From feel-good stories of clubs defying the odds to qualify for the Champions League to tales of relegation, off-field drama, and 9-0 defeats; here are six of the 2022/23 season’s biggest storylines... jbsoutar
22/23 was nothing short of a disaster for Dundee United, who were relegated from the Scottish Premiership as local rivals, Dundee, swapped places with them by winning the Championship, beating Owen Coyle’s Queens Park on the final day of the season to secure a place among Scotland’s elite for 12 months before they are relegated again.
It is crazy to think that United’s second competitive fixture of the season was in the Europa Conference League against eventual semi-finalists AZ Alkmaar. Better yet, they won the first leg 1-0. The second leg in the Netherlands was…not as successful. United lost 7-0 in what was a sign of things to come.
In fairness, Spakenburg defied the odds to reach the last four of the competition and were only beaten 2-1 by PSV, who went on to win it under Ruud van Nistelrooy. Despite receiving over €20m in player sales last summer, including the club-record fee brought in for Jorgen Strand Larsen, Groningen only spent €4.48m on new recruits.Similar to the story of Union Berlin, RC Lens have earned a spot in the Champions League having been a second-tier club very recently. In fact, they only finished a single point behind 22/23 Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain having lost four league games all season – three fewer than the Parisiens.
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