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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9U6yU2-DWY Greetings goons and goonettes, for the coming months the European football circus really kicks off. Sure, there's still some 'qualifiers' being played this week, but unless you're a Spurs fan or Italian you have never given a poo poo about them in the first place. So we're starting off the thread with the group stages. The Old Wise Men of Uefa in Nyon have given us three gifts to open as we figure out if oil money alone is still enough to win a trophy in Europe (probably yes) CHAMPIONS LEAGUE  When football was born in 1992, the Champions League was its placenta. When Europacup I was open only to champions (and maybe second place if you were lucky), the Champions League is ironically also open to losers from 'the big leagues' like Portugal, France and Russia. This is where about 87% of all UEFA football money is and so it's very tempting to forgo any domestic league game to make sure you qualifier further into the Champions League until you get bopped out by *waves hand vaguely* Atalanta and you have to hurry up your game to get that coveted 4th place trophy to get those sweet sweet UEFA millions Last year's winner: Chelsea beat Manchester City 1-0 Premier League teams in the competition: Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool Most succesful club: Real Madrid Should you, for some reason, fail to qualify for the Champions League or only get third in the group stages you are eligible for a second chance in the EUROPA LEAGUE  The UEFA Europa League was created in an attempt to make not-Champions League Eurofoot look really pog, as the youth says. It started out ok with the very radical idea that every team had to qualify for the competition, but then some pissbabies starting crying about how this made it hard for Athletic de Bilbao to qualify or whatever so now there's guaranteed spots here too. It's made the Europa League less cool, but if you want to be a hipster about Eurofoot and you only like capitalism when it's not in the Middle East, you racist, there's still fun times to be had here. Cup winners go in this one, and if you win the Europa league you win a golden ticket to CL millions. So it might be tempting to forgo those domestic games, but I reckon that 4th place trophy might be easier than an EL win. Even if your American owners think you can do it on a windy night in Kazan Last year's winner: Villarreal drew Manchester United 1-1 and then they did over 9000 penalties and Villarreal won lmao Premier League teams in the competition: Leicester, West Ham Most succesful club: Sevilla Listen, I'm not saying that you're bad if you manage to not qualify for this trophy, or end up being bopped out of the group stages by a Dutch team. I'm just saying that UEFA and the fans don't really care about the EUROPA CONFERENCE LEAGUE  Last year's winner: Uh, this is the first time this competition is played, dummy!!! Premier League teams in the competition: Spurs Most succesful club: All the clubs that aren't here You see, UEFA saw that while there was a second-tier European competition, the prospect at a golden ticket to the CL made it so failsons who couldn't win their league ended up giving more priority to the Europa League anyway, which made it so the top leagues kept winning there too. So UEFA made a competition so loving boring with so little loving money involved that top teams will never ever give a poo poo about it ever. The only thing you can win is an EL ticket and if you're not winning an EL ticket in your competition you might as well be relegated inchallah. So here's the Intertoto Cup but with only one winner instead of four or whatever the gently caress it had. It's only goal is to show lovely leagues like Ukraine, Belgium and Turkey that yes, you really are as poo poo as we say you are and it's time to lose to Latvia's 4th place team or whatever The group stage draws happen Thursday if you're in the CL and Friday if you're poo poo. Oh also, away goals aren't a thing anymore. They just count as regular goals belgend fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Aug 23, 2021 |
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it just works https://editorial.uefa.com/resources/0263-10c848fb43cc-49ac1262ab7c-1000/access_list_2021-22_final.pdf
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Good op, OP. I'm very excited for the Europa vanarama conference and its potential to throw up retro 70s ties. Aberdeen vs maccabi Tel Aviv cannot be broadcast in high definition If man united win the champions league (or more likely they get bounced out in the groups and cheat their way to a Europa League) I'll donate 30 quid to FareShare. This will not happen because they're a poo poo small time club, but at least I'll feel a bit better doing some good if the unthinkable happens
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As funny as the Conference League is and as much of a nightmare it is from a logistics standpoint (go ahead and look up its qualification stages, I dare you), it does actually seem to be a really cool competition for teams from smaller nations. Iirc there isn't too much of a financial difference between it and the Europa, and a lot more nations will be represented with smaller teams having a better chance of making it to the latter knock out rounds.
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Gonna lol when Roma gets knocked out of the Conference League and Mourinho has a meltdown that isn’t a meltdown but is obviously a meltdown.
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Aug 23, 2021 16:52
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We all love the all encompassing Eurofoot thread
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Lots of thigh rubbing already for the Eurofoot group stages but if you can't get Nyon out of your head before the draws here's your qualifiers for the coming week. In brackets is the current aggregate score Today Ferencvaros - Young Boys (2-3) Ludogorets - Malmo (0-2) PSV - Benfica (1-2) Wednesday Brondby - RB Salzburg (1-2) Dinamo Zagreb - Sheriff Tiraspol (0-3) WAXTAP - Monaco (1-0) Thursday Europa League Alashkert - Rangers (0-1) HJK - Fenerbahce (0-1) Luhansk - Rapid Wien (0-3) Galatasaray - Randers (1-1) AZ - Celtic (0-2) Cluj - Red Star (0-4) Slovan Bratislava - Olympiacos (0-3) Sturm Graz - Mura (3-1) Antwerp - Omonia (2-4) Legia - Slavia Prague (2-2) Conference League Kairat - Fola Esch (4-1) Bodo/Glimt - Zalgiris (2-2) Lincoln Red Imps - Riga (1-1) Zilina - Jablonec (1-5) Maccabi Haifa - Neftci Baku (3-3) Rosenborg - Rennes (0-2) Hammarby - Basel (1-3) Vitesse - Anderlecht (3-3) CSKA Sofia - Plzen (0-2) Elfsborg - Feyenoord (0-5) Kobnhavn - Sivasspor (2-1) Roma - Trabzonspor (2-1) Famagusta - Hapoel Beer Sheva (0-0) Maccabi Tel Aviv - Karagandy (2-1) Rijeka - PAOK (1-1) Saint Johnstone - LASK (1-1) Gent - Rakow (0-1) Union Berlin - KuPS (4-0) Shamrock Rovers - Flora (2-4) Aberdeen - Qarabag (0-1) Spurs - Pacos de Ferreira (0-1) Partizan Belgrade - Santa Clara (1-2)
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I haven't read the euro conference rules but if spurs don't qualify but st Johnstone do, are they supposed to swap leagues or
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the sex ghost posted:I haven't read the euro conference rules but if spurs don't qualify but st Johnstone do, are they supposed to swap leagues or They swap stadiums
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Total Meatlove posted:They swap stadiums I doubt Spurs could fill McDairmid Park tbh
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They’d give it a good go. Rangers have positive COVID cases so gently caress knows who’s flying out to Armenia tomorrow.
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lol I can't belive Malmö is playing in CL. Again.
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Rangers play Alashkert, and will be missing; Gerrard GK: McGregor GK: McLaughlin LB: Bassey RB: Tavernier FW: Wright FW: Kent Because of a positive COVID case. With Roofe serving the last game of his suspension for kung-fu fighting that Slavia keeper. European and Old Firm debut for our third choice keeper 
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CL Draw is live
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Aug 26, 2021 17:36
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El Cashico
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City PSG is a fun spicy start to the group stage. Toss in a Leipzig & Milan and make it hurt edit - LEIPZIG ACHIEVED All we need is Milan Omnikin fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Aug 26, 2021 |
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Aug 26, 2021 17:53
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TheRat posted:El Cashico
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Imagine going el cashico when oiled firm is right there
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Group A Man. City Paris Leipzig Club Brugge Group B Atlético Liverpool Porto Milan Group C Sporting CP Dortmund Ajax Beşiktaş Group D Internazionale Real Madrid Shakhtar Donetsk Sheriff Group E Bayern Barcelona Benfica Dynamo Kyiv Group F Villarreal Man. United Atalanta Young Boys Group G LOSC Sevilla Salzburg Wolfsburg Group H Chelsea Juventus Zenit Malmö
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Aug 26, 2021 18:17
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Ffs E: ffs Anderlecht
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belgend posted:Ffs Ouch for that draw. Cool but you're getting destroyed. Lmao at the thought of Messi at Jan Breydel though. By the way, my body is ready for some euro foot 
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Omnikin posted:
Group of Phwoar imo
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L A M P Group E was so close to 4 B clubs, can we get Besiktas to swap in?
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the sex ghost posted:Group of Phwoar imo agreed Groups A/B are gonna be some tasty matches
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Well we’re done by Christmas but I struggle to think of any combination where we wouldn’t be.
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6 beers in and we're 1-0 up. Need another goal though
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Joe Hart is having an awesome game, and I’m not laughing too hard. https://twitter.com/premiersportstv/status/1430959888197369856?s=21 https://twitter.com/premiersportstv/status/1430965091063762949?s=21
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I would have preferred an easier group for Liverpool but those will be some tasty matches.
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I predict Liverpool will fight and win and win the group.
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Joe fart
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Celtic didn’t even do a comedy extra time or 2 sendings off. Shameful club.
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We won 3-0. Group stages ftw
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AZ are a good team so happy to get through at all- most would have made them favourites before the first game
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Lazio - Lokomotiv - Marseille - Galatasaray is an insane(ly racist) group for the EL.
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whats the worst that could happen
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Why do Celtic always get cursed EL groups
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Her Dryer posted:Why do Celtic always get cursed EL groups every group looks cursed when you're bad hth
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UGH this is worse than when Everton were in town
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Why is this all in one thread?
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All the European competitions are equally important and deserve equal standing also nobody could be arsed doing a full OP for three separate competitions
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