2024-25 Europa League outright winner prediction and football betting tips

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Porto to win the Europa League
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Galatasaray to win the Europa League
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Slavia Prague to finish in the top eight
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2024-25 Europa League predictions

Tottenham and Manchester United are clear favourites to win this season's new-look Europa League but it may pay to oppose the Premier League pair.

Spurs and United have both made patchy starts to their domestic campaigns and backing English clubs in Europe last season proved costly.

Manchester City, Liverpool and Aston Villa traded as short-priced favourites for the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League but none of them even reached the final.

Liverpool lost 3-1 on aggregate in their Europa League quarter-final against Atalanta, who went on to thrash unbeaten German champions Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 in the final.

This season's Europa League format is the same as the Champions League, with each of the 36 teams playing eight league fixtures. The top eight in the standings progress to the round of 16 with the sides finishing from ninth to 24th going into a playoff round.

The fact that teams no longer drop into the Europa League from the Champions League makes things a little simpler for ante-post punters and Jose Mourinho casts a long shadow over the outright market.

Three of his former teams – Spurs, United and Roma – are the top three in the betting but preference is for the club where Mourinho made his name as a manager.

Porto finished third in the Primeira Liga last season but competed well in the Champions League, winning four of their six group games before a penalty-shootout defeat to Arsenal in the last 16.

They caused the Gunners plenty of problems over two tight matches and their talented young squad can go deep in this term's Europa League.

Striker Evanilson moved to Bournemouth in the summer and defender Pepe retired at the age of 41 but Portugal goalkeeper Diogo Costa still has a solid defence in front of him.

Brazilian wingers Galeno and Pepe are potential matchwinners and exciting young striker Samu Omorodion, whose summer transfer to Chelsea broke down late in the negotiating process, has scored three goals in his first 118 minutes as a Porto player.    

An away defeat against a classy Sporting side is the only blot on Porto's record this season but they claimed extra-time victories over the Portuguese champions in last term's cup final and August's Super Cup.   

Mourinho's current team Fenerbahce are of interest given that their squad is packed with Turkey internationals and experienced top-level campaigners such as Edin Dzeko, Fred, Dusan Tadic, Youssef En-Nesyri, Sofyan Amrabat and Allan Saint-Maximin.

But Fener were beaten 3-1 at home by Istanbul rivals Galatasaray last weekend and Gala have won all six of their Super Lig fixtures by an aggregate score of 20-5.

The Europa League schedule gives them a great chance of making a strong start as they host PAOK and Elfsborg either side of a trip to Latvia to take on Rigas. 

Galatasaray face Tottenham, comfortably the toughest of their eight opponents, at home and they took four points off United in last season's Champions League, winning 3-2 at Old Trafford before a 3-3 draw in Turkey.

Star striker Victor Osimhen, signed on loan from Napoli, should keep Mauro Icardi and Michy Batshuayi on the bench while veteran Dries Mertens remains a classy playmaker and Turkey winger Baris Yilmaz is another goal threat.

Lucas Torreira and former Norwich man Gabriel Sara have formed an excellent midfield alliance in front of uncompromising centre-backs Davinson Sanchez and Abdulkerim Bardakci.

Early results suggest Gala may outclass their Super Lig rivals, giving them an advantage in Europe over teams such as Spurs and United, who cannot afford to ease off in an ultra-competitive Premier League.  

Rangers are 11-1 to finish in the top eight but they face both English clubs in the league phase and Slavia Prague are more tempting outsiders in that market.

Slavia finished above Roma in last season's Europa League group stage, winning five of their six games and scoring 17 goals. 

A 7-3 aggregate defeat to Milan in the last 16 was no disgrace given that they had a player sent off in the 26th and 20th minutes of the two legs and they have taken 22 points out of 24 in the Czech top flight this term.

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