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well yeah porto- roma is the pick of em all, really tasty looking encounter, both teams easily worth of playing in the champions league group stages, so there will be one sore loser here... villareal- monaco also looks a good tie. again both teams are worthy of group stages... then there is dundalk- legia... lmfao... celtic also have a good chance to go through
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Wouldn't that be a story to tell your kids ( if you are a Dundalk fan ) Dundalk in the champions lge group stages,that's like Leicester winning the English premier division. C'mon Dundalk.
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There are some pretty juicy looking games and this is only the qualifying round. Porto v Roma looks like a tremendous game but i would really like to see Dundalk go through, cant wait to watch the games
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Welcome to European football at its best. Some really tasty ties coming up over the next few weeks for teams from across the continent to earn their place in a lucrative group stage of the competition. What about Villareal v Monaco? But I have to agree, that the romantic tie is indeed Dundalk v Legia Warsaw. On paper not much hope for the Irish team...... But wouldn't that be wonderful if Dundalk could qualify.
Posted by teddybears73: Wouldn't that be a story to tell your kids ( if you are a Dundalk fan ) Dundalk in the champions lge group stages,that's like Leicester winning the English premier division. C'mon Dundalk.
Well, all of them are half-professional footies (having jobs on the side) I think it's a really big thing that they are still here.
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i wonder what would be the odds of dundalk winning the champions league if they do get into the group stages... 5000/1? will we see another leicester? will peaches fall from the sky? will flying cows be sh1tting on your head when you go to buy yourself some vodka...?
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All we need is some good pairs and odds, to place some bets. Wish i was following henrik in his last picks. He did a very good job once more. Every time i choose to follow his picks fail. My luck
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to place a bet on the Champions league Play Offs are not so easy, because some teams starts with their league some weeks before. But there are a lot off interesting matches and perhaps, Dundalk from Ireland was the next big surprise?
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I think it is better to wait for a rematch , this is the first game is much more difficult to hit , the second leg is easier you'll know the result of the first game , then you can imagine who's going to play at all or nothing, in the first game does not have a lot of goals , so you can bet on goals
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dont know how exactly romanian team can get team from england,when whole eastern europe are on different group,on non champion track!bulgarian,serbian,croatian...so why nor romania in better position!and what to say about two games,Celtic vs Hapoel Beer-Sheva and Dundalk vs Legia Warszawa!and loser go to europa league !bad games!
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So.... The champions league is getting excited , so what more important is that the games involving the uk and Irish teams is on telly. Could be a couple of good weeks of European footy to sit down and watch... Get your scarves ready and Cheer on your favourites. Or at the very least, cheer on Dundalk.
Posted by dule-vu: and what to say about two games,Celtic vs Hapoel Beer-Sheva and Dundalk vs Legia Warszawa!and loser go to europa league !bad games!
I would say that it seems 2 me there will be at least two teams no one effin' cares about in the CL group stage - again... Good job UEFA, thank you Platini!
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I understand that this kind of draw is good for "small" teams and they have chance to be in group and get lot of money just to play in CL group!but some games are just poor and its bad to see that some teams will be "cannon food" for big teams!
Posted by dule-vu: but some games are just poor and its bad to see that some teams will be "cannon food" for big teams!
This is exatly what they are in for. Nothing else. When CL had only 16 or later 24 clubs to compete it had the feeling they are really allowing just the very best to get a slice of the cake, the rest could have go rounds in the UEFA Cup. Now they have two similar competitions and both of them full of mediocre teams no one really cares about, but the money is multiplied so I guess they are really happy for it.
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i must admit that the only serious piece of information i could find when very diligently browsng the fixtures list was this great team Hapoel Beer-Sheva... fcuk yeah how can someone not support a team that has embroidered in it's name... go beer team go, probably they are paid in beer
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he,he pochui you always find funny thing in sport and ofcurse see beer in everything !didnt recognized that BEER in name of israel club and it funny to read!dont know what this mean on their language!maybe some member from israel could tell us!
!bad games!
embroidered in it's name... go beer team go, probably they are paid in beer
