The Europa League returns for the second round of group-stage games with 16 interesting games offering you the chance to win big. This article will provide you with professional betting tips from six selected Europa League games to help maximise your online sports betting experience and improve your chances of winning big. **Marseille v Brighton** Brighton’s European football journey started off on a bad note with a 3-2 home defeat to Greek club AEK Athens and the path does not get easier in Group B where they face Marseille next. The French club are winless in their last five games, including their first Europa League game of the season, which was an exciting 3-3 draw away at Ajax. Brighton’s recent form has been bad and the Premier League side heads to the Stade Velodrome with three defeats in their last four games. A win either way is too close to call, which is why you would be better served focusing on the goals markets and other goals-based betting offers available in this fixture. Brighton are yet to keep a single clean sheet in their nine games across all competitions this season. That inability to keep a clean sheet has been offset by being particularly lethal in front of goal. This season, they’ve scored in all but one of their games, racking up 23 goals in just 9 games. These are two flawed teams, and we back the “both teams to score” market due to Brighton’s inability to keep a clean sheet, their potency in front of goal and Marseille’s home advantage, especially since the French side has Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang up front. We also favor the “over 2.5 goals” market for this game. Six out of the home team’s 10 games this season have produced at least three goals while Brighton’s nine games this season have seen at least 3 goals scored in eight games. **Our picks**
**AEK Athens v Ajax** AEK Athens currently sit top of the toughest Europa League group after beating Brighton 3-2 in the first game. Now they host troubled Dutch giants, Ajax in Greece. Unfortunately for the visiting side, who have lost three of their last five games and drawn the other two, the home side have a record of three wins, one loss and one draw from their last five games. As a result, we favor the Greeks to extend Ajax’s miserable run this season with a home win here. Due to the home side’s inability to keep a clean sheet, we also favor a “both teams to score” market here. **Our picks**
**Sporting Lisbon v Atalanta** Sporting Lisbon and Atalanta both started off their Europa League campaigns on the right foot with wins against Sturm Graz and Rakow respectively. Now, the two Group D favourites face off at the Estadio Jose Alvalade. Sporting has a very good record at home where they haven’t lost since a 1-2 defeat to Porto all the way back in February. And while the Portuguese club have won every home game this season, Atalanta have lost two of their four games on the road so far. Since the home side is so dominant at home, we favor them in this game but would also advice you to hedge your bet with a home side win/draw double chance since Atalanta also won two of their away games this season. Other betting tips for this game includes goals market as this fixture involves two high-scoring teams. Sporting have scored in every game this season while also conceding in five out of eight. Atalanta, on the other hand, have scored in seven out of eight games this season but have also been uncharacteristically solid defensively with six clean sheets so far this season. **Our picks**
**Molde v Bayer Leverkusen** Bayer Leverkusen are the current rave of European football after winning seven out of eight competitive games this season. The game they did not win was a 2-2 draw against reigning Bundesliga champions, Bayern Munich. In just over a season, Xabi Alonso has his team not only playing well, but also showing a much-needed steely side to ensure that they close out games better than they did last season. After losing to Jose Mourinho’s Inter side in the semifinal of last season’s Europa League, Leverkusen will consider the Europa League a winnable competition, and rightly so based on their form so far. While Leverkusen was thrashing Swedish side, BK Hacken 4-0, Molde was losing their first Group H to Quarabag. As a result, the away side have to be considered as strong favorites. Every game Leverkusen have been involved in this season has also ended in an “over 2.5 goals” market. **Our picks**
**Liverpool v Union Saint Gilloise** Your guess is as good as ours if you want to predict who wins this one. Short answer? Liverpool. Long answer? Liverpool Football Club, led by Jurgen Klopp. After last season’s underwhelming performance (which saw the Reds drop to the Europa League), the Reds have shown their intent to compete for the biggest trophies again with their performances this season. Against Newcastle, the Reds won despite being a man down for most of the match and almost pulled off a similar trick last weekend away at Tottenham Hotspurs where they were denied a positive outcome by an own goal, two red cards and an embarrassing mistake from the match officials. Simply put? We don’t see the home team dropping points here. The away side has won three straight games, but Liverpool are worlds away from the level of their usual opposition and we think that gulf in class will be exposed at Anfield on Thursday. **Our picks**
**Villarreal v Rennes** After finishing 5th last season, Villarreal’s form has dropped off a cliff this season with a torrid start of just two wins so far and a managerial change already. In direct contrast to the home side, Rennes are unbeaten this season and top Group F after beating Maccabi Haifa 3-0 in the first group stage game. A closer look at the numbers shows that Rennes have drawn most of their games this season (five draws), compared to the number of games they’ve won (three wins). As a result, we’re advising a hedged bet by backing Rennes to win/draw this one. **Our picks**
And there you have it, the best possible bet predictions from the six selected Europa League games, essentially teaching you how to bet on football and win this Thursday. [Register with us](https://m.betking.com/account/registration) and enjoy the best Europa League odds today!