Champions League Qualifiying Round Draw

[Fowler's God]

Tomorrow morning in Nyon, the HQ of the "so called" governing body of European Football who wouldn't organise a pee-up in a brewery, the draw for the 3rd Qualifying Round will be drawn.

Who dou you think we will draw??

looking at the seeded and unseeded teams there is a potential long away trip to the unknown and well-known trouble areas:

Seeded teams:

Liverpool
Arsenal
Valencia
Sevilla
Benfica
Ajax
Werder Bremen
Celtic
Zaglebie Lubin or Steaua Bucuresti
Lazio
Rangers or FK Zeta
Pyunik or Shakhtar Donetsk
Sheriff or Besiktas
Anderlecht
Dynamo Kiev
Tampere United or Levski Sofia


Unseeded teams:

Sparta Prague
Fenerbahce
AEK Athens
Dinamo Bucuresti
MSK Zilina or SK Slavia Prague
Astana or Rosenborg
Spartak Moscow
FK Crvena Zvezda or Levadia Tallinn
FC Copenhagen or Beitar Jerusalem
Toulouse
NK Domzale or Dinamo Zagreb
Genk or FK Sarajevo
Debreceni or IF Elfsborg
FC Zurich
FK Ventspils or FC Salzburg
FH Hafnarfjördur or FC BATE Borisov

[Chambers]

Fenerbache...Sparta Prague..AEK Athens..Maybe Zurich...If we avoid these id have no fear of us not getting through

[phil]

Have no fear, we WILL get through!!!

[BornaRedLass]

All the way to Moscow :)

[sean]

Fenerbache...Sparta Prague..AEK Athens..Maybe Zurich...If we avoid these id have no fear of us not getting through

I think you might want to add B. Jerusalem (if they get through) and Spartak Moscow to that list. Israel is by no means the easiest of places to go, and although on paper we are galaxies apart I wouldn't fancy drawing them. As for Spartak, aren't they in the middle of their season? The obvious fitness element would be a major factor if we were to draw them, and the synthetic surface could cause us a problem or two. Besides, seeing as we'll as be heading to Moscow next May I think we could do without this long haul this early :D

Anyway, enough speculation, bring on the draw!

[Fowler's God]

I think you might want to add B. Jerusalem (if they get through) and Spartak Moscow to that list. Israel is by no means the easiest of places to go, and although on paper we are galaxies apart I wouldn't fancy drawing them. As for Spartak, aren't they in the middle of their season? The obvious fitness element would be a major factor if we were to draw them, and the synthetic surface could cause us a problem or two. Besides, seeing as we'll as be heading to Moscow next May I think we could do without this long haul this early :D

Anyway, enough speculation, bring on the draw!

We don't have a good record against Spartak Moscow anyways so a defo no

[Garrett]

Come on lads ....

We are recent Champions League Winners & Finalists ... we're no push over's and have added even more strength to the team this summer !

Teams will be fearing us (I hope ;)) :)

[sean]

Come on lads ....

We are recent Champions League Winners & Finalists ... we're no push over's and have added even more strength to the team this summer !

Teams will be fearing us (I hope ;)) :)


garrettod, ever the man of reason :D

[Garrett]

LOL :D :D :D

(thanks, I'm taking that as a compliment btw ;))

[redeagle]

we will get tolouse.

BUT WE SHALL WIN.

[GaryMc]

FH Hafnarfjördur or FC BATE Borisov would be nice, espically since i have never heard of either of them

[YNWA]

FH Hafnarfjördur or FC BATE Borisov would be nice, espically since i have never heard of either of them

Said what we were all thinking...

[redeagle]

we will get tolouse.

BUT WE SHALL WIN.



I KNEW IT

lol

[sean]

Not the best draw, but by no means the worst. No worries for this tie.

[gav003]

Great news indeed- Away to Toulouse 1st leg and home second.

[Fowler's God]

RedEagle predicted it, any chance he can predict the lotto tomorrow nite lol, seriously could have been worse, not too far to travel either espeically with chelsea coming up on the sunday after!!!

[gav003]

Direct flights from dublin lads and lassies- game on 14/15 August. Should be managable;)

[YNWA]

Redeagle anyone you fancy in the races???:p

Its a fine draw and hopefully a good chance to get some goals in!

[bryanod]

Reiterate-DO NOT KEEP CHECKING FLIGHTS!

Game arrangemenets released at 3pm after meetings between execs, tv etc.....

Then use www.skyscanner.net to check flight prices and times to save people bumping up prices, cheaper for everyone.

This is a public service announcemenet brought to you by someone who plans to go to one of these.

Thank you.

[redeagle]

sorry,

I can only use my powers for predicting Liverpool fc results, sadly I can only use it sparingly.

[Fowler's God]

if i didn't have exams that week i would travel over for the craic to try and get a ticket

[gav003]

I second Bryan's public service announcement... this motion was typed in front of a live studio audience!!

[Dub13]

Not a bad draw,at least its not a long trip to Russia.

[paddypower111]

looking forward to it. when is the first leg

[Fowler's God]

14th or 15th August with the Anfield leg 2 weeks later on the 28th or 29th of August with the draw for the group stages on the 31st of August

[FinnanNo3]

Glad that its in France, and not some far flung destination like Timbucktoo.

[Fowler's God]

Glad that its in France, and not some far flung destination like Timbucktoo.

Maybe if we participated in the african champions league timbucktoo would an ideal destination lol

[Xabi]

This is a difficult one against a team who have qualified (I think) for the first time so they will be well up for it but with the squad we have we should go through....

[sean]

This is a difficult one against a team who have qualified (I think) for the first time so they will be well up for it but with the squad we have we should go through....

They were very lucky to qualify in fairness, think 4 or 5 clubs were in with a shout of CL qualification in France going into the last day, 2 big sides above them messed up and Toulouse just sneaked in. They can be up for it all they like, just you wait and see Gerrard, Mascherano and Torres put them in their place :)

[Fowler's God]

Bordeaux, Lens and it think Rennes were ahead of them on the last day of last season and the three of them shot themselves in the foot and toulouse won at home to get thru, it will a tricky tie but one that we should come thru

[megager]

No Game in europe is easy, lets not forget Strasborg. And Scum United were very lucky in Lille last year so we should not be complacent. To be honest though I think we should come through easy though..

[redeagle]

they lost 3-1 yesterday.

[sean]

Thats right, and they were apparently awful enough too. If they lose 3-1 to the likes of Valenciennes then I doubt we should be too concerned.

[CarninyRed]

Any news on the definite date for home leg:confused:

BBC has both the matches as Wednesdays??

[SUPERFAN]

Any news on the definite date for home leg:confused:

BBC has both the matches as Wednesdays??


Tuesday August 28th @ 1945

http://www.tfc.info/fr/Pros/202001/Calendrier_Resultats

[SOC]

Tuesday 28th Aug at 8:05pm is what the official site says.

[Fowler's God]

unusual time for the first leg in France due to the fixture list in Ligue 1 that evening for TV purposes