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Here's our update on the race to lock down a spot on the seeded side of the first round draw after the first leg of UCL 3rd round qualifying: We're in excellent shape.

 

To simplify a lot of mathematics, there are nine teams we are rooting against in the UCL qualifying: Red Star Belgrade, FC Copenhagen, Toulouse, Dinamo Zagreb, FK Sarajevo, Elfsborg, Zurich, Salzburg, and BATE Borisov. If six of those nine teams get into the UCL group stages (and consequently banish higher-ranked teams to the UEFA Cup), we'll lose our seed. The good news is that those nine teams combined for six losses, two draws, and only one win in the first leg. So basically it would take an awful lot of stunning reversals to deny us a seed at this point.

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Here's our update on the race to lock down a spot on the seeded side of the first round draw after the first leg of UCL 3rd round qualifying: We're in excellent shape.

 

To simplify a lot of mathematics, there are nine teams we are rooting against in the UCL qualifying: Red Star Belgrade, FC Copenhagen, Toulouse, Dinamo Zagreb, FK Sarajevo, Elfsborg, Zurich, Salzburg, and BATE Borisov. If six of those nine teams get into the UCL group stages (and consequently banish higher-ranked teams to the UEFA Cup), we'll lose our seed. The good news is that those nine teams combined for six losses, two draws, and only one win in the first leg. So basically it would take an awful lot of stunning reversals to deny us a seed at this point.

 

Nice one JD, reliable as ever, could live with Toulouse pulling a stunning reversal out of the hat (although as my brother lives there a Toulouse/Everton match at some point would suit me nicely....cheap flights from Bristol also :D ).

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Just looking at the regulations it appears the group draw could be a bit complicated. If you work on the assumption that we end up ranked about 36-38 out of the eighty teams in the first round and that the majority of the seeded (top forty) get through then we'd be rated pretty near the bottom for the group stage draw.

 

Then it says that half the remaining forty (almost certainly not us) would be seeded for the group draw; how that works in practice when there's eight groups of five which would mean two seeded teams in four groups and three seeded in the other four (while keeping clubs from the same country separate) I don't know.

 

Still think we're gonna win it though....bring on Bayern :P !

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To simplify a lot of mathematics, there are nine teams we are rooting against in the UCL qualifying: Red Star Belgrade, FC Copenhagen, Toulouse, Dinamo Zagreb, FK Sarajevo, Elfsborg, Zurich, Salzburg, and BATE Borisov. If six of those nine teams get into the UCL group stages (and consequently banish higher-ranked teams to the UEFA Cup), we'll lose our seed.

 

....and none of the nine got through, so our seeding is confirmed. Breathe a little easier.

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Yup. Good deal for us. The only real "big name" team that crashed out of UCL qualifying today was Ajax Amsterdam - they immediately slot in as the third-highest ranked team in the UEFA Cup, behind Villareal and Bayern. There are some other UCL refugees coming in that are decent - Anderlecht, Sparta Prague, Dinamo Bucharest, Spartak Moscow - but not really a major threat to win this tournament. They're very capable of making our life miserable in the group stage if we take them lightly, though.

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Glad that we seeded and not got to worry about Munich or Villareal to at least the group stages.

 

Heres hoping get a nice draw and get into the groups.

 

If its around the 23rd September I will be on my honeymoon in Tenerife so will have to go out to watch it

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Qualifying is finished and the first round field of 80 is as set as it's going to be for tomorrow's draw.

 

You can see the list of qualified teams by going to http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/seeduc2007.html and scrolling down to "round 1." All of the teams in the right column are the teams we could potentially draw tomorrow.

 

The country breakdown for the 40 unseeded teams is:

5 - Sweden

4 - Denmark

3 - Greece, Portugal

2 - Bulgaria, Holland, Norway, Austria, Switzerland

1 - 15 other countries

 

Myself, I'll gladly take a nice, easy draw against one of those Swedish teams. :-) And I'd just as soon avoid anyone from Holland, Portugal, or Turkey, thank you.

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Little Bit Of Info on Metalist

 

Team: FC Metalist Kharkiv was initially founded in December 1925, when a local train construction facility provided funding and allowed use of its territory to start a football club. In 1981 the club won the Soviet First League outright to earn a spot in Soviet Top League. The club would appear in the remaining 10 seasons of the Soviet Top League with several successes on the domestic front. In 1983, Metalist was a runner-up in the USSR Cup (losing 1-0 to Shakhtar Donetsk) and few years later in 1988 would win the cup, beating Torpedo Moscow by a score of 2-0. As a result, Metalist Kharkiv earned a trip to the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup--their only European appearance to date. Metalist would only advance to the lat 16, beating Yugoslavia side Borac Banja Luka and losing to the Dutch club Roda JC.

 

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Metalist would take part in the premier season of the Ukrainian Premier League in 1992. That season, Metalist took 5th place, an achievement it would never top until the 2006-07 season, finishing in 5th place three more times since, the most notable coming during the 2001-02 season.

 

Stadium: As Metalist Stadium is scheduled to be one of the venues for Euro 2012, it was decided to reconstruct and expand the arena and turn it into a modern recreational and leisure facility. Capacity of the stadium is planned to increase by 13,000, with final capacity being around 43,000. The restoration works commenced in autumn 2006 and are due to be finished by the end of 2008.

 

 

 

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