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Europa League 4th Qualifying Round Draw

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King Binny

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We can be drawn against any of these unseeded teams:

Bursaspor
Dinamo Bucuresti
Feyenoord
Maritimo Funchal
Rapid Wien
Legia Warsaw
Dinamo Moscow
Red Star Belgrade
Sheriff Tiraspol
Anzhi Makhachkala
DVSC Debrecen
Atromitos FC
Hearts FC
Motherwell FC
Midtjylland
KSC Lokeren
FC Luzern
AIK Stockholm
Slovan Liberec
AC Horsens
Slask Wroclaw
HJK Helsinki
Tromsø IL
Ekranas Panevezys
Molde FK
FC Fehérvár
F91 Dudelange
Neftchi Baku
Dila Gori
Mura Murska Sobota
Zeta Golubovci
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Stuart McCall is managing Motherwell these days.

Giving the ginger ex-bitter a shooing would be nice.
 
I want the midgets from midget land from the above list .We should play our giants Carroll,Coates,Skrtel & we make it to the group stages easily.
 
The seedings and groupings for today's draw have been finalised, reducing the number of potential opponents:

Group One

Seeded teams: AZ Alkmaar (NED), Inter Milan (ITA), APOEL (CYP), FK Partizan (SER), Newcastle United (ENG)

Unseeded teams: FC Vaslui (ROM), Atromitos FC (GRE), Anzhi Makhachkala (RUS), Tromso (NOR), Neftçi PFK (AZE)
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Group Two

Seeded: Liverpool (ENG), Club Brugge (BEL), Athletic Club (SPA), Heerenveen (NED), A. Famagusta FC (CYP)/ Dila Gori (GEO)

Unseeded: Debreceni VSC (HUN), CS Marítimo (POR), Hearts, Molde (NOR), HJK Helsinki (FIN)
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Group Three

Seeded: Marseille (FRA), FC Metalist Kharkiv (UKR), Trabzonspor AŞ (TUR), Hannover 96 (GER), BSC Young Boys (SUI)

Unseeded: FC Dinamo Bucureşti (ROM), FC Midtjylland (DEN), FC Sheriff (MDA), WKS Śląsk Wrocław (POL), Videoton FC (HUN)
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Group Four

Seeded: Sporting Lisbon (POR), Bordeaux (FRA), Hapoel Tel-Aviv (ISR), Levante (SPA), Sparta Prague (CZE)

Unseeded: FK Crvena Zvezda (SER), Feyenoord (NED), AC Horsens (DEN), Motherwell, F91 Dudelange (LUX)
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Group Five

Seeded teams: Viktoria Plzeň (CZE), Twente (NED), Lazio (ITA), Rosenborg (NOR), CSKA Moscow (RUS)

Unseeded teams: Bursaspor (TUR), Lokeren (BEL), Legia Warsaw (POL), Mura 05 (SVN)
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Group Six

Seeded teams: Stuttgart (GER), PSV Eindhoven (NED), Steaua Bucharest (ROM), Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (UKR), Genk (BEL)

Unseeded teams: Zeta (MNE), Dinamo Moscow (RUS), Slovan Liberec (CZE), Luzern (SUI), Ekranas (LTU) , Rapid Vienna (AUS)
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Ole Gunnar Solskjær's Molde, anyone?
 
Does that mean we're playing one of:
Unseeded: Debreceni VSC (HUN), CS Marítimo (POR), Hearts, Molde (NOR), HJK Helsinki (FIN)
 
***The fixtures will be contested over two legs on 23 and 30 August with the winners qualifying for the group stage proper, which gets under way on 20 September. Next year's final takes place in Amsterdam on 15 May.***


23 Aug 1st leg UEFA Europa League play-off
26 Aug Man City (H)
30 Aug 2nd leg UEFA Europa League play-off
2 Sep Arsenal (H)
 
Isn't Molde the club managed by Solskjaer? If so, I'd like them. Be nice to stick a few on that little bugger's team.
 
Fuck hearts. I dunno why but of fucking HATE playing British teams in European competition, we never seem to play at anywhere near our best.
 
Edinburgh is close by and is lovely, Hearts are shite and are unlikely to pose any sort of problem.

.... And Hearts are my Scottish team.
 
Liverpool will face Scottish outfit Hearts in the Europa League play-off round.

The first leg is scheduled to be away with the return at Anfield, but Liverpool FC will confirm all details for the fixtures shortly.

The matches are scheduled to be played on August 23 and 30.
 
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The added bonus is that there are no arduous trips to Russia/Ukraine/Georgia etc to contemplate if and when we get to the group stage.
 
Pesam said:
The added bonus is that there are no arduous trips to Russia/Ukraine/Georgia etc to contemplate if and when we get to the group stage.
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yeah good draw for us, nice and local. We should win it and make the group stages.
 
Pesam said:
The added bonus is that there are no arduous trips to Russia/Ukraine/Georgia etc to contemplate if and when we get to the group stage.
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Considering some of the other possibilities and the trips involved - this is a fantastic draw. We don't want arduous traveling between playing Man City and Arsenal, so it has worked out perfectly.
 
THE glamour tie against Liverpool will be an interesting game for Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov.

The Lithuanian banker revealed last year that he had been planning to snap up the Anfield side for £200 million in the same year he bought his majority shareholding in Hearts.

He said it was the reaction to his appearance at Tynecastle which prompted him to walk away from the deal, admitting he had been “scared”.

In an interview, he revealed: “In 2005, my club Kaunas was playing against Liverpool in the Champions League qualifiers. David Moores, who then owned Liverpool, suggested that I bought it for £200m. The price was realistic, a serious piece of real estate, star players. Just to mention Gerrard.

“I got scared. By that time I had been beaten black and blue over Hearts in Scotland where they pictured me as an idiot. I thought that if I got hold of Liverpool they would definitely drive me to an early grave.”

He said he had planned a bid with an unnamed Russian businessman.

“He refused, and I did not risk getting into it on my own,” he added.
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Just a few short months ago he was involved in a relegation battle with Raith Rovers. Now McGlynn is preparing to pit his wits against the five-times champions of Europe, with the first leg scheduled to be played at Tynecastle on either 22 or 23 August. The second leg will be staged a week later.

As with Hearts, the Anfield side made a managerial change in the summer even though a cup had been won during the previous season. Kenny Dalglish, whose side lifted the Carling Cup in February, made way for Brendan Rodgers. Like McGlynn, the former Swansea manager is determined to make an early impression. Liverpool have not played at Tynecastle since a charity match in 1958, when they took on an Edinburgh select side.

Hearts and Liverpool last played each other in a friendly in 1929, although the Tynecastle side came up against quality English opposition only last season at the same stage of the same competition. It wasn’t a happy experience at Tynecastle as Spurs thrashed Hearts 5-0. However, the Scottish side clawed back some respect with a 0-0 draw in the second leg in London. “It’s an exciting prospect facing Liverpool,” said McGlynn. “Could I have imagined six months ago when I was at Raith Rovers I’d be playing against Liverpool? What a great opportunity for everyone.

“We’ve got a lot of young players in the team at the minute and the prospect for them to play home and away against Liverpool is fantastic. I’m a great believer that any match is 11 v 11. Obviously their budget is much more than ours. Stevie G [Gerrard] will be getting as much as my budget! He’ll be earning more than we can afford to pay our entire team so from that point of view you’re up against it.

“But I’m glad the game will be at Tynecastle because when I was at Hearts a few years ago European matches were at Murrayfield. While they were special nights, it wasn’t quite the same as playing at Tynecastle.”

McGlynn said Hearts will have learned from the experience against Spurs last season, when they appeared to stand off their English visitors. Unsurprisingly, Spurs took full advantage of the space offered and were 3-0 up before the half-hour mark.

“Unfortunately for Hearts it died kind of quickly that night,” said McGlynn. “There was a great build-up to that match and a great atmosphere but the way Tottenham went about their business that night, the game was finished very quickly before Hearts restored pride with a draw at White Hart Lane.”

McGlynn is one of the few on the Hearts staff with experience of playing at Anfield, having appeared there for Bolton reserves in 1980. “Frank McGarvey was playing in the Liverpool reserve team at the time,” he said. “What was the score? I think we lost, narrowly.”
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