Europa League draw (Mon 14 Dec)

[Koke]

4 minutes ago, goose2010 said:

When are the games played in this round? 

 

Mid February 

[Stevosevic]

Will this be back to the normal two legs?

[deanolegend1989]

Avoid Benfica Sociedad Dynamo Kiev and Lille please. Anyone else we’d be huge favourites.

[Fightforever]

22 minutes ago, Genesis1 said:

Antwerp. Feel that would be a challenge we could win.

 

Also, I'm quite young so somebody needs to explain to me why people don't want red star! 🙄

Horrible fans like millwall fans on steroids. Us the beat us in the year 2000 and knocked us out

Edited 10 December 2020 by Fightforever
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[OadbyBlue]

Anyone but Lille, Benfica or Sociedad, preferably somewhere northern or Central European 

[Lambert09]

Does someone want to rank the teams on ability? That would be awesome. Obviously looking to those of you that actually watch many leagues 

[Ric Flair]

Confident we can beat any of those over 2 legs. Granada please.

[Webbo]

How does the draw work?

Seeding teams will play at home in their second leg ties, while no team can play a club from their UEFA Europa League group, nor can they meet a team from their own country.

When will the games take place?

The UEFA Europa League's Round of 32 first leg ties are scheduled for Thursday 18 February, 2021, while second leg encounters will take place on Thursday 25 February, 2021.

Kick-off times will be split between 5:55pm and 8pm.

All times GMT.

[Spudulike]

Not sure which is the easiest draw but whoever it is they will be paired with Man Utd. 

[FoyleFox]

58 minutes ago, Webbo said:

How does the draw work?

Seeding teams will play at home in their second leg ties, while no team can play a club from their UEFA Europa League group, nor can they meet a team from their own country.

When will the games take place?

The UEFA Europa League's Round of 32 first leg ties are scheduled for Thursday 18 February, 2021, while second leg encounters will take place on Thursday 25 February, 2021.

Kick-off times will be split between 5:55pm and 8pm.

All times GMT.

Very, very slowly. it'll probably take about 2 hours based on previous experience....

[yorkie1999]

3 hours ago, Webbo said:

Granada would be nice. We used to rent our telly from them.

It’s great service you get

renting your TV set 

from Granada 

[PhillippaT]

7 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

It’s great service you get

renting your TV set 

from Granada 

That's not a haiku:

Only type of poetry

Allowed on forum!

 

  

 

[Dan LCFC]

Anywhere where there's even the smallest chance we can go. Probably pissing in the wind though.

[Gerard]

According to oddschecker these are the best prices of the teams we can draw. So hopefully avoid Benfica, Sociedad, Salzberg and hopefully get Molde or Wolfsberger. 

 

We're best priced 14/1 so whoever we get we should be favourites to go through. 

 

Benfica 25/1

Real Sociedad 25/1

Salzburg 33/1

Lille 40/1

Granada 60/1

Krasnodar 66/1

Olympiacos 66/1

Dynamo Kiev 66/1

Antwerp 200/1

Slavia Prague 200/1

Maccabi Tel Aviv 250/1

Red Star Belgrade 250/1

Young Boys 250/1

Wolfsberger 300/1

Molde 500/1

[Trav Le Bleu]

It's just a shame we can't draw someone easy like Spurs.

[CosbehFox]

https://draw.inker.one/#/el/ko/2020
 

Bit of fun. I drew Molde

[Koke]

We are 5th favourite to win the whole thing at 10/1

 

• Tottenham. 5/1.
• Manchester Utd. 11/2.
• Arsenal. 7/1.
• AC Milan. 9/1.
• Leicester. 10/1.
• Bayer Leverkusen. 14/1.
• Napoli. 14/1.
• Benfica. 16/1.

[The whole world smiles]

1 minute ago, Koke said:

We are 5th favourite to win the whole thing at 10/1

 

• Tottenham. 5/1.
• Manchester Utd. 11/2.
• Arsenal. 7/1.
• AC Milan. 9/1.
• Leicester. 10/1.
• Bayer Leverkusen. 14/1.
• Napoli. 14/1.
• Benfica. 16/1.

Arsenal 7/1

[Koke]

4 minutes ago, The whole world smiles said:

Arsenal 7/1

 

The only explanation I have is they have more European experience than us. They reached the final under Emery and semi final in Wenger's last season. 

[Gerard]

43 minutes ago, The whole world smiles said:

Arsenal 7/1

Not with stolen money. 

[Stuntman_Mike]

I heard Savile wanted Young Boys but they finished second. 

[Steven]

Red Star Belgrade. We have unfinished business.

[Lako42]

If we get Slavia Prague whilst we can't go I'll kill someone*

 

 

 

 

 

* Just for clarity, I won't actually kill anyone. 

Edited 11 December 2020 by Lako42

[LCCFox96]

As others have said, there's four or so teams on that list that we avoid in an ideal world: Benfica, Lille, Real Sociedad, RB Salzburg.  I do think we could beat all of them over two legs but there are much easier draws in the pot so hopefully we land one of them.

 

Ideal scenario is we pick up Molde, Wolfsberger or a Maccabi Tel Aviv type and there are a couple of shock results with some of the other bigger teams in the seeded pot to thin it out a bit. Should we get one of lower ranked unseeded pot sides, this will be the last round before the quality of opposition really jumps up. 

[AjcW]

7 minutes ago, LCCFox96 said:

As others have said, there's four or so teams on that list that we avoid in an ideal world: Benfica, Lille, Real Sociedad, RB Salzburg.  I do think we could beat all of them over two legs but there are much easier draws in the pot so hopefully we land one of them.

 

Ideal scenario is we pick up Molde, Wolfsberger or a Maccabi Tel Aviv type and there are a couple of shock results with some of the other bigger teams in the seeded pot to thin it out a bit. Should we get one of lower ranked unseeded pot sides, this will be the last round before the quality of opposition really jumps up. 

Wolfsberger would be the ones i'd want to avoid from the 'easy' group. To do what they've done in that group, considering their stature, is amazing and will give them momentum.