Europa League

[BlueMooner87]

If we do end up in the europa league, I am not overly fussed.

I enjoy playing the more obscure european teams that tend to have very passionate followings.

Plus I think we could use it as a good stepping stone to gain experience for next years CL.

I know we are still not out of it but we need to stop being soo negative and remember where we have came from.

 

[LoveCity]

In Mancini's own words and he is being an optimist, we have a 30% chance of staying in the Champions League so we should prepare ourselves for the Europa.

And I agree that the Europa League can be fun too although there won't be so many obscure teams left by the time we get into it and we could end up playing someone like Celtic, which would be fun.

The problem with Europa is if we want to win it we have to play 9 games as everything up until the final is two legs and 9 games adds a lot on to the season. If we end up playing too many fringe players like Bridge and the youngsters we might not last very long, Kiev showed us last year that there is quality in the Europa League although the cast doesn't look as impressive this season.

 

[NorthernBoy]

Great Post, I Agree, Europa League Is Still A Great Competition.

 

[BlueMooner87]

and this is how the groups currently stand:-

Group A
Teams P Pts
1 PAOK 4 8
2 Rubin 4 7
3 Tottenham 4 7
4 Shamrock Rovers 4 0

Group B
Teams P Pts
1 Standard Liège 4 8
2 Hannover 4 8
3 København 4 4
4 Vorskla 4 1

Group C
Teams P Pts
1 PSV 4 10
2 Legia 4 9
3 Rapid Bucureşti 4 3
4 H. Tel-Aviv 4 1

Group D
Teams P Pts
1 Sporting 4 9
2 Vaslui 4 5
3 Lazio 4 5
4 Zürich 4 2

Group E
Teams P Pts
1 Stoke 4 10
2 Beşiktaş 4 6
3 Dynamo Kyiv 4 5
4 M. Tel-Aviv 4 1

Group F
Teams P Pts
1 Athletic 4 10
2 PSG 4 7
3 Salzburg 4 4
4 Slovan Bratislava 4 1

Group G
Teams P Pts
1 Metalist 4 10
2 AZ 4 6
3 Austria Wien 4 5
4 Malmö 4 0

Group H
Teams P Pts
1 Club Brugge 4 7
2 Birmingham 4 7
3 Braga 4 7
4 Maribor 4 1

Group I
Teams P Pts
1 Atlético 4 7
2 Udinese 4 7
3 Celtic 4 5
4 Rennes 4 2

Group J
Teams P Pts
1 Schalke 4 8
2 M. Haifa 4 6
3 Steaua 4 5
4 AEK Larnaca 4 2

Group K
Teams P Pts
1 Twente 4 10
2 Fulham 4 7
3 OB 4 3
4 Wisła 4 3

Group L
Teams P Pts
1 Anderlecht 4 12
2 Lokomotiv Moskva 4 9
3 Sturm 4 3
4 AEK 4 0

some pretty decent teams left there, be nice to have an all english final

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

Tbh apart from other fans taking the piss out of us im not really to bothered with us going out of the champions league. We can use Richards and clichy most games and play zaba and kolarov for cup games. We also actually have a chance of winning it.
This would be my team the europa -
Hart
Zaba Toure Savic/Nedum Kolarov

Hargreaves Razak

Johnson Milner Nasri

Dzeko/Ballo

 

[The game 161]

You have to remember winning this would mean a better position to be in maybe pot B for next years champions league which would be huge. We don't want the type of group next year that we got this season.

 

[Ragnarok]

City-Stoke final ?

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Would be a decent one if Rags, Chelsea and Arsenal all fail to qualify!

Other than that the thought of meeting Stoke in the Europa League doesnt really inspire me.

I hope he takes the Carling game next week a bit more seriously. 3 games away from a final and 5200 fans making the effort to go down there.

Europa is 8 games away from a final.

 

[u2fme2]

please don't let this happen

 

[The game 161]

Would be a decent one if Rags, Chelsea and Arsenal all fail to qualify!

Other than that the thought of meeting Stoke in the Europa League doesnt really inspire me.

I hope he takes the Carling game next week a bit more seriously. 3 games away from a final and 5200 fans making the effort to go down there.

Europa is 8 games away from a final.

I don't think we will put out a great side next tuesday to be honest.