2016/17 UEFA Champions League Qualification

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League of Ireland side Dundalk 1-0 up against BATE. Drawing 1-1 on aggregate.

Don't think an Irish side has ever made the play-off round of the CL.

Dundalk now 3-0 up.

Amazing scenes there right now.

hat's a minimum of €5.4 million in European prize money for Dundalk this season - what they earned for winning the league multiplied by 49.


Historic moment for them

While Red Star crashed out against some Bulgarian club, how the mighty has fallen

@iftikhar

Despair not - Ludogorets Razgrad once defeated even mighty FC Basel 1893!

Westermann ist the worst player to ever wear our kit. Disgusting signing.

shakthar - Young Boys heading to pens

Monaco and Celtic barely scraping through

Watch Nicolae Stanciu's amazing goal for Steaua Bucharest against Sparta Prague.

Heiko Westermann? At Ajax?!?

Firenze wrote:shakthar - Young Boys heading to pens

Monaco and Celtic barely scraping through

actually read 'young boys heading to penis' right now ffs

Monaco took Falcao out at HT for precautionary reasons (he's been great in preseason and in the CL 1,5 games). Moutinho is still on vacation. Glik the CB isn't suited up yet since they just bought him. So they were a man short on every light. F----w was missing Van Persie.

And the Turkish goal was clearly offsides. Still won 3-1 though. Germain was very good.

Monaco are going to be 3rd in Ligue 1 again. That's their level. Nowhere near PSG and well below Lyon. After the top 3, it's going to be a free-for-all.

Hapless_Hans wrote:Heiko Westermann? At Ajax?!?

Madness really. We've had some shit transfers over the years but that's a whole new level

Anderlecht and Shakhtar out - that means Borussia M'gladbach are seeded! So at least no ManCity, Villarreal, Porto or Ajax!

So the possible opponents are AS Roma, Steaua Bukarest, AS Monaco, FK Rostow or Young Boys Bern. Still not all easy, but probably better than most of the others ^^

I just hope that Yann Sommer will be fit for the qualifier...

Why is the champions route full of scrubs and the league route so stacked?

League route:
Seeded
Manchester City* (ENG) 99.256
Porto* (POR) 92.616
Villarreal* (ESP) 60.142
Ajax (NED) 58.112
Borussia Mönchengladbach* (GER) 42.035

Unseeded
Roma* (ITA) 41.587
Steaua București (ROU) 36.576
Monaco (FRA) 36.549
Young Boys (SUI) 24.755
Rostov (RUS) 11.716

thats gonna be a pretty intense draw for some.

Lmao Heiko Westermann

Thats a name I have not heard of in a long time.

was surprised to see him in some La Liga game recently, not sure what club is was..

rincon wrote:Why is the champions route full of scrubs and the league route so stacked?

League route:
Seeded
Manchester City* (ENG) 99.256
Porto* (POR) 92.616
Villarreal* (ESP) 60.142
Ajax (NED) 58.112
Borussia Mönchengladbach* (GER) 42.035

Unseeded
Roma* (ITA) 41.587
Steaua București (ROU) 36.576
Monaco (FRA) 36.549
Young Boys (SUI) 24.755
Rostov (RUS) 11.716

thats gonna be a pretty intense draw for some.

Well, Roma are done. Watch them draw City.

I would rather Roma get an easier draw and watch them play the CL but the prospect of City possibly going to EL would be awesome

It will surely take time for City to truly gel and right now is certainly when they're most vulnerable but the thought of Aguero, De Bruyne and the Gabriel triplets being unleashed on their makeshift backline right now is horrifying beyond belief.

Roma are a good side and their midfield trio provide tremendous cover but Manolas is the only defender they currently possess who is arguably up to the task and even he's an unstable character.

Hapless_Hans wrote:was surprised to see him in some La Liga game recently, not sure what club is was..

Betis and they let him go for free despite him having a contract till 2017. Should tell you all you need to know but apparently Overmars decided that he needed his annual crap signing.

Young Boys or Monaco would probably be the best match up for City, due to not wanting to travel to Russia/Romania midweek.


Manchester City vs Young Boys
Porto vs Monaco
Villarreal vs Rostov
Ajax vs Roma
Borussia Mönchengladbach vs Steaua București

rwo power wrote:@iftikhar

Despair not - Ludogorets Razgrad once defeated even mighty FC Basel 1893!

I'm immune to despair, just look at the teams I like (other than Liverpool):

Roma
Leverkusen
Valencia
Marseilles
Ajax
Argentina

I can feel your pain. My home team RWO just lost 0:4 at home against Rot-Weiss Ahlen and so we are dead last in the table after the opening matchday of the RL West.... No fun...

Must suck to be the worst Rot-Weiss of the lot

It does