I don't think Arsenal are the favorite team in the Europa League, and Arsenal's elimination from the Europa League in my opinion is not something strange. Maybe they consider Arsenal to be at the top of the English Premier League, so they favor Arsenal but for me, that really isn't used as a benchmark.
If you are trying to go back in the previous pages and there are bunch of people in here said that arsenal was among the most favorite clubs to win europa league but it's not even meet what is already expected to be a tough team in the europa league. Arsenal must accept the truth if sporting is far better compared with it. The gunners can't accept the lose but yeah that's the truth that already happened. You can't deny that as a team that was leading EPL and almost all of people said arsenal would be winning europa league easily.
It can also be seen from the winner's odd if arsenal has become a club with the small odds in europa league to be a candidate as a winner for this season.
Also on several occasions I have thought about Manchester United and also Juventus, and even though Manchester United this season lost heavily 7-0 by Liverpool in the Premier League. But still, for me it won't have a bad impact on Manchester United in the Europa League. Because basically Erik ten Hag has succeeded in restoring Manchester United's performance for the better, so that Manchester United's chance of advancing to the European League final is still possible.
MU was placed in second place and juventus is even lower than it. 7-0 didn't matter a lot for MU to play better in europa league compared with another team. Ten hag was able to make the performance from MU quite stable when it was playing in different competition other than EPL.
That's why tenhag got so much appreciation from the MU fans regarding what he has done for MU. Losing liverpool with huge scores like that was actually unacceptable but what can we do? It's only past story.