{"id":619146,"date":"2022-11-07T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=619146"},"modified":"2022-11-07T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:52:00","slug":"uefa-europa-conference-league-draw-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/11\/07\/uefa-europa-conference-league-draw-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA Europa Conference League Draw: Lazio and Fiorentina are Amongst the Favourites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the third and final time today, attention turned to Nyon in Switzerland. The UEFA Europa Conference League Draw beckoned this time and, after Jose Mourinho led AS Roma to win the inaugural tournament, there is a chance for another side to follow suit and make history. Here is how the draw went, featuring the second-placed Conference League teams and the third-placed <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/11\/07\/uefa-europa-league-draw-ro16\/\" target=\"_self\">Europa League<\/a> teams.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>UEFA Europa Conference League Draw<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Lazio and Fiorentina are the Big Names<\/h3>\n<p>Qarabag of Azerbaijan were the first team out of the hat, a perennial side to feature on the continent in these sorts of competitions. They will cross paths will Belgian top-flight outfit Gent.<\/p>\n<p>Trabzonspor of Turkey followed next, who boast a number of familiar names amongst their ranks including Marc Bartra, Maxi Gomez and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/10\/22\/serie-a-leaders-napoli-vs-roma\/\" target=\"_self\">Napoli-legend Marek Hamsik<\/a>. Basel are their opponents, a side who themselves have enjoyed European success in the past.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our next opponents in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UECL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#UECL<\/a>: Cluj \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf4 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UECLdraw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#UECLdraw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yYVlXrrQhg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/yYVlXrrQhg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; S.S.Lazio (@OfficialSSLazio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialSSLazio\/status\/1589609210068680704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It goes without saying that Serie A big-hitters Lazio are one of the biggest teams to feature in this UEFA Europa Conference League draw. Maurizio Sarri\u2019s could well go deep in this competition with FC Cluj standing in their way in the first knockout round.<\/p>\n<p>Bodo\/Glimt came third in a very tough group behind <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/11\/05\/arsenal-successful-europa-league-campaign\/\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal<\/a> and PSV Eindhoven. They also caused Roma a lot of problems in the year prior and so they will fancy their chances against Lech Poznan. The Polish outfit have former Vitesse and Ajax player in charge, John van den Brom.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>UEFA Europa Conference League Draw Continues<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Whilst Lazio are one of the bigger sides, their fellow Italians Fiorentina up there too. They boast stars such as Nico Gonzalez, Jonathan Ikone and Luka Jovic under the stewardship of impressive manager <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/19\/top-10-european-football-managers-watchlist\/\" target=\"_self\">Vincenzo Italiano<\/a>. Braga of Portugal are no pushovers though and so <em>La Viola<\/em> will need to take this as seriously as ever.<\/p>\n<p>AEK Larnaca versus DNIPRO is the next matchup brought about by the UEFA Europa Conference League draw. It\u2019s not every day you see Cyprus versus Ukraine in the club football sphere and so this is the beauty of the tournament on show once again.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The knockout round play-off draw is set! \ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n<p>Which game are you looking forward to?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UECLdraw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#UECLdraw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aXNxs0Poiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/aXNxs0Poiz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UEFA Conference League (@Conf_League) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Conf_League\/status\/1589608994464735232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The last two ties to be decided were Sheriff Tiraspol versus Partizan Belgrade and Ludogorets versus Anderlecht. Anderlecht, of Belgium, were in a group with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/22\/west-ham-sign-emerson-palmieri-chelsea\/\" target=\"_self\">West Ham,<\/a> the Irons soaring towards all 18 points ahead of them. Onto the other tie and Partizan were in something of a group of death. They and Nice led the way with nine points, with FC Koln on their coattails with eight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/11\/07\/uefa-champions-league-draw-ro16\/\" target=\"_self\">UEFA Champions League Draw in Full: Liverpool Face Real Madrid in a Clash of the Titans<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Ties<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Qarabag vs Gent<\/p>\n<p>Trabzonspor vs FC Basel<\/p>\n<p>Lazio vs CFR Cluj<\/p>\n<p>Bodo\/Glimt vs Lech Poznan<\/p>\n<p>SC Braga vs Fiorentina<\/p>\n<p>AEK Larnaca vs DNIPRO<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Tiraspol vs Partizan<\/p>\n<p>Ludogorets vs Anderlecht<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third and final time today, attention turned to Nyon in Switzerland. The UEFA Europa Conference League Draw beckoned this time and, after Jose Mourinho led AS Roma to win the inaugural tournament, there is a chance for another side to follow suit and make history. Here is how the draw went, featuring the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3891,"featured_media":619156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8687],"tags":[111,9507,1061,1500,9506],"class_list":["post-619146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europa-conference-league","tag-fiorentina","tag-john-van-den-brom","tag-lazio","tag-maurizio-sarri","tag-vicenzo-italiano"],"modified_by":"Joe Blackburn, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}