PAOK In Europe 2019-2020

[Dutch Eagle]

36 minutes ago, Nea Bafra said:

are there dates for these?

20/21 and 27/28 Aug. for the CL.

22 and 29 Aug. for the EL.

[Blackhawk]

August 20: APOEL/Qrabag - PAOK
August 28: PAOK - APOEL//Qarabag

Hopefully.

[Nea Bafra]

sweet, i am in thessaloniki on both the 28th and 29th

[Blackhawk]

First results of our possible opponents:

CL:

APOEL - Qarabag    1:2

EL:

Slovan Bratislava - Dundalk  1:0

[pash]

Wonder if Slovan Bratislava will play Tzovaras against us. That would be fun.

[Antaeus7]

I hope so, he is known to be comical at times behind the post. ????

[Blackhawk]

Now that PAOK is in the Europa League, the main goal is to eliminate Slovan Bratislava and qualify for the group stage. Assuming we eliminate Slovan it appears that PAOK will be seeded in Pot 3 of the 4 pots for the group stage draw purposes. PAOK can move to Pot 2 if this happens:

Four of the following matchups in playoff rounds of Europa League and Champions League need end as follows:

FC Riga eliminates FC Copenhagen
AIK Stockhpolm eliminates Celtic Glasgow
Maribor Branik eliminates Ludogorets Razgrad
Glasgow Rangers eliminates Legia Warsaw
Apollon Limassol eliminates PSV Eindhoven
FC Aberdeen eliminates KAA Gent
Spartak Moscow eliminates Sporting Braga
RC Strasbourg eliminates Eintrach Frankfurt
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Club Brugge eliminates LASK Linz
Young Boys Bern eliminates Crvena Zvezda Beograd
Dinamo Zagreb eliminates Rosenborg Trodheim
 

[pash]

Spartak will probably eliminate Braga...those bottom three could all very easily go the way you say as well. Fingers crossed I guess.

[Athens4]

Let’s just focus on beating Slovan.

[Dutch Eagle]

On 8/16/2019 at 7:42 PM, Blackhawk said:

Now that PAOK is in the Europa League, the main goal is to eliminate Slovan Bratislava and qualify for the group stage. Assuming we eliminate Slovan it appears that PAOK will be seeded in Pot 3 of the 4 pots for the group stage draw purposes. PAOK can move to Pot 2 if this happens:

Four of the following matchups in playoff rounds of Europa League and Champions League need end as follows:

FC Riga eliminates FC Copenhagen
AIK Stockhpolm eliminates Celtic Glasgow
Maribor Branik eliminates Ludogorets Razgrad
Glasgow Rangers eliminates Legia Warsaw
Apollon Limassol eliminates PSV Eindhoven
FC Aberdeen eliminates KAA Gent
Spartak Moscow eliminates Sporting Braga
RC Strasbourg eliminates Eintrach Frankfurt
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Club Brugge eliminates LASK Linz
Young Boys Bern eliminates Crvena Zvezda Beograd
Dinamo Zagreb eliminates Rosenborg Trodheim
 

I thought Blackhawk mentioned the revenues somewhere but I can’t find it at this moment but according to this https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/newsid=2616279.html?iv=true it is also better for us if the higher seeds get eliminated in order to get more money out of the 10 year coefficient ranking as most of them are also above us in that ranking. Therefore Astana better kick out BATE, though it doesn’t effect the seeding. But the main goal is to eliminate Slovan, as our scrutinizer mentioned.

[Blackhawk]

On 8/16/2019 at 12:42 PM, Blackhawk said:

Now that PAOK is in the Europa League, the main goal is to eliminate Slovan Bratislava and qualify for the group stage. Assuming we eliminate Slovan it appears that PAOK will be seeded in Pot 3 of the 4 pots for the group stage draw purposes. PAOK can move to Pot 2 if this happens:

Four of the following matchups in playoff rounds of Europa League and Champions League need end as follows:

FC Riga eliminates FC Copenhagen
AIK Stockhpolm eliminates Celtic Glasgow
Maribor Branik eliminates Ludogorets Razgrad
Glasgow Rangers eliminates Legia Warsaw
Apollon Limassol eliminates PSV Eindhoven
FC Aberdeen eliminates KAA Gent
Spartak Moscow eliminates Sporting Braga
RC Strasbourg eliminates Eintrach Frankfurt
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Club Brugge eliminates LASK Linz
Young Boys Bern eliminates Crvena Zvezda Beograd
Dinamo Zagreb eliminates Rosenborg Trodheim

Unfortunately Red Star eliminated Young Boys. We will need some surprises in the Europa League.