no chance of a Champions League) and at +3 from seventh (sent by Conference). Even if he falls sixth, he will go to Europa.
Marseille: It is second and in order not to go to the Champions League or Europa League it must fall to fifth place which is five points away, with three games remaining.
Feyenoord: It's third and in order not to go to the Europa League it will have to fall to fourth place, five points away, with three games left.
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Rangers: Has already secured a place in the next Champions League.
Leipzig: With two games left, it is in fifth place (leading Europa), at -1 from the fourth Freiburg (Champions League) and at +2 from the sixth Cologne (Conference). He also plays in the cup final with Freiburg and if he wins it secures a ticket to the Europa League.
West Ham: He is in seventh place, at -6 from the sixth leads the Europa League, having one game less (has to give three games against two of United).
