Absent 13 Years, Catalan Club Ready to Perform On Fire in the Europa League

Thirteen of them missed a European League match from the Catalan club Espanyol, who finally managed to qualify for the group stages. Espanyol escaped after a 5-2 win over Zorya Luhansk on Friday (8/30/2019).
Espanyol appeared for the last time in the European League in 2007. At that time, Espanyol rose to the top of the party. Unfortunately, in the final, Espnyol lost on penalties to Sevilla.

"This is a spectacular result, I have to congratulate the players and staff, they have worked hard to reach this stage," said Espanyol coach David Gallego.

"The players play against the club, they want to repeat the story, the fans are very supportive and we can do it," Gallego said.

In the final phase of the group stage, David Gallego said he would make his team appear in the Europa League. According to him, he now has the best team to be able to give good results.

"I am satisfied with the current condition of the team, it is the best team and I am sure I will only achieve one goal," he added.

Besides Espanyol, several other teams also qualified for the European League group stage, namely Astana (Kazakhstan), Celtic (Scotland), FC Copenhagen (Denmark), FK Qarabag (Azerbaijan), Malmo FF (Sweden)), PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Slovan Brastislava. (Slovakia) after getting rid of their opponents.

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