Let's make it clear which clubs that potentially owning europa league this season.
I personally divided it into some tiers.
Highest potential
Leverkusen
Liverpool
Mid potential.
Acmilan
Roma
Atalanta
Westham
Lowest potential
Benfica
Duo praha
brighton
I don't even think the rest have bigger chance than lowest potential to get the trophy this season. It semed to me that if there will be very strict competition to get into the right score. We have experienced many troubles and i think that if some clubs will be fully dominating the competition.
Leverkusen is still unbeatable in the bundesliga and this is a sense reason to put this club as highest potential along with liverpool which is also still competing at the top of european competition (EPL).
Others may have different opinion and im very welcome with it. Levrkusen is really convincing me to think it will be winning europa league.
You shared it wisely, I completely agree with the choice you made. For Leverkusen, Xabi fleet is currently the only team untouched by defeat in Europe top five leagues, placing them at the top of the list is a must. Even though Liverpool have experienced defeats, maybe I would put the two teams on an equal footing, because we have to assess the competitive level of their domestic league too.
Overall, there is no guarantee that the final scenario will be like the initial prediction, it could be that everything changes drastically and so on. Milan cannot be completely trusted, their performance this season is very difficult to predict, and it would be very risky to bet on every match they play, I think they deserve to be below Leverkusen and Liverpool.