State Of Mind Of Our European Opponents

[Dutch Eagle]

Last weekend and on Wednesday:

West Ham - Man. United 2-1
14th 3-24 8:11

Ten Had sacked. Van Nistelrooij at the helm against us. 

METTA - RFS 
1st 28-3-3 100:23
6 point lead with 2 matches to go including the clash with the current runner up Riga. As they drew three times RFS needs one point to clinch the title either against Riga or against the other opponent.

RFS won the Latvian cup after defeating Auda with 4-2 after extra time on Wednesday. Just two days after Monday's match against METTA.

Györ - Ferencváros 1-1
1st 7-1-1 16:6

Slavia Praha - Dukla Praha 3-0
1st 11-1-0 27:3

Real Sociedad - Osasuna 0-2
12th 3-3-5 8:10

 

 

[Dutch Eagle]

Man. United - Chelsea 1-1

13th 3-3-4 9:12

 

Grobiņas - RFS 0-2

1st 29-3-3 102:23

Champions of Latvia with one match to be played. In fact they clinched the double after Wednesday's cupwin.

 

Ferencváros - Debreceni VSC 2-2

1st 7-2-1 18:8

 

Hradec Králové - Slavia Praha 1-1

1st 11-2-0 28:4

 

Sevilla - Real Sociedad 0-2

10th 4-3-5 10:10 

But some teams beneath La Real have a game in hand due to the severe floods that struck the region of Valencia.

 

 

 

 

 

[pash]

Think Manchester United will rest any players in our game?

My guess is that if RFS has clinched this, then they will play their strongest possible lineup against us. Lame.

[Dutch Eagle]

Last weekends games:

RFS - Riga 1-2

1st 29-3-4 103:26

Season has ended. Hope they get rusty till our game 

Kecskemét - Ferencváros 0-1

1st 8-2-1 19:8

Slavia Praha - Karviná 5-1

1st 12-2-0 33:5

Real Sociedad - Barcelona 1-0

8th 5-3-5 11:10 

[PaokCT]

Realistically, need 3 wins to advance. Even 2 wins and 2 draws probably won't do it. Luckily, we will be favored in 2 of those. So need to eek out a win in Spain or vs Prague

[Dutch Eagle]

RFS: season has ended.

They played Flora Tallinn (Estonia) for the Baltic Supercup and won 3-0.

 

Ferencváros - DVTK 3-3 (after being 0-3 down)

1st 8-3-1 22:11

 

Dynamo České Budějovice - Slavia Praha 0-4

1st 13-2-0 37:5

 

Athletic Club - Real Sociedad 1-0

10th 5-3-6 11:11

 

* For @pash: The German name for (České) Budějovice is Budweis and yep .........

[pash]

Huh! The more you know. The competition to brew the crappiest beer now has a new home.

[Blackhawk]

In my opinion the Czech Budweisser (or Budvar) is better beer than Pilsner Urquell. Available in the US under the name Czechvar since AB won't let them use the name Budweisser in the US.

[Dutch Eagle]

Újpest - Ferencváros 0-0

2st 8-4-1 22:11

But they have a game in hand

 

Slavia Praha - Slovan Liberec 1-0

1st 14-2-0 38:5

 

Real Sociedad - Real Betis 2-0

9th 6-3-6 13:11

 

[pash]

We basically need two wins out of these last three games to get to the play offs. Definitely possibly, but we'll also probably get smoked if we DO make it to the play offs. Europa League competition is much, much harder than Conference League - imagine the massacre if we had made it to the Champions League!

[Athens4]

All because we didn't make proper transfers in the summer.

[Dutch Eagle]

Ferencváros - ZTE 1-0

2st 9-4-2 27:16

But they have a game in hand and are only 1 point behind the leaders

 

Sigma Olomouc - Slavia Praha 1-2

1st 16-2-0 41:6

 

Leganés - Real Sociedad 0-3

6th 7-3-6 16:11

 

[Dutch Eagle]

Teplice - Slavia Praha 1-0

1st 16-2-1 41:7

First loss in the last match before the winter break. 

The Czech league resumes in February 2025 with a 7 point lead for Slavia.

 

Real Sociedad - Las Palmas 0-0

7th 7-4-6 16:11

 

[Blackhawk]

22 hours ago, Dutch Eagle said:

Teplice - Slavia Praha 1-0

The Czech league resumes in February 2025 with a 7 point lead for Slavia.

This should play in our favor as they will only play some friendly games before our match at Toumba. We will need to have the same performance as we did against Ferencvaros if we want to beat them.

[Dutch Eagle]

Slavia Praha: winter break. 

 

Celta de Vigo - Real Sociedad 2-0

7th 7-4-7 16:13

 

[pash]

Sounds like Slavia Prague is about to sell their starting goalkeeper. Deal should be done by the time we play them. Hopefully we can capitalize on that.

[Athens4]

Deal complete. On Transfermarkt their other keepers are not eligible for Europa League, so I assume they will need to buy another keeper or use a youth?

[PaokCT]

4 hours ago, Athens4 said:

Deal complete. On Transfermarkt their other keepers are not eligible for Europa League, so I assume they will need to buy another keeper or use a youth?

I don’t think you can buy a keeper who is already playing in European competition and register him… so most likely gotta be a youth keeper

[pash]

True. Ales Mandous appears to be their only senior team player who is eligible, so I'm sure he'll play. The remainder of the lineup will surely be filled with youth players.

https://www.transfermarkt.com/ales-mandous/profil/spieler/240536

[Dutch Eagle]

Here are the players that were on the list for the Europa League:

https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/clubs/52498--slavia-praha/squad/

So only Mandous, who only played a cup game, and two keepers of the B-list.

Real Sociedad won 0-2 in the Copa del Rey (Spanish Cup) against third tier Ponferradina and advanced to the "Round of 16".

[Athens4]

Really need to beat Slavia.

[Blackhawk]

In a preparation game in Spain, Slavia tied with a Polish club Rakow Czestachova. The score was 2:2. They were losing 2:0, but managed to tie the game in the end.

Slavia will play one more friendly in Spain against Philadelphia Union this week before traveling directly to Thessaloniki for the Europa League game.

[Dutch Eagle]

Slavia Praha: winter break. Restart is in February. But they play friendlies, as Blackhawk just mentioned. 

Real Sociedad - Villarreal 1-0

7th 8-4-7 17:13

Tomorrow they play Rayo Vallecano at home in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey 

[Dutch Eagle]

Real Sociedad - Rayo Vallecano 3-1 and Sociedad advances to the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey. 

[Dutch Eagle]

Slavia Praha - Philadelphia Union 1-0 in a friendly as their league resumes in February 

Valencia - Real Sociedad 1-0
7th 8-4-8 17:14