Match Day Thread 2016/17 Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

Parkhead will until rogers picks a reserve team......

 

West Ham clearly got the measure of the EL... get out as soon as possible. Great to see that shiny new stadium getting European football for all of 2 games.

 

they are stupid in the extreme. They will just get wiped out if they every actually get a cl spot and worse for them the reality is players will only join them for a quick buck and off up the chain.

Lets be thankful that clubs like southampton and west ham show this lack of ambition AND the rules have now changed such that italy now get that 4th place trophy too so our own one is not threatened any more.

Basically there should be a clear top 6 going forward. Southampton will go back to lower mid table, west ham are a hopeful sale for the spivs so they will run it on the bare minimum.. Everton got a dose of reality and need to build themselves up over time. They need europe next year to say hey look at us we are going places.

LFC need to stop the maybe we will ****e and either sell up or build on the anifeld road end and build the team up.

 

All the PL teams have the potential to get at least get 2nd in their groups but one or two will inevitably **** it up or make it more difficult than it needs to be given those groups

Leicester do have a very good chance looking at their group to progress but given the nature of European football and their never having been in the CL before they will have to be focused

 

Mancs going to Turkey and Ukraine in the Thursday night cup, Jose will be pleased.

 

Southamptons group looks reasonably difficult
Iter milan , Sparta Prague and Hapoel Be'er Sheva.

 

lets see...



Utd should cruise the group with a second 11. the away trips will alomost certinly not involve many seniors. Utd cna top the group just with home wins.

The southampton lads have been done.. I can't see them get out of that. they should bin this one and focus on survival as i think they will struggle this year.

I agree sparta and inter are too much for them.

theres a few decent groups there but not many. southamton got stuck in one. Group E, group H....

 

In an alternate universe we would have been in CL Group H with Juve, Lyon and Zagreb - that right?

 

Not quite as Sevilla were 2nd seeds and Pool would of been 3rd seeds. So switch Lyon for any of Dortmund, Leverkusen, Athletico, Sevilla or Porto.

If only :-(

Edit. I guess Sevilla wouldn't of been there either, so it would of been Basel.

 

Yeah we would need to see who would fill in that 2nd seed spot and then in thoery a while cascade of things could change in the second seed pot.

Juve for sure though....

 

Southampton's first two games are away to Sparta and then home to Hapoel. They then don't play again in the EL until nearly the end of October. So if they pick up 4-6 points in those first games, they will be in a good position in the group AND have enough time to prepare for the next set of EL games. It's all about how they start imo.

They're then away and home to Inter, but finish the group matches with two games (home to Sparta and away to Hapoel) in December. It's a nice run in imo and I think progress to next round is do-able.

 

Sparta only lost to sevilla in europa last year so i think southampton will need to be a lot better than what theyve done yet.

That could be one point after 2 games going to inter games and needed 6 points from last 2...

They will imo implode at christmas as their squad is not big enough.

 

Fair enough about Sparta, but why 1 point? Why not 3 at least from the Hapoel game?

 

Manchester United have been drawn against Fenerbache,Feyenoord and ZORYA LUHANSK in the Europa League group stages..For those who have never heard of them they are a little known team from Lancashire

 

A couple of nice long journeys there out to eastern Europe

#welcometohell

 

Arsenal Pen..............................score...........0-1

Hazard for Chelsea too

 

B'mouth up v Palace

Cabaye misses a Pen.

 

Guess who?..................Jamie Vaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrdddddddddddddy..................1-0

 

Chelsea and Arsenal both 2 up

 

Watford v Arsenal 0-3