UEFA Cup and Champions League thread.

[Duke]

All Dutch sides proceed to the group phase. I'm mighty chuffed!

 

[Flipmo]

UEFA Cup Draw.

Group A

Schalke
PSG
Manchester City
Racing Santander
Twente

Group B

Benfica
Olympiacos
Galatasaray
Hertha Berlin
Metalist Kharkiv

Group C

Sevilla
Stuttgart
Sampdoria
Partizan
Standard Liege

Group D

Tottenham
Spartak Moscow
Udinese
Dinamo Zagreb
NEC Nijmegen

Group E

AC Milan
Heerenveen
Braga
Portsmouth
Wolfsburg

Group F

Hamburg
Ajax
Slavia Prague
Aston Villa
MSK Zilina

Group G

Valencia
Club Brugge
Rosenborg
FC Kobenhavn
Saint-Etienne

Group H

CSKA Moscow
Deportivo La Coruna
Feyenoord
AS Nancy-Lorraine
Lech Poznan

Hardest group? It has got to be C.

 

[Bobby Sands]

yea i cant see Sampdoria coming out of that

 

[Duke]

All groups are pretty tough and well balanced. It's going to be interesting. I'll probably attend Heerenveen's home games, and I'm hoping with all my might they get AC at home. That'd be awesome.

EDIT: They get AC at home. Fab!

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

Looks great. I can't wait for it to start.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

UEFA Cup Draw.

Group A

Schalke
PSG
Manchester City
Racing Santander
Twente

Group B

Benfica
Olympiacos
Galatasaray
Hertha Berlin
Metalist Kharkiv

Group C

Sevilla
Stuttgart
Sampdoria
Partizan
Standard Liege

Group D

Tottenham
Spartak Moscow
Udinese
Dinamo Zagreb
NEC Nijmegen

Group E

AC Milan
Heerenveen
Braga
Portsmouth
Wolfsburg

Group F

Hamburg
Ajax
Slavia Prague
Aston Villa
MSK Zilina

Group G

Valencia
Club Brugge
Rosenborg
FC Kobenhavn
Saint-Etienne

Group H

CSKA Moscow
Deportivo La Coruna
Feyenoord
AS Nancy-Lorraine
Lech Poznan

My predictions.

 

[Bobby Sands]

^^i dunno. Standard Liege are a good side. Sampdoria will do well to beat them. Partizan will be decent as well.

and id fancy Galatasary to come through ahead of Hertha Berlin. Hertha Berlin beat Irish league side St Pats 2-0 on aggregate in the last round but St Pats were extremely unlucky. They missed a load of good chances especially in the second leg.Hertha didnt look a whole lot. The irish sides put up a good showing this year. The Champions Drogheda United should have beaten Dinamo Kiev in the Champions League qualifiers.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

Standard have looked good. But Sampdoria have a decent squad.

I've seen a couple of games of Galatasary and they don't look that good. Maybe win there homes games though.

 

[Bobby Sands]

I suppose with some of the players that Sampdoria have, they should be beating those teams, but they have started very poorly this season. they havent won a game in the serie a yet. There is talks of Cassano joining City now.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

It also depends how seriously the Italians take this competition. The likes of Palermo and Empoli in the past put out a bunch of 16 year olds. They kinda turn their nose up at the UEFA cup.

 

[Duke]

I'm definitely going to the Heerenveen - Milan match. How often does one get a chance like this? I'm very excited :thumb:

 

[Bobby Sands]

hmmm i wonder do ryanair fly to Liege or Stuttgart. I might go to a Sampdoria game.

 

[Duke]

Liege is close by, at least. If you go to Stuttgart maybe consider getting a hotel for the night.

Although Stuttgart would make the better game, obviously.

Do you go to Pool's CL matches sometimes, Bobby?

 

[Bobby Sands]

^^Have only been to League games. Its very hard to get tickets for their champions league games. i will have to try to get tickets for one someday though.

 

[Duke]

Yeah that's imo a bit of a downside to the great commercialization of football. You can't just "go to a game" anymore. You need club memberships and a whole host of other administration. That's the charm of the First Division (we call the highest division "Honour League". Don't ask why ) here. At most clubs you can just still buy a ticket at the gate.

 

[Duke]

Fuck cancer swollen tumor

No more tickets for AC. All sold out within 2 minutes.

 

[2Pax]

Damn Celtic fans, I had to walk home from University because they took over our town centre and hogged all the trams .

 

[Illuminattile]

Fenerbahce are getting caned. Though it was hilarious to see Micky Silvestre score an OG.

 

[Flipmo]

Lyon was down 2 - 0... now came back to make it 2 - 2.

Porto is losing 1 - 0 to Kiev.

Quite the number of goals today.

 

[bacho2]

lmao at Wes Brown being captain.

Looks like somebody finally told Ronaldo to grow up. He looks very mature now and doesn't cry when he gets fouled.