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Fridays europa league draw

Tom_cfc
in General Chelsea FC

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14 minutes ago, Blueblur said:

A joke competition, awful teams everywhere.

We have no excuse, we HAVE to win this (again). 

A bit disrespectful IMO. While I acknowledge the overall quality isn't great, there are still some very good teams competing, so we can't take success for granted. 

Also, European football can't be a closed shop to the big boys (although that's unfortunately the route it's going, particularly with UEFA set to bring in a third competition), so it's good that there are opportunities for the Europe's lesser sides to have some continental success. 

    5 minutes ago, adineen98 said:

    A bit disrespectful IMO. While I acknowledge the overall quality isn't great, there are still some very good teams competing, so we can't take success for granted. 

    Also, European football can't be a closed shop to the big boys (although that's unfortunately the route it's going, particularly with UEFA set to bring in a third competition), so it's good that there are opportunities for the Europe's lesser sides to have some continental success. 

    I'm having none of it. We want to be up there competing with the best, and these teams are just....tripe. 

    Our own fault though, we weren't good enough last season. 

    Anyone know what out ticket allocation will likely be for these games? Couple of hundred or couple of thousand? Will be good to try and get one of the more interesting European away days in.

    2 minutes ago, Blueblur said:

    I'm having none of it. We want to be up there competing with the best, and these teams are just....tripe. 

    Our own fault though, we weren't good enough last season. 

    I simply won't hear of that - my mate went to school with Chuba Akpom, who apparently now plays for PAOK. 

    7 minutes ago, Blueblur said:

    I'm having none of it. We want to be up there competing with the best, and these teams are just....tripe. 

    Our own fault though, we weren't good enough last season. 

    Don't get me wrong, I completely understand what you're saying. We all want to be in the Champions League, but that place has to be earned. We can't stumble through a season and then complain about the quality of teams we have to face in the secondary tournament. We didn't deserve to qualify for the CL last season.

    While I'm looking forward to the Europa League campaign, I do hope we are back in the CL sooner rather than later.

    Edited by adineen98

    Lets face it, European football is a bit over-hyped. Even the early group stages of the CL can be very boring and the Europa League is 10 x worse.

    Not too fussed about missing the CL this season and I bet deep down, Sarri is secretly pleased. The pressure is off and it means he will be able to rest out key players whilst also getting the chance to look at fringe players and some of the youth. Should be a win / win situation really with only pressure when we get to the latter stages and the teams who crash out of CL join the Europa Party! 

    Just looking at our Premier league games following immediately after Europa league games and they don't look too bad. If we make it all the way to the final then 4 of our last 5 Premier league games will come the weekend after a Thursday night game. Liverpool at Anfield after a quarter final game obviously being the most dangerous!

    20th September - Group game
    West ham (A)

    4th October- Group game
    Southampton (A)

    25th October- Group game
    Burnley (A)

    8th November- Group game
    Everton (H)

    29th November- Group game
    Fulham (H)

    13th December- Group game
    Brighton (A)

    14th February - Round of 32 first leg
    (TBC) FA cup 5th round game

    21st February- Round of 32 second leg
    Brighton (H)

    7th March - Round of 16 first leg
    Wolves (H)

    14th March - Round of 16 second leg
    Everton (A)

    11th April- Quarter final first leg
    Liverpool (A)

    18th April - Quarter final second leg
    Burnley (H)

    2nd May - Semi final first leg
    Watford (H)

    9th May - Semi final second leg
    Leicester (A)

    29th May - Final

    I have to say it and it may sound hypocritical because we won it via similar way, but teams dropping out of CL group stages and going into EL is not right whatsoever. Now the EL means more for the winner, making the means of getting to the final tougher with better teams coming from the CL to the EL is unacceptable tbh. If you quality for CL, you do it on merit, the same if you qualify for the EL. However, you shouldn't be rewarded (because that is basically what it is in some ways) at the chance of another trophy if you didn't get in that tournament on merit.

    Although it's fun to mock Arsenal, they missed out last season on CL football this season because they drew and got beat by Atletico, who themselves dropped out the CL group stages and went into the Europa. UEFA need to get their act together and scrap that B.S altogether imo. There's a real possibility teams like Inter Milan, Monaco, Liverpool or Napoli, Benfica/Ajax, Lyon/Shakhtar, CSKA Moscow, Valencia (or Utd) could drop out of CL and into the EL this season. 

    Edited by enigma

    I have to say that I was looking forward to this draw because the prospects of us getting favorable matches with the ability to allow players to play from the start such as: RLC, Ampadu Tammy and CHO. I really think the draw went very well for Chelsea. Travel isn't too ridiculous and there is no trip to Kyrgyzstan or where ever CarrotBag fC is located. PAOK and BATE would be awesome places to go and watch those matches. 

    Lets go win the cup boys!

    This is a good opportunity for Sarri to get some European experience, he didn't do much in Europe with Napoli as far as I remember.

    PAOK isn't the best greek team

    It's behind AEK and arguably Olympiakos

    They came 2nd last year and just lost 1-4 to Basel

    Their home ground is notorious though

    Last year after a 1-2 loss to AEK the pitch was invaded and the club owner walked around holding a handgun

     

    27 minutes ago, Eden17 said:

    PAOK isn't the best greek team

    It's behind AEK and arguably Olympiakos

    They came 2nd last year and just lost 1-4 to Basel

    Their home ground is notorious though

    Last year after a 1-2 loss to AEK the pitch was invaded and the club owner walked around holding a handgun

     

    I hope he's banned now. Would it even be safe to allow our players and fans to go there if he can do that?

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