 Complete the following phrase:  The new season started with the best omens. AEL as the Cup Winner, represented Greece in the UEFA Cup and the draw brought its technical leader, Giorgos Donis, faced with the club in which he started his international football career, English Blackburn Rovers. AEL entered the first qualifying round as the clear underdog, but on the afternoon of 20 September 2007 at the Panthessaliko Stadiumafter Alcazar did not comply to the UEFA specificationsradically subverted the data: won 20 in the first match and lost 21 in the second game of Ewood Park and took a proud qualification to the group stage. In the 32 AEL faced powerful teams like Everton with a long tradition in the Premier League, rising Dutch AZ Alkmaar, German Nürnberg and the subsequent 