This evening the first round of the 2014-15 season of the UEFA Europa League is played. Half of the teams are still figuring out their relationships, but the battles in groups A-F have already ended. There were no major surprises: almost all the favorites won, and a few played to a draw. The most intense match took place in Limassol, where the local team "Apollon" defeated "Zurich" after a tough battle. The match ended with a score of 3-2, and two red cards were also shown.
Results of groups A-F:
Group A: "Apollon" 3 - 2 "Zurich" [1-0] 9' Fotis Papoulis [2-0] 40' Marcos Gullon [2-1] 50' Avi Rikan [2-2] 53' Gilles Yapi 80' Marcos Gullon ("Apollon") sent off the field [3-2] 87' Philippe Koch (own goal) 90' Yassine Chikhaoui ("Zurich") sent off the field
"Monchengladbach" 1 - 1 "Villareal" [1-0] 21' Patrick Hermann [1-1] 68' Ikechukwu Uche
Group B: "Club Brugge" 0 - 0 "Torino" "Kobenhavn" 2 - 0 "HJK" 62' Andreas Cornelius ("Kobenhavn") missed a penalty from 11 meters [1-0] 68' Nicolai Joergensen [2-0] 81' Nicolai Joergensen
Group C: "Besiktas" 1 - 1 "Asteras" [1-0] 33' Gokhan Tore [1-1] 88' Facundo Parra "Partizan" 0 - 0 "Tottenham"
Group D: Zagreb's "Dinamo" 5 - 1 "Astra" [1-0] 17' El-Arbi Hilal Soudani [2-0] 24' El-Arbi Hilal Soudani [3-0] 45' El-Arbi Hilal Soudani [4-0] 70' Angelo Henriquez [4-1] 82' Aurelian Chitu [5-1] 90' Ante Coric "Salzburg" 2 - 2 "Celtic" [0-1] 14' Wakaso Mubarak [1-1] 36' Alan [1-2] 60' Scott Brown [2-2] 78' Jonathan Soriano
Group E: "PSV" 1 - 0 "Estoril" [1-0] 26' Luuk De Jong (from a penalty kick) "Panathinaikos" 1 - 2 Moscow's "Dinamo" [0-1] 40' Alexander Kokorin [0-2] 49' Alexey Ionov [1-2] 63' Athanasios Dinas
Group F: "Karabakh" 0 - 0 "St Etienne" "Dnipro" 0 - 1 "Inter" 68' Ruslan Rotan ("Dnipro") sent off the field [0-1] 71' Danilo D'Ambrosio
