The Europa League is restructured, the second team in the group has to play a round of knockout matches with the third team in the Champions League group, and the winner can play the quarter-final with the first group in the Europa League, let's first look at the difference in distance between the first round of knockout matches against the team, because the round-trip distance is also a factor affecting the football game.
Barca can be said to have a deep understanding of this aspect, and their away match against Inter Milan in 2010 was forced to take a long-distance bus to Italy due to the closure of the airport due to Icelandic volcanic ash, which made the players very tired. Lucky this year, though, they were the shortest of eight teams in the first round of the Europa League knockout round, with a direct flight across the western Mediterranean taking them from Iberia to the Apennines in less than two hours.
This is followed by Porto and Lazio, as there are direct flights between Porto and Rome and their transport is also convenient.
Atlanta in Bergamo, Italy, and Olympiacos in Piraeus, Greece are also more convenient, although Piraeus does not have an airport, but it is close to Athens, Bergamo-Orio Alceglio International Airport also has direct flights to Athens "Eleftherios Venizelos" International Airport, the team only needs to change slightly.
Sebastian, where Real Sociedad is located, Glasgow, where Wanderers are located, and Leipzig and Dortmund in Germany, although they all have airports, are not large hub airports, so there are no regular direct flights between them, and the team should need special charter flights.
The southern Spanish city of Sevilla has two teams from the same city participating in the first round of the Europa League knockout round, of which Sevilla is fine, although they do not have direct flights to Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, but fortunately the distance is not too far.
Their opponent Zenit is located in St. Petersburg, Russia, more than 3,000 kilometers apart, the farthest of the 8 teams, they have to spend some wallets on a long-range plane, which is almost 7 or 8 hours.
Finally, braga and Tiraspol sheriffs, Braga Airport is a general airport with a runway length of less than 1000 meters, and Tiraspol Airport is an airstrip, not even a terminal, direct flight is impossible, so how will these two teams transfer when playing away matches? I wish them a smooth journey in advance, and I wish the players a good level and style.
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