Eleven Garnet will be up against AS Roma, Slavia Prague and Sheriff Tiraspol during the group stage of the Europa League…
There’s bad news for the public in La Prile. Servette FC will challenge last season’s unfortunate finalist (penalty failure against Sevilla) AS Roma during the Europa League group stage starting on Thursday, 21 September. Among other opponents, the Czechs from Slavia Prague were great regulars in this competition, having been defeated and eliminated twenty-two years earlier by the Servetians then led by Lucien Favre. Finally, a team from a former Soviet republic: Sheriff Tiraspol from Moldova.
as roma big favorite
AS Roma will play at La Prile this autumn with a host of stars (© Keystone/EPA/Angelo Carconi).
We no longer need to introduce AS Roma, coached by the Portuguese José Mourinho, since last year in the shadow of Juventus or the Milanese clubs, the Romanians have three Italian championship titles, won during three different periods. : under fascism during the Second World War (41–42), in the eighties at the time of strikers Roberto Pruzzo and the Brazilian Falcão (82–83) and at the end of the century (00–01), led by coach Fabio Capello thanks in particular the trio of first-class attackers Delvecchio, Montella and Batitusta.
a single continental trophy
At the continental level, the “Gialorossi” have only one trophy in their showcase, which they won in the Mourinho era a little more than a year ago, in the Conference League. This season, the forwards of Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku and Argentina’s Paulo Dybala should be allowed to do the hard work.
Slavia Prague: a historical club
Slavia Prague is a club from Czechoslovakia, won the first nine national titles in just two decades (1925–47), then another period of prosperity when the Czech and Slovak republics split in the nineties, seven-time champions, first (95– 96) ) With a team that supported the emergence of talents such as Vladimir Smycer and Patrick Berger… the “red and whites” crossed paths with Lucien Favre’s SFC at the start of the next decade (01–02) and It was the latter who gained the upper hand after a very tight doubleheader. Cervantes would go on to eliminate Real Zaragoza and Hertha Berlin before losing swiftly (0–3) to Valencia, a result that dimmed their chances for the second leg. More recently, Stalingrad Prague qualified for the quarter-finals of both the Europa League and the Conference League under their coach Jindřich Trapisovsky.
In Geneva’s Thierno Bah, Garnett, and his teammates won a narrow 1–0 win against Slavia Prague on 20.09.01 at the Stade des Charmilles 22 years ago and a 2–2 draw in the return leg in the Czech capital. (© Keystone/Fabris Coffrini/Electronic Images/Archives).
For Sheriff Tiraspol, a city located in Transnistria, a separatist (theoretically Russian-speaking) republic of Moldova, the team is coached by Italian Roberto Bordin and includes a large number of foreigners (Nigerian, Malian, Burkinabe Ghanaian, and ) Are. many others) in its ranks. After the fall of Farul Constanța (3–0; 0–1) in the first qualifying round of the Champions League, they faced Maccabi Haifa Law in the second preliminary round. Last season, the “Wasps”, as they are nicknamed, reached the round of 16 of the Conference League where they faced the law of OGC Nice (0–1; 1–3).
Given the draw, second place is obviously our target. Ellen Moscatello
The draw is most interesting because, in addition to the particularly eye-catching posters, it leaves the door open for possible qualification to the knockout stage of the Conference League, even if a feat is required to achieve it. And moreover, Servatian leaders firmly believe in this, such as Board of Directors member and Vice President Alain Moscatello, still under the influence of emotions when answering, but all the same very ambitious.
The exact schedule of matches will be intimated latest by Saturday morning.