In the final match in Lyon, "Atletico" and "Marseille". The first was the clear favorite, although the match was held on French soil. A more serious test for the "mattress" was a semi-final confrontation with the London "Arsenal". Fans of the "Gunners" expected that Arsene Wenger will leave the post of head coach, having managed to win the European trophy, but within the two-legged confrontation it was clear that "Atletico" is just stronger.

In the final match, Diego Simeone's wards did not feel the resistance of Marseille and easily won with the score 3: 0. True, it is worth noting that partly helped them the injury of one of the leaders of the French team Dimitri Pieta.

The Europa League-2018 was remembered by an uncompromising struggle and a quick change of account on the scoreboard. Suffice it to recall the confrontation between "Lazio" and "Salzburg", in which the Italians for a long time had a comfortable advantage, but eventually lost to the Austrians. Now Madrid "Atletico" has to fight with another team from the capital of Spain - "Real", for the European Super Cup-2018. Football today is changing rapidly, so it is not known what to expect from the coming season.

The beginning of new confrontations Already at the end of June, the new qualifying match of the League of Europe. While they are participating teams from not the strongest championships. However, preliminary stages will pass quickly, and the full group stage will begin already in the autumn of this year.

Among the main favorites of the upcoming draw again called the London "Arsenal", which will try to compete for the victory under the already new head coach - Spaniard Unai Emery. The main competitors of the "Gunners" can now be called:.

Chelsea;.

Sevilla;.

"Milan".

Now the Europa League has become much more attractive due to the fact that its winner gets the right to play in the Champions League for the next season.

It will be interesting to see if Spanish clubs will be able to prolong their dominance in the international arena in general and in this tournament in particular. Over the past 5 years, the trophy has been won four times by representatives of the La Liga. Wait is not very long, ahead of us expect hundreds of intriguing fights, the outcome of which is impossible to predict.