Europa League 20/21

[Red Zone]

Group for tomorrow draw

PSV Eindhoven
Sporting Lisbon
Honved/Malmo

All 3 teams are in top 13 seeds so if we win (ahem) we would be seeded in Play off round

I should qualify that if Honved beat Malmo and we draw them then we would be unseeded in PO round

[57vintage]

Group for tomorrow draw

PSV Eindhoven
Sporting Lisbon
Honved/Malmo

It’ll be 50 years on 30 September since Jim Forrest skelped a penalty against the crossbar as we became the first European club to be defeated on penalties. By Honved. My Dad died the day before, so the defeat wasn’t the worst thing that happened that week.

http://www.afcheritage.org/matches/f...1&squad=Senior

[Jupiter]

As usual, we get probably the hardest group of seeds.

[Red Zone]

As usual, we get probably the hardest group of seeds.

Absolutely we did. If you just use coefficients, out of 26 possible seeds we got numbers 4,6 and 12

[Jupiter]

Absolutely we did. If you just use coefficients, out of 26 possible seeds we got numbers 4,6 and 12

And we will get number 4

[donsdaft]

Honved would be the prize draw.

[KIWIRED]

its rigged in favour of the big teams
Long gone are the days of pure knockout

[neilthedon]

Yep. Well loaded now.

So , correct me here , but once this third diddy euro cup comes in next year ;. If/when we get papped out of this one , we would drop into the lower competition ??

Thus ensuring even moree matrginally irrelevant games . ,( But enhancing our post covid opportunities for a beer swilling away day in a remote land ) ??

[RED_JOHN]

its rigged in favour of the big teams
Long gone are the days of pure knockout

Spot on. It’s all about keeping the big teams happy

[afc1903mad]

I should qualify that if Honved beat Malmo and we draw them then we would be unseeded in PO round

I thought I saw that the PO draw was to happen before the QR3 is played.
We'd therefore be paired up with a non seeded side would we not?

Indeed, just checked: -
18/09/2020: Play-off draw
24/09/2020 Third qualifying round

When the PO draw is made, I'd resume that we'd be paired up with the team we will draw today and take the seeded sides place.
Remember though, that the unseeded sides are all teams that have progressed better in Europe than us in recent years so it would still be a tough expectation to get through both rounds