As third in the group, the “Bulls” in the Champions League managed to switch to the second largest European Cup competition, Roma had finished the EL group stage in second place. In the previous season, the club had won the Conference League, which was played for the first time.
Game dates are February 16 and 23, 2023. The winner is in the round of 16, where he meets one of the eight EL group winners.
Salzburg’s recent memories of the Europa League, which the club has since called “our competition”, are good. In 2018 you only had to bow to Olympique Marseille in the semi-finals, but in 2019 Andreas Ulmer and Co. reached the quarter-finals. In 2020 and 2021, however, after switching from the CL, they failed in the intermediate round at Eintracht Frankfurt and Villarreal.
Source: Nachrichten
