Source: Daily_Mail
EUROPA LEAGUE DRAW: Liverpool, Manchester City, Aston Villa and Celtic learn play-off opponents
Liverpool have drawn Turkish side Trabzonspor in the Europa League play-off round.[LNB]Roy Hodgson's side will meet the club based in Trabzon, who have won the Turkish league six times, on August 19 and 26.[LNB]The play-off is the final hurdle before qualifying for the group stage, with today's draw involving 74 clubs.[LNB]Heads we win: David Ngog helps Liverpool past Rabotnicki[LNB]EUROPA LEAGUE DRAWLiverpool v Trabzonspor[LNB]Timisoara v Manchester City[LNB]Rapid Vienna v Aston Villa[LNB]Celtic v Utrecht[LNB]Odense v Motherwell[LNB]Dundee United v AEK Athens[LNB]CSKA Sofia v The New Saints[LNB]Matches will be played August 19 and 29[LNB]OTHERS: Paris Saint-Germain v Maccabi Tel Aviv, Bayer Leverkusen v Tavriya Simferopol, CSKA Moscow v Anorthosis Famagusta, Hajduk Split v Unirea Urziceni, Feyenoord v Ghent, Genk v Porto, Debreceni v Litex Lovech, Aris v Austria Vienna, Galatasaray v Karpaty Lviv, Palermo v Maribor, Brugge v Dinamo Minsk, Omonia v Metalist Kharkiv, Vaslui v Lille, Napoli v Elfsborg, Sporting Lisbon v Brondby, Grasshoppers v Steaua Bucharest, Borussia Dortmund v Qarabag, AIK Stockholm v Levski Sofia, Sturm Graz v Juventus, Getafe v APOEL, AZ Alkmaar v Aktobe, Dnepr Dnipropetrovsk v Lech Poznan, Besiktas v HJK Helsinki, Slovan Bratislava v Stuttgart, Sibir Novosibirsk v PSV Eindhoven, BATE Borisov v Maritimo, Lausanne v Lokomotiv Moscow, Gyor v Dinamo Zagreb, PAOK Thessaloniki v Fenerbahce, Villarreal v Dnepr Mogilev.[LNB]Trabzonspor won the Turkish cup last season but have not claimed the league title since 1984.[LNB]Aston Villa face Rapid Vienna - Austria's most successful club with 32 championships.[LNB]The rivals met in the same round last season with Villa crashing out of the competition on away goals.[LNB]Big-spending Manchester City travel to Romania for the first leg of their play-off after being paired with Timisoara.[LNB]The Romanian minnows, established since 2002, finished fifth in their domestic league last season.[LNB]Welsh outfit The New Saints also travel for their first leg, heading to Bulgaria to meet CSKA Sofia.[LNB]Neil Lennon[LNB]Celtic, who were knocked out of the Champions League by Braga on Wednesday, will take on Dutch side Utrecht.[LNB]Neil Lennon's side, who were seeded, will play the first game at home on August 19 before travelling to Holland a week later.[LNB]Motherwell will fancy their chances of making the group stages for the first time after being drawn to play Odense, with the first leg in Denmark.[LNB]Craig Brown's men have come through two qualifying rounds against Icelandic side Breidablik and Aalesund.[LNB] Ready for action: Emmanuel Adebayor in action against Inter Milan on City's pre-season tour of America[LNB]The Norwegian side were beaten 3-0 at Fir Park on Wednesday as the home side cruised through to the play-offs with a a 4-1 aggregate win.[LNB]Dundee United will make their first appearance in the Europa League this season when they take on AEK Athens.[LNB]The Active Nation Scottish Cup holders were drawn at home in the first leg and will be looking to take a decent lead to Greece for the return game.[LNB] Liverpool 2 Rabotnicki 0 (4-0 agg): Ngog and Gerrard seal Reds cruiseSign up to our FREE Fantasy Football game - with £40,000 in prize money up for grabsDream draw for Spurs as Redknapp's men take on Young Boys in play-off[LNB]
