Napoli, Spartak Moscow & Legia Warsaw

[ClaphamFox]

Why are they playing with a red ball when there's no snow on the pitch?

[steveherbe]

1 minute ago, ClaphamFox said:

Why are they playing with a red ball when there's no snow on the pitch?

Cos it's a five day test match?

[Harpenden Fox]

2 minutes ago, steveherbe said:

Cos it's a five day test match?

Napoli have never been good chasers and Spartak can take the new ball soon. That’s if bad light doesn’t intervene 

[Les-TA-Jon]

What happens if we finish 3rd again? 

[steveherbe]

1 minute ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

What happens if we finish 3rd again? 

We get renamed Leicester Hotspur I think?

[Sunbury Fox]

Don't we need an equaliser here?

[Matt_Lcfc]

6 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

What happens if we finish 3rd again? 

Conference league.

[Matt_Lcfc]

I actually can’t work out what the best result is here . Surely a draw? 

Edited 24 November 2021 by Matt_Lcfc

[Guest Lako42]

If this is a draw and we draw tomorrow night the final games will be mental

[Guest Lako42]

Just now, Lako42 said:

If this is a draw and we draw tomorrow night the final games will be mental

Actually scratch that, it's looking mental regardless 

[Ricey]

3 minutes ago, Matt_Lcfc said:

I actually can’t work out what the best result is here . Surely a draw? 

I don't think a draw is much use as it keeps Napoli above us even if we win tomorrow and it keeps Spartak in the hunt, meaning that even if we beat Legia, but then lose to Napoli, only a draw between Legia and Spartak would save us from the Conference League.

[Torten]

If we win tomorrow, we somehow go top of this bloody group how can that even be allowed to happen? 

[Ricey]

I don't buy that if Napoli win this then they might field a weakened team against us. If we beat Legia then Napoli will know that a defeat against us and they will finish second and will have to face an extra round against a CL team. There is no way they would risk that.

[CosbehFox]

3 minutes ago, Ricey said:

I don't buy that if Napoli win this then they might field a weakened team against us. If we beat Legia then Napoli will know that a defeat against us and they will finish second and will have to face an extra round against a CL team. There is no way they would risk that.

They swapped 75% of their starting eleven tonight. Europa League isn’t greatly loved by Italians and the club totally desire the Serie A given the time passed since they last won it. 

[Matt_Lcfc]

7 minutes ago, Ricey said:

I don't think a draw is much use as it keeps Napoli above us even if we win tomorrow and it keeps Spartak in the hunt, meaning that even if we beat Legia, but then lose to Napoli, only a draw between Legia and Spartak would save us from the Conference League.

Fair enough. I think it is simply up to us to pull two decent results out of the bag isn’t it? It looks like Spartak will win tonight which definitely flips the group on its head but it really doesn’t change the fact that we have to win tomorrow and most likely get something in Naples.

 

I am really frustrated that it’s got to this point to be honest. I would have accepted finishing second as Napoli are evidently a good side but to be worried about qualifying when we know how poor Spartak and Legia are is disappointing.

[Nalis]

2 wins and we finish top. Easy peasy.

[Ricey]

2 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

They swapped 75% of their starting eleven tonight. Europa League isn’t greatly loved by Italians and the club totally desire the Serie A given the time passed since they last won it. 

I don’t know, the chance to skip two tough Europa League is a pretty big plus for their title challenge.

[turlo]

so we need to win tomorrow and get at least a draw in Napoli to go through?

[CosbehFox]

1 minute ago, Ricey said:

I don’t know, the chance to skip two tough Europa League is a pretty big plus for their title challenge.

Well I just looked one of the games nearby the knockout round is Inter! 
 

They’ve thankfully got Atalanta before they play us, so a good competitive game there would help. 

[Nalis]

Napoli have to match AC Milan's results to keep us with them in the league and AC's next few league games are straightforward on paper.

 

Napoli will definitely rest players against us regardless you'd feel.

[Corky]

Four points needed then.

 

Time for us to deliver.

[Duncan_K]

The annoying thing is if we’d turned any of our bad results in to a good one then todays result would have been massive for us. 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

The Group Of Dearth.

[Stevosevic]

Need a draw in Naples then... 

 

If we don't go through you can look at the Legia away and Spartak at home. We're going to have to do it the hard way.

[CloudFox]

Just now, SouthStandUpperTier said:

The Group Of Dearth.

Just cackled in public. Well played, sir.