Napoli, Spartak Moscow & Legia Warsaw

[Gazza3]

There’s no reason why we can t win all 3 home games , avoid defeat in Italy and top the group 

[Stuntman_Mike]

43 minutes ago, ian__marshall said:

I thought we had some tasty away trips but just seen Group E. Makes an away trip to Millwall look like a holiday to Mauritius. 

That's a cracking group. I'd swap that for ours and take out extra insurance.

[winteriscoming]

Think we’ll finish third. 
I see us losing a game at home against either Moscow or Warsaw and it costing us second. 

[urban fox]

Phew, not the kindest of draws but it will certainly be a litmus test of just where we are in terms of european competition. I think we can really start to believe if we come out on top of this group. As ourselves and Napoli were joint favourites i wonder what this draw has done to the odds (not that i am a betting man)

[KrefelderFox666]

5 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

Think we’ll finish third. 
I see us losing a game at home against either Moscow or Warsaw and it costing us second. 

I would be very disappointed with anything less than 2nd. We should be pushing to win the group but it won't be easy. Get 7 points at home and 4 away, that should be a good target.

[Vestan Pance]

Can I swap my home package for the away end?😆

 

I reckon we're going to get a proper lesson in how to support your team off this lot.

[Paninistickers]

What a delicious tournament this is. The names in it are everything I love about European football. 

 

An absolute honour to be invited into it. 

 

[Phil Bowman]

Glass half empty:

We’ve got a really good Italian team and two cold trips to really awkward clubs who will be cynical, professional and hard to beat. All three clubs will be way more experienced in Europe than us. We’ll be doing really well to finish second.

 

Glass half full:

If Napoli were that good they’d be in the Champions League, and the other two are nothing special. With our improved squad depth there’s no reason why we can’t win this group.

 

Realistically we’ll have to play well to get through, but it’s certainly possible. The other teams are probably all thinking they’d rather not have drawn us (that sounds odd to say, but is probably true).

[StriderHiryu]

The group is a good test for Rodgers too good think. He’s been notoriously bad in Europe with every team he’s taken there, but there’s always a chance to turn things round!

[kingfox]

Can’t wait to fight their fanbases off with a clapper.

[AllGoneTitsSchlupp]

2 minutes ago, kingfox said:

Can’t wait to fight their fanbases off with a clapper.

someone posted it the other day but can just imagine we get these in our away ends at these three. christ

[Footballwipe]

Cor blimey, seem to be more snarky posts comparing our support with these teams than actual analysis of how we're going to do.

 

Any more hot takes to come about how we'll be "SHOWN UP" "CLAPPER BRIDAGE" etc etc or shall we just wait until it happens, because we know it's going to.

 

Yes we'll be shown up, yes some of you will CRINGE at it. Do we really need endless post after endless post?

[coolhandfox]

Nice interesting group. 

[Lcfc82]

13 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

What a delicious tournament this is. The names in it are everything I love about European football. 

 

An absolute honour to be invited into it. 

 

It certainly is.

I hope we take it seriously though and try and top the group, otherwise we could easily find ourselves dropping into the conference league. 

[enmac]

Looking forward to seeing Lorenzo Insigne. 

 

[Leicester_Loyal]

 

We'll cause ****ing carnage.

[urban fox]

Actually really looking forward to this. As many have said the EL for me has far more interest than CL where the same old teams trot out every year (and yes i know i would not be saying that if we were in it). We actually have a half decent chance of winning this, although we certainly do not have an easy group, and we will need some of our injured players back and fully fighting fit for some of the games if we are going to progress.

Hopefully the fixtures will be kind to us as the trips to Warsaw and Moscow will be long and tedious for the squad, especially if later on in the group, when the weather starts to turn. Is it better to get them out of the way early, before bad weather, frozen pitches, long trips further into the season etc. Or is it better that these trips come later when we have a few more players available after injury lay offs as that gives us more rotation options to combat fatigue both in these games and the league?

[An Away Move]

21 minutes ago, kingfox said:

Can’t wait to fight their fanbases off with a clapper.

They should all stop using them and rest them on their laps then. That’ll improve things. 

[whetstonefox]

The creation of the Europa conference has all of a sudden made the Europa league look a really attractive competition (but like the old UEFA Cup) , particularly as a lot of clubs think they’ll be in with a chance. How it should be. 

[spacemunky]

Great group 

 

Go Lestah!

[Stadt]

It's a more interesting group than almost all of the CL groups this year. Drawing the likes of Leipzig, Salzburg, Young Boys, Brugge, Villarreal is quite boring in comparison to who we've got.

[Harry96]

Should come second hopefully 

[Guest SO1]

Street fighter mentality. If we can make it out of this group then we're winning the whole thing. Given the injuries we have our mentality/fortitude will have to be hitting on all cylinders. If we don't show up mentally then we don't deserve to stay. Lets get ready to rumble.

[Stuntman_Mike]

Do we think many will travel to these games? 

Tough to call really. 

 

[StanSP]

1 hour ago, Paninistickers said:

What a delicious tournament this is. The names in it are everything I love about European football. 

 

An absolute honour to be invited into it. 

 

Technically we weren't invited; we've earnt the right to be there.