{"id":25687,"date":"2023-09-01T14:40:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/?p=25687"},"modified":"2023-09-01T14:40:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:40:37","slug":"villa-drawn-against-az-aberdeen-to-face-eintracht-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/news\/villa-drawn-against-az-aberdeen-to-face-eintracht-frankfurt","title":{"rendered":"Villa drawn against AZ, Aberdeen to face Eintracht Frankfurt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Villa to face last season\u2019s semi-finalists<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tough draw for Aberdeen<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Villa early favourites<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Europa Conference League, Aston Villa have been drawn alongside AZ Alkmaar, who lost to eventual winners West Ham United in last season&#8217;s semi-final, Legia Warsaw and HSK Zrinjski Mostar in Group E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aberdeen will face Germany&#8217;s Eintracht Frankfurt, who beat Rangers to win the 2022 Europa League final, Greece&#8217;s PAOK and Finnish champions HJK Helsinki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Betting\">Betting Implications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Punters need to study the groups and assess how teams begin the season. At the time of writing Villa, who won an all British tie against Hibernian to qualify for the group stages, are the bookmakers\u2019 favourite to win. They are currently 5\/1 with bet365.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conference League Groups<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Group A: Lille, Slovan Bratislava, Olimpija Ljubljana, KI Klaksvik<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group B: Gent, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Zorya Luhansk, Breidablik<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group C: Dinamo Zagreb, Viktoria Plzen, Astana, Ballkani<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group D: Club Brugge, Bodo\/Glimt, Besiktas, Lugano<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group E: AZ Alkmaar, ASTON VILLA, Legia Warsaw, Mostar Zrinjski<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group F: Ferencvaros, Fiorentina, Genk, Cukaricki<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group G: Frankfurt, PAOK, HJK Helsinki, ABERDEEN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group H: Fenerbahce, Ludogorets Razgrad, Spartak Trnava, Nordsjaelland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Europa Conference League, Aston Villa have been drawn alongside AZ Alkmaar, who lost to eventual winners West Ham United in last season&#8217;s semi-final, Legia Warsaw and HSK Zrinjski Mostar in Group E. Aberdeen will face Germany&#8217;s Eintracht Frankfurt, who beat Rangers to win the 2022 Europa League final, Greece&#8217;s PAOK and Finnish champions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":25688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[645],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25690,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25687\/revisions\/25690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}