On the evening, 24 matches of the second stage of the UEFA Europa League groups were played. Looking at the strongest European leagues, Italian teams performed the best. Recently, leading the "Serie A", Florence's "Fiorentina" defeated the team of "Belenenses" from Portugal 4-0 as guests. Meanwhile, Rome's "Lazio" defeated "Saint-Etienne" with a score 3-2 in their own stadium, and "Napoli" forced Warsaw's "Legia" to surrender in the second half with goals from Dries Mertens and Gonzalo Higuain. Both English clubs, second in strength in the Old Continent tournament, played to a draw. London's "Tottenham" separated 1-1 with "Monaco", while "Liverpool" failed to beat "Sion" from Switzerland at home and achieved the same result. It is worth mentioning that the "Reds" played with their strongest line-up, but there were several changes in the starting lineup of the Merseyside team. The "Villarreal" team achieved a minimal victory at home against "Viktoria Plzen", while another Spanish representative, Bilbao's "Athletic", lost as guests 1-2 to Alkmaar's AZ. Visitors could not achieve victories against Salonika's PAOK for Dortmund's "Borussia" players, who played a 1-1 draw. "Augsburg" in turn, at home, lost 1-3 to Belgrade's "Partizan", but the reputation of the "Bundesliga" was saved by the impressive victory of Gelzenkirchen's "Schalke" against Tripoli's "Asteras. Results: Group A: "Celtic" 2 - 2 "Fenerbahce" "Molde" 1-1 "Ajax" Group B: "Liverpool" 1 - 1 "Sion" "Rubin" 0 - 0 "Bordeaux" Group C: "Krasnodar" 2 - 1 "Qabala" PAOK 1 - 1 "Borussia" Group D: "Club Brugge" 1 - 3 "Midtjylland" "Legia" 0 - 2 "Napoli" Group E: Minsk "Dinamo" 0 - 1 "Rapid" "Villarreal" 1 - 0 "Viktoria" Group F: "Braga" 1 - 0 "Groningen" "Marseille" 0 - 1 "Liberec" Group G: "Lazio" 3 - 2 "Saint-Etienne" "Rosenborg" 0 - 1 "Dnipro" Group H: "Besiktas" 1 - 1 "Sporting" "Lokomotiv" 2 - 0 "Skenderbeu" Group I: "Basel" 2 - 0 "Lech" "Belenenses" 0 - 4 "Fiorentina" Group J: "Monaco" 1 - 1 "Tottenham" "Qarabag" 1 - 0 "Anderlecht" Group K: "Schalke" 4 - 0 "Asteras" "Sparta" 2 - 0 APOEL Group L: AZ 2 - 1 "Athletic Bilbao" "Augsburg" 1 - 3 "Partizan"
