Europa League 2018/2019

PragueAddick said:

stackitsteve said:

stackitsteve said:

As things stand they’ll be dancing in the streets of Red Bull
Both teams going through from the same group

And 3 seconds later. Rosenberg score to send Celtic 2nd

Hoping Viktoria draw Celtic, although most Viktoria fans would hope for Arsenal and the chance to welcome Petr Cech home.

Plzen and Celtic are both unseeded for the next round, so cant be drawn together.

12 teams that top the groups are seeded along with the best 4 of the 8 teams from the CL (based on points from their own groups)
Other 4 are unseeded along with the 12 teams that finished 2nd in Europa League groups.

Following rounds are not seeded. Just the first knockout round.

Cheers for that

chelse and arsenal through pretty easily.

celtic will struggle.

paulie8290 said:

PragueAddick said:

stackitsteve said:

Plzen v Dinamo Zagreb
Lazio v Sevilla
Malmo v Chelsea
BATE v Arsenal
Celtic v Valencia

Hmm. Bit of a pig, that. Dinamo came top, unbeaten, from a group that in EL terms had no real weak team.

You say that and on paper I would agree but the teams in there group were not brilliant

Anderlecht-sitting 4th in Belgium with only 2 wins since end of October


Trnava-sitting 8th out of 12 in the Slovakian league

Fenerbache-who surprisingly are 2nd bottom in the turkish league.

So on paper 3 tough teams but in reality only Anderlecht are doing half decent this season.

Zagreb themselves are 11 points clear at the top and have only lost twice in all comps this season(young boys in Champions League and Rijeka in the league) so it will be a tough match

Thanks Paulie, didn't know any of that, it's more reassuring. It is looking more and more like a mirror image of the game at this stage last season - Partizan Belgrade. Dinamo are another Slavic team (whose style and temperament Viktoria understand well), similar financial resources, bringing a lot of fans without tickets who try to look menacing on the streets and wonder why nobody is taking any notice of them.

Bring it on! Love my Euro nights in Plzen.

Rob Holding
Danny Welbeck
Hector Bellerin
All out for the rest of the season

All named in Arsenals squad for the Europa League knockout stages due to a lack of Homegrown players available

JohnBoyUK said:

WestStandNeil said:

Ron Holding
Danny Welbeck
Hector Bellerin
All out for the rest of the season

All named in Arsenals squad for the Europa League knockout stages due to a lack of Homegrown players available

Its amazing how many of the big boys are really struggling for home grown players.

Yet not really surprising.

trouble in rome last night apparently a brit was involved, napoli vs sevilla is the fixture

Well, who expected that at HT

Wenger was clearly the problem.

Not an epic night in Plzen, everyone actually surprised that we are ahead in the tie. Viktoria have new players signed in the Jan window who are still fitting in, whereas Dinamo are a young and well organised team who had done their homework, had three up front pressing Viktoria's ageing defenders, and deservedly led at half time. They have a 20 year old Spanish midfielder called Daniel Olmo who ran the the half, but somehow Viktoria pulled themselves together, two nicely taken goals from central defender Lukas Pernica. Not sure about the second leg, though, Viktoria looked like a rebuilding work in progress tonight. But the beer? Top notch as always.

palarsehater said:

arsenal lose to a belarus side that havent played since the middle of december, blaming the pitch and injuries/squad depth. 

spurs the night before beat the potential bundesliga champions. 

wont be that easy for arsenal to progress they only had 3 shots on target yesterday

Lets not get too carried away, the Woolwich should have far too much for them back in London.  Fully expect them to win by 2 or 3.

JohnBoyUK said:

palarsehater said:

arsenal lose to a belarus side that havent played since the middle of december, blaming the pitch and injuries/squad depth. 

spurs the night before beat the potential bundesliga champions. 

wont be that easy for arsenal to progress they only had 3 shots on target yesterday

Lets not get too carried away, the Woolwich should have far too much for them back in London.  Fully expect them to win by 2 or 3.

not the point its the fact they had a pretty strong side out and played shit, koscelieny straight off the pitch afterwards not even bothering to thank the fans.

Got the beers in for tonight, but will need a good stream for Dinamo Zagreb vs Viktoria, as Czech TV have adopted for Genk-Slavia, having shown Viktoria last week. Any tips appreciated.

Apparently the Dinamo stadium is sold out for tonight, as was Partizan Belgrade this time last season. Again it shows that in some countries, the Europa League means something. 

Viktoria won't be intimidated though, big away stadia don't seem to bother them. They mugged CSKA in front of 55,000 furious Muscovites to get here. All that said, we don't want to give away an early goal. Or indeed any goal at all :-)

Only need one second half goal to force extra time!

CharltonMadrid said:

Over ten thousand Celtic fans in Valencia tonight according to news here.

Decent result for them too tbf