Europa League Draw

[Insidious]

Cheers Sid… Didn’t know about that.

2 less games - could make a big difference come the end of the season. IF we are in the mix for the top spot

It's definitely significant - whether we are challenging for the title, rescuing a flopped January/February spell to get back into the Champion's League spots (eeesh) or are progressing through the FA Cup, or simply managing an injury list - 2 less games is useful whatever the circumstances.

When we enter a season my priority is always -

- League
- Champion's League or Europa (whichever one we are in)
- FA Cup
- League Cup

- though the bottom two tend to swap around in terms of my desire to win them if we progress in the League Cup. Now that we are in the quarters (just 2 matches away from the Final) it has become priority to me over the FA Cup - I definitely get more invested in the two Domestic trophies the further we go in. Hopefully we field youth/fringe in the FA Cup and if we manage to progress then great, but not too arsed if are knocked out early and have less fixtures given what we want to achieve in the League this season.

[Insidious]

Unless there is a monumental collapse in the second leg, we are through to the last eight of this.

Would love to avoid De Rossi's resurgent Roma for now and would love to avoid Bayer Leverkusen as well as I dream of us playing them in the Final.

Wouldn't mind playing the winner of Benfica v Rangers.

[Insidious]

AC Milan
Atalanta
Bayer Leverkusen
Benfica
Liverpool
Marseille
Roma
West Ham

We'll find out tomorrow. I'd like Benfica or Marseille there.

[miller0863]

Don’t want Leverkusen or Mourinho. Then West Ham, Milan, Atalanta, Benfica and Marseille my favourite draw

[teesred]

I'm confident we'd take any of them over two legs so not worried who we get.

[LFC-DPG]

Don’t want Leverkusen or Mourinho.

I don’t want Leverkusen but I reckon we could put a few past Jose

[Insidious]

Don’t want Leverkusen or Mourinho. Then West Ham, Milan, Atalanta, Benfica and Marseille my favourite draw

Mourinho isn't managing Roma now miller - he got sacked. They replaced him with Daniele De Rossi (Italian defensive mid who always looked hungover) and they have been doing well under him - he's been getting a lot of praise as a tactician and they have had great results. Time will tell if it's new Manager bounce or something more.

I don't want Roma purely for the safety of our travelling fans.

[Frasier]

Arsenal get Bayern and Man City play Real Madrid. The winner of each tie to play in the semi final.

Fantastic outcome for us, four hard games against top opposition for our rivals, if they get that far.....

[Kev0909]

Arsenal get Bayern and Man City play Real Madrid. The winner of each tie to play in the semi final.

Fantastic outcome for us, four hard games against top opposition for our rivals, if they get that far.....

haha great I think arsenal may get past Bayern, same with city & real.... if city beat real I think they win it.

[teesred]

Arsenal get Bayern and Man City play Real Madrid. The winner of each tie to play in the semi final.

Fantastic outcome for us, four hard games against top opposition for our rivals, if they get that far.....

Yep that's a decent outcome.