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Post subject: Europa League seeding and possible opponents
 Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 02:31 AM
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Villa In His Jeans
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The World Cup is still underway, but I figured I'd post a look at possible EL opponents and seeding.
Villa enters the competition in the playoff (4th qualifying) round and is assured of being seeded, by virtue of a coefficient of 25.871.
Possible opponents in that round include: Red Star Belgrade, Anorthosis Famagusta, Grasshoppers Zurich, Rapid Vienna, APOEL Nicosia, Montpellier, Trabzonspor, Wisla Krakow, Motherwell, Hibernian, Dundee United, Omonia Nicosia, AIK Stockholm, Bohemians.
Should Villa advance to the group stage, it is possible (if there's enough upsets in the CL qualifying) for Villa to fall as low as the fourth pot. If there are no upsets affecting the seeding for this round, then the possible group stage opponents would be:
Pot 1 - Atletico Madrid, Porto, CSKA Moscow, PSV, Juventus, Sporting Lisbon, Olympiakos, Fenerbahce, Stuttgart, AZ Alkmaar, Steaua Bucharest
Pot 2 - Lille, Galatasaray, Dinamo Kiev, Bayer Leverkusen, PSG, Sporting Braga, Celtic, Brugge, Palermo, Getafe, Besiktas
Pot 4 - Austria Wien, Feyenoord, Real Mallorca, Litex Lovech, CSKA Sofia, OB Odense, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Napoli, Dortmund, Dinamo Zagreb, Partizan, BATE Borisov
If we get into the group stage, we'll at least be playing some name-brand clubs as we add to the fixture congestion. |
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Post subject: RE: Europa League seeding and possible opponents
Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 05:54 AM
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Reserve Team
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| Hope we get AIK, just 150 km from my hometown!! Oh and I forgot, they are shit.... |
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Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 06:06 AM
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| There's some good clubs in there. Here's hoping for a more convincing crack at the tournament this time around. |
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Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 07:35 AM
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| I want to get revenge on Vienna! |
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Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 07:50 AM
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BigCarew wrote:
I want to get revenge on Vienna!
it means nothing to me |
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Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 07:56 AM
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Please,
Can we get Motherwell, home town team, went to primary school next to the ground and therefore can't lose. |
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Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 07:58 AM
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I hope we get Napoli. It would be great to visit my old home and it would be a nice trip.  |
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Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 08:06 AM
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Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 08:45 AM
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i wouldnt mind playing vienna again just to put them in their place as we just didnt care about that game.
would love a cypriot team also as i should be in cyprus about the time we play the game.
we will get a tough group thats for sure
we could get a death group of juventus, galatasaray and dortmund |
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Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 08:51 AM
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Well i had just got back from a holiday weekend in Vienna when they knocked us out last time (Why do things like that always happen  ) so i would enjoy a return fixture against them... as long as we won this time of course!! |
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Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 08:54 AM
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Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 09:02 AM
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| Absolutely BOF! If we do happen to draw them just to say Vienna is well worth a visit! |
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Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 09:59 AM
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RA19 wrote:
BigCarew wrote:
I want to get revenge on Vienna!
it means nothing to me
Very good  |
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Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 10:01 AM
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| yeah your right bri, personally i think we should at least take qualifying to the group stages seriously then play some backup players. if we get past the group stages then take the competition more seriously |
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Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 10:05 AM
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I'm with you Demitri, I would hope that we would; and I actually think we will this time around. But I would hate to draw them, not take it seriously, and go out again  |
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