It's Official!!: Europa League Thread

[Paddingtonwolf]

Ive been in a car with Paddy. Never again.

I blame the traffic lights of Edinburgh. How dare they have one green when the other is red?????

 

[Rui_CostCo]

New ground now innit.

Called The Rock but I don't think they got either Sean Connery or The Rock to open it, which is a shame.

does Dwayne know about it though?

 

[Norman Deeley]

Anyway - Danish playoff is less than two hours away. Brondby (7.500 coefficient) are clear favourites against Randers (likely coefficient 5.190).

The winner will be seeded in the first qualifying round.

Randers winning 1-0 just after HT

 

[Lycan]

Brøndby are in. Won 4-2.

 

[WarwickWolf]

By fine fine town I did of course mean a fucking hole.

I ran a little business there for a while. A Pet Shop that I purchased from Ray Parlour's auntie

If there's not a screenplay in this, I don't know what is.

 

[Pablowolf]

I used to live by Cefn Druid's ground and played there a couple of times.

Cefn Mawr is a fine fine town...

Call for help, I think you're having a mini stroke.

 

[jdrodrigues]

Google grounds built into rock and there are several in places like Iceland, Croatia and Switzerland. The Braga one even nearly works as well. The Ancients 'Rock' doesn't have quite the same appeal.

We call it The Quarry.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Mladá Boleslav are in

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Rapid Vienna 1-0 up against Sturm Graz at half time in the second leg. Knife edge stuff.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I think Sturm Graz have made it on away goals. Just doing some checking on that. If so, then the line up is complete.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Confirmed - Sturm Graz have made it. So as it stands we would be the 14th best side in the playoff round in terms of coefficient, and would therefore be unseeded.

We need someone above us to lose in rounds 1 or 2. Losing in round 3 is no good as the draw will have taken place, and the team that beats them will get the seeded place.

 

[Premier Quality]

Can you list those teams we want to lose please Paddy?

I’m loving your commentary by the way, it’s really interesting!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Sure

Round 1:
Legia Warsaw
FC Steaua Bucharest
Malmo FF

Round 2:
AS Roma (yeah right...that's going to happen)
Gent
Eintracht Frankfurt
Espanyol
Partizan Belgrade

 

[Norman Deeley]

Sure

Round 1:
Legia Warsaw
FC Steaua Bucharest
Malmo FF

Round 2:
AS Roma (yeah right...that's going to happen)
Gent
Eintracht Frankfurt
Espanyol
Partizan Belgrade

Do the other teams ranked above us come in later than us?

 

[Tony Towner]

All relative though as our first team beats 5 players of those comfortably over 2 legs.

Who are the other 6 likely to be?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

They come in at third round so with they way they do the draw, if they lost then the side that beats them gets the seeding.

As a point of reference they are:

Sparta Prague
Braga
Feyenoord

Plus the two teams dropping out of Champions League preliminary qualification.

EDIT - read that bit wrong (bloody champions path vs league path)

As far as I can tell, you would have two of Basel (54.500), Olympiacos (44.000), PSV Eindhoven (37.000) and Viktoria Plzen (33.000) dropping in. All four have far superior coefficients to us.

 

[Lycan]

Partizan are shite, they could lose to literally anybody.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

They have done in previous years for certain. Probably our best hope.

 

[Tony Towner]

Thanks Paddy, so if we get there when the draw happens there's likely to be half a dozen to avoid, some not ideal and some you'd happily take.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

If we are unlucky and end up unseeded then for me the obvious must avoids are

AS Roma, PSV Eindhoven, Eintracht Frankfurt, Espanyol, and maybe Basel / Olympiacos depending on how that Champions League path went.