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  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Larnaca away is confirmed as 17.45 kick off.
  • stevesteve
    works for me
  • Ravel49Ravel49
    Excellent Steve, I’m glad you are going. Enjoy ✈️
  • stevesteve
    Ravel, ment it works for me to sit in front of the tv drink wine and watch us win =)
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    West Ham have negotiated a 1600 ticket allocation for the away leg which is 20% of the capacity. 👏👏
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Surprise home defeat for Lazio against Alkmaar last night.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    IronHerb said:

    Surprise home defeat for Lazio against Alkmaar last night.

    This passed me by, not sure why it was played ahead of all the other ECL games. Would be quite a surprise if Lazio go out as, of all the teams left in, their domestic form this season would probably have them as favourites for winning the ECL.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Roma are drawn at home tonight in the Europa so that gets precedence.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Just a reminder that the QF and SF draws are tomorrow from 1pm GMT. It's an open draw, so no restrictions at all. As per last year in the EL, the route to the final will also be determined tomorrow, so should we win our QF, we'll already know the 2 teams that would, between them, be our SF opponent.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Arsenal in a penalty shoot out to make the QF of the EL, having been held 1-1 in the home leg after the draw away from home last week.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Arsenal out 5-3.
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    Arsenal are out.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    CL drawn. City v Bayern and Chelsea v Real Madrid. If both win it’s a City v Chelsea semi.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    I suspect the winner will come from that half of the draw. 3 Italian clubs and Benfica in the other half.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Utd get Sevilla and then potentially Juventus
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    thornburyiron said:

    Utd get Sevilla and then potentially Juventus

    As with the CL draw, there definitely looks to be an easier half and a tougher half of the draw.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    There's 4 teams with a co-efficient of 35-48, and the other 4 are 91-105. However, in large part that's because some teams are in weak leagues are repeatedly qualify and thus increase their co-efficient without necessarily doing great.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Lech Poznan v Fiorentina
    Gent v West Ham
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    AZ Alkmaar v Anderlecht
    Basel v Nice
  • HamstewHamstew
    I guess playing at home for the second leg is good
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Gent a good draw
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited March 2023
    Semi Finals:
    Gent or West Ham (home first) v AZ Alkmaar or Anderlecht
    Lech Poznan or Fiorentina v Basel or Nice
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    edited March 2023
    Anderlecht/Alkmaar in semi potentially but first leg at home. Incentive for the Belgians though to both get to semis
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Not unhappy with that draw tbh, Alkmaar could be dark horses though after putting Lazio out in the last round.
  • stevesteve
    Stats on Gent please =)
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Good QF and SF draw. Avoided Nice / Fiorentina / Basel.

    AZ a wildcard but Gent / Lech were the ones you probably wanted in the QF draw.
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited March 2023
    I think on paper Gent are the weakest left.

    AZ will be hard but rather them than Fiorentina or Nice.

    If we get through and get Anderlecht, we’ve already beaten them twice.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    We beat Gent (then known as La Gantoise) on our way to winning the Cup Winners Cup in 1965.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Not too much travelling involved either so for the Sunday matches we should be fresher than we were against Villa
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    If we get to the final in Prague we have been drawn away.
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