No excuses, we should be smashing that group. Even if we have to travel to fecking Kazakhstan.
Europa League 2019/20
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Will take that.
Probably try and get tickets for the AZ game
Probably try and get tickets for the AZ game
Some big games there!
Fingers crossed for either someone totally random we haven't played ever, or some "romantic" type ties
I'd hope to avoid PSV & Feyenoord and Celtic & Rangers, played them before in recent years, and obviously we don't want long hauls to the furthest points in Eastern Europe such as Astana.
We have never played either Eintracht Frankfurt or Borussia Monchengladbach though, so I wouldn't mind being grouped with either of them.
Also never played against Malmo or Standard Liege or Slovan Bratislava.
Partizan & Ferencvaros we haven't played since the mid 1960's so there's a bit of nostalgia.
So grim that our European adventure consists of that.
No English speaking forums for them so there won't be any Ask The Oppositions unless we have any Kazakhstani, Serbian or Dutch volunteers to go to their forums and do the translating. Don't think Astana even have a forum.
Draw has been kind to us even if we have to travel 4,000 miles for one game
Hopefully Astana (A) is in December and we have won the group by then
Hopefully Astana (A) is in December and we have won the group by then
Arsenal have got a great fecking group. Trips to Germany, Belgium and Portugal.
That group is set-up for us to promote a fair amount of youth. That is unquestionably a positive at this moment in time.
Both Alkmaar games should be relatively easy. Partizan and Astana at home too. Partizan away is a bit tricky with their atmosphere. Astana as well, i think they have a synthetic pitch and obviously long travel.
Nice. This is like one of those teen movies where the rich kid loses all of his spending money (missing out on CL) and is punished by having to go to the village (long ass trip to Kazakhstan), a dangerous place (the Serbian teams stadium), and a sporting complex that's about to collapse (AZ's roof being blown off).
Don't mean to offend anyone with the metaphors, just found it funny.
The kids are starting our games...
Shame about AZ's stadium. Still gonna try and get myself a ticket though
Cool that we are playing AZ! Can’t wait
We will drop points away to Partizan. Atmosphere wise it should be great but it would be a boring game there. Astana we should smash them home and away. AZ should be tricky but it is always fun to face a dutch side.
Yeah, wasn't really expecting it to get interesting until the 3rd place teams from UCL get chucked in.
Absolutely disgusting.
Favourable fixtures for the players.
Horrendous fixtures for away fans.
Horrendous fixtures for away fans.
Our team in Astana should be:
* assuming you're allowed to play witch crutches
No need to send any main players.
Romero
Jones - Rojo - Bailly* - Darmian
Matic - Fred
Young - Mata - Lingard
Grant
Jones - Rojo - Bailly* - Darmian
Matic - Fred
Young - Mata - Lingard
Grant
* assuming you're allowed to play witch crutches
No need to send any main players.
Another english team on my hometown, after League of Nations semifinal, another english invasion, hopefully it will go as smooth as the last one.
I think winning Europa again would be nice. Give em’ hell
They do have a quality attack in Alkmaar. Stengs and Boadu are expected to make their first appearance for the Netherlands somewhere this season, both very young, but promising. The rest of the team isn't very familiar to me..
My mate just asked me who we have in the group stage so I shouted back “AZ Alkmaar” and three colleagues jumped under the desk FFS.
Gotta be happy with that group...
Key is always to win your home games and you're practically qualified. You should do that. Yes if you get Astana 5th or 6th team you can send the kids out there.
Edit: When you look at europa league history plenty of teams who actually win it or make the final are the ones who drop down from CL after xmas so really it's a bit of an artificial competition up to then.
Guys I'm from Belgrade, can I get a ticket to come with our fans or will I be forced to go with Partizan fans, I'm a Red Star fan since I was born so I'd rather not. Who do I enquire for the tickets on here?
Qualifiers:
A: Sevilla, APOEL
B: Dynamo Kiev, FC Copenhagen
C: FK Krasnodar, Getafe
D: Sporting, PSV
E: Lazio, Rennes
F: Arsenal, Eintracht Frankfurt
G: FC Porto, Feyenoord
H: CSKA Moscow, Espanyol
I: Wolfsburg, St. Etienne
J: AS Roma, Monchengladbach
K; Besiktas, Wolves
L: Man United, FC Astana
A: Sevilla, APOEL
B: Dynamo Kiev, FC Copenhagen
C: FK Krasnodar, Getafe
D: Sporting, PSV
E: Lazio, Rennes
F: Arsenal, Eintracht Frankfurt
G: FC Porto, Feyenoord
H: CSKA Moscow, Espanyol
I: Wolfsburg, St. Etienne
J: AS Roma, Monchengladbach
K; Besiktas, Wolves
L: Man United, FC Astana
Don't Astana have a habit of scalping British sides, or it just Celtic?
Some decent teams, but no reason we shouldn’t have a chance at winning this.
Worth mentioning that we don't tend to do too well away against Dutch sides. Lost to PSV and Feyenoord in recent memory.
Need to wait to see who drops down from CL, remember Atletico Madrid in shock group stage exit and they won europa pretty comfortably in 2018. Sevilla also done it at least once.
Group L: Man United, Astana, Partizan, AZ Alkmaar
Absolutely no excuses not to comfortably qualify from that.
Absolutely no excuses not to comfortably qualify from that.
Just get a few members from here to answer some questions about Astana. I'm sure the funny ones like @SteveJ and @Mr Pigeon can whip something up.
It's gonna be a long season
There's a ticketing thread at the top of the Newbie forum. Try posting there.
There will be at least one shite, boring, away match that will end in a frustrating draw/defeat and an unnecessary injury.
Partizan are banned for first game so will be played in an empty stadium
Oh, great, good opportunity to go to Belgrade.
I recently bought membership so I could get tickets for this with our fans.
I recently bought membership so I could get tickets for this with our fans.
Damn. I definitely don’t remember that.
Going to play against our very own legend Zoran Tosic.