Qualification for Champions' League & Europa League

[jonthefox]

On thursday nights...under the lights

[jonthefox]

12 minutes ago, ultrafox said:

Are we still going to sing

 "we're all going on  a European tour..Dilly ding..dilly dong"

 

Someone will have to come up with words to..."On Thursday nights ...under the lights..."

 

It won't feel the same as it did.

 

Just now, jonthefox said:

On thursday nights...under the lights

MEH

[AKCJ]

Will be very pissed off if we don't take this seriously.

 

If we qualify for the group stage then we really ought to qualify for the knockout rounds.

[Pliskin]

Europa league sucks.

[tickler28]

7 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

What makes you think a 6/7 week break will stop this rot, when a 3 month break arguably made it worse? 

Remember the lap of honour where everyone had gone home.... probably be more fans left after we play United 😂

[jammie82uk]

44 minutes ago, StanSP said:

if we finish 6th (a distinct possibility), we enter at the 2nd qualifying round, which scheduled to start on 17th September:

Unless a team in the top 5 wins the FA cup then 6th goes straight into the group Stage and 7th enters the 2nd qualifying round

[tickler28]

7 hours ago, Costock_Fox said:

It isn’t in our hands though is it?

Kind of....if we win all three remaining matches we qualify for the CL by virtue of taking 3 points off united

[SemperEadem]

25 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

Europa league sucks.

Wrong

[Swiss_tony]

what makes you think you'll be able to  travel and attend games?

[CosbehFox]

Hate to be a cnut like but I think the most exotic it would get for a travelling fan is Motherwell. Most countries aiming for 30 to 40% crowds. Some countries already at 100% - however they are insisting on two weeks quarantine ala Hungary or they having big outbreaks of their own ala Serbia 

[Hoopla10]

7 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

What makes you think a 6/7 week break will stop this rot, when a 3 month break arguably made it worse? 

Slightly unfair because it's not comparable, 3 months of a lock down, no training and no pre-season then thrown into this 3/4 day game turn around to finish a season.  

[Swiss_tony]

Teams like us can look at burnley and wolves in previous seasons to  see how the EL affects domestic performance for teams without squad depth.

[jonthefox]

Group A 

Leicester 

Slavia Prague

Ajax Amsterdam

TSV 1860 Munich

 

 

[StanSP]

50 minutes ago, Brixtonfox said:

Where is all this confidence that we’ll even make Europa League coming from?!

Because realistically it's more likely than CL. For us to finish 7th and not attain EL would be a travesty and I want some hope in my life following Leicester after last night

 

[Corky]

13 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Hate to be a cnut like but I think the most exotic it would get for a travelling fan is Motherwell. 

At least Brendan will be in his element at that place

[Swiss_tony]

i  see us getting no more than 2 pts from the last 3 games based on  current form.

we still have to  play 3 of the other top 8 who are still in the hunt, so  we could be party poopers in 6 pointers.

we need to avoid defeats against sheff and spurs, and then  see how the land lies on the final  day.

but i  can't see us getting enough to hold onto  5th never mind 4th. 6th or 7th is looking very likely.

 

 

[Filbert_Ross]

Who came 6th in a 3 horse race? who came 6th in a 3 horse race?

Leicester ****ing City 

[Pliskin]

56 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

Wrong

Nah, we won’t qualify anyway. But if we did you’d see. We don’t have the tools to be able to cope. We would almost certainly end up in a relegation battle.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

3 hours ago, Swiss_tony said:

what makes you think you'll be able to  travel and attend games?

Nothing to stop people traveling even if they can't go to the ground. Plenty did that last time.

[smudger63]

So, lots of ifs, maybes and very unlikelys, but  if we and Man utd both win our next 2 games, and Chelsea win tomorrow which is most likely, but lose at Liverpool, which is very possible, then a nice friendly draw between ourselves and Man Utd in the last game will see us both qualify for the champions league, regardless of if Chelsea win their last game against Wolves, because of the far superior goal difference of ourselves and Man Utd over Chelsea.

 

[Detroit Blues]

4 hours ago, smudger63 said:

So, lots of ifs, maybes and very unlikelys, but  if we and Man utd both win our next 2 games, and Chelsea win tomorrow which is most likely, but lose at Liverpool, which is very possible, then a nice friendly draw between ourselves and Man Utd in the last game will see us both qualify for the champions league, regardless of if Chelsea win their last game against Wolves, because of the far superior goal difference of ourselves and Man Utd over Chelsea.

 

I agree. I think 66 points gets us 4th place and champions league football. It would be preferable to win both of the next two games, but I would snap your arm off if you offered me 4 pts out of Sheffield/Tottenham.

 

That would likely make the table (with one match left):

United at 65 

Leicester at 63

Chelsea at 63

[lcfcfoz]

4 hours ago, smudger63 said:

So, lots of ifs, maybes and very unlikelys, but  if we and Man utd both win our next 2 games, and Chelsea win tomorrow which is most likely, but lose at Liverpool, which is very possible, then a nice friendly draw between ourselves and Man Utd in the last game will see us both qualify for the champions league, regardless of if Chelsea win their last game against Wolves, because of the far superior goal difference of ourselves and Man Utd over Chelsea.

 

No it goes on head to head if we're level. And Chelsea head to head is 2 draws. But it them goes to away goals scored which chelsea have 2 to our 1 so they win

Then onto United we lost 1 0 there so we would need to win 1 0 and have then it can go on gd falling that we need to win by 2 goals, either 2 0 or 3 1, 4 2 etc. This rule is only in place for teams in European places and relagation places.

[lcfcfoz]

4 minutes ago, Detroit Blues said:

I agree. I think 66 points gets us 4th place and champions league football. It would be preferable to win both of the next two games, but I would snap your arm off if you offered me 4 pts out of Sheffield/Tottenham.

 

That would likely make the table (with one match left):

United at 65 

Leicester at 63

Chelsea at 63

We would have to then hope Chelse's lose and us draw or win to guarantee . As 2 draws we would lose on head to head. 

https://www.premierleague.com/news/1262217

Edited 14 July 2020 by lcfcfoz

[lcfcfoz]

I may be wrong wiki has this.. In which case win our next 2 as said above and Man u. Pray liverpool beat Chelsea and pass around for a draw in final game to ensure us and man u both get our champions league ticket

 

Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) If the champions, relegated teams or qualified teams for UEFA competitions cannot be determined by rules 1 to 3, rules 4.1 to 4.3 are applied – 4.1) Points gained in head to head record between such teams; 4.2) Away goals scored in head to head record between such teams; 4.3) Play-offs^[135] 

 

 

 

[lcfcfoz]

Confirmed it is goal difference then goals scored before head to head phew