Road to Seville

[BigGibbo]

We better take it seriously this time around. A real chance of adding European honours to our ever growing trophy cabinet 

[lifted*fox]

57 minutes ago, shen said:

Our effort against Slavia Prague was pathetic, but it was clear we weren't prioritising the EL as highly as the PL and FA cup
Maybe we should?

 

Agree with this, add a different trophy to the cabinet. 

 

We're not CL ready, clearly. Let's nail this as practice for the next time CL is within grasp. 

[KrefelderFox666]

Let's just enjoy another season in Europe because I am not sure when the next time will be, take nothing for granted. This one should be with fans too!!!

[peach0000]

So the confirmed teams so far for the group stage:

Real Sociedad

Real Betis

Leicester City

West Ham
Eintracht Frankfurt

Bayer Levekusen

Lazio

Braga 

Lokomotiv Moscow

 

Loads more will be confirmed in the next couple of hours with Ligue 1 and Serie A coming to a conclusion. Lots of decent away days to get excited about though!

[RowlattsFox]

4 minutes ago, peach0000 said:

So the confirmed teams so far for the group stage:

Real Sociedad

Real Betis

Leicester City

West Ham
Eintracht Frankfurt

Bayer Levekusen

Lazio

Braga 

Lokomotiv Moscow

 

Loads more will be confirmed in the next couple of hours with Ligue 1 and Serie A coming to a conclusion. Lots of decent away days to get excited about though!

Hoping for Frankfurt or a Leverkusen trip. 

 

 

[peach0000]

Just now, RowlattsFox said:

Hoping for Frankfurt or a Leverkusen trip. 

 

 

My pick of them would be Lazio or Sociedad. Those would be sensational.

[HybridFox]

1 minute ago, RowlattsFox said:

Hoping for Frankfurt or a Leverkusen trip. 

 

 

We're overdue a German tie for sure!

[adam]

Will we take it seriously though? We need a much bigger squad because if we don't the league will still be the priority. 

[Leicesterpool]

Much prefer going to Sevilla than Russia tbf

[peach0000]

1 minute ago, adam said:

Will we take it seriously though? We need a much bigger squad because if we don't the league will still be the priority. 

You have to consider that the schedule next season won't be as compact and they'll be more of a summer for a lot of the squad. Also two less games in this competition now. It won't be nearly as crazy as this season. 

[BlueSi13]

IMO If we don't have a large net spent in the summer we should only go all out for this if we drop out of top 4 contention early.

[Pliskin]

We will win it. 

[TonyN11]

1 hour ago, TK95 said:

May 18th 2022

 

We go back to Spain 

Gonna book my flight tomorrow!

[Guest foxestalkisfullofidiots]

It's definitely a winnable competition this, no one takes it seriously till the Quarters

[Guest Manini]

Going to try and get across for at least one of the aways (ticket for match or no ticket and depending on global situation). Following the Blues across Europe, not bad at all. 

[foxes_rule1978]

Next season will be less congested, get Barnes and Justin fit and ready to go and Ricardo back to his best... keep the players we have and then sign 2/3 attack minded players... we can do this 

[peach0000]

4 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

Much prefer going to Sevilla than Russia tbf

Having been to Seville to watch Leicester play and having been to Russia for the World Cup, Russia is severely underrated as a place to watch football. Much preferred it to seville personally. 

[CosbehFox]

19 minutes ago, peach0000 said:

Having been to Seville to watch Leicester play and having been to Russia for the World Cup, Russia is severely underrated as a place to watch football. Much preferred it to seville personally. 

Russia at the World Cup and Russia playing one of their sides away will be two different experiences. 

 

That said Sevilla will not be fun after the last time we played there. 

[BoyJones]

23 minutes ago, foxestalkisfullofidiots said:

It's definitely a winnable competition this, no one takes it seriously till the Quarters

Fully agree, but if Juventus drop into the Europa and this could happen with Milan winning and Napoli only needing a win, they would surely be the bookies favourites. 

[peach0000]

4 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Russia at the World Cup and Russia playing one of their sides away will be two different experiences. 

 

That said Sevilla will not be fun after the last time we played there. 

I was thinking that while writing it to be fair. Of all the cities I've been to to watch football Seville is right at the bottom of my list along with Marseille. A European final would still be great but I really don't want Betis.

[RowlattsFox]

Not relevant to this thread but pot 2 in champions League next year will probably have Barcelona, Real Madrid, Juventus, PSG, Liverpool, Dortmund, Man Utd/Chelsea  with Lille, Inter, Atletico and sporting Lisbon. 

Still can change though. 

 

 

 

[adejo92]

3 minutes ago, BoyJones said:

Fully agree, but if Juventus drop into the Europa and this could happen with Milan winning and Napoli only needing a win, they would surely be the bookies favourites. 

You would think so, but if thing stay the same, Inter Milan, Atlanta, AC Milan & Napoli have all performed better than Juventus over the course of a Season. In the Europa League, teams only have to perform better in two, or even one, match depending on the stage. Furthermore, it's looking ever more likely of a Ronaldo departure which will massively effect them too.

 

The Europa League always ends up with a strong group of teams during the knock out stages, but on our day, we could beat any of them.

[Guest kristianity77]

Next season this should absolutely be the one we try to win.  I'd argue winning the europa would be easier than finishing 4th in the league so we should go all out to win it. 

[CosbehFox]

8 minutes ago, BoyJones said:

Fully agree, but if Juventus drop into the Europa and this could happen with Milan winning and Napoli only needing a win, they would surely be the bookies favourites. 

The last time (albeit some time ago) Juve showed zero interest in the Europa that they were in it 

[Corky]

Even if we finished 3rd or 4th today I think we'd have been in this from February anyway.

 

Hope we have a strong group stage and go from there. Let's hope we get good crowds at home.