Now after announcement of matches which are going to play for the round of 16 things are having good change because mostly big teams are having easy opponents and hopefully these teams will win and go into next round without any problem where we will have more interesting matches for the last four round specially we have all teams in good shape and this could be entertaining Bayer Leverkusen, Liverpool and AC Milan are the toughest teams which are having good chance but still we can expect any surprise because few teams like Roma, Atlanta and Benfica can make things tougher for the top ranks because these are also teams to watch for the big games because these are well experience and quality teams in this event.
Leverkusen and Liverpool really deserve to be called favorite teams, because of their consistent and balanced performance between the domestic league and the European League. In my opinion, AC Milan is still below these two teams, because they often experience surprising defeats. But AC Milan deserves to be considered as a third party that has the potential to stop Leverkusen or Liverpool, because the Serie A representatives have good depth to trouble their potential opponents.
Most of the other contestants deserve to be considered dark horses in the round of 16, who also have the opportunity and potential to make a surprise. Lens, Braga, Feyenoord, Young Boys and Shakhtar failed to get past the play off round even though they came from the Champions League, and it could be said that the Europa League brought more surprises than we previously thought.
Those teams were the strongest team in their leagues and it appears if bookies were also favoring these clubs to win the competition too. Liverpool and leverkusen are still getting perfect results on their domestic league. The chance owned by other club was not as big as liverpool and leverkusen.
Roma and acmilan being unfavored to win the competition. Things are going even harder for the small clubs to win the competition caused by the big clubs were passing any round easily. As long as liverpool and leverkusen will not face serious problems due to the injury and eveything will fine for these clubs to get into the final of europa league.
Liverpool looks so perfect with the comeback of salah and nunez in the squad. Things are going to be even better this time. Majority of bettors will have same thought as me to think if we have leverkusen or liverpool as winner for this competition.