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Can't believe Chelsea are seeded 1 for winning the Ropey League. What a fucking joke.
Anyway, we'll definitely draw Inter, a weak team then probably.....
PSG.
Better than playing on a Thursday night!
Anyway, we'll definitely draw Inter, a weak team then probably.....
PSG.
Better than playing on a Thursday night!
Any Spanish team will do for me
Please no German teams with their conductors and boom bang a bang
Whatever happened to spontaneity
Whatever happened to spontaneity
Unluckyyyyyyyy
Nabil Bentaleb
Nabil Bentaleb
So there are 6 two-legged play-off ties left in the qualifying competition. If the highest-ranked team wins each of those 6 fixtures, our draw possibilities would be as follows:
From Pot 1 obviously Zenit is the plum draw, and we have about a 1 in 5 chance of drawing them compared to the other pot 2 teams for whom it'd be 1 in 7 or 8.
In Pot 3, Lyon, Valencia and Inter Milan would probably be the ones to avoid (despite the potential for an 'NDerby' with Lyon). Those 3 would give us the biggest ticket allocations though, the others all have sub-35k stadiums.
From Pot 4... meh, we'll take whatever. Lokomotiv or Galatasaray would be tougher trips, Lille would get absolutely taken over by Spurs given how close and easy to get to it is.
The only big change that could come from the play-off results would be if Ajax fail to get past APOEL, in which case Lyon would move up to pot 2 and we'd avoid them. Different results in the other 5 play-offs would only mix up the teams in pots 3 and 4 a bit.
Can't bloody wait!
From Pot 1 obviously Zenit is the plum draw, and we have about a 1 in 5 chance of drawing them compared to the other pot 2 teams for whom it'd be 1 in 7 or 8.
In Pot 3, Lyon, Valencia and Inter Milan would probably be the ones to avoid (despite the potential for an 'NDerby' with Lyon). Those 3 would give us the biggest ticket allocations though, the others all have sub-35k stadiums.
From Pot 4... meh, we'll take whatever. Lokomotiv or Galatasaray would be tougher trips, Lille would get absolutely taken over by Spurs given how close and easy to get to it is.
The only big change that could come from the play-off results would be if Ajax fail to get past APOEL, in which case Lyon would move up to pot 2 and we'd avoid them. Different results in the other 5 play-offs would only mix up the teams in pots 3 and 4 a bit.
Can't bloody wait!
Probably been covered but how the fuck are Madrid in pot 2 and Zenit are in pot 1 ?
League winners.
How much did Russia pay for that, it's an insult.
Pot 1 is the winners of the best six leagues (English, Spanish, German, Italian, French and Russian at the moment) plus the two European trophies. Pot 2 is the best 8 other teams based on coefficient.
Barcelona Inter Galatasary
Lovely jubbley
Lovely jubbley
To be fair they've done well to get to 6th, that spot really should be taken by the Portuguese or Dutch (even the Turks or Greeks at a push) if either of them had got their acts together
I would take:
Zenit
Spurs
Red Bull Salzberg
Young Boys
I reckon we'll end up with
PSG
Spurs
Valencia
Galatasaray
Zenit
Spurs
Red Bull Salzberg
Young Boys
I reckon we'll end up with
PSG
Spurs
Valencia
Galatasaray
I'll sign for that now as Pochettino says, translating a common Spanish expression.
Valencia's a great city, the weather will be pleasant whenever we play them, and they're (a) not that great at the best of times, slow starters too and (b) in full crisis mode at the minute, with the manager, Marcelino, and the owner, Peter LIm, a Singaporean business magnate who seems to have no interest in the club, in open conflict. Just about to sell their best striker too, Rodrigo to Atleti.
Pretty easy to get tickets for as well.