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The road to Europe 2019/2020 begins...

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  1. Steven Toast

    Steven Toast Well-Known Member

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    Next week the draw for the preliminary stages of the Champions League and Europa League will take place. As per usual, the minnows get stuck in first, battling for the chance to land a windfall tie in the later stages.

    It isn't everybody's cup of tea, but I love the early stages of the European competitions, you get some great ties and there's some decent talent to watch if you know where to look.

    Minnows such as Dundalk, Linfield and Celtic get a chance to show what they can do, hoping for money spinning ties away in Azerbaijan and Israel. As always, British and Irish teams are in bold, plus any that I'm aware of that might interest users on here.

    This year's final venues are the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul (CL) and the Stadion Energa Gdańsk (EL) in...well, in Gdansk, obviously (Father Ted references about the Passion of St. Tibulus abounds...).

    Oh and yes, that is a team that Goran Pandev set up a few years ago and is already competing in Europe. He still plays for Genoa, but he's the owner. Player.

    Champions League


    Preliminary round


    First qualifying round


    Europa League

    Preliminary Round


    First Qualifying Round

     
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  2. Top_Tiger

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    Trencin anyone?
     
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  3. Steven Toast

    Steven Toast Well-Known Member

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    They didn't qualify, in fact they only avoided relegation on the final day of the season.
     
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  4. Kempton

    Kempton Well-Known Member

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    We didn't care much for European games, preferring to stay in the Premier League.

    But when we were knocked out of Europe, we decided we didn't care much for the Premier League either.

    It's the way we roll <ok>
     
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  5. Amin Yapusi

    Amin Yapusi Well-Known Member

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    Who’s this ****?
     
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    Sterling, so still a **** but a well known likable one.
     
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  7. Amin Yapusi

    Amin Yapusi Well-Known Member

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    I thought it probably would be but I’d just read a post somewhere quoting sterling so thought it can’t be.

    Nobody else on this forum could give half a **** about Cardiff University or Ballymadena.
     
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  8. Steven Toast

    Steven Toast Well-Known Member

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    Well, some people just like football in general and aren’t the sort of cider and black drinking twats that furiously **** over the Premier League while watching Soccer AM clips on YouTube.

    Maybe they aren’t on this forum. But I am. So, annoying European threads ahoy.
     
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    Anyone who ruins a good cider by polluting it with other things is a twat irrespective of them ****ing, furiously or otherwise, over the Premier League while watching Soccer AM clips on YouTube.
     
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  10. Febbos

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    Haha, I do appreciate the Swedish teams being in bold <3
    Malmö should be able to go on a decent run again

    Knocked out by Chelsea in the last 16 last time around

     
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  11. FILEYseadog

    FILEYseadog Well-Known Member

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    Why no Scarborough ?

    We won the north riding cup ffs
     
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  12. Steven Toast

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    You should've qualified for Scotland, at least <laugh>
     
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  13. AlRawdah

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    I adore the Europa League. One day I will a game in all 25 rounds and legs. It’s my only bucket list item.
     
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  14. Steven Toast

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    So, we're on the eve of the Second Qualifying Round, Second legs and, surpisingly, there's a few British teams left in the competitions.

    So far, we've seen Kilmarnock embarrassed by part timers Connah's Quay Nomads and Rangers avoid a repeat of their exit two years ago by Progres Niederkorn, who I'm pretty sure was in an episode of Star Trek Nemesis.

    Deep breath, and....

    Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round (British and Irish teams/ teams of interest in Bold)

    CFR Cluj 1-0 Maccabi Tel Aviv
    BATE 2-1 Rosenborg
    TNS 0-2 FC Copenhagen
    Ferencvaros 3-1 Valetta
    Dundalk 1-1 Qarabag
    Saburtalo Tblisi 0-2 Dinamo Zagreb
    Celtic 5-0 Nomme Kalju
    Red Star Belgrade 2-0 HJK
    Sutjeska Niksic 0-1 APOEL
    Maribor 2-1 AIK
    Viktoria Plzen 0-0 Olympiacos
    PSV Eindhoven 3-2 Basel

    Losers enter the Third Qualifying Round of the Europa League (where we entered when we qualified).

    Europa League 2nd Qualifying Round

    FK Sarajevo (Bye)
    Tre Penne 0-5 Suduva
    Piast Gilwice 3-2 Riga FC
    Partizani 0-1 Sheriff Tiraspol
    Aarat-Armenia 2-0 Lincoln Red Imps
    Valur 1-1 Ludogorets Razgrad
    Slovan Bratislava 2-1 Feronikeli
    FC Santa Coloma 0-0 Astana
    HB Torshavn 2-2 Linfield
    Shkendija 1-2 F91 Dudelange
    IFK Norrkoping 2-0 Liepaja
    Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2-0 Kairat
    Arsenal Tula 0-1 Neftci Baku
    Espanyol 4-0 Stjarnan
    DAC Dunajska 1-2 Atromitos
    Haugesund 2-0 Sturm Graz
    AEK Larnaca 3-0 Levski Sofia
    Legia Warsaw 1-0 KuPS
    FC Utrecht 1-1 Zrinjski Mostar
    Pyunik 2-1Jablonec
    Lechia Gdansk 2-1 Brondby
    Fehervar 1-0 Vaduz
    Gabala 0-2 Dinamo Tblisi
    Yeni Malatyaspor 2-2 Olimpija Ljublijana
    Flora 1-2 Eintract Frankfurt
    Domzale 2-2 Malmo FF
    Molde 0-0 Cukaricki
    Chickhura Sachkhere 1-1 Aberdeen
    KAA Gent 6-3 Viitorul Constanta
    Buducnost 1-3 Zorya
    CSKA Sofia 1-0 Osijek
    Torino 3-0 Debrecen
    Luzern 1-0 KI Klaksvik
    Rangers
    2-0 Progres Niederkorn
    Ventspils 4-0 Gzira United
    Strasbourg 3-1 Maccabi Haifa
    Mlada Boleslav 1-1 Ordabasy
    Shamrock Rovers 2-1 Apollon Limassol
    AZ 0-0 BK Hacken
    Alashkert 0-3 FCSB
    Lokomotiv Plovdiv 2-0 Spartak Trnava
    Wolves 2-0 Crusaders
    Aris 0-0 AEL Limassol
    Jeunesse Esch 0-1 Guimares
    Honved 0-0 U Craiova
    Shakhtyor Soligorsk 2-0 Esbjerg
    Connah's Quay Nomads 0-1 Partizan Belgrade
     
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    Why is a Danish team in bold?! Bloody wind up! :emoticon-0101-sadsm

    ;)
     
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    Sorry, I thought there was somebody on here who was from Denmark/followed that team. Just covering my arse... <laugh>
     
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  17. Steven Toast

    Steven Toast Well-Known Member

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    First of all, what a goal from the Apollon player.

    But the save from the Shamrock Rovers keeper around the 1:18 mark is outstanding.

     
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  18. Steven Toast

    Steven Toast Well-Known Member

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    For anybody wondering what Faroese football commentary sounds like, here you are. Oy, by the way, is oh. There you go, free learning.

     
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  19. Stockholm Tiger

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    Also you highlighted AIK second time around I thought Febbos had bribed you NOT to have them as a team of interest
     
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    Well, I can understand that, but they have Seb Larsson there as captain, be a shame to ignore them...
     
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