Fenerbahçe and Rangers start well

The first day of the group stage of the Europa League continued this Thursday with two interesting duels. First of all, the Turkish team Fenerbahçe hosted Union Saint-Gilloise. José Mourinho’s team found the fault shortly before the hour mark thanks to their defender Caglar Söyüncü (1-0, 26th). Subsequently, Kevin Mac Allister was excluded (74th) and the Turks definitively took cover by causing Christian Burgess’ own goal (2-0, 82nd). At the end of the game, Bright Osayi-Samuel was sent off (90th) and Ross Sykes reduced the gap without consequence (2-1, 90th +4). A 2-1 victory to start the campaign in the best way for Fenerbahçe.

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The other match at 6:45 p.m. pitted the Swedes of Malmö against the Scots of Glasgow Rangers. There was no need to arrive late since after a strike from Cyriel Dessers on the post, Nedim Bajrami followed well to finish after 56 seconds of play (1-0, 1st). A post story since it was seeing his shot hit the post that Ross McCausland doubled the lead in the second half (2-0, 76th). A 2-0 victory for the unfortunate finalists of the 2022 edition who are off to a good start this edition.