UEFA Cup 1st round draw - 12pm

[mrmuzeman]

Looking at the UEFA site here. Theres 80 teams, split into 8 groups of 10. In each 10, 5 seeded and 5 unseeded and theyll draw from that. So it certainly looks like you know who youre going to draw from 1 of 5 teams. Fcuk knows how they decided which teams to put where, anyone know

Heres the linky

uefa.com*-*UEFA Cup*-*News & Features*-*News Specific


Isnt as easy as I was expecting for Everton actually on closer inspection I was thinking probably get the luxemborg champions or something

Basically were gona get the 3rd best team in Belgium (Standard Liege) who have started awesomely this season (4 wins from 4, 16 goals) and are top - really dont want them. Last year and this years Belarus champs (Borisov), I bet theyd be dead tough. 3rd best team in Ukraine (Metalist Kharkiv), finished just behind Shakhtar Dhonetsk last season. An average bog standard Portuguese team (Leiria), or an average Swiss team (FC Sion). I want Sion please if not them then Leiria

Aberdeen are unseeded and have a 4/1 chance of drawing Bayern Munich The other teams dont look so bad to draw though considering theyre seeded ones.

Spurs look like theyve got a bunch of retard teams bar FC Twente the lucky bastards I hate them so much. Not sure about Blackburns lot dont really know the teams but they wont wana draw Dinamo Zagreb cos thatd be tough.

[mrmuzeman]

I reckon ill get flashbacks from the UEFA Cup 2 years ago when we play in this. Going down 5-1 away to Dinamo Bucharest at this stage of the tournament. 1-1 at HT, looking good away goal in the bag from Yobo, good good. Then BANG everything they touched went in FCUKING EVERYTHING. So sick, won the home leg 1-0 but it was for shit. Still thats what you get for playing 1 man upfront and that man being Marcus Bent I guess

Guaranteed 6 mini league games if we get through this 2 leg knockout. I want some european action. Might even take a wee trip out to watch us batter some shitty Czech side or summat, itd be sweet.

[mrmuzeman]

Rabotnicki (Macedonia) v Bolton
Everton v Metalist Kharkiv (Ukraine)
Larissa (Greece) v Blackburn
Aberdeen v Dnipro (Ukraine)
Spurs v Anorthosis Famagusta (Cyprus)


Anyone know anything much about these teams? I looked at league tables etc but thats obv all I know. Blackburn and Spurs look like theyve got it pretty easy there against totally average Greek and Cypriot teams. Metalist actually finished easily above Dnipro last season so our draw looks slightly tougher than Aberdeens I guess which is a bit annoying considering we were seeded and they werent. Rabotnicki 2nd in Macedonia but usually win that league but fcuk knows that league could be really bad.

[crowie]

All the English sides will piss it, Aberdeen will be out.

[mrmuzeman]

I cant see us pissing it we never do anything easy. Home leg first and we better fcuking win 2-0 or something otherwise I can see an absolutely disgusting game taking place in Ukraine.

First leg on the 20th of September

[GaNgStA kEeKs]

Aberdeen going out thats for sure.

Dnipro unbeaten in 7 in the league just now sitting 2nd. The Dons aren't good enough imo and they were only progressing had they got a much easier tie.

The rest of the Englsih teams shall go through.