The Champions League Play-Off

The Champions League Play-Off picture will become clearer on Wednesday after the second legs of the Third Qualifying Round ties are completed.

The five winners of the 'non-champions' section of the Third Qualifying Round will go into Arsenal's section for the Play-Off draw.

The relevant fixtures are listed below. Click here for a full explanation of who Arsenal could face in the Champions League.

Third Qualifying Round second leg results:
Panathinaikos (Greece) 3-4 Odense (Denmark) (agg 4-5)

Third Qualifying Round first leg results:
Standard Liege (Belgium) 1-1 FC Zürich (Switzerland)
Benfica (Portugal) 2-0 Trabzonspor (Turkey)
Dynamo Kyiv (Ukraine) 0-2 Rubin Kazan (Russia)
Twente (Holland) 2-0 FC Vaslui (Romania)

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Any one knows when the draw would be, when these games are done today?

Raptorgunner wrote:Any one knows when the draw would be, when these games are done today?

this friday
its 2:30 PM iran time so should be 11 AM uk time correct me if im wrong
hope we wont get tricky opponent

sina90 wrote:

Raptorgunner wrote:Any one knows when the draw would be, when these games are done today?

this friday
its 2:30 PM iran time so should be 11 AM uk time correct me if im wrong
hope we wont get tricky opponent

Thanks Sina, now I have to figure out Toronto time, I thinks its around 6 am here lol.

Wenger, Nasri and van Persie will all be suspended for the first leg after that debacle in Barcelona (meanwhile, the ref in question is now head of refereeing ), so I'm definitely hoping for an easier team.

I forgot about the suspended players, I hope our first game is a away game so we can finish them off at home.

I think we have Liverpool game on the weekend, so the players wont be tired of travailing.

Odense (Denmark) is the easiest
Rubin Kazan (Russia) is the most dangerous

usman111 wrote:Odense (Denmark) is the easiest
Rubin Kazan (Russia) is the most dangerous

When it comes to Arsenal the stronger a team is the better they perform, lol.

Raptorgunner wrote:

usman111 wrote:Odense (Denmark) is the easiest
Rubin Kazan (Russia) is the most dangerous

When it comes to Arsenal the stronger a team is the better they perform, lol.

if we dont qualify we would have real chance at europa league

usman111 wrote:

Raptorgunner wrote:

usman111 wrote:Odense (Denmark) is the easiest
Rubin Kazan (Russia) is the most dangerous

When it comes to Arsenal the stronger a team is the better they perform, lol.

if we dont qualify we would have real chance at europa league

There should not be a IF,lol if we will beat them down.

We need to avoid the Eastern European clubs just for the sake of travel. It's already a good thing that Panathanaikos are out, so now we don't have to travel all the way to Greece.

The away leg will be first because we're a seeded team. Ideally we'd want Trabzonspor and Rubin Kazan to be eliminanted - if I recall correctly, Kazan is in the far east of Russia... yeah, that's a hell of a long way to travel. Kyiv is actually much closer by comparison.

Romania is quite far away, as well, so let's hope FC Vaslui get knocked out as well.

kazan must be avoided please they play with 10 goal keepers and 1 striker.

Kazan just won their play off game.

Rubin Kazan, Udinese and Odense are 3 of Arsenal's 5 possible CL opponents in Friday's draw.

Benfica, currently leading 3-0 on agg v trabzonspor, will take Udinese's place in the seeded section due to a higher co-efficent.

In basic terms,

Arsenal
Bayern Munich
Benfica
Lyon
Villarreal

^
seeded teams.

And currently:

Twente
Zurich
Udinese
Odense
R.Kazan
^

Our possible opponents.

Still some games in action though..

Tough teams in those draws, and damn without the VP.

Hope Fabregas recovers by then, at least. Kazan is tough as hell, that would be the nightmare draw.

OFFICIAL now.

Seeded:

Bayern Munich
Arsenal
Lyon
Benfica
Villarreal

Non seeded:

Twente
Rubin Kazan
Udinese
Zürich
Odense

Draw in 10 minutes..

LOOOOOL we got the hardest udinese :S

undinse dam..... our start of season is hard

YES!

first leg at home without rvp,nasri,wenger :S lets hope we can get good results

djoe26 wrote:first leg at home without rvp,nasri,wenger :S lets hope we can get good results

does Wenger ever even do anything on the sideline except smash things lol

Nasri = Gervinho

RVP = problem! : /

*grrrooooaaannnn!!* Why, dear god, why am I getting this feeling that we are going to resume this season where we left off last season.. I think I need a psychiatrist..

Nicee

I'm really glad that we wil meet a tough team , i've had enough of meeting small teams that we will always trash at the end