European Possibilities

[felixbg]

im going to be optimistic and assume we shall finish top of our group so, at the moment we could play

SC BRAGA
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FC Copenhagen
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Lech Poznan
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[Pollerz]

preferably not copenhagen

 

[GoForGlory]

I'd like Copenhagen myself because I might make it to that one (I'm on student budget here but Copenhagen is only a few hours by train). They're a very good team though, but I don't think they're as good now as when they beat the rags.
Lech is funny because it's a team I've pretty much never heard of before. Don't know anything about them, except that they're polish (and Poland is pretty close and quite cheap too if I'm not mistaken, I could possibly make it to that one).

 

[HijO]

You don't want to play Copenhagen out of those 3.
They beat belgian club Bruges (who played shite) yesterday, especially the striker Santin was good.
But still, playing one those 3, MCFC should win and keep on going in the cup.

 

[Matty]

So, if we finish 2nd in the group we get 1 from:-

Bordeaux
Werder Bremen
Shakhtar Donetsk
Marseille
Aalborg
Fiorentina
Dynamo Kiev
Zenit St Petersburg

And if we finish top we get 1 from:-

Braga
Lech Poznan
Copenhagen
and
Olympiakos/Hertha Berlin/Benfica
Sevilla/VFB Stuttgart/Sampdoria
NEC Nijmegen/Spartak Moscow
(Only 6 teams as we can't get the 3rd place team from our group or Aston Villa who finished 3rd in their group).

Looking at some of the Eastern European options if we finish 2nd then it looks pretty important that we finish top and have the potential of Copenhagen, Braga and NEC.

 

[bluesteve1964]

NEC only gave Spurs 900 tickets so if you think it was hard to get a Schalke ticket......

 

[mcfc1996]

I reckon we need to finish top of the group. There are a lot of decent teams that have finished 2nd in their groups and a few coming from the CL.

 

[Matty]

I reckon we need to finish top of the group. There are a lot of decent teams that have finished 2nd in their groups and a few coming from the CL.

Teams that have finished 2nd in their group, like AC Milan, are irrelevant to us as we can't draw them. It's my udnerstanding that the draw for the round of 16 (the next round after this one, which will b drawn on Friday also) will be a free-for-all, i.e. anyone can draw anyone, regardless of finishing position and nationality.

 

[withingtonmcfc]

Hertha Berlin would be my choice from those listed, great city and we'd get a decent allocation.

 

[dannybcity]

Braga, I'm assuming its hot though.