August 3, 20168 yr Celtic are through to the final qualifying round. Familiar teams like Olympiakos and Anderlecht, Shakhtar Dontesk are all out.
August 4, 20168 yr They are guaranteed a place in the Europa League group teams. 1st Irish team to reach the Champions League playoff. Really hoping they manage to get into the group stages. This is an amazing achievement. Shelbourne reached the third qualifying round in 2002/03 when Deportivo beat them 2-1 I think it was and there was no playoff in them days. A young Wes Houlihan played for the Dublin team at the time!!
August 5, 20168 yr Play-Off Round Draw Ludogorets Razgrad (Bulgaria) v FC Viktoria Plzen (Czech Republic) Celtic (Scotland) v Hapoel Beer-Sheva (Israel) FC Copenhagen (Denmark) v Apoel Nicosia (Cyprus) Dundalk (Republic of Ireland) v Legia Warsaw (Poland) Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) v FC Salzburg (Austria) Steaua Bucharest (Romania) v Manchester City (England) FC Porto (Portugal) v Roma (Italy) Ajax (Netherlands) v Rostov (Russia) Young Boys (Switzerland) v Borussia Monchengladbach (Germany) Villarreal (Spain) v Monaco (France)
August 5, 20168 yr Author That draw could be good news for England's coefficient. Man C should go through, but Roma could be knocked out.
August 6, 20168 yr The two way draw at this stage certainly opens it up for the teams who are champions in the so called smaller leagues!!
August 6, 20168 yr Ludogorets Razgrad (Bulgaria) v FC Viktoria Plzen (Czech Republic) Celtic (Scotland) v Hapoel Beer-Sheva (Israel) FC Copenhagen (Denmark) v Apoel Nicosia (Cyprus) Dundalk (Republic of Ireland) v Legia Warsaw (Poland) Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) v FC Salzburg (Austria) Steaua Bucharest (Romania) v Manchester City (England) FC Porto (Portugal) v Roma (Italy) Ajax (Netherlands) v Rostov (Russia) Young Boys (Switzerland) v Borussia Monchengladbach (Germany) Villarreal (Spain) v Monaco (France) My predictions, and ones in italics are particularly hard to call.
August 16, 20168 yr This should be Manchester City going through with the players, manager they have.
August 24, 20168 yr Sadly not to be for Dunkirk. Celtic surviving a scare to go through to the group stages. AS Roma are out. Monaco, Porto and Ludogorets all through.
August 25, 20168 yr Group Stage Draw: Group A: Paris St-Germain (France), Arsenal (England), Basel (Switzerland), Ludogorets (Bulgaria). Group B: Benfica (Portugal), Napoli (Italy), Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine), Besiktas (Turkey). Group C: Barcelona (Spain), Manchester City (England), Borussia Monchengladbach (Germany), Celtic (Scotland). Group D: Bayern Munich (Germany), Atletico Madrid (Spain), PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands), Rostov (Russia). Group E: CSKA Moscow (Russia), Bayer Leverkusen (Germany), Tottenham (England), Monaco (France). Group F: Real Madrid (Spain), Borussia Dortmund (Germany), Sporting Lisbon (Portugal), Legia Warsaw (Poland). Group G: Leicester City (England), Porto (Portugal), Club Brugge (Belgium), FC Copenhagen (Denmark). Group H: Juventus (Italy), Sevilla (Spain), Lyon (France), Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia).
August 25, 20168 yr Author Leicester have a decent chance of at least dropping into the Europa League. Even a place in the Champions League knockout stage is a distinct possibility. Arsenal look like they've got another bye into the knockout stage.
August 26, 20168 yr The top four European domestic leagues in the co-efficients will have their Top4 teams in the group stages automatically from 2018-19 season. They are currently Spain, Italy, Germany and England. What do you make of this?
August 28, 20168 yr Author The top four European domestic leagues in the co-efficients will have their Top4 teams in the group stages automatically from 2018-19 season. They are currently Spain, Italy, Germany and England. What do you make of this? The current top four are streets ahead of the rest, so they will have four places for the foreseeable future. Those four countries will be guaranteed to fill half of the places in the group stage. That makes it a bad idea.
September 13, 20168 yr I'm expecting PSG to possibly beat Arsenal tonight and Man City to beat Gladbach. For people who don't have BT Sport. The Leicester City game with Club Brugge will be shown on BT Sport Showcase tomorrow night.
September 13, 20168 yr Gladbach are training at Uniteds old training centre ahead of their match with the scum. I'll be supporting Gladbach because their my home town team and I support them anyway. Hopefully not a repeat of last year where they got a hammering
September 13, 20168 yr Yeah there was no way they could run that match tonight. I wouldn't even go outside, never mind play football in those conditions
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