:rolleyes:
every year they embarrass us
[SIZE=13px][FONT=verdana]"The Mongols aborted attempt to conquer Europe in 1241 was seen as the least successful European campaign. Until tonight. "[/FONT][/SIZE]
Losing to the 2 time defending Norwegian champions, managed by the legendary Solskjaer, is nowhere near as embarrassing as losing to those Lithuanian no-marks that dumped you out last year was.
It will be a long time before you’re in the Champions League, so the coefficient is not something you should be fretting about.
[quote=“Sandymount Red, post: 803215, member: 1074”]Losing to the 2 time defending Norwegian champions, managed by the legendary Solskjaer, is nowhere near as embarrassing as losing to those Lithuanian no-marks that dumped you out last year was.
It will be a long time before you’re in the Champions League, so the coefficient is not something you should be fretting about.[/quote]
Is Solskajaer a legendary manager?
Never said he was:rolleyes:
But he’s better than Trevor Croly:p
[quote=“Sandymount Red, post: 803220, member: 1074”]Never said he was:rolleyes:
But he’s better than Trevor Croly:p[/quote]
time will tell
[SIZE=2][FONT=verdana]4 times in a row Sligo will have fallen at the 1st hurdle[/FONT][/SIZE]
Come back to me when the Shams are in the Champions League;)
Cliftonville or Celtic versus Elfsborg or Daugava.
Elfsborg lead 7-1 from the first leg so another tie against Swedish opposition is almost certain after the game against Helsingborgs last season.
Mo Bangura is on loan at Elfsborg from Celtic. Apparently he’s allowed to play under UEFA rules unless the clubs have a direct agreement.
12.00CET, 19 July, Nyon
LEAGUE ROUTE
FC Nordsjælland (DEN) v FC Zenit St Petersburg (RUS)
FC Salzburg (AUT) v Fenerbahçe SK (TUR)
PAOK FC (GRE) v FC Metalist Kharkiv (UKR)
PSV Eindhoven (NED) v SV Zulte Waregem (BEL)
Olympique Lyonnais (FRA) v Grasshopper Club (SUI)
CHAMPIONS ROUTE
FC Basel 1893 (SUI) v Győri ETO FC (HUN)/Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC (ISR)
Sligo Rovers FC (IRL)/Molde FK (NOR) v The New Saints FC (WAL)/Legia Warszawa (POL)
ŠK Slovan Bratislava (SVK)/PFC Ludogorets Razgrad (BUL) v FC Shirak (ARM)/FK Partizan (SRB)
FC Dinamo Tbilisi (GEO)/ EB/Streymur (FRO) v FC Steaua Bucureşti (ROU)/FK Vardar (MKD)
APOEL FC (CYP) v Birkirkara FC (MLT)/NK Maribor (SVN)
Celtic FC (SCO)/ Cliftonville FC (NIR) v IF Elfsborg (SWE)/FC Daugava Daugavpils (LVA)
FC BATE Borisov (BLR)/FC Shakhter Karagandy (KAZ) v Neftçi PFK (AZE)/KS Skënderbeu (ALB)
FK Austria Wien (AUT) v FK Ekranas (LTU)/FH Hafnarfjördur(ISL)
HJK Helsinki (FIN)/JK Nõmme Kalju (EST) v FC Viktoria Plzeň (CZE)/FK Željezničar (BIH)
CS Fola Esch (LUX)/GNK Dinamo Zagreb (CRO) v FC Sheriff (MDA)/FK Sutjeska (MNE)
easy draw for Celtic
maccabi TA and sligo are fooked
Van Dijk has fractured a bone in bus foot so will be missing the return Cliftonville leg and the next two matches, should we progress.
What TV station is showing Celtic-Cliftonville tonight?
As an aside, I see Andrea Pirlo saying in the media today that it’s “an insult” for Celtic to have to go through a pre-qualifying process.
Bus foot?
BATE Borisov are out, beaten 2-0 on agg by shaktar karagrandy of kazakstan
think they beat Bayern maybe in the group stages last year?
sligo are 1-0 down at Molde approaching HT
latest tonight
FC Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-0 BATE Borisov
(agg 2-0)
Full time
FC Daugava 0-4 Elfsborg
(agg 1-11)
Full time
Nomme Kalju 2-1 HJK Helsinki
(agg 2-1)
Full time
Sutjeska 0-5 Sheriff Tiraspol
(agg 1-6)
Full time
Molde 1-0 Sligo
(agg 2-0)
5’
EB Streymur V Dinamo Tbilisi
(agg 1-6)
19:00
Skenderbeu V Neftchi
(agg 0-0)
19:00
Macc Tel-Aviv V Gyor ETO FC
(agg 2-0)
19:30
[U]Celtic[/U] V Cliftonville
(agg 3-0)
19:45
Din Zagreb V CS Fola Esch
(agg 5-0)
19:45
Vardar Skopje V Steaua Buch’t
(agg 0-3)
19:45
Zeljeznicar Sarajevo V Plzen
(agg 3-4)
20:00
FH Hafnarfjordur V Ekranas Panevezys
(agg 1-0)
20:15
Same starting XI for Celtic tonight as what started the first leg last week.
Streams seem to be scarce on the ground tonight.
[quote=“Bandage, post: 805416, member: 9”]Streams seem to be scarce on the ground tonight
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That’s be the hot weather of late mate
Tal ben haim, ( not the useless ould cunt who plays for QPR) put Mac TA 1 up
3-0 on aggregate
match only kicked off at 9-45pm local, heat is fking incredible tonight
sligo got beat 2 nothing
1-0 to Celtic. Efe Ambrose with the goal and yet again excelling at the highest level of club football.
Stan Petrov is in attendance tonight and has just received a wonderful ovation from the Celtic support in the 19th minute.
Bandage, lets try and find out about Elfsborg and see what they’re worth, 11-1 on agg against the Latvian champions shows at least they can score goals but the quality of the opposition must be questioned.
trying to assess swedish domestic football standards to date, Drogeheda did hold Malmo 0-0 in their UEFA cup first round game a few weeks ago in dublin, malmo won the return 2-0, Malmo went on to beat Hibs last week. id say Drogedha are probably a better side then Billy Fenlon’s Hibs anyway so that result was to be eaxpected
So, if we say celtic hammered cliftonvile, drogheda are slightly better than cliftonville but are a bit behind Malmo, celtic usually beat hibs well… given that malmo beat drogheda and hibs not too convincingly it is fair to say that malmo would be the equivilant to a mid table SPL or lower half airtricity league team…
Bandage, please check malmo’s results vs elfsborg last season, then we should be able to predict the outcome
thanks
Bandage
please comment on my hypothesis