Here are the verdicts after the last round: the Londoners score five goals and finish first ahead of Vitoria Guimaraes and Fiorentina, who have a late goal from Pafos to thank.
In addition to Vitoria Guimaraes-Fiorentina, 17 matches were played. The last round establishes the passing round of, in order, Chelsea, Vitoria Guimaraes, Fiorentina, Rapid Vienna, Djurgarden, Lugano, Legia Warsaw and Cercle Brugge.
Instead, Hearts, Basaksehir, Mlada Boleslav, Astana, San Gallo, HJK, Noah, TNS, Dinamo Minsk, Larns, LASK and Petrol were eliminated.
The teams between ninth and twenty-fourth place will compete in the play-offs which will promote eight other teams.
Everything was easy for the Blues, who despite the lineup full of reserves as has regularly happened in this Conference League, achieved their sixth success in six matches.
Chelsea took advantage of the hat-trick from Marc Guiu, now the competition’s top scorer with six goals, punctuated by the momentary 1-1 from Markus Poom and the seal from Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall.
Closing the first half at 4-1, the English limited themselves to scoring once in the second half with the other Spaniard, the 2024 European champion Marc Cucurella.
A long suspension due to smoke bombs thrown by the home fans marked the top-ranking match, as both teams returned to the top eight.
Swedes ahead by two goals thanks to Tokmac Chol Nguen and Deniz Hummet before the temporary 2-1 by former Hellas Verona player Pawel Wszolek. The final seal that sealed Djurgarden’s overtaking of Legia in the standings bears the signature of Patric Aslund.
Two goals and two reds in the second half characterized the match between the Cypriots and Kazakhs, with the latter being eliminated by virtue of this defeat and the former having to settle for the play-offs due to goal difference: former Juventus player Anastasios took the lead Donis responded with Kipras Kazukolovas, while the two teams were then left with ten men due to the reds to Max Ebong and Giannis Satsias.
A single goal scored by Johnny Cardoso in the first half decided the match in favor of the Andalusians, who however did not return to the top eight despite the success. In fact, the standings saw Betis just one point behind Cercle Brugge.
The others
Lugano-Pafos 2-2
Larne-Gent 1-0
Heidenheim-San Gallo 1-1
Cercle Brugge-Basaksehir 1-1
Panathinaikos-Dinamo Minsk 4-0
Jagiellonia-Olimpia Ljubiana 0-0
Rapid Vienna-Copenhagen 3-0
Hearts-Petroclub 2-2
Celje-TNS 3-2
Molde-Mlada Boleslav 4-3
LASK-Vikingur Reykjavik 1-1
Fighter Banja Luka-Omonia Nicosia 0-0
TSC-Noah 4-3
