el_Diablo

**** OFF MR. ARMSTRONG. YOU CAN STAY IN DENMARK

el_Diablo

UEFA CUP First round, seeded and unseeded teams:

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Seeded teams coef. Unseeded teams coef.
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Villarreal Esp 78.374 FC København *** Den 19.129
Bayern München Ger 73.640 Litex Lovech * Bul 19.112
Ajax *** Ned 65.995 Toulouse FC *** Fra 17.706
AZ Alkmaar Ned 63.995 Dinamo Zagreb *** Cro 17.533
Panathinaikos Gre 55.415 Panionios Gre 16.415
FC Basel ** Sui 54.869 União de Leiria @ Por 16.107
RC Lens @ Fra 51.706 OB Odense * Den 15.129
Girondins Bordeaux Fra 49.706 FC Groningen Ned 14.995
Bayer Leverkusen Ger 45.640 1.FC Nürnberg Ger 14.640
Club Brugge Bel 45.594 Standard Liège ** Bel 14.594
Palermo Ita 42.808 CF Os Belenenses Por 14.107
Anderlecht *** Bel 41.594 Paços de Ferreira Por 14.107
Tottenham Hotspur Eng 40.618 Mladá Boleslav Cze 13.851
Real Zaragoza Esp 40.374 Petrzalka Bratislava * Svk 13.575
Rapid Bucuresti Rom 40.255 Aris Thessaloniki Gre 13.415
Lokomotiv Moscow Rus 38.920 FC Twente Enschede Ned 12.995
Zenit St. Petersburg ** Rus 38.920 Groclin Grodzisk * Pol 11.609
Sparta Praha *** Cze 37.851 Vålerengen IF * Nor 11.509
FC Sochaux-Montbéliard Fra 36.706 Aberdeen Sco 11.064
Blackburn Rovers @ Eng 36.618 Lokomotiv Sofia Bul 10.112
AEK Athens / Sevilla *** 36.415 Rapid Wien @ Aut 10.104
Heerenveen Ned 35.995 FC Zürich *** Sui 9.869
Hamburger SV @ Ger 34.640 Metalist Kharkiv Ukr 9.726
Dinamo Bucuresti *** Rom 34.255 FC Midtjylland * Den 9.129
Bolton Wanderers Eng 32.618 FC Salzburg *** Aut 9.104
Austria Wien ** Aut 30.104 FC Sion ** Sui 8.869
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk ** Ukr 29.726 Erciyesspor Tur 8.791
Sampdoria @ Ita 28.808 AE Larissa Gre 8.415
Spartak Moscow *** Rus 27.920 AaB Aalborg @ Den 7.129
Sporting Braga Por 27.107 SK Brann Bergen * Nor 6.509
Galatasaray ** Tur 26.791 Anorthosis Famagusta * Cyp 5.492
Getafe Esp 25.374 IF Elfsborg *** Swe 4.478
Atlético Madrid @ Esp 25.374 AIK Stockholm * Swe 4.478
Everton Eng 24.618 FK Sarajevo *** Bos 4.190
Fiorentina Ita 21.808 Helsingborg IF * Swe 3.478
Empoli Ita 21.808 Hammarby IF @ Swe 3.478
Stade Rennais Fra 20.706 BK Häcken * Swe 3.478
CSKA Sofia ** Bul 20.112 Tampere United *** Fin 2.420
Hapoel Tel-Aviv ** Isr 19.338 Rabotnicki Skopje * Mac 1.925
Red Star Belgrade *** Srb 19.256 BATE Borisov *** Bls 1.540
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Draw will be tomorrow.

WhoRocks

I don't understand why they feel the need to have 80 teams in the first round.

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Turkish Delight

I don't see why not. A lot of these teams would otherwise be stuck to playing just league games which can be pretty boring for fans if they are not in the title race. Also, all these teams means more games, which means more revenue.

Kayseri Erciyesspor draws against Atletico Madrid, ****. They were relegated from the Turkcell Super Lig last year but they still somehow managed to be Maccabi Tel Aviv in the previous round.

Galatasaray should move on easily from a Swiss side I've never heard of from before.

el_Diablo

it seems this competition isn't very interesting, huh.

anyway, only 16 teams left, and some interesting matchups. the first legs are currently in play:

FT Anderlecht 0 - 5 Bayern Munich
71' Fiorentina 0 - 0 Everton
71' Marseille 3 - 0 Zenit St. Petersburg
56' Bolton W. 1 - 0 Sporting Lisbon
56' Rangers 2 - 0 Werder Bremen
51' Bayer Leverkusen 0 - 0 Hamburger SV
51' Tottenham H. 0 - 1 PSV Eindhoven
44' Benfica 0 - 1 Getafe

bayern seems to be in the quarter finals..

Kaas

I would love to see a Bayern vs. Fiorentina/PSV final.

If Bayern doesn't win this whole thing, it'll be a disappointment for them. They are too talented this year.

MonkeyBallZJr

FT
Anderlecht 0-5 Bayern Munich
Tottenham 0-1 PSV Eindhoven
Fiorentina 2-0 Everton
Olympique Marseille 3-1 Zenit St. Petersburg
Rangers 2-0 Werder Bremen
Bolton 1-1 Sporting Lisbon
Leverkusen 1-0 HSV Hamburg
Benfica 1-2 Getafe

Great match between Spurs and PSV, fast paced, high end football by both sides. Though I don't think Ramos made the right decision in playing Gilberto. Once PSV scored that goal they reverted to counter attacking and were quite unlucky not to add a second. I was very impressed with Ibrahim Affelay, should very well be at a top club soon.

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Beast

Just out of interest, as it's highly unlikely Tottenham get there via the Premiership, if they win the UEFA Cup, do they play in next years cup?

I don't think they will win it btw.

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el_Diablo

spurs have already qualified for the next year's uefa cup - the winner of the league cup gets a place.

WhoRocks

Heh, maybe I'm biased but I thought Spurs were terrible, particularly hoofing the ball at Berbatov for the last 20 minutes instead of you know, passing. Ramos pretty much got all his decisions wrong last night (O'Hara instead of Lee, Taraabt instead of Bent), but if anyone deserves a bit of slack from Spurs fans, its him. I too thought Affelay played very well, aside from the sitter he missed to bury the tie.

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