UEFA Champions League and Europa League

[lucian-crusher]

I can't wait for the draw! They will show images of Bucharest as host of thye UEFA Europa League Final!

is the only country with 5 teams in the Play-Off! It's also funny that Bucharest is the only city with 3 clubs in the Play-Off and none of them is playing in Bucharest

 

[Sim]

a Israeli - Belgian clash for a place in the CL

 

[lucian-crusher]

UEFA Champions League Play-Off:

Champions Route:
Wisla Cracovia - APOEL Nicosia
Maccabi Haifa - KRC Genk
Dinamo Zagreb - Malmo FF
FC Kobenhavn - Viktoria Plzen
BATE Borisov - Sturm Graz

Non-Champions Route:
OB - Villareal
Twente - Benfica Lisabona
Arsenal - Udinese
Bayern Munchen - FC Zurich
Olympique Lyon - Rubin Kazan

 

[CPV4931]

Bayern München is playing against Zürich. There are more difficult opponents in this round.

 

[goktengri]

Europa League draws will start about 15 minutes. You can watch it live on UEFA.com

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2012/draws/index.html

or Eurosport

 

[Sim]

and now Turkish - Belgian clash

is Bursaspor good team?

 

[goktengri]

and now Turkish - Belgian clash

is Bursaspor good team?

Nope, the worst of other representative, but it'd cause a surprise be careful

 

[Sim]

Nope, the worst of other representative, but it'd cause a surprise be careful

well it's the strongest team Anderlecht could have, so I'm careful

 

[goktengri]

Besiktas - Alania ( Eagles will walk over it easily )
Bursaspor - Anderlecht ( We shouldn't expect something great, very little chance for crocodiles )
Trabzonspor - Athletic Bilbao ( Not a easy team but I liked their play in CL qualifications, maybe they can do it )

 

[vatroslav_cro]

Dinamo Zagreb will play against Malmö in the play -off round for CL.
Well...I don't know....I think it is better that we got them...the possible rivals were Genk, Sturm Graz, Victoria Plzen, Wisla.....

I won't say anything else, just good luck to Blue boys!
16th and 17th of August the first match will be played.
DINAMO ZAGREB FOREVER!

 

[goktengri]

well it's the strongest team Anderlecht could have, so I'm careful

Are you kidding ? you'll reach the victory with a serious play

 

[Sim]

Are you kidding ? you'll reach the victory with a serious play

well Anderlecht is not good atm
and they'll lose their star player, Lukaku to Chelsea, so it will be tough for sure
but it's good to play first out

 

[lucian-crusher]

Steaua Bucharest - CSKA Sofia
Well! We had a bit of bad luck but I think we will pass! We play the first match in Cluj and If we win by 2 goals we shouldn't worry!

The rest:

Vorksla Poltava - Dinamo Bucharest

Slask Wroklaw - Rapid Bucharest

SC Vaslui - Sparta Praga

Austria Wien - Gaz Metan Medias

It will be interesting to see what match will be re-scheduled because Steaua and Gaz Metan Medias use the same stadium....

 

[CPV4931]

Hannover plays against Sevilla - the strongest team in this play-off-round. HJK Helsinki is a quite easy opponent for Schalke.

 

[My Star]

Steaua Bucharest - CSKA Sofia
Well! We had a bit of bad luck but I think we will pass! We play the first match in Cluj and If we win by 2 goals we shouldn't worry!

The rest:

Vorksla Poltava - Dinamo Bucharest

Slask Wroklaw - Rapid Bucharest

Sparta Praga - SC Vaslui

Gaz Metan Medias - Austria Wien

It will be interesting to see what match will be re-scheduled because Steaua and Gaz Metan Medias use the same stadium....

There's a major problem there, due to 3 teams playing in Bucharest being in the draw. UEFA don't like having 2 European games in one city in one night.

 

[lucian-crusher]

There's a major problem there, due to 3 teams playing in Bucharest being in the draw. UEFA don't like having 2 European games in one city in one night.

Don't look at the cities! The stadiums are different. The only problem is Steaua and Gaz Metan Medias that play on the same stadium, in Cluj Napoca. Rapid is playing in Timisoara, not in Bucharest. Dinamo is playing in Ploiesti. So practiclly, there are 3 teams from Bucharest and none of them is playing in Bucharest

 

[My Star]

Don't look at the cities! The stadiums are different. The only problem is Steaua and Gaz Metan Medias that play on the same stadium, in Cluj Napoca. Rapid is playing in Timisoara, not in Bucharest. Dinamo is playing in Ploiesti. So practiclly, there are 3 teams from Bucharest and none of them is playing in Bucharest

Haha XD Epic!

 

[doctormalisimo]

Shamrock Rovers vs Partizan Belgrade

And thus ends another season of Irish teams in Europe...

It was a good year though. Shamrock Rovers got to the CL 3rd qualifying round, then the Play off round of the EL. St Pat's and Sligo got to the 3rd round of the EL qualifying, and Bohemians were put out in the 2nd round (the round they entered in). So, yeah, a decent summer for Ireland in Europe. Hopefully our co-efficient will improve for next year. See yas next June! (after Rovers get hammered by Partizan, of course)

 

[lucian-crusher]

The problem was resolved! Gaz Metan Medias will play the first match in Wien and the second match in Cluj, even if the draw decided different! So Steaua will play as scheduled the first leg in Cluj and the 2nd leg in Sofia! I am happy because we play the decisive match in Sofia where I think we will feel more at home then in that horible CFR Cluj stadium that we call home

 

[aletem]

Rabotnicki got Lazio. A tough and an attractive opponent, but not tougher than Liverpool and Rabotnicki did pretty good against them last year. I wished for an English team, but an Italian isn't so bad, as long as it wasn't Spanish, French or German. Looking forward for the matches.