The Official Club of Europa League > Champions League Gathering 2015/16

Group stage is at 12:00 (UK time)/13:00 (CET).

The pots:

Pot 1
Schalke, Dortmund, Basel, Napoli, Spurs, Ajax, Villareal, Rubin, Athletic, Sporting CP, Marseille, Dnipro

Pot 2
Braga, Fiorentina, Lazio, Anderlecht, Liverpool, AZ, Plzen, PAOK, Celtic, Besiktas, APOEL

Pot 3
Monaco, Sparta Prague, Fenerbahce, Legia, Bordeaux, Lokomotiv Moscow, Lech, St-Etienne, Liberec, Augsburg, Rapid Wein, Krasnodar

Pot 4
Partizan, Asteras, Belenenses, Rosenborg, Qarabag, Molde, Dinamo Minsk, Groningen, Sion, Midtjylland, Skenderbeu, Qabala

A potential group for Liverpool:

Dortmund
Liverpool
Monaco
Midtjylland

And a potentially hard one for SpursL

Spurs
Lazio/Fiorentina
Monaco
Midtjlland

And so it begins!

rwo power wrote:And so it begins!

Or so you thought!

Liverpool with Rubin Kazan
those special nights for Ings and Lallana

I hope Ausburg draws in the same group !

Poor Dortmund - they will have to do a world tourney to Russia and Azerbaijan o_O

BVB with a.. ahem.. DOABLE group

A: Ajax, Celtic, Fenerbahce, Molde
B: Rubin, Liverpool, Bordeaux, Sion
C: Dortmund, PAOK, Krasnodar, Qabala
D: Napoli, Club Brugge, Legia, Midtjylland
E: Villareal, Plzen, Rapid Wein, Dinamo Minsk
F: Marseille, Braga, Liberec, Groningen
G: Dnipro, Lazio, St-Etienne, Rosenborg
H: Sporting CP, Besiktas, Lokomotiv Moscow, Skenderbeu
I: Basel, Fiorentina, Lech, Belenenses
J: Spurs, Anderlecht, Monaco, Qarabag
K: Schalke, APOEL, Sparta Prague, Asteras
L: Athletic, AZ, Augsburg, Partizan

I knew there would be tougher groups than that Valencia group lmao.

Monaco, Spurs and Anderlehct is better than a lot of them tbh.

Augsburg with a really tough group

BVB drawing the lowest seeded teams of pot 3 and 4

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Hapless_Hans wrote:BVB drawing the lowest seeded teams of pot 3 and 4

I'm sure BVB would have preferred higher seeded teams with shorter travelling distances XD

A good draw for us, Rubin should be one of weakest teams from pot 1, although Bordeaux and Sion are probably some of the better teams from pots 3 and 4.

Well, Sion are currently not really convincing in the Swiss Super League. I don't think they will pose any real threat (Even YB defeated them and they crashed out badly in the EL quali).

yeah, but some of those pot 4 teams I've never even heard of = ranked lower than Sion whom I have heard of

rwo power wrote:Well, Sion are currently not really convincing in the Swiss Super League. I don't think they will pose any real threat (Even YB defeated them and they crashed out badly in the EL quali).  

that logic donesnt work for us...i remember having difficult games against YB also

LOL, okay. Although in Switzerland there is a verb for embarassingly getting defeated in a football match that one normally should win, and that's "veryoungboysen" XD

lol
didnt knot that...once the draws come out, may be I can plan a long weekend trip to Sion including Thu and Fri

It is a pretty tough group to be fair to Mole. Tougher than the United group if they all take it seriously. Monaco is actually a pretty nice team and Anderlecht have some exciting talents like Praet, Tielemans, Iseka, Ezekiel, Dendoncker and Kawaya so depending on their form, since kids are pretty inconsistent, they could post a real threat to Spurs and Monaco.

Anyway, not a huge fan of the draw for Liverpool. Would have liked to see Dortmund, Ajax, Napoli or Monaco for a few tougher European matches to start out the competition (plus bigger names!) But Liverpool can't take the group lightly either. In theory we should advance, but we should also have advanced in the CL last season and, well...I'm optimistic regardless.

Yeah was hoping for Dortmund and Monaco. Shit draw. I can see the games being very boring.

Tottenham will crash out lol.


Liverpool should be fine and should top the group.

LOL, that's evil:

"Europa League Qualifier or Ikea Furniture?"
http://blog.paddypower.com/2015/08/28/europa-league-qualifier-or-ikea-furniture/

@rwo power this is a good quiz, so far 6 of 6.....down in large part due to some lucky guesses. fingers crossed

scored 10 of 15, 67%. that shit was tough lol

Haames, I agree that games will be boring. We might top the group but ai can see us fighting really hard to get result againat each team. Thanks to Brenda

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