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2015-16 Champions League

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andyt

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We're at the 3rd qualifying round, with teams you've heard of (some of them anyway). First legs today and tomorrow, 2nd legs 8/4-5. The winners go into the playoff round with the 3rd or 4th place teams from Spain, England, Germany, Italy and Portugal.

Lech Poznan (Poland) v. Basel
Milsami Orhei (Moldova) v. Skenderbeau Korce (Albania)
HJK v. Astana (Kazakhstan)
Celtic v. Qarabag (Azerbaijan)
Steaua Bucuresti v. Partizan
Midtjylland (Denmark) v. APOEL
Maccabi Tel Aviv v. Viktoria Plzen
Dinamo Zagreb v. Molde
Videoton (Hungary) v. BATE Borisov
Red Bull Salzburg v. Malmo
Panathinaikos v. Brugge
Young Boys v. Monaco
CSKA Mosco v. Sparta Prague
Rapid Wien v. Ajax
Fenerbahce v. Shakhtar Donetsk
 
 
The draw for the Playoff Round is out. The first leg is 8/18-19, second leg 8/25-26

Astana v. APOEL
Skenderbeu Korce (Albania!) v. Dinamo Zagreb
Celtic v. Malmo
Basel v. Maccabi Tel Aviv
BATE v. Partizan
Lazio v. Bayer Leverkusen
Man U v. Club Brugge
Sporting v. CSKA Moscow
Rapid Wien v. Shakhtar
Valencia v. Monaco
 
Celtic are reportedly thrilled to be drawn with Malmo after going to Azerbaijan and playing on painted dirt for the away leg. And for the record, there are some pretty heavy hitters in the schedule mixed in with the usual suspects for this to be the last play-in round.
 
Playoff round, 1st leg

Astana 1-0 APOEL
BATE 1-0 Partizan
Lazio 1-0 Bayer Leverkusen
Man U 3-1 Brugge
Sporting 2-1 CSKA
 
Balance of 1st leg matches

Basel 2-2 Maccabi Tel Aviv
Celtic 3-2 Malmo
Rapid Wien 0-1 Shakhtar
Skenderbeu 1-2 Dinamo Zagreb
Valencia 3-1 Monaco
 
Dinamo Zagreb 4-1 Skenderbeu Korce
(agg 6-2)

Maccabi Tel Aviv 1-1 FC Basel
(agg 3-3) Maccabi Tel Aviv win the tie

Malmö FF 2-0 Celtic
(agg 4-3)

Monaco 2-1 Valencia
(agg 3-4)

Shakt Donsk 2-2 SK Rapid Vienna
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(Is it bad that I only posted these due to the Celtic result :D )
 
davemess said:
(Is it bad that I only posted these due to the Celtic result :D )
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A. Completely understandable
B. Dammit
C. That flame out lifts about 14.5 million pounds out of the budget .... which kills any chances of improvement over the next season and a half.
D. Dammit
 
jeffbear said:
C. That flame out lifts about 14.5 million pounds out of the budget .... which kills any chances of improvement over the next season and a half.
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Don't worry they will make most of that back when they sell Virgil van Dijk to Everton :)
 
Today's results:

APOEL 1-1 FC Astana (Astana advances 2-1 aggregate)
Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 Lazio (Leverkusen advances 3-1 aggregate)
Brugge 0-4 Man U (Man U advances 7-1 aggregate)
CSKA Moscow 3-1 Sporting Lisbon (CSKA advances 4-3 aggregate)
Partisan Belgrade 2-1 BATE (aggregate tied 2-2, BATE advances on away goals)
 
The pots are set for the Group Stage draw on Thursday. New this year, Pot 1 has the holder and the champions of the top 7 leagues, regardless of coefficient. Because Barcelona won both the UCL and La Liga, the 8th team in Pot 1 is the champion of the 8th ranked league.

Pot 1: Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Benfica, Zenit St Petersburg, PSV Eindhoven

Pot 2: Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, FC Porto, Arsenal, Manchester United, Valencia, Bayer Leverkusen, Manchester City

Pot 3: Shakhtar Donetsk, Sevilla, Lyon, Dynamo Kiev, Olympiakos, CSKA Moscow, Galatasaray, AS Roma

Pot 4: BATE Borisov, Borussia Monchengladbach, Vfl Wolfsburg, Dinamo Zagreb, Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Gent, Malmo, FK Astana

Because teams from the same country can't be in the same group, it's likely that one of the English teams will draw Barcelona.
 
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Had the current UEFA club coefficients been used, as they had in prior years, the pots would look like this.

Pot 1: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Atletico Madrid, Benfica, Porto, Arsenal

Pot 2: Man U, PSG, Valencia, Juventus, ZSP, Bayer Leverkusen, Man City, Shakhtar

Pot 3: Sevilla, Lyon, Dinamo Kiev, Olympiakos, PSV, CSKA Moscow, Galatasaray, Roma

Pot 4: BATE Borisov, Borussia Monchengladbach, Vfl Wolfsburg, Dinamo Zagreb, Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Gent, Malmo, FK Astana

http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method4/trank2015.html
 
Group A: Paris St-Germain, Real Madrid, Shakhtar Donetsk, Malmo

Group B: PSV Eindhoven, Manchester United, CSKA Moscow, Wolfsburg

Group C: Benfica, Atletico Madrid, Galatasaray, Astana,

Group D: Juventus, Manchester City, Sevilla, Borussia Monchengladbach

Group E: Barcelona, Bayer Leverkusen, Roma, BATE Borisov

Group F: Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Olympiakos, Dinamo Zagreb

Group G: Chelsea, Porto, Dynamo Kiev, Maccabi Tel-Aviv

Group H: Zenit Saint Petersburg, Valencia, Lyon, Gent
 
jeffbear said:
Not the way they're currently playing. To me that group has the whiff of pending disappointment for United fans all over it.
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The group has 2 Pot 3 teams; PSV got a gift with Barca winning La Liga and the UCL. They lost Depay and Wijnaldum too. Wolfsburg is about to lose their best player when De Bruyne finally leaves for Man City. Was Man U's match against Brugge an aberration or a harbinger of things to come?
 
andyt said:
Was Man U's match against Brugge an aberration or a harbinger of things to come?
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Put it this way, they've look meh or worse in EVERY single game since they broke camp. I'd call those efforts a trend ... even if the results haven't been that bad overall.
 
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