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The drawing of the sixteenth ones of end of the Europe League has put two hard rivals in the way of the Athletic one of Madrid and of the Villarreal. The rojiblancos will measure the Turkish Galatarasaray, and the castellonenses, to the Bundesliga of champion German, current Wolfsburg. It will not also be had easy by the Athletic of Bilbao, which will have to face the Anderlecht. The best idle one has been the Valencia, which will travel to Belgium to see also the faces with the Bruges.

Revising the adversaries of the Spanish, the Wolfsburg looks like a complex rival, with a rapid and powerful front part formed by players like Dzeko, Grafité or Martins. But the Bavarian set is not at the level of last year — it walks ninth in Germany — although it does not walk too thin the Villarreal either. An even qualifying round. The Athletic one also has it especially difficult, since the Galatasaray presents a good team. Those of the Manzanares will have to play the party back in the always difficult Turkish grounds, and it will meet again with his doorman of last year, the Argentinian Leo Franco. Baros, Elano, Harry Kewell or Nonda are some of his stars.

The Athletic of Bilbao them will have to do with the Anderlecht, the leader of the Belgian League. Skylight that this fact is not significant, although it can be a dangerous set for those of Joaquín Caparrós. His star, the sixteen-year-old forward Lukaku, is a promise of the European soccer. These three Spanish teams will play the going at home (February 18). The Valencia will be the only one that plays in his stadium the return (February 25), and one measures to a rival of minor entity, the Bruges, five points below the Anderlecht in his country. Therefore, beforehand they are those of Emery those who better have it.

Of the rest of duels, the Ajax-Juventus they stand out, although the Italians should set off like favorites; the Liverpool-Unirea, two teams that come from the Champions League, but the team of Fernando Torres has the obligation to go on to the following round; and also the Hamburg-PSV and the Everton-Sporting of Lisbon. These are all the pairings:

Rubin Kazan-Hapoel Tel Aviv
Athletic-Anderlecht
Copenhagen or. Marseilles
Panathinaikos-Roma
At. Madrid-Galatasaray
Ajax-Juventus
Bruges - Valencia
Fulham-Shakhtar Donetsk
Liverpool-Unirea
Hamburg-PSV
Villarreal - Wolfsburg
Standar Liège – Salzburg
Twente-Werder Bremen
Lille-Fenerbahçe
Everton-Sporting Lisbon
Herta of Berlin-Benfica

In these weeks we will begin to analyze with more thoroughness the rivals of the Spanish sets, both in the Champions League and in this Europe League.

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