The official Champions league thread (Qualifications)

[scy12]

Either way we are screwed...

i'm praying...

"BIGGEST UPSET OF THE YEAR! WISLA KRAKOW BEATS BARCELONA 1-0! AND ADVANCES ON 1-0 AGGREGATE"

Ι am sorry but how likely is that Barcelona will remain scoreless in Two matches against Wisla Krakow !!! (If you pass the Israeli ones.) I say be glad for the money you will get , from drawing Barcelona, the fact that you will play in uefa , if you beat Beitar. So if was in your shoes that would be the most important game. There is no chance against Barca.

I'm not actually sure yet, i think it's a small privately owned hotel just for the tour company. (there are a couple of different tour groups going through different routes, like some from greece, to cyprus and back to greece, some just to cyprus, some from cyprus to egypt some from greece to cyprus to egypt to cyprus etc.)

I see. Remember there are always the bad apples in Hotels but there are many good ones as well.

 

[dutchfire]

FC TWENTE - ARSENAL

Bad luck for them, well, at least they'll have two great matches to look forward to.

 

[warpus]

Atletico Madrid vs Shalke would be quite a derby also.

That would be entertaining.. but it wouldn't be a derby!

 

[scy12]

That would be entertaining.. but it wouldn't be a derby!

Why ? Don't underestimate Shalke.

 

[kalif]

because a derby -at least over here- is a match between 2 regional rivals.

anyway, schalke vs athletico and arsenal vs twente should make some interesting matches.

wouldn't surprise me, if s04 will make it past madrid. they finally bought a promising forward with farfan and strengthend their already quite good central midfield with engelaar.

 

[scy12]

because a derby -at least over here- is a match between 2 regional rivals.

anyway, schalke vs athletico and arsenal vs twente should make some interesting matches.

wouldn't surprise me, if s04 will make it past madrid. they finally bought a promising forward with farfan and strengthend their already quite good central midfield with engelaar.

because a derby -at least over here- is a match between 2 regional rivals.

I see then. Here , Derby either means match between two rivals OR a match with two very strong teams with a very unpredictable result , that as a match stands out , from the rest of the matchday.

I don't like german teams much so i would prefer atletico to win.

 

[scy12]

Today is the second game of the second round of the champions league qualification.

 

[The Simple Mind]

Rangers were absolutely shocking last night. From UEFA cup final to out of Europe before the 2008/2009 season starts.

Apparently, at the airport all the players had their heads in their hands except for MacGregor (Goalkeeper). He was scared he drop his!!

 

[TheLastOne36]

YES YES YES!!!!

WISLA KRAKOW 5 - 0 BEITER JERUSLEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i now know what happened. Polish teams have a special tactic where, one game they play badly, and try to get the other team overconfident, and on the second leg, they crash them. Legia Warszawa did the same, in the Uefa cup. They tied 0-0 on the home leg and on the away leg crashed the belarussian team by 4-0 i think.

NOW, TO BARCELONA!!!

cry: good things can't last forever)

 

[Grisu]

luckily Basel beat Göteborg to advance to the next stage 5-3 on aggregates....ok, so the penalty wasn't really hands but I'm not one to complain

now to face Guimarães

 

[scy12]

Panathinaikos plays Sparta Prague and we will undoubtedly beat them with ease. Apoel may have trouble against red star but i am confident and Anorthosis play Olympiakos.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Come on guys, Pray with me, do you want tought competition in the champions league? OR do you want an easy team to beat? Pray with me, that Wisla beats Barcelona.

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Nah it won't happen, but i was shocked, i thought that Israeli teams were actually better, but come on, 5-0! Seriously, if anything i was expecting a similar result like 2-1 again, but 5-0. Wow. Maybe i'm underestimating Polish teams?

 

[scy12]

Come on guys, Pray with me, do you want tought competition in the champions league? OR do you want an easy team to beat? Pray with me, that Wisla beats Barcelona.

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Nah it won't happen, but i was shocked, i thought that Israeli teams were actually better, but come on, 5-0! Seriously, if anything i was expecting a similar result like 2-1 again, but 5-0. Wow. Maybe i'm underestimating Polish teams?

Actually i remember times where Cypriot teams beating Israel teams but when we played against Wisla , even if it seemed close , we where disqualified. How good is actually red star ? APOEL will play them in a few days ....

 

[TheLastOne36]

Actually i remember times where Cypriot teams beating Israel teams but when we played against Wisla , even if it seemed close , we where disqualified. How good is actually red star ? APOEL will play them in a few days ....

Red Star hasn't impressed lately, but they are still tough. I predict it will be close but Red Star goes through, enless i'm underestimating APOEL.

 

[REDY]

Sparta-Panathinaikos
Slavia-Fiorentina

Hmm no chance. Czech league is worse and worse every year, in 10 years rich clubs will find any good 14y footballer in league. Dark ages...

 

[TheLastOne36]

Sparta-Panathinaikos
Slavia-Fiorentina

Hmm no chance. Czech league is worse and worse every year, in 10 years rich clubs will find any good 14y footballer in league. Dark ages...

Dark ages for us to. Both leagues need Money to become good. Both leagues have the potential though.

 

[Lambert Simnel]

Rangers were absolutely shocking last night. From UEFA cup final to out of Europe before the 2008/2009 season starts.

That's quite appalling. They should never have expected Kaunas to be a gimme, but it still should have been pretty starightforward for the 'Gers.

 

[scy12]

ANORTHOSIS DID IT ! 3-0 vs OLYMPIAKOS . A CYPRIOT TEAM IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE. FINALLLY !!!!

 

[scy12]

Panathinaikos does it too. It beat's Sparta Prague Prague 2-1 while playing on Prague !

 

[Eniotna]

Standard - Liverpool 0-0

We missed a penalty, 3 or 4 great chances, we deserved more.
I guess Liverpool won't be as weak at Anfield