06 Dec 2017 19:40:16
Ed, in the Europa League is it possible to draw a team in last 32 that has also fallen out the Champions League? Or are the teams in different pots? Would love a game VS Dortmund! HH. Thanks in advance ðŸ‘.
{Ed007's Note - It's an open draw where the seeded teams play the unseeded and the only stipulations are that teams from the EL same group or the same FA cannot be drawn against each other.
Dortmund are also unseeded so we can't get them, so far we can get AC Milan, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, CSKA Moscow, Lazio, RB Leipzig, RB Salzburg, Sporting Lisbon or Villareal.
Celtic, Dortmund, Napoli, Nice and Spartak Moscow are all the unseeded teams so far with Atalanta, Braga, Dynamo Kyiv, Lazio, Lyon, Ostersund, Partizan Belgrade, Real Sociedad, Steaua București, Viktoria Plzen and Zenit Saint Petersburg still to have their seeding decided.}
06 Dec 2017 20:20:45
Rough calculation Er there is about one in three of the seeds I would not want and about three in the still to be decided so we have a one in two chance of getting a tough draw a lot of quality in their and teams taking it far more serious now that it has CL entry to the winner IMO.
{Ed007's Note - There's some tough draws in there but what about tackling Gattuso's AC Milan?}
06 Dec 2017 20:57:10
Why not he couldn't tackle a fish 🟠supper in his playing days and he would get it tight at Parkhead ðŸ˜ðŸ‘.
06 Dec 2017 20:42:08
I’d take that draw ED! Few tough teams in there but we can take comfort in none of them are as good as PSG or Bayern 🙈🤣🤣.
{Ed007's Note - I'd rather see us go out to a team like Milan even 4-2 on aggregate than go out to someone like Ostersund on the away goals rule with an o.g. which is our usual luck.}
06 Dec 2017 23:45:52
Milan haven't won the serie A since 2011 and haven't been in the top three in the last 4-5 years. They're a team in decline. It must have been embarrassing for Gattuso to lose his first game in charge of them to Benevento but who knows if he can improve them between now and february after all BR lost his first competitive game in charge of Celtic and look what he has done since. That said I don't think there is any easy draw and I would certainly take Milan also because living in Italy I have friends who support Milan and the banter would be good and i still keep them going about Dida's antics. Mind you Donnarumma, if he will still be at Milan is a top class goalkeeper. Disagree with the comment above however that Gattuso couldn't tackle a fish supper as I actually liked him (when he played for Milan)
{Ed0333's Note - Gattuso is the type of guy you want to be in your group on a night out. I liked him as a player also he was a warrior.
07 Dec 2017 10:20:33
Donjim they never lost to that team it was 2-2. Still embarrassing tho considering that was their first point in 16 games.
07 Dec 2017 13:04:05
id rather pump hibs on saturday, when we start to spend some of the hoarded money on players for europe that's when i'll start being interested in it.
07 Dec 2017 20:11:25
I stand corrected Stephbhoy2 even if the flying goalkeepers header for the equalizer in the 95th minute would have deserved to win any game :-)